December 2009
21 posts
November 2009
29 posts
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How to destroy the Earth →
This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.
This is what happens when geniuses are bored. In my opinion, that doesn’t happen often enough.
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We need: A programmable Twitter client →
This sounds like a great idea. Personally, I would go for a client with user plugin or extensions support, though - it would be more user-friendly. Somebody make it happen!
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Field Notes Field Trip to French Paper →
I may have missed out on the opportunity to tour it myself, and after reading this summary I feel even worse about it. They really are a great paper company.
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“Yes! I want all them, embossing, de-bossing, foil, gold ink, thick black card. I...”
– clientsfromhell
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Creating Your Own Organic Textured Backgrounds →
That is a cool tutorial, and a cool web design to boot. Also, since I’m a Yooper, I positively laughed out loud at her bio: “Michigander (troll).”
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A #hashattack Will Soon Lead to #hashwarz →
Because Twitter games are fun! Especially with your friends!
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“AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s “There’s...”
– Verizon’s Response to AT&T’s Lawsuit:
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Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists - New... →
An interesting article about people who care way too much about typography. I admit even I have those moments sometimes (if you see me in real life complaining about a font with X’s made of semicircles and lopsided lowercase E’s, you’ll understand).
(via Daring Fireball)
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re: Log In or Sign up?
The award for this week’s “so obvious and brilliant that it took the Internet fifteen damn years to figure out how its done” award goes to Leah Culver, who came up with the simplest, fastest, minimalist & most effective login form ever devised. The steps involved for the user:
Put in the email address.
Select either “I have an account” or “I’m new!”
Put...
idsgn - Typography on the web →
Yet another well-written article about the state of typography on the web. If all the various file formats, standards and implementation options had you confused, this article will un-boggle your mind.
Facebook Emoticons →
Glad I read the comments - turns out there’s a unicode cloud character! I’m going to have to find a way to make use of it… ☁
A Guide to Prepress Happiness
Did the customer…
Give you the page layout in WordPerfect? ARRRRRRGH!
Give you the page layout in Microsoft Word? Sonuvabitch!
Give you the page layout in Microsoft Publisher? Crap!
Give you the page layout in Adobe Illustrator? What? Why?
Give you the page layout only as a PDF? Oh well…
Give you the page layout in QuarkXPress? I can live with that.
Give you the page layout in...
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re: Slide Different
Neven Mrgan had a few things to say about the UI consistency in Adobe Photoshop, particularly the slider controls.
It’s not the end of the world that a thumb control is misplaced by one pixel. All software ships with bugs, or it doesn’t ship. But here we are, version 11 of the app, and one of the most-used standard controls in the app is broken.
He’s not wrong about any of this. However,...
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OpenOfficeMouse isn't free, isn't pretty →
The comment from poster Mmmm… Dohnuts was priceless:
F*ck yeah! Who needs multitouch when you have a different button for everything?! 8D
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Isolation →
Dave Shea shows us all how to best grab elements from crummy images. A handy trick for everyone who works with graphics to know.
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A Tiny Review of TinyGrab
When I want to show off some work on my screen to someone else (usually over IM), my workflow for doing so originally consisted of (on my “Mac”):
Hit Command + Shift + 4.
Copy generated image from desktop to public folder within my Dropbox folder.
Right-click the file and copy the public link.
Paste link into IM client. Then I got TinyGrab from the MacHeist bundle. Now my workflow works like...
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re: How to Achieve Painless Registration
A quote from tog (via Marco):
If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.
This is a very good point to remember. Ever shop on Amazon? It doesn’t ask you for a login or to register until absolutely necessary. Even the “your account” page is accessible without logging in, because it doesn’t need to access...
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Wikirank: Comparing Wikipedia Articles →
Four comparisons to check out first:
Black Death vs. Swine Flu Ford vs. GM vs. Chrysler Michigan: U.P. vs. L.P. InDesign vs. Quark
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My Suite Stuff - App Pillows →
Adorable is a word that, as a guy, I try to avoid using on a regular basis. However, these pillows are so cool, in a geeky sort of way, that I have a hard time resisting the urge. Just, uh, go check out the site and draw your own conclusions.
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Designing for crummy profiles
In addition to monitor color (which I wrote about last week), the profile the monitor is set to can also be an obstacle to consistent display of web design. Look at the picture below:
Believe it or not, the text and background have the same RGB values in each example, but the profile chosen gives it a different appearance. The default OS profile, demonstrated in the last example, can give the...
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Comparing the new & old Wi-Fi logos →
Old one’s better. By far. No weird spacing, the black isn’t overly strong, and the Eurostile font was distinctive & futuristic. The new one screams “fix me!”