Author Archives: Michel

About Michel

Misschien dat ik dit ooit nog wel serieus invul. Op dit moment is 't genoeg om te weten dat ik een 21 jarige Apple Nerd ben ;)

Dynamically Generated CSS Images in LESS

In solving some of the problems needed to create my pure CSS progress bars with rounded corners, I ended up using a combination of two backgrounds: a background-color and a background-image. Unfortunately, images are rather static, inflexible things. They require … Continue reading 

Faster iPad Text Navigation

Tablets are not just for consuming content, but navigating the cursor in text to make changes, correct mistakes and so on is still kind of painful. Daniel Hooper was frustrated by how tedious text editing is on an iPad and … Continue reading 

Only the original can be original

It has been very entertaining to follow the news around the infamous Samwer brothers – the German trio that set the standard for copying successful businesses. Like them or not, they were able to outrun a giant like Groupon and … Continue reading 

Test on mobile devices during development

I’m currently working on making Nestoria more friendly to users on mobile devices and one of the biggest challenges was easily testing on real mobile devices. This is important, because there is no such thing as mobile WebKit. Apple provides … Continue reading 

The Magical 7 inch

Amazon finally released its long awaited Android-based tablet today: The Kindle Fire. It’s a true tablet, with a gorgeous IPS colour touch screen and enough power to run apps and play movies. This in itself is interesting enough, but what … Continue reading 

The Importance and Problems of Autoupdate

Silently autoupdating software is amazingly powerful, but also incredibly difficult to pull off without either stifling innovation or estranging users. I was reading this post by Paul Irish on browser market pollution, or how IEx will be the new IE6. … Continue reading 

The deep reach of Google

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Google has ceased to be a search company years ago. It is now an advertising agency, a “bank” a app hosting, email and intranet provider, with their own office suite. The list goes on, but what it all boils down … Continue reading 

Seedbomb your neighborhood

I always kind of liked the idea of guerilla gardening; reclaiming the dull gray spaces that surround us. While I presently don’t really live in a place that is devoid of green and nature, I certainly appreciate playful ways of … Continue reading