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read your mail with Laszlo Mail

Thursday, December 1, 2005

I’m a little late at bringing attention to it, but folks at the company that I work launched Laszlo Mail, a demo version of Laszlo’s kick-ass web-mail client. Check it out. It’s quite an accomplishment and I’m difficult to really impress when it comes to stuff like this.
Sure it’s not as full-featured as […]

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reversing the letter

Sunday, November 6, 2005

The tricky part of creating a class that displays a scaled reversed character is figuring out what to stretch & what to flip. Ultimately, the best solution was to add a single view wrapping the (resizing) text with a stretchy view that is flipped and positioned to take the flippage into account.

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on digital typography

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Today after work I looked through Emil Ruder’s Typographie and decided to start explore digital typography using LZX.
The first thing that I attempted was to reproduce the image on the cover of Typographie using whatever fonts I could find on my system. Maybe I’ll get into creating my own digital font like my friend […]

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30 - AI and technophobia

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

I started reading DUNE: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert - son of the author of the original Dune series - and Kevin J. Anderson on Monday night. I’m not yet sure how I feel about the style of the younger Herbert - the book reads a lot more quickly and doesn’t have the […]

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