{"id":300,"date":"2006-07-06T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/the-dork-report-for-july-6-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:04","slug":"the-dork-report-for-july-6-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-6-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for July 6, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">10 most beautiful Mac OS X apps<\/span> (no longer online: phillryu.com\/2006\/07\/03\/the-top-ten-most-beautiful-os-x-apps), only one of which I use (<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/transmit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transmit<\/a>). (spotted on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/06\/07\/11384.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google must be delighted; they\u2019ve officially become a <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060718073255\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com:80\/2006\/EDUCATION\/07\/06\/dictionary.new.words.ap\/\" target=\"_blank\">verb<\/a>. (guest submission from Proper Noun Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Brook\u2019s new album RockPaperScissors is due July 18: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Watch the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071107131639\/http:\/\/michaelbrookmusic.com\/rockpaperscissors-5min-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Making Of<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check out the hi-res album cover (no longer online).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moock.org\/blog\/archives\/000189.html\" target=\"_blank\">technical blog post about the new Flash Player<\/a> (that I don&#8217;t recommend any layperson to read). As a designer I&#8217;m delighted to learn Adobe\/Macromedia has created a new, <em>separate<\/em> application called Flex for developers. Hooray! Let them have their own little thing while I can focus on design!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 most beautiful Mac OS X apps (no longer online: phillryu.com\/2006\/07\/03\/the-top-ten-most-beautiful-os-x-apps), only one of which I use (Transmit). (spotted on Kottke.org) Google must be delighted; they\u2019ve officially become a verb. (guest submission from Proper Noun Andrea) Michael Brook\u2019s new album RockPaperScissors is due July 18: Here\u2019s a technical blog post about the new Flash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-4Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-13-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for July 13, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A Geographical Study of Lost (warning: very large image download). 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