Thomas Park

It’s a great time to learn to code.

Last year, I posted a gallery of every Apple Store ever.

Although I spilled the beans in an interview yesterday, I wanted to formally announce a personal project called Bootswatch.

I recently spent way too much time trying to find a domain for a project.

Today our attention is divided among many apps on many devices, networked and constantly updating.

Here’s a quick guide to multitouch gestures on Kindle Touch, since Amazon doesn’t provide documentation and some commands are less than obvious.

Over at 99designs, businesses can hold contests to get logos designed for them.

Google has been making sweeping changes to the look of their products.

I was lucky enough to receive a Kindle Touch as an early Christmas present.

Way back in August of 2001, some good friends and I took a road trip down to Virginia to attend a concert.

Despite its name, Google Reader had up until now three levels of use: Reader: read RSS items Linkroll: share RSS items with friends Social network: converse on these shared RSS items with these friends What was nice about this is that you could exchange a…

Yesterday, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky responded to chatter about how Windows 8, in its grand debut, was demoed almost exclusively in landscape mode.

The Building Windows 8 blog offers some fascinating insight into Microsoft’s research and design processes.

I had a bunch of relatives from Korea visit over the summer, and naturally an arm wrestling tournament broke out.

The hallmark of Google Plus so far has been Circles.

A post on my impressions of Ubuntu 11 led to lots of thoughtful discussion here and over at Hacker News.

For a while now, I’ve been using my home machine with MAMP to develop a research prototype.

The folks over at Devour maintain a nice collection of videos, wrapped in a clean interface.

In my experimentation with HTML5, I ended up making Trebek, a web app that allows you to play along at home with Jeopardy!

Yesterday, I showed a graphic that lays out popular devices by display size.

With new devices being released at such a rapid pace, it’s hard to keep up.

I love me some fantasy baseball.

I previously talked about why the current Apple TV is a stopgap for the true Apple TV.

In the face of rumors that Apple is working on a TV, many remain skeptical that they would get into such a commoditized business.

After nearly a decade of service, my messenger bag is finally giving up the ghost.

Major versions sure don’t go as far as they used to.

Groups of animals get special collective nouns1, some of which are familiar (e.g., a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese) and others that are less known but equally evocative: a crash of rhinos, a charm of hummingbirds, a prickle of porcupines, a loveliness…

I’m not the only one who’s noticed that blue icons seem to be totally overrepresented.

The other day, I was having breakfast and scouring the cereal box for reading material when I came across the new food pyramid.

Earlier this week, David Friedman proposed a new save icon to replace the antiquated floppy disk.