In the last piece I used Google image search to find images of famous tech people on the cover of magazines. I then tiled that and played with it in Photoshop. Really nothing to special or impressive.

This time I decided to do something a little different. I enjoyed the magazine covers as a medium so I wanted to continue down that path. The problem with that is I needed more of them… preferably lots more… thousands more. So I started looking for ways to get lots of interesting magazine covers quickly.

After a little digging I realized I could retrieve covers of Time magazine. In fact, every cover ever published… all 4500+ So that is what I did. I haven’t found any spectacular use yet but here is one of the more interesting test runs.

Pinky

Officer Blue

This is what an hour of me surfing the internet looks like. I used a cool little app called ioGraphica. Maybe someday I can get a longer and more active capture.

One thing I wanted to do was start converting the site over to html5. Really there isn’t much of a point at this juncture other than it is more semantic and simple to make the change.

For example historically I would code something like this for the header.

In HTML5 it would be more semantic and may look like this…

Pretty easy eh?

That takes care of the compliant browsers but to get the new HTML5 elements to work in IE you need to use a little javascript called HTML5 Shiv. I am lazy and want to make sure I always have a current version so I just placed the following in the head.

Obviously this is just a piece of the conversion. I am still trying to iron out the final pieces but it should not impact the overall design.

If you offer users an amazing experience from end to end.  They will repay you with loyalty and understanding in those times where things don’t go as planned.

But there are other times when you should really sit down and listen to what your customers are telling you.  Recently someone decided to take the time to create an entire website dedicated to identifying problems with a product they USE. Dear Adobe collects peoples grips about any and all adobe products then lets other people vote for how important the problems is to them.

After skimming through the top 50 items you can see that Adobe’s Update process for Acrobat is a sore spot for a lot of people.  If Adobe is smart they would try and react swiftly to this by LISTENING to what the users are saying and resoliving their problems.  Sure not everything in the list can be corrected(pricing) but a lot of the ideas are common sense items that Adobe has lost site of.

One of the flaws that has been plaguing me is a missing artist on my play list.  This sounds stupid but I thought I was loosing my mind because I could swear that it was there and that I have heard it play when I was using it as background music.  I finally have conclusive proof that it is there and in fact, there is an odd bug that plagues the iPhone.

Basically I can look the song up by its name but when trying to find it by artist there is no listing.  The really odd part is that for this given artist (Pepper) it occurs on my wife’s iPhone as well.

Is Apple trying to boycott this particular artists? (joking)