Competition: The Department of Justice’s Weak Excuse To Stop the AT&T-Mobile Merger

The news came out today that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Federal court in Washington, D.C., to attempt to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. “Any way you look at this transaction, it is anticompetitive,” says Sharis Pozen, an acting assistant attorney general. “Our action today seeks [...]

WhatTheFont: (Type)Facial Recognition

As a designer, I have thousands of fonts floating around on my computers. It’s hard to keep track of them, let alone remember how each one looks. There are times when you see something and you KNOW you have the font, but you can’t place the name of the typeface. I had one of these [...]

SiteoftheWeek: Fish

442 King St., Charleston, South Carolina. That’s the location of what looks like some exceptionally tasty cuisine. That’s where you will find Fish. From their website: “Fish Restaurant showcases the finest local, sustainable ingredients with an always-changing menu and a French-Asian flair. Executive chef Nico Romo, the youngest chef to ever earn the distinction of [...]

SiteoftheWeek: Atlantic Records

There are a few things that I really love in this world. Music is one of them. And so as I was roaming the halls of the Internet this week, I came across this week’s site, Atlantic Records. To be honest, I haven’t thought about record companies really since I lived in southern California, so [...]

Instagram:  Floating Down Your Photo Stream

I like to take photos. I dare say that most people do. While very few of us count ourselves in the “Professional Photographer” camp, there’s something about being able to freeze a moment in time. And it’s something that has become significantly easier with the advent of the cell phone camera. Being the iPhone 4 [...]

SiteoftheWeek: Grip Limited

It’s been quite a while, so I figured that a good way to get back into posting things is to find a great Site of the Week. In our first time out for our return to posting is an agency in Toronto called Grip Limited. Interesting navigation. Overall, the site can seem a bit cluttered [...]

About Face: Apple to Allow 3rd Party Development Tools on iDevices; Publishing App Store Approval Processes

I guess it was bound to happen. Apple released a statement today saying that there are some changes coming to the Developer Agreement for iOS Developers. Back in April, Apple had changed the agreement to only allow certain kinds of programming languages to be used for the creation of apps using the official Apple iOS [...]

Your Magazine’s Social: Flipboard

There’s been a lot of talk about a new social media app for the iPad over the last few weeks. It’s great little app called Flipboard. The aim of the app is to take feeds from various news-related sites and your personal Twitter and Facebook feeds to create a print magazine-like presentation for the topics [...]