Andrew Houle

Fontdeck Blog: Hyphenation arrives in Firefox and Safari

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:35:15 -0400

Fontdeck Blog: Hyphenation arrives in Firefox and Safari:

This is such great news!

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…

Gmail Finally Adds a Preview Pane

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:47:43 -0400

Gmail Finally Adds a Preview Pane:

This was a loooooong time coming, but I’m so glad it’s been added!

jQuery Mobile First Look

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:59:00 -0400

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.

MOVE

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:03:03 -0400

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

Windmill (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:59:22 -0400

Windmill (Taken with instagram)

jonathanmoore: Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus Fascinating...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:25:10 -0400

jonathanmoore:

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

Fascinating and beautifully designed infographic on the recent Stuxnet virus that was used to cripple Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities last summer. With the design of the virus combined with stolen security clearances and twenty zero days holes, Stuxnet was able to cause some serious damage and set back Iran’s efforts. Now that the virus is open-source and available for download, the question is who be the next to use Stuxnet with its capables of shutting down nuclear reactors or oil pipelines.

The direction and animation of this infographic was done by Australian motion designer Patrick Clair and written by Scott Mitchell

Evening stroll (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:47:13 -0400

Evening stroll (Taken with instagram)

Most Creative Resumes

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:15:24 -0400

Most Creative Resumes:

If you are looking for some creative ideas for your resume, this site will do the trick.

jonathanmoore: At nearly 21 million blogs, Tumblr finally has...

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:08:45 -0400

jonathanmoore:

At nearly 21 million blogs, Tumblr finally has more blogs than WordPress.com.

Congrats Tumblr!

Lost Type Co-op

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:11:13 -0400

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.

Awkward Showcase - jQuery Content Slider

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:53:56 -0400

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 it’s not too bloated.

Dribbble Blog: Color Coding

Thu, 26 May 2011 18:38:22 -0400

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

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:26:59 -0400

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

CSS 3 Animations and Their jQuery Equivalents

Fri, 20 May 2011 09:22:53 -0400

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.

Fantastical

Wed, 18 May 2011 09:23:39 -0400

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.

petervidani: It’s now super easy to add a “Share on Tumblr”...

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:11:17 -0400

petervidani:

It’s now super easy to add a “Share on Tumblr” button to any site→

Check out the examples. We’re doing some really cool stuff with it.

loads.in

Mon, 16 May 2011 09:00:06 -0400

loads.in:

Simple, but useful testing for the load time of your website. I love the incremental screenshots!

Stampaxx - Free Social Media Stamp Collection

Fri, 13 May 2011 09:31:00 -0400

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.

FitText

Wed, 11 May 2011 09:03:48 -0400

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.

Full speed ahead :) (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 07 May 2011 19:31:59 -0400

Full speed ahead :) (Taken with instagram)