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Ryan Essmaker is a designer and web developer with a soft spot for good typography, responsive design, and well-written markup. In his spare time you can find him with camera in hand or strumming on the ole six-string making sweet, sweet melodies.

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Thank you, Steve, for living your life the way you did. I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today if it weren’t for you. You have been and will always be one of my biggest inspirations. RIP

Thank you, Steve, for living your life the way you did. I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today if it weren’t for you. You have been and will always be one of my biggest inspirations.

RIP

Apple Acquires Personal Mobile Assistant Siri 

The speech recognition and user experience in this app is very impressive. Can’t believe I haven’t heard about it until today.

cameronmoll:

They’re not just acquiring an iPhone app, but all of the smarts behind its mega-aggregator connecting to services such as Rotten Tomatoes, Yelp, TaxiMagic, OpenTable, and so on—just about anything a user could ask for with a natural language query.

Watch the demo and you’ll probably be as impressed as I am with not only the query data but the user experience, too.

My pimped out MBP.

My pimped out MBP.

MobileMe is here! It’s pretty slow and unresponsive at times due to the heavy traffic but live nonetheless. Loving it…

MobileMe is here! It’s pretty slow and unresponsive at times due to the heavy traffic but live nonetheless. Loving it…

somebody save me from these fools (via)

somebody save me from these fools (via)

Snow Leopard 

“10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on “stability and security.” Sounds great to me.