Jay Robinson

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  • Ralph McQuarrie, an influential scenic designer for Star Wars, died last Saturday. Click through to see more terrific examples of his work.

  • Just installed an unnecessary amount of Firefoxes, via Gregory Koberger: curl -L -O <a href="https://github.com/omgmog/install-all-firefox/raw/master/install-all-firefox.sh">https://github.com/omgmog/install-all-firefox/raw/master/install-all-firefox.sh</a> chmod +x install-all-firefox.sh ./install-all-firefox.sh [version] [locale] Version and locale are option. If you don’t use a locale, it will try to figure out your locale. If you don’t have a version, it will install all available versions of Firefox. If…

  • Testing Sencha.com with iPad 3 Retina display. Click to view full-size. This morning I opened up the new iOS Simulator 5.1 to test our website and see how it looks when every pixel is doubled as on a high-resolution retina-display. I soon wondered why I couldn’t accomplish this same feat in the desktop Safari application……

  • When that camera gets of such quality and capability that you’re proud to use it as your everyday camera for photographs, we call it an iSight camera. And the new iPad has a great iSight camera. There’s been rumors for a while that Apple would create a small handheld device specifically designed for taking photos…

  • In love with these bezels.

  • A little insight on how I designed the Sencha Touch 2 product section. I’ve been using Sharpies for wireframes to force myself not to draw in too many details.

  • Messages beta pisses me off.

  • How Ya Livin Biggie Smalls?

    How Ya Livin Biggie Smalls?Justin Ouellette: Great collection of remembrances from those who knew him, with beautiful photography by Ian Baguskas.

  • A little less than two years ago, Dave Kaneda and Tommy Maintz got it on this couch in Palo Alto and made a baby called Ext Touch. Today, the Touch team releases Sencha Touch 2. What a beautiful thing to behold.

  • Sencha Tumblr: Today we’re proud to announce the release of Sencha Touch 2.0. With a huge focus on performance, simplified API, and native packaging on both Mac and Windows, we’re certain it will change the way you think about mobile apps. Photos courtesy of the lovely Tatiana Iskandar. Inadvertent hand model Bruno Tavares. Beautiful apps…

  • Sencha Tumblr: Join the HTML5 revolution with Sencha Touch 2 and build mobile apps for every Android, iOS, and BlackBerry. We’re excited to share with you the power of web technology: incredible performance, beautiful themes, and endless possibilities. Product launches move fast at Sencha, and we’re a very small team. When you’re inspired to work…

  • Hatha yoga — the parent of the styles now practiced around the globe — began as a branch of Tantra. In medieval India, Tantra devotees sought to fuse the male and female aspects of the cosmos into a blissful state of consciousness. The rites of Tantric cults, while often steeped in symbolism, could also include…

  • Replacing the -9999px Hack (New Image Replacement)

    Replacing the -9999px Hack (New Image Replacement)Mike McCarron reblogs Zeldman: .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } I first wrote about this technique in 2009, and had been using it at least a year before that. Because I realized the web should always be future friendly. If you find the better way, start…

  • Just a painting of some humpbacks chillin’ in outer space.

  • Sencha Tumblr: Create rapid prototypes of your next great web app in Photoshop with the new Sencha Touch GUI PSD from TimeWave Media: “We’ve created a layered Photoshop PSD file based off of the Sencha Touch Kitchen Sink demo app, as well as their new [Touch Charts] interface features. This file is intended to serve…