October 2009
56 posts
Why You Need A Business Continuity Plan →
Continuity planning isn’t just for the big boys. Small business owners, freelancers and other solo professionals need to have a Plan B so they can maintain their income and continue supporting their…
beautiful fonts with @font-face at... →
While Firefox 3.0 improved typographic rendering by introducing support for kerning, ligatures, and multiple weights along with support for rendering complex scripts, authors are still limited to…
How to Make Meetings Matter – WorkAwesome →
Meetings: the bane of all self-confessed “busy people”. Unending exercises in monotony, sucking up precious time that could be better spent fixing bugs, designing applications, polishing pitches,…
53 Best Practices How To Attract RSS Subscribers |... →
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Carsonified » Elliot Jay Stocks on WordPress for... →
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Dan Rubin on Web Typography →
Next up in our series of web design focused interviews is Dan Rubin, you’ll frequently find him waxing educational about a cappella jazz and barbershop harmony, interface design, usability,…
Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google... →
There’s more to Google Calendar (GCal) (s goog) than meets the eye. At first glance, it seems no different from …
151 Air, Web and iPhone Apps for Web Developers -... →
It seems like you can’t go two yards without bumping into apps these days. Whether it’s iPhone apps, web apps, or even Adobe Air apps - when used judiciously
Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics... →
Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other…
F. Scott Fitzgerald Made $8,397 On Great Gatsby;... →
There have been an increasing number of questions raised about both the length of copyright and the fact that it passes on to heirs after the original creator passes on. The original purpose of…
Verizon Droid: First Impressions →
Verizon Wireless’s Droid won’t show up in stores until a week from Friday, but the company has shared loaner devices with technology journalists and bloggers, including me–PC World has a…
WordPress' sophomore iPhone debut impresses |... →
The second version of the company’s mobile blogging software still doesn’t help solve how difficult it is to bang out a long, media-rich post on the go, but it’s getting closer. Read this blog post…
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School Did Not Prepare You for Work – WorkAwesome →
Congratulations! You’re out in the real world, living on your own, holding down your own job, building your career one day at a time. You made it through high school, through college, through the job…
Steve Ballmer's Windows 7 pitch features MacBook... →
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and endsTalk about embarrassing. Steve Ballmer guest hosted on NBC’s Today Show yesterday to talk about the Windows 7 launch. Sadly for Steverino, Matt…
Flickr Adds People Tagging à la Facebook - Flickr... →
One of the better features in Facebook (and now both Picasa and iPhoto) is people-tagging—allowing users to identify who’s in a picture by mousing over the image. Starting today, Flickr’s joined in…
Google Reader Sorts Feed Items by Personalized... →
Want Google’s computers to tell you which RSS feeds should be looking at in Reader, and which feed items to read first? It’s now possible, as Reader introduces a “Sort by Magic” filter and an…
Carsonified » 10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error... →
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The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property « Smashing... →
Years ago, when developers first started to make the transition to HTML layouts without tables, one CSS property that suddenly took on a very important role was the float property. The reason that…
Browser support for CSS3 and HTML5, We've... →
Browser support for CSS3 and HTML5, We’ve tested all the A-grade browsers for their CSS3 and HTML5 support using FindMeByIP.com. The results have been very interesting.
(516): Thank God they found balloon... →
(516): Thank God they found balloon boy, I was afraid that Michael Jackson was ordering take out from heaven.
Focusing Interaction Design with Design Strategy |... →
Design has a reputation for being one of the more ambiguous areas of product development. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard clients say: “first we’ll get the application functionally correct and…
How To Identify and Deal With Different Types Of... →
In business, being able to read people and quickly get a sense of who you’re dealing with is an invaluable skill. It turns your encounter with a client into an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the…
Google and Virgin American Team Up for Free... →
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Hell yeah for me flying Virgin this holiday.
Google has teamed up with Virgin America to bring free in-flight Wi-Fi to the friendly skies from November 10th to January 5th as a…
Image Sprites Syntax Request - CSS3 . Info →
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This would be absolutely vital to my job.
One of the requests that came in during the WASP feedback discussions was for image “sprites”: for the ability to take a slice of an…
WordPress 2.9 Features →
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This site is now running on WordPress 2.9-rare (which is our “pre-alpha” designation, for those of you who don’t know). WP 2.9 is in “feature freeze”, which means no new…
Facebook Lets You Easily Integrate into Sites and... →
ProgrammableWeb.com keeps you up to date with web mashups and APIs: what’s new, interesting, useful and important. Hundreds of mashups and APIs. Contribute, search, view, and chart them.
Carsonified » The Future of HTML 5 →
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Google Voice Gives Users Invitations to Hand Out... →
Getting a Google Voice invite has, until now, involved either dropping a request penny down the well, being a legacy GrandCentral user, or knowing someone at Google. Now Google Voice has started…
The 10 Biggest Misconceptions We Learn In School →
I do some teaching, and my kids are constantly turning in essays with tragically inaccurate examples, like “When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb…” or “Even Einstein got bad grades in school…”…
Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On... →
Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites….
Michael Moore: Do You Want Airline Pilots to Be... →
Michael Moore’s pointing out something no one in the media seems to want to discuss: How little money the people who are flying commercial planes are getting paid. As he says, these are not the…
Friday Favorite: FolderGlance →
Filed under: Software, Snow Leopard, Friday Favorite
FolderGlance 2.55, for Snow Leopard only, is a very useful preference pane that adds a number of additions to the…
egoapp →
Link: http://twitter.com/egoapp/status/4685835497 Ego version 1.5 with new support for Ember is now available! http://tinyurl.com/egoapp #egoapp
Google Cloudboard →
Google tests a service called Cloudboard, an online clipboard that should make it easy to copy data between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services. The service is not publicly available yet,…
How to Cut Ties without Burning Bridges →
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Make Money Online: FTC’s New Rules of Disclosure →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
Carsonified » 9 Ways to Take Your Site from One to... →
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MxPx Allstars →
MxPx lead vocalist and bassist Mike Herrera, Kris Roe of The Ataris, and Chris Wilson of The Summer Obsession have teamed up to play a few shows together. Submitted by UnderMyDreams
Is Software Licensed or Sold? →
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To Share or Not to Share, That is the Question –... →
Copyright is as old as printing and as new as today. As freelancers, whether writing, designing for print or the Internet, broadcasting, filming, or
How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism «... →
Winston Churchill once said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”…
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Microsoft’s Tablet Leaked Right On Schedule →
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I agree. Its a great concept, but one has to wonder with such interface fails such as IE6, IE7, and IE8, along with Office 2007, is this really going to be as easy to use as the…
CSS3: To Infinity And Beyond! [CSS Tutorials] →
Let’s face it. Mozilla puts out a lot of alphas, nightlies, and developer releases, so if you’d ignored last month’s offering—Firefox 3.6 alpha—you could probably be forgiven.
Object-Oriented CSS: What, How, and Why - Nettuts+ →
It sounds like an oxymoron, or at least an impossibility, doesn’t it? How can a static language that’s really more like markup than programming be
Make Work Better with Your Desktop Decor –... →
I was checking out my new desktop wallpaper, which should look familiar to those who have been regularly perusing this here site, and as I laid out my icons accordingly on it I found myself…
4 Practices to Alleviate Office Stress –... →
During my days at a midtown Manhattan office in New York, I had to come up with ways to reduce stress. I read articles, joined discussion forums, went to therapy, tried every cliché suggested to make…
The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need - Nettuts+ →
Search Engine Optimization is a rather complex and never ending process. You have to analyze a lot of things including what keywords people are searching for,