Beyond sweet

Now that we all have our iPhones and are discovering what they can do, attention will turn to what they cannot do. And that, in turn, will lead to the fact that there is no third party development of native applications for the device. Of course, you can use HTML and AJAX to do web-based […]

Talk to yourself before your readers

Now that I’m writing in public again, I’m reminded of a simple trick I learned while working with professional writers: read whatever you write out loud. Your ears are much better than your eyes when it comes to finding problems with flow and poor sentence construction. Personally, I like to write a few paragraphs and […]

Résumé for Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry has been designing award-winning software for over 40 years. He is currently a principal at the Iconfactory, a company that has been changing the face of the computer desktop since 1996. Their work includes the design & production of icons for Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and other leading software companies. He’s responsible for the […]

How furbo.org came to be…

One of the things that bugs me about many weblogs is that there is absolutely no information on the writer and their background. Without this background, I often wonder “why the hell should I care about what’s being said here?” Hopefully this page will let you decide if my opinions matter or not. Its length […]