It’s not hard to figure out: Users don’t want to mess around with their new purchase to get it right. Every minute they spend configuring the device is another minute they’re less happy with their purchase and aren’t actually using it.

There’s a segment of the tablet market that would argue they want to dedicate time to configuring and customising their devices. Unfortunately for Microsoft, that segment has already been dominated by high-end Android devices.

I’ve just finished a major overhaul of Simple Icons. All images (1000+) are now transparent PNG files, leaving their backgrounds free to be filled using CSS. A full list of colour codes can be found in the GitHub repository readme file.

Edit: colour codes are now at simpleicons.org

The Church of England said it would study the proposals but was firmly against same-sex marriage.

In a statement, the Church said: “We believe that redefining marriage to include same-sex relationships will entail a dilution in the meaning of marriage for everyone by excluding the fundamental complementarity of men and women from the social and legal definition of marriage.”

I wonder how long it took the church to come up with a statement that cast the inclusion of all sexualities in the definition of marriage as an exclusive act.

This is a wonderfully thorough article on presentation design, covering everything from slide content and layout through to practice and pacing. As someone who struggles with public speaking there’s plenty for me to think about in here.

Say goodbye to the days of remembering obscure codes for UTF-8 special characters. Say hello to Characters, a Mac app designed for people (like me) who are pedantic about punctuation on the web.

Earlier this year I started developing a collection of high resolution icons for popular websites and services. A few days ago I pushed the project to GitHub. Feel free to download them and use them in your own projects.