Friday, March 14, 2003

D.I. Ratio and the Ratio Family. There has been a flurry of verbiage recently on the redesign of the Macromedia Home Page. Among other things, I observed that someone had criticized it on the grounds of having a lousy "data-ink ratio". I think the criticism is interesting, and the notion of the data-ink ratio is worth a deeper look. (Warning: lengthy and quite graphics-heavy)... [ongoing] 11:31:11 AM    comment []  trackback []

miniSD. If you think those postage stamp-sized SD memory cards are small, get ready for miniSD cards, which are even smaller. They're meant for cellphones and are just 21.5mm long, 20mm wide, and a mere 1.4mm thick. The first 16MB miniSD cards are about to ship, with 32MB and 64MB versions expected in a couple of months, and 128MB and 256MB cards due by fall. These look like they'll be extremely easy to lose. Read [Gizmodo] 11:30:43 AM    comment []  trackback []

The Register: "When Apple failed to launch a video iPod earlier this year, as it had been rumoured to be planning, it disappointed many of its fans. And now it looks like Microsoft is going to get just such a device to market ahead of it." [lawrence's notebook] 11:30:33 AM    comment []  trackback []