Monday, February 23rd, 2009
From a Wired magazine photo gallery of the history of mobile phones. It’s really interesting to see how far mobile phones have come in the last 13 years (35+ if you count the DynaTAC 8000X).
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X… The Model T of mobiles. The device was birthed from a fierce race between Motorola and Bell labs to bring the first portable to market. In 1973, Motorola’s Dr. Martin Cooper won that race when he placed the first phone call on an early prototype that paved the way for the DynaTAC.
Mat Honan on From Brick to Slick: A History of Mobile Phones
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Yesterday I checked some browser stats in Google Analytics for several of our client sites and I was quite surprised by what I found. The sites I checked, one retail, one entertainment, and one educational institution, seemed to be a well rounded mix with which to get some averages. Sadly, it looks like the IE death march is not going to start anytime soon for us because IE6 is still hanging on with a solid 23% of the browser market share. Another interesting tidbit is that IE7 has only increased its market share by just over 1% in the last 6 months, while IE6 has decreased in market share by about 5%!
January 2009 Browser Stats
Monday, February 16th, 2009
I stumbled across this optical illusion the other day while measuring the width of an icon with the marquee tool in Photoshop. The dancing marquee lines appeared to bend right before my eyes! It’s not too often that you find an optical illusion like this without googling it first.