Some notes from spending a few hours with my first Droid phone. 1. The first thing I encountered that drove me crazy was trying to login to my own sites. When I highlighted a text field, it took up the entire viewport in landscape mode, not even showing the label

I love the way the release candidate 1 of Firefox 2 handles a RSS feed. I accidentally hit a RSS feed today and was pleasantly surprised by the user experience. There was an informational message at the top explaining it as a feed, along with a RSS subscription preference option

The new MasterCard logo seemed too obvious: Priceless indeed. (yeah, those are goatse sticker hands)

Have you seen the new logo for cable channel TLC? The old logo was all serif-y and dated, but the new one reminds me of the UPS logo redo. I wonder if the new TLC logo idea was "what would scrabble tiles look like on a Web 2.0

(craigslist redo redo, originally uploaded by mathowie) I've been a longtime user of Craigslist. I got my San Francisco Apartment using it, bought a few things, and eventually I met Craig and we've talked at conferences together about what it takes to run a community. At

I stumbled upon an old directory filled with mockups that never saw the light of day and figured now that it's five years later, I should probably upload them as a set on Flickr. These are from April-May 2000 with some later ones through in at the end,

I've been running Tiger for a few hours and so far things seem good. Mail is much faster (but the UI is uglier in my opinion), my phone finally works with iSync, and the spotlight searching is terrific. What I don't quite get is Dashboard. I

The Seattle Public Library's Central location is amazing, and although you could probably get twice the usable space if the building was conventional, I found it to be a really cool place. There are public spaces and private study spaces, the whole thing can be walked from top

(le Paypal, originally uploaded by mathowie) Dean Allen is looking for donations for a new camera and I thought I'd help out. You ever accidentally choose a different language at an ATM and go through with it anyway? You stumble through the menus based on where you remember