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Best iPhone and iPad Projects of 2011 / by @creativeapps | CreativeApplications.Net.

“I personally love building web services, but hate configuring Linux boxes, and database and web servers. That is why when I build new services, I gravitate towards outsourcing the configuration and database/web server stuff…”

via Alex Bosworth’s Weblog – Should I use Heroku.

“Constantly interacting with our mobile devices has other drawbacks too. There are more pictures in my iPhone of that 45-minute hike at Pacifica than most families would have taken on a two-week vacation before the advent of digital cameras.As a result, I had no time to daydream on that hike, and daydreams, scientists say, are imperative in solving problems.”

via Disruptions: Resolved in 2012: To Enjoy the View Without Help From an iPhone – NYTimes.com.

“The main challenge here was striking a balance in styles. We wanted to stay as faithful as possible to iPlayers brand and styling whilst being sensitive to Apples core UI and aligning it with the BBCs Global Experience Language GEL.”

via BBC – BBC Internet Blog: BBC iPlayer: Designing the iPhone app.

I haven’t drawn Batman in forever so I started a #drawbatman on twitter and invited people to join me.  The results have been amazing and it’s been so much fun seeing all the different versions. I’ve got most of them here I think, but you can always look at the #drawbatman tag on twitter to find any I’ve missed (I will add more as they come in): http://mookiest.tumblr.com/post/13963374082/draw-batman

Fuck Yeah Internet Fridge.

HTTP Status Cats – a set on Flickr.

Saved my life: Rails 3 Remote Links and Forms: A Definitive Guide – Alfa Jango Blog.

Here are Give Me Something To Read’s articles of 2011: Give Me Something To Read.

Longform’s Best of 2011.