No man is an island

Just read about iReader on Techcrunch and first i thought it would work similar to snap.com’s website picture preview. Eager to get it working i hit the download and it is in fact a firefox plugin.

Check it out for yourself. It is quite nice.

It summarizes the content of the page linked to. Sometimes it doesn’t seem to work or at least not right away though.

Update: What is quite annoying is that you cannot move the popup bubble and there is no close button. Sometimes it pops up out of nowhere and keeps you from clicking the link you just wanted. Often reloading a page is the only solution. They urgently need to fix that

Imagine you are a car manufacturer and you want your cars not only to outperform your competitor’s cars in technical performance but also in visual appeal. Of course you would hire a designer to do that. Any designer? No - you would hire a designer that not only is a good designer but one that also knows about aerodynamics and the technical limitations like how much space does the motor take up.

Same game, different results with web designers. Every designer i worked with to create a website had no idea what designing for the web is about (one noticeable exception, who happens to be an ex-flatmate and a very good friend). All of them simply replied with “simply cut it out” or “pick the color from the photoshop file” when confronted with questions about how to get all the info needed to implement the design in html. (more…)