http://www.designdraft.net Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:39:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier this week was Apple's iPod event and we got exactly what we expected. Our gift from Apple included the 4G iPod Nano, 2G iPod Classic, 2G iPod Touch, iTunes 8, and the iPhone 2.1 firmware update for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new 4th generation iPod nanos come in ... http://www.designdraft.net/2008/09/lets-rock/ This year's iteration of Apple's annual event has been scheduled for September the 9th, as expected. Like last year, we'll more than likely get some sort of update somewhere in the iPod line - that's what the fall event is for, after all. So what will it be? The rumored ... http://www.designdraft.net/2008/09/apple-event-scheduled-for-0909/ Earlier today, Blogoscoped posted an article describing Google Chrome, a new open-source browser being built by Google from the bottom up. The press release (that was released too early) was in the form of a very educational and entertaining comic, which Google has put up for public viewing now that ... http://www.designdraft.net/2008/09/google-chrome-announced-by-blogosphere-not-by-google/ Ugmonk is a new design shop I found on shirt.woot a couple of days ago. The designer, Jeff Sheldon, did a shirt for shirt.woot that turned me onto his own shop. His mission with Ugmonk is to "provide high-quality products with simple, yet fresh graphics." I can get on board ... http://www.designdraft.net/2008/08/ugmonk/ A friend messaged me a while back telling me to look at the new Facebook layout and tell her what I thought. I was slightly confused at first, since I had been on Facebook less than 10 minutes prior and it looked the same. It turned out that they were ... http://www.designdraft.net/2008/08/the-new-facebook/ It's off to a bit of a late start, but today marks the beginning of Tuesday Type. Not to be confused with TrueType, Movable Type, or T-Types, Tuesday Type is a (hopefully) weekly compilation of the typography-related news scattered about the internet, as well as the beginning of actually posting ... http://www.designdraft.net/2008/04/tuesday-type-vol1/ Tomorrow, or later today, rather, Microsoft will unveil its latest additions to the Zune family: the Zune 80, Zune 8, and Zune 4. With a slew of new software and hardware features, is it quite enough to match up to Apple's iPod monopoly as a competitor? Not quite. The second-generation Zunes ... http://www.designdraft.net/2007/10/microsoft-tries-to-be-apple-zune-gen2/ I'm not personally a big iPod fan, but my recent conversion to OS X and my love for fluid design and style among products has made today a great day today. If you haven't heard, Apple completely revamped the entire iPod line today at its "The Beat Goes On" event, ... http://www.designdraft.net/2007/09/apple-and-the-new-generation/ For my handful of loyal readers, you may remember when designdraft went offline for several months, due to server problems and my own laziness. I've really wanted to update it regularly for a while now, but I just have not had the time with all the transitions in my life. ... http://www.designdraft.net/2007/08/future-of-designdraftnet/ designdraft returns for the second half of 2007 after a nearly six-month hiatus. I'm still adapting my local version for use on the WWW, but sit tight, everything should be done soon. design en bleu will launch first, and if I'm comfortable with the idea, design en rouge should be ready ... http://www.designdraft.net/2007/06/back-to-basics/