October 2009
56 posts
Why Windows 7 Will Revolutionize Your Browser... →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
VirtualBox Virtual Machine Software: A Hands-On... →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
Robot Forest Is Now Mobile With WPTouch And So Can... →
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Thanks for the shout out!
I’ve tried quite a few different plugins in my day to try to turn this site into a mobile browser-friendly site. Finally the right plugin has surfaced.
iPhone Application UI Design Patterns — Flyosity:... →
The iPhone is one big constraint — no keyboard, small screen, few buttons — so designing applications for the iPhone is an exercise in building smart, simple software. Bloated apps on… - Mac and…
September 2009
109 posts
Jimmy Eat World and Trombino Together Again →
Jimmy Eat World will be working on new songs with Mark Trombino. Submitted by MattRM
5 Ways to Use Twitter to Kill Your Business →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone «... →
Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to…
Are You a One-Man Show or the Man Behind the... →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
Pitchfork: Thom Yorke Starts New Band With Flea... →
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Should be interesting.
The steady flow of recent Thom Yorke news continues with an exciting new development. Yorke has posted on Radiohead’s …
How to Stop Interruptions – WorkAwesome →
Hey, you busy? Sorry to interrupt, but I have some ideas on what you can do about all those distractions and interruptions getting in the way of your work. Let’s review what’s keeping you from…
Flickr Now Supports OpenStreetMap Tags →
Flickr just announced support for OpenStreetMap, the wiki-like mapping service that allows users to create and edit maps. Starting today, photos that are tagged with an OpenStreetMap node …
Twitter Continues Talent Scoop, Takes Digg’s UX... →
Fresh off their new $100 million funding round, Twitter continues to scoop up talent from around the web to expand operations. The latest …
Popular Logos with Hidden Symbolisms →
Some logos are very creative and have subtle symbols and messages that represents something about the company it stands for. We explore a handful of such logos in this collection.
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Why Corporations Don’t Upgrade IE6 and How Chrome... →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
SimpleBits ~ Use the Best Available Ampersand →
I love ampersands. And interest in this quirky character seems to be on the rise as of late. Case in point: Just last week, I purchased not one, but two t-shirts adorned with nothing more than an…
Mac 101: Create a wireless network between Mac and... →
Many applications require your Mac and your iPhone to be on the same wireless network in order to communicate properly or sync. Apple doesn’t advertise the ability to use such applications…
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines «... →
Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your…
Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This... →
If your week is seven buckets, and you go into each bucket without planning ahead, and you fill it up with little pebbles and grains of sand and whatever other debris comes your way … soon there will…
How to Handle IE6: Aggressive Graceful Degradation... →
I’d like to propose an Internet Explorer contract addendum in which we notify clients that their project will gracefully degrade for IE.
Fear not. I Have Conquered IE6, and You Can Too -... →
Internet Explorer 6 should not be abandoned. Instead you should plan for IE6 and gracefully degrade.
How Increased Productivity Can Hurt You –... →
A big part of being awesome in the workplace is being highly productive. Any time we can get more done in the same amount of time means greater profitability for you personally and the company you…
Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources... →
CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font.
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How Not to Boost Employee Morale – WorkAwesome →
Any company, regardless of size, must maintain an engaging internal culture to keep its staff motivated to perform. You have most likely heard plenty of friends and family members thank their…
The Flow Code: The Basics of “Getting To Flow” –... →
In my last article, I alluded to the teachings of the venerable Barney Stinson, many of whom consider to be The Master of Awesome. Not only does he “walk the walk” and “talk the talk”, but he can…
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Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch for Google Sync →
A helpful post from Google designed to give you an easy setup of push for Gmail.
Beyond the Cover Letter: Resumé Tips – WorkAwesome →
So you want to apply for that cool new job you saw online today. You want it really badly, right? Well, first you have to get the interview. Here are some things you need to check before you hit the…
Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation:... →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
R2D2 turned into retro gaming shrine, includes... →
We don’t know exactly how to say this without overloading your nerd subsystem, but this R2D2 unit packs eight consoles, an integrated sound system and a projector for throwing your Jet Grind Radio…
Google Releases Sidewiki API - a Programmable... →
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.
NetNewsWire 2.0 Better Integrates Google Reader... →
iPhone/iPod touch: Ever since the FeedDemon/ NetNewsWire RSS readers announced exclusive Google Reader syncing, we’ve been waiting for that anywhere-you-go goodness to arrive on iPhones. Now it has,…
Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation:... →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
Clever PNG Optimization Techniques « Smashing... →
As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a…
12 Tips for Creating a Great Portfolio Site «... →
If you’re a designer, artist, or photographer, chances are you need to display your work online. And while there are sites out there that will host your portfolio for you, their solutions are often…
Google Sync : Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch -... →
To set up Google Sync on your iPhone or iPod Touch device, please follow the steps below . Requirements and Upload 1. Google Sync is only supported on iPhone OS versions 3.0 and above. You can che
How to Switch from Blogger to WordPress Without... →
This tutorial describes how you can move a Blogger blog to WordPress while maintaining permalinks, organic search traffic and RSS subscribers. Once you import the blogspot site into WordPress, you…
Introducing Google Chrome Frame →
Today, we’re releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer. We’re building Google Chrome Frame…
UserGlue UserBlog » Blog Archive » Solving the... →
One of the mailing lists that I’m on had a question posed today about using “Repeat Email Address” in form validation.
I actually cringed as I typed that just now–that particular part of form…
The 4 Personalities of Poor Email Signatures →
An email signature should provide some very basic information about who you are, what you do and how you can be reached. But the possible ways to format that information are boundless.
Google Captures reCAPTCHA →
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers
20 Tips for Creating an Effective Email Signature →
Email signaturesYesterday, I identified the four common personality types of poor email signatures. While much of the post was light-hearted, an effective email signature is essential. It can be…
Google Chrome Frame - Google Code →
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Everyone should use this.
Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to…
Thief Nabbed After Forgetting To Log Out Of... →
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And this is why I say “people are sheep!”
Joining our ever-increasing pantheon of stupid criminals, we have one 19-year old Pennsylvania man who was nabbed after…
Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30... →
Music royalty groups ASCAP and BMI are harassing online music stores such as iTunes to pay performance fees not only for the songs that they sell, but for the short clips that they use as previews….
Sign up and log in →
It’s common practice for sign-up forms to include duplicate fields for either password or email, where the user has to type the same thing twice. I deliberately avoided this on the Huffduffer…
30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners - Nettuts+ →
CSS is a language that is used by nearly every developer at some point. While it’s a language that we sometimes take for granted, it is powerful and has many
40 Free Fonts That Everyone Should Own →
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Atlantes →
Interesting picture.
Ten Things We Learned About George W. Bush From... →
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God, what an idiot! And I’m not sure who’s dumber, the ex-president or the people who voted for him.
Back in August, there was reportedly considerable hand-wringing among…