December 2009
20 posts
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“I’m going to make my own browser and call it CHATCH9000 Using Netscape...”
– Rowan Oulton on the news that Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser (by version) in the world.
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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BetterTouchTool  →
allows for custom gestures for the magic mouse and trackpad. reinstate the middle click, and add things like 3 finger swipes for expose etc. productivity++ regular osx mouse users should look into my other stalwart of gesture awesomeness: xgestures
Dec 19th
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WatchWatch
jarredbishop: The North Kingdom Showreel. These guys really have been at the top of their game for the last 6 years, largely (in my opinion) due to the direction from Robert Linstrom. yeah, this is incredible.
Dec 19th
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Apple - Movie Trailers - Iron Man 2 →
may 2010. nuff said
Dec 16th
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24 ways: Rock Solid HTML Emails →
Dave Grenier (of Campaign Monitor fame) provides a great write-up of techniques to make sure your HTML Emails are ‘rock solid’. Also interesting to note is commercial email marketing campaigns are noted as returning $43.62 for every dollar spent on them in 2009. Compare that with non-catalog direct mail, which returned $15.22 for every dollar spent, and you have some very...
Dec 16th
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Tidy Service →
Following my recent switch from Dreamweaver to Coda, i found the one thing I missed the most was html autoformatting. Enter Tidy Service - an OSX service that cleans up (and optionally validates) your markup using the HTML Tidy Library developed by Dave Raggett. It also has the option to create a config file if you feel it needs further fine tuning. Read more
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Making of Starbucks Love Project →
Mr Doob writes up the difficulties encountered and the solutions, including rendering a 3d wall of 1000+ images in flash, using a colored plane to work out local co-ordinates and consistent map point placement converting lat and long to x any y coordinates.
Dec 15th
4 tags
MooTools Forge →
The official Mootools plugin repository has launched, overall design is a little confused, but the project pages themselves are nicely structured and informative. I’m looking at exploring mootools further if only for the smoothness of the animation classes alone.
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Fix Helvetica displaying as Itallic on Firefox OSX
Another recurring problem i’ve had with fonts since upgrading to snow leopard and perhaps even before that, is with Helvetica displaying incorrectly in firefox. Long story short it’s a conflict between the existing OS font, and an older version of Linotype Font Explorer Pro (v1.2.3 - incidentally the last free version). The solution: Apparently disabling / paid upgrade to Font...
Dec 6th
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Dec 3rd
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Pandy, a 3D CSS demo
mrgan: (This post uses formatting and features not visible in the Tumblr Dashboard. If anything below doesn’t make sense or looks plain ugly, consider viewing the post on my website. I love the Dashboard, I hate the Dashboard.) Did you know you can do 3D transformations on objects in Webkit-based browsers? What I mean is, you can take an IMG or a DIV or, well, anything, and translate, rotate,...
Dec 3rd
51 notes
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Dec 3rd
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November 2009
17 posts
6 tags
Nov 30th
2 notes
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Nov 30th
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