February 4, 2009 I
I try not to start blog posts with “I”, but most of the time I fail.
It’s too bad RIM didn’t have the guts to ‘pull the trigger’ on this ad (second story on page). It’s well-executed and produced.
I understand their hesitation, though. The Storm falls well short of being an iPhone competitor. They still could have aired it after changing the tagline, though; from “The world’s first touch-screen BlackBerry” to something like “Sometimes beauty is only skin deep”. ✓
This is how I would design the tabs for Safari 4.
Update: Compared to Google Chrome, which gets it right. ✓
CampaignMonitor has a new report to see which email clients your subscribers are using. Awesome. ✓
OmniWeb is now available as freeware. Unfortunately, it’s too little, too late because Safari 4 Beta was just released and it’s blazing fast and made by Apple. ✓
Here are some great TextMate productivity tips, most of which simply cannot be done in other text editors. ✓
More than I knew or ever wanted to know about FTP from the ExpanDrive guy(s). ✓
I agree with Dan Benjamin on why your avatar matters:
A great avatar will help people remember you instantly. And you should use it everywhere, across the board. Use it on your blog if you have one (you should). Use it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, everywhere. Even if people don’t automatically remember your name or your website, they’ll remember your avatar and make an association.
I try to use the same image of myself everywhere — but it’s almost 5 years old now so I guess I need a personal rebrand. ✓
Many people, myself included, look forward to the commercials that air during the Super Bowl almost as much as they do the game itself. For just such an occasion, I’ve whipped up a Super Bowl Commercial Scorecard [PDF link], complete with a “flag as inappropriate” checkbox for those distasteful GoDaddy ads. ✓