November 2009
55 posts
Recycle small electronics for free through the... →
While mailing a few holiday packages earlier in the week, I spotted these small recycling bags at my local US Post Office:
If you have small consumer electronics cluttering up a drawer or…
Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code -... →
In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was…
7 Communication Tips That Get You Noticed –... →
Looking for a promotion, but your boss barely even knows your name? It’s a common problem, especially in today’s environment. Cost reductions and downsizing usually results in supervisors having 2-3…
Management Isn’t Just For Managers – WorkAwesome →
In a cube farm, you typically hear the word manage when the boss comes around. The boss talks about needing to manage projects or employees or whatever else needs managing that day.
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WatchNeil Young Sings Fresh Prince (via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)
Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources -... →
Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style…
Time Management 101 – WorkAwesome →
For those of us who are gainfully employed, we all want to work awesome at our jobs. In order to get there we need to be able to juggle our time effectively. I’ve been working full-time for the…
Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and... →
The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers….
iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context... →
The iPhone will always be part of a much bigger picture. How well you address human and environmental factors will greatly determine the success of your product. All too often, iPhone developers…
Designing “Coming Soon” Pages - Smashing Magazine →
Deciding what to do once you’ve purchased a domain but haven’t yet launched the website is always a bit of a conundrum. Leaving up your domain registrar or Web host’s…
Invoice Like A Pro: Examples and Best Practices -... →
Your invoice should be prim and proper, so that you can get paid by your clients efficiently. While invoicing is not a fun task, it’s a necessary one: by keeping clients informed of your…
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Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for... →
After seeing the intent by developers and artists to create iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for their music, Apple has opened up the availability to develop these features to third…
iClarified - Mac OS X - How to Kill an Application... →
Instructions on how to kill a Mac application when quit and force quit will not work.
LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and... →
Perhaps your most important online network of business contacts is now programmable. LinkedIn launched its API (our LinkedIn API profile), which allows developers to access a user’s connections and…
Google Reader Adds Favicon Support - Google Reader... →
Users of our very own Better GReader Firefox extension have been able to turn on favicon support for their feeds in the Reader sidebar for a while now (a favicon is, for example, the little ‘lh’ that…
Long-tail User Experience: how to cultivate (or... →
Websites are social creatures. Or rather, their users are. In turn, the websites you visit are tempered by the users that interact with them. Your experience with a website, say facebook.com, is…
Stop designing websites, start designing posters «... →
A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.
The Underlying Meaning of Content Management... →
WordPress recently came under fire regarding its presence as a CMS
How to Get Hired at a Startup – WorkAwesome →
There are 1,523 articles about how to get noticed, be presentable, and format a résumé for getting hired at a big company with a real HR department.
OK, I admit I made that number up. But there’s a…
The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine →
Barring the text and images, each one generally has the exact same layout. We see little originality from one post to the next. Of course, consistency and branding are extremely important to…
69 Sexy Portfolio Designs To Inspire You -... →
Today designing a unique, compelling portfolio has become a crucial task for designers, studios, companies and everyone whose business is on the Web. Not only does it help one stand out among the…
Contract Negotiation 101 →
Georgina is a professional writer based near Melbourne, Australia. Over the coming weeks, she’ll be sharing her tips and experience from working as a freelancer. How good are you at contract…
Firefox's Plan to Kick the Login's Butt →
Firefox gets distributed social networking and identity management. The good people who work on the revolutionary, open-sourced, and occasionally maligned browser have been hard at work on making …
College Students Arrested For Refusing To Pay Tip... →
Should you be required by law to pay a gratuity if you don’t think the restaurant’s service was worth it? The police in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania think so, and they arrested two college students for refusing to pay a $16.35 tip
Fall Out Boy Members Announce Metal Side Project -... →
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Holy amazing band formation!
Members of Fall Out Boy,Anthrax and Every Time I Die form metal supergroup The Damned Things!
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Brewing a Better Rating System
steepster:
Hey there tea drinkers, we just rolled out some updates to Steepster! For one, you can now specify things like steep times and temperatures in your tasting notes. Another highly requested change is a finer rating system, something we’ve been trying to figure out for a while. We think we’ve come up with a pretty neat solution and wanted to walk through some of the decisions we made.
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Internet Explorer 9: what you need to know | News... →
Internet Explorer 9: what you need to know IE9 will be faster, smoother and better at CSS : TechRadar UK
Carsonified » Kristina Halvorson on Content... →
ThinkVitamin - Carsonified’s blog about the web
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Twitter Blog: Project Retweet: Phase One →
Some of Twitter’s best features are emergent—people inventing simple but creative ways to share, discover, and communicate. One such convention is retweeting. When you want to call more attention to…
How the New ReTweet Will Impact Your Site... →
Photo by carrotcreativeReactions have been mixed on the new ReTweet functionality that’s recently been rolled out by Twitter. Some think it’s an elegant
How to Get More Comments on Your Blog →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for... →
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How to Deal with Trolls on Your Blog →
If you have a blog, you know the trolls I am referring to. Trolls are typically people who post rude comments with the sole intent of offending or provoking others. Their comments are usually…
Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript →
At the Edge of the Web conference in Perth last week I got to catch up with Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of the Raphaël and gRaphaël JavaScript libraries. Perhaps the most important thing…
Blogging: Secure Your Spot as the “Go-To” Blog |... →
Content is King, right? If that’s the case, what are you doing to make sure the content you deliver secures your site as the Go-To blog in your niche?
Transparency: Benefits and Best Practices | UX... →
Showing that your business is human can easily make you a stronger company. The benefits go two ways though. Not only is it great for your company but it is also beneficial for the user in may ways….
7 Great Rip-offs—and How to Avoid Them! [Work... →
SitePoint.com - With a vast variety of web design tutorials and articles coupled with a vibrant and well informed community, SitePoint the natural place to go to grow your online business
6 Ways to Watch Your Web Design Agency’s Margins... →
Most companies’ margins grow as they become bigger. This is especially true of the Web’s leading media businesses: Twitter, Facebook, or Google. For web design agencies, however, the opposite is…
5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties →
This post is about 5 useful CSS properties that you should be very familiar with, but will most likely rarely use. I’m not talking about the new fancy CSS3 properties. I’m referring to the old CSS2…
Google replaces URLs with breadcrumb links in... →
Google has announced this morning that for certain queries they will be showing site hierarchies in the search results rather than URL’s string. On first
Google Poised to Become Your Phone Company |... →
Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process. Seriously. Google has bought Gizmo5, an
WatchNoFX - Cokie the Clown (via MySpace)
2010 Volkswagen GTI - 2010 Automobile of the Year... →
Yes, the VW GTI is our Automobile of the Year. Again. The last-generation car got the nod only three years ago and now its successor, the sixth-generation GTI, walks away with the trophy as well….
The 5 North Diesel Caravan →
I uploaded a YouTube video: Driving up north to San Francisco always amazes me how many trucks drive the daily.
50 Beautiful and Creative Blog Designs - Smashing... →
The most recent collection of creative blog designs was featured here on Smashing Magazine back in July. Only three months have passed and we’ve got a new dose of inspiration for you. Beautiful and…
The Future of Interface Design | UX Booth →
In the grand scheme of history, it wasn’t long ago that the first telephone conversation took place. Relatively speaking, that makes the personal computer an invention of yesteryear, and social…
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Confess-O-Matic →
Pretty funny. For all of you people out there sinning across the internet.