Rainlendar2-Pro is a 9,95€ calendar PC and Mac app. Look at these screenshots : this one and this one.

• Cluttered on desktop widget
• Application name, release number and version in the menu bar
• Cool ASCII art in the manager window’s title bar
• Brilliantly ignored Interface Builder helpers
• The columns are not even large enough to display some dates

This is so much wrong, I really hope they will improve the user interface in future versions.

But I’m cool with that : they mention the Finnish city Tampere in the second screenshot. I lived there.

★ NetNewsWire's developer Brent Simmons describes all the UI decisions he had to go through before adding the Instapaper functionality to the feed reader's latest beta :

"It’s not enough just to write the basic functionality and add a menu item that runs it. Even a feature as simple as this one requires some up-front thinking, some design."

★ "This is an emergency guide to iPhone software development, i.e. a guide for competent developers who haven’t written code for the iPhone platform before, and just want to get started right now."

★ "This is a pretty good indicator of the two companies’ design philosophies and quality goals. And this isn’t even considering the software interface that each remote is respectively controlling."

★ "Every since it launched its two truly dominant products, search and AdSense, Google has dabbled in dozens of other products that have basically gone nowhere."

Right… So Gmail, Gtalk, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Reader, Google News, Google Code have all basically gone nowhere?

Google released Gears, then Chrome, and now Chrome OS. All Open Source. I think these are a great improvement to computer science and Internet, and I can't wait to play with a new OS.

★ Email Standards Project created an Acid test for HTML e-mail clients. Apple Mail passes it, Outlook is currently failing (but Microsoft publicly answered they're improving it), Gmail fails it too.

But I just got the Acid test e-mail in my Gmail inbox, and it seems way better (not yet perfect, though) than the ESP shows it on their website : I have, for example, the right brown background color.

Is the browser doing anything? I mean, testing Gmail standards support in IE6 and Safari 4 is a little bit different, right?

★ "I’m one of those people who thinks its rude to answer the phone in the middle of a conversation. It’s worse when it’s during dinner. It’s even border-line rude to just check the phone to see whose calling before slipping it away. I want to know whose calling before I go pocket diving."

Aza's text-to-vibrations solution is a pretty cool idea.