Audiobox是一个采用云计算支持的个人网络媒体库。
注册用户可以免费获得250MB的在线存储空间，支持批量上传 MP3音乐文件(将支持视频)来进行在线播放。其曲库播放页面类似iTunes，可以定制播放列表，通过Tag过滤选择。经过测试,上传速度和在线播放十分理想。

目前处于开发期，尚有诸多功能未实现，类似智能播放列表，iPhone客户端支持等待。同时期待其推出好友曲库分享等等功能。

搜集了一些DeviantArt上的Windows 7屏幕壁纸，总共53张，上传到了Box中来和大家分享，下载文件夹。

另外，祝大家圣诞快乐！

看了一个片长为75分钟的《工业设计记录片: Objectified 2009》，感触颇深。从开始看到第一个显示出商标的品牌便是Braun德国布朗，当时正在说话的便是工业设计大师Dieter Rams。第二个品牌是Apple，发言人是设计了iMac, iPod和iPhone的Jonathan Ive。

Jonathan Ive的设计理念深受Dieter Rams影响，他在Apple的一些设计很大程度上是参考和继承了Braun 6-70年代的设计，Gizmodo上有片被digg了3165次对比二者的文章《1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future》。

作为一代设计大师，Dieter Rams有十条关于优秀设计的准则，Good Design，以下内容和图片为转载：

1. 好设计是创新的 Good Design is innovative
创新恒久远，山寨不流传
It does not copy existing product forms, nor does it produce any kind of novelty for the sake of it. The essence of innovation must be clearly seen in all functions of a product. The possibilities in this respect are by no means exhausted. Technological development keeps offering new chances for innovative solutions.

2. 好设计让产品有用 Good Design makes a product useful
非可用勿扰
A product is bought in order to be used. It must serve a defined purpose – in both primary and additional functions. The most important task of design is to optimise the utility of a product.

3. 好设计有美感 Good Design is aesthetic
美感很重要，懂得审美也很重要
The aesthetic quality of a product – and the fascination it inspires – is an integral part of the its utility. Without doubt, it is uncomfortable and tiring to have to put up with products that are confusing, that get on your nerves, that you are unable to relate to. However, it has always been a hard task to argue about aesthetic quality, for two reasons.
Firstly, it is difficult to talk about anything visual, since words have a different meaning for different people.
Secondly, aesthetic quality deals with details, subtle shades, harmony and the equilibrium of a whole variety of visual elements. A good eye is required, schooled by years and years of experience, in order to be able to draw the right conclusion.

4. 好设计有助于产品的传达 Good Design helps a product be understood
让产品会说话
It clarifies the structure of the product. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory and saves you the long, tedious perusal of the operating manual.

5. 好设计无障 Good Design is unobtrusive
留点空间给用户
Products that satisfy this criterion are tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained leaving room for the user’s self-expression.

6. 好设计是诚实的 Good Design is honest
吹嘘，越吹越虚
An honestly-designed product must not claim features it does not have – being more innovative, more efficient, of higher value. It must not influence or manipulate buyers and users.

7. 好设计是持久的 Good Design is durable
美感很重要，懂得审美也很重要
It is nothing trendy that might be out-of-date tomorrow. This is one of the major differences between well-designed products and trivial objects for a waste-producing society. Waste must no longer be tolerated.

8. 好设计追求细节 Good Design is thorough to the last detail
成也细节，败也细节
Thoroughness and accuracy of design are synonymous with the product and its functions, as seen through the eyes of the user.

9. 好设计关注环境 Good Design is concerned with environment
拒绝垃圾，实体或像素的
Design must contribute towards a stable environment and a sensible use of raw materials. This means considering not only actual pollution, but also the visual pollution and destruction of our environment.

10. 好设计是极简的 Good Design is as little design as possible
无，极
Back to purity, back to simplicity.

几个小时前在WordPress trac上发布了一个修复WordPress 2.8.x漏洞的信息Changeset 11798。此漏洞可以允许任何人通过wp-login.php的登录界面来重置Admin账户的密码。
 
具体修改方法如上图，即打开wp-login.php文件，修改第190行，由原来的if ( empty( $key ) ) 改为 if ( empty( $key ) || is_array( $key ))

虽然别人可能不会同时盗取了你用于重置密码的邮箱账户，但风险总是有的，所以希望所有使用WordPress 2.8.x版本的同学及时修改。

appsto.re是一个定制iTunes Store App链接来用于分享的服务。

通常iTunes Store中的链接都是超长的一串，字母数字乱七八糟地组合，虽然有很多短链接分享工具来缩短处理，但在分享时如果不做说明还是让人一头雾水。
appsto.re则专门根据iTunes Store来设计，定制出来的链接地址里不但明确的显示了appstore字样，而且后面可以按App的名称来定制。这样定制的链接便在分享时一目了然了。
在此特地分享一个应该是国人开发的App游戏，“草泥马大战河蟹”，链接地址为：http://appsto.re/strangehorse

Twitter当机了，这次挂得比较彻底，也就是连熟悉的大鲸鱼和蓝鸟都看不到（404页面），给我的感觉是受攻击了吧。

在挂掉40分钟后，其 http://status.twitter.com/ 上发布了Site is down的声明：We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.

另外Twitter有可能不久推出德语版本，如上图所示，不知道同时会不会也增加其它语种。

相信Twitter上的活跃用户对它当机这么久肯定很沮丧，甚至都不知道该干点啥吧？别抓狂了，洗洗睡吧！