August 2011
4 posts
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Fontdeck Blog: Hyphenation arrives in Firefox and... →
This is such great news!
fontdeck:
Pretty much the only forms of Western literature that don’t use hyphenation are children’s books and websites. Until now. Yesterday’s release of Firefox 6 and last month’s release of Safari 5.1 on OS X Lion mean that two browsers now support CSS 3 hyphenation.
Turning on hyphenation is…
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Gmail Finally Adds a Preview Pane →
This was a loooooong time coming, but I’m so glad it’s been added!
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jQuery Mobile First Look
The good folks at Packt Publishing are sending me a copy of jQuery Mobile First Look to read and hopefully eventually review. I’m stoked they asked because I really need to improve my knowledge of mobile app development. Hopefully the content is not too far above my current skill level, we shall see.
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MOVE →
cameronmoll:
Footage from 11 countries combined as if filmed in a single location. Imagine the coordination it took to pull this off. See also LEARN and EAT.
/via @scottharrison
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
6 posts
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Most Creative Resumes →
If you are looking for some creative ideas for your resume, this site will do the trick.
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Lost Type Co-op →
Lost Type is a font foundry with a different spin. They have some really great looking fonts on a “pay what you want” cost basis. So you can pay $0, or as much as you think the font is worth. 100% of the sales go directly to the designer of the font. It’s a cool idea, that I hope takes off for these guys.
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Awkward Showcase - jQuery Content Slider
Awkward Showcase - jQuery Content Slider
I try to bookmark a lot of these jQuery sliders for future use. There are plenty of options out there, but this one looks exceptional. I’ve yet to try it out, but I love all the configuration options. Tooltips, thumbnails and dynamic height are all things I get asked to include with sliders often. I didn’t see the file size, so hopefully...
May 2011
11 posts
Dribbble Blog: Color Coding →
dribbble:
One of our focal points at Dribbble is helping you discover interesting shots. Toward that end, we launched Buckets last week. Today we’re happy to release Colors.
You can now search for shots by color. Just head over to the color search page (accessible via the Explore menu). There are…
Dribbble Blog: New Feature: Buckets →
dribbble:
There’s an amazing variety of shots uploaded on Dribbble every day, and it’s our continual challenge to make it easier to discover new and interesting content. Today we’ve launched Buckets to help the community participate in curating Dribbble.
Buckets are simply collections of shots that any…
Dribbble adds buckets
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CSS 3 Animations and Their jQuery Equivalents →
It’s great to see the progress CSS has made over the last few years. With CSS 3 comes all kinds of new tricks and techniques. Marcofolio has put together this example page of many common jQuery animations that can now be done in CSS 3. Very impressive.
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Fantastical
Fantastical is a slick new mac app that works with iCal, Entourage and Outlook. It boasts an awesome looking UI and allows you to enter your events in plain english. So you can write something like ‘Lunch with John Doe at 11am’ and Fantastical will handle the rest.
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loads.in →
Simple, but useful testing for the load time of your website. I love the incremental screenshots!
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Stampaxx - Free Social Media Stamp Collection
Stampaxx is a lovely and original collection of social media icons… Err should I say stamps. Check em out. They are free and come in psd and eps formats.
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FitText →
I’m excited to try out this new plugin by the impressive folks at Paravel. Their explanation describes it well enough…
A jQuery plugin for inflating web type. FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.
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GuideGuide Photoshop Plugin
GuideGuide is a super handy photoshop extension that adds a new panel so you can specify guides based on totals and gutter widths. If you’ve ever laid down some guides in photoshop for a grid you know first hand how painfully tedious that process can be. Sure, you can create a bunch of templates for future use, but you still have to take the time up front. Trust me, if you are grid...
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Subtle Patterns →
This is a beautiful set of subtle patterns for Photoshop. All available to you under the creative commons license.
April 2011
15 posts
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The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should...
A clever and practical list for graphic design students. Although it transcends just fine to those who have been working professionally.
The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know
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Admin Bar Tricks →
This is a really handy reference for alterations to the new polarizing admin bar in Wordrpress.
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Steedicons
Kyle Steed is the man. And these amazing icons appropriately named Steedicons further prove this.
The Mountain →
cameronmoll:
I won’t even attempt to fumble with adjectives. Just watch.
Terje Sorgjerd:
A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.
Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was...
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The Cursor Monster
Some HTML 5/CSS 3 magic from Simurai. So awesome!
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Adaptive CSS →
Designing websites for devices that vary from a mobile phone to a large screen tv can be a daunting task. Media queries are picking up steam and are a great way to create a responsive design. Adapt.js takes a slightly different approach. Here’s how it’s described:
Adapt.js is a lightweight (947 bytes minified) JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser...
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RDD.me →
A url shortener from Readability. Shorten your link, plus the benefits of readability. Nice!
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SilverSmith Framework →
This is a brilliant project built for Silverstripe. As Aaron puts it:
SilverSmith is a framework for building SilverStripe sites that provides code, template, and content generation tools using a YAML configuration file.
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WhatFont Bookmarklet →
Sure I can find out what fonts are being used on a site by going into web inspector or something similar, but that’s far too much work. With this bookmarklet all I have to do is click the bookmark then hover over the fonts I’m curious about. I love it!
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Logo Process for AWS Consultancy by Graham Smith
I must admit every time I read one of Graham Smith’s logo design posts I am forced to reevaluate my own work and usually come out feeling lazy and less than adequate. But I love reading them over. It challenges me and inspires me to do better.
His latest post was on the logo process for AWS Consultancy. The logo, as usual is awesome, thoughtful and flexible.
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Seven Typography Shortcuts for Photoshop →
Super handy list of keyboard shortcuts for typography in Photoshop.
March 2011
30 posts
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Ideas of March →
I love the Ideas of March movement that was started by Chris Shiflett. I’m guilty of moving just about all of my online conversations to Twitter and Facebook. And although I love the simplicity and interaction I get there, especially Twitter, I miss the authentic and personal connection that blogging provides. That’s why Trent’s metaphors for blogging and microblogging are so...
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Slide In Image Captions
I like this subtle little way to do slide in image captions using CSS3 and HTML5
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The Monster at the End of this iPad →
I love this book! My mom used to read this to me as a kid, over, and over, and over…
cameronmoll:
An interactive version of my all-time favorite children’s book. Totally worth $4.
/via @zelph
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Hover on "Everything But" →
This is so beautifully simple. I’ll definitely be utilizing this simple effect soon.
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Ceaser - CSS Easing Animation Tool →
A brilliant tool that makes perfecting your CSS animations painless. I love tools like this that make CSS 3 so much easier to use!
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When success is equated with excess
The ambition for excess wrecks us
As top...
– American Dream, by Switchfoot
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Instagoodies →
cameronmoll:
Stickers of your Instagram photos. Just $14 for 90 stickers.
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45 More Subtle Grunge Brushes from Function
This is a brilliant set of subtle grunge photoshop brushes from Function.
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Firefox 4 →
In case you missed it, Firefox 4 is out, and it’s pretty great.
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Mosaic - Sliding Boxes and Captions
Mosaic - Sliding Boxes and Captions. Another slick jQuery plugin from the guys at Build Internet.
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Type study: Typographic hierarchy →
Frank Chimero puts together this great write up on how to improve your designs by using proper typographic hierarchy. I love the simplicity and how he incrementally builds on his example throughout the post.