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July 2004

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News | Jul 15, 2004

Here’s what I’ve been doing lately..

Business:

Fitness Health Weblog
Icon Project for OS X software
Two other website designs

Personal:

A secret project I’m working on for OS X. Mockup stage is almost done.
Expanding MacThemes.net (Sidebar Navbar, Ad Banner, etc)
Spent lot of time playing World of Warcraft.
Got Battlefield 1942. Great game but I definitely need lot of practices.

Projects I’ll work on soon:

More smileys for Adium X
More Screensaver Flags. I plan to contact the original author of flag screensaver to see if we could collaborate on this and perhaps offer more features / choices / packages.
Website design for WoW Guild I’m in

After I’m done with most business projects, I’ll shift my attention to personal projects. It’s been a long time since I’ve done an icon set, OS X theme, etc :(

Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4 When I first heard of Dashboard in upcoming Tiger Mac OS X, my initial thought was meh, not for me but I was wrong. It’s amazing that any web designers / developers can easily develop a widget using just XHTML / CSS for interface. No Javascript or XML bullshits.

Look at the source code of Stickies widget for an example of how it’s done. Here’s a compressed version of the whole things including plists. (Thanks to Erik Veland for posting them)

I think comparing Dashboard to Konfabulator is a little silly. Read this well-written article from Daring Fireball. He explained why better than anyone can.

If you’re a developer looking to build some decent, full-featured widgets such as Dictionary, etc., send me an email! I’m itching to contribute some graphics.