Darn That “Clutter!”
Cleaning Up the Clutter Online - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
My favorite of David’s 372 (!) words on how the excellent Readability bookmarklet helps him cope with his distaste for all that “online clutter” are:
You know what? I would never click any ad that blinks or animates in the first place. It’s obnoxious and juvenile, and I’m not about to reward them.
Right on, David. Me, too.
That said, I am suddenly weirdly interested in learning what Verizon’s been up to with Windows Mobile.
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color BalanceThings to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
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- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
#music #animation #wtf