April 2010
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CMYWTF
A hilarious post via clientsfromhell:
Client: ”When this gets printed, what sort of colors get mixed together?”
Me: “Well, anything that gets printed is basically a combination of black, yellow, cyan, and magenta ink or toner…”
Client: “That’s unacceptable! I’m printing these for boys, not girls. Magenta is a girls color. Take the magenta out of your printers and replace it with red. Red is...
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Microsoft Kills Courier →
So much for seeing something truly innovative from Microsoft .
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Apple is planning to charge advertisers a penny each time a consumer sees a...”
– MacRumors (via superamit)
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What You Can Learn From Panic’s Approach to Email... →
This is a clever approach to email campaigns. If only the majority of people used WebKit-powered email clients…
(via cameronmoll)
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jQuery Popeye →
Lightbox is getting kinda old, and jQuery Popeye is exactly what I want to see more sites implement. Lots of options for creating image zooms that are fast and user-friendly.
(via matthewb)
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Bygone Bureau →
A very elegant web design makes this site the coolest I’ve seen all day. They could not have made a better layout to fit the content.
(via Daring Fireball)
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Transmit 4 →
This application seems much more polished and refined than Cyberduck. It’s not free like Cyberduck, but I’m starting to think it’s worth the expense. I’m going to download it tonight and give the trial a shot to find out for sure.
(via nearly everybody in my RSS reader’s subscription list!)
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"I'm only going to the beer garden, so it should... →
Too bad these will never be for-real published. Not too many tech jokes in the comics section of the newspaper these days.
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jQuery Masonry →
I was wondering how some sites made this happen using HTML and CSS. Turns out they didn’t. Goes to show that if HTML and CSS can’t do it on their own, jQuery can almost always coerce them to work.
(via cameronmoll)
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This creates a link to the previous posts. Yes, it says “next...”
– the WordPress Codex
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WatchAwesome use of Google Maps. Maybe the same guy can simulate a Russian attack on New York using this technique…
On a side note, I wish my XBox 360 was working, because I’m totally in the mood for some Grand Theft Auto 4 now.
(via kottke)
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iPad Thieves Rip Off Part of Man's Finger →
Daring Fireball:
Nick Denton has obtained the finger for $10,000.
Immediately thereafter John Gruber uses his next dozen posts to complain about Gizmodo’s snatch-and-blab tactics.
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HTML5 Presentation →
A very nice overview of the cool features of HTML5 that we will get to see everywhere just as soon as Internet Explorer gets its act together. Since it uses all these technologies, this link only works in more modern browsers.
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Slot Machine Tabs →
A really nice trick with jQuery, with lots of practical uses. Modeled on this cool implementation by Fluxiom.
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Endurance Theme Updated! →
Two small updates to the Endurance Theme have been approved by Tumblr in the last few days. The fixes include: Fixed images in posts to display no larger than 400px (by browsers that support max-width)
Switched from no Internet Explorer 6 compatibility to the Universal IE6 CSS
Fixed displaying of answer posts If you haven’t edited the HTML yourself (by clicking the Custom HTML button under...
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CS5: An evolution of the designer’s toolbox →
Adobe’s process behind the baffling CS5 splash screen designs: assume that the old ones were a problem, pick some random designer from the 70’s and draw inspiration from his oddly-shaped (and in my opinion, ugly) symbols, add some random-sized isometric blocks, throw them all together, and finally add gradients to complete the craziness.
Adobe, you’re trying too hard.
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Between Apple and Google, I’m rooting for Google. Google behaves in...”
– rentzsch (via chrisbowler)
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Three-Day Hiatus
Ah, college, the time of your life when you have no such time. I’ll be spending the next three days writing research papers, studying for exams (and taking them), and writing up cover letters to apply for jobs. If you see me post here before Wednesday, I’m doing something wrong and you should yell at me for it.
See you Wednesday, world of the Internet!
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Profile →
A peek at what Twitter’s next redesign might be like.
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My Love-Hate Relationship with RSS Feeds
I like to draw design inspiration from other websites I visit. Recognizing that other people are making you look like a kid with a crayon (basically, everyone on the front page of Dribbble) makes you strive to create something cooler, or makes you think about how they did those mind-boggling tricks.
Naturally, RSS feeds carry over none of the design. This does make for faster information...
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Call Off the Betting Pools, Twitter for iPhone... →
It sells for $2.99, is the most popular mobile Twitter client and won an Apple Design Award last year. Twitter will offer it for free and rename it Twitter for iPhone.
I’ll bet that Twitter’s investors are just thrilled about this development.
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Tweetie is now owned by Twitter! →
I’m happy to say that as of today Twitter is the proud owner of Tweetie—and I’m joining their mobile team and starting work on turning Tweetie.app into Twitter.app, for iPhone and iPad.
They couldn’t possibly have picked a better application. Tweetie is a wonderful app. So, who wants to start a betting pool for whether the Twitter app is free or not when it’s released?
(via...
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Ah, the Windows World
While using the local library computer to find books to do a research paper in one of my college classes (The Making of Modern Britain, interesting but useless), I noticed that there were adlinks being inserted into every webpage I visited. It had to be something on the computer I was using, because even my own blog had adlinks. In Firefox no less!
I expect that next year, this computer will...
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Endurance Theme is Approved & Featured!
Hey everyone - the Endurance Theme is ready for your use! Also, thanks a lot Tumblr for featuring my theme!
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iPad app prices are out of control and will kill... →
Oh God! Heavens forbid that iPad apps each cost more than a Happy Meal!
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Apple Will Reveal iPhone OS 4 Thursday →
I want true multitasking, and… well, I don’t know what else they could put in there. But I want true multitasking!
(via chartier)
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iPad Ready Sites →
Nice to see Apple promoting web standards so publicly, though you would think this would be unnecessary by now.
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Dribbble Is Now Public-Viewable →
Lots and lots and lots of creative inspiration here.
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1024x768 or Go To Hell!
My screen resolution, combined from both of my displays, is 3040x900. I’m currently fitting 4 applications on these two screens at their most comfortable sizes. Now imagine if each application was forced to expand to maximum screen size. 3040x900 Safari wouldn’t be too bad, but imagine a 3040x900 Adium window! Or a 3040x900 Tweetie window. Right now my Tweetie window is 355x782, and...
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I Guess We're Talking About the Windows Phone...
If you haven’t heard this yet (and given the barrage of iPad news, you probably haven’t), the Windows Phone 7 Series is now “simply” Windows Phone 7. (Must… resist… urge to use “series cancelled” pun…)
It’s a fairly obvious name change, but I think they could have gone farther. I’m not the only one:
Marco Arment:
They still...
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Google's iPad Interface for Gmail →
Personally, I think they should have made it so the iPad would, by default, view the same Gmail that regular systems can - after all, I find myself creating filters on a regular basis - but I suppose this is more finger-friendly. At least you can switch to the real Gmail when needed.
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Lorem iPad →
I don’t understand a shred of Latin, but “Windows 7 ha ha ha” made me laugh anyway.
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TinyGrab Has Been Usurped, All Hail CloudApp
I really like TinyGrab - screenshot sharing is just as dead-simple as it ever was - but CloudApp adds that dead-simplicity to any file you want. No longer will I be using my Dropbox public folder for this task. Dropbox, however, is still very useful otherwise.