Tag: link
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Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor
Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm TaylorThis was probably the best design tip I learned in 2012. If you haven’t read this yet, give it a read.
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Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface DesignIt’s not often you can get very much out of a solitary deck of slides. Much of the magic is meant to be delivered by the (hopefully engaging) speaker. However, Aaron Walter’s slide deck, Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design, was so good it inspired me to buy…
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Scientists Discover the Oldest, Largest Body of Water In Existence—In Space This blows my mind.
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How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connected
How to stop iTunes from opening every time your iPhone is connectedThis was driving me crazy. I had the “Prevent devices from syncing automatically” checked in the preferences, yet every single time I docked or _un_docked my iPhone, iTunes would jump to the front of my screen. The answer is rather unintuitive: Go to iTunes…
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Font or Typeface?
Font or Typeface?I wasn’t completely clear on their usage, so I googled it, and this was the best result: the physical embodiment of a collection of letters, numbers, symbols, etc. (whether it’s a case of metal pieces or a computer file) is a font. When referring to the design of the collection (the way it…
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Download Safari Extension: Maximize Flash Videos for YouTube & Vimeo
Download Safari Extension: Maximize Flash Videos for YouTube & VimeoI made a stupid browser extension to maximize Flash videos on YouTube and Vimeo pages. It’s stupid because I tried for an hour or more to get it to only inject the stylesheet when you click the toolbar button, but it’s just too stupid to work.…
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Filter iPad/iPhone Screenshots out of your iPhoto
Filter iPad/iPhone Screenshots out of your iPhotoThis handy tip will help you cull your iPhoto library of those hundreds screenshots you take when you’re obsessively working on UI. Create smart albums with the following criteria: For iPad, match all of the following conditions: Aperture is Unknown ISO is Unknown Filename starts with IMG_ Filename contains…
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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…
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Murk Avenue: I Found Ice Cube’s “Good Day”
Murk Avenue: I Found Ice Cube’s “Good Day”As in, “Today was a…” Some of the best pop-culture investagatory journalism ever via Murk Avenue.
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Learn HTML & CSS Book I am frequently asked what the best book is to learn HTML and CSS. I’ve usually recommended a book by Dan Cederholm, but even his material can presuppose an understanding of the basics of what makes a webpage work. This beautifully designed book by Jon Duckett looks like a perfect…
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Music That Makes You Dumb by Virgil Griffith
Music That Makes You Dumb by Virgil GriffithCaltech student Virgil Griffith correlated musical interests with SAT scores. The method is highly unscientific, but the grouped by genre graphic makes the most sense. People who list Outkast in their favorite music on Facebook tend to score higher than those who list Lil Wayne.
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“The Art of Listening” by John Carey
“The Art of Listening” by John Carey When was the last time you sat or laid down to listen to an album all the way through, start to finish? Just you, the music, the environment you are in, and maybe a significant other. … Many people seem to think it is unreasonable to do something…
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Prefixr beta · Cross-Browser CSS in Seconds
Prefixr beta · Cross-Browser CSS in SecondsNice little one-trick web app. Example: You write border-radius: 5px it outputs the same with -moz, -ms, -o, and -webkit prefixes. Even includes Microsoft CSS filters for opacity and background gradients in IE.
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Listenr 1.3 Available now. And it’s FREE.
Listenr 1.3 Available now. And it’s FREE.Ethan Sherbondy: Listenr app: That’s right. I’ve decided to make the app free for the time being. The plan is to add some super awesome paid features in upcoming releases, but the core functionality of Listenr will remain available pro bono. Much thanks to everyone who supported me by…
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Curation, Community and the Future of News
Curation, Community and the Future of NewsThe Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University concludes: People are clearly overwhelmed by the growing volume and weight of digital content and messaging that they feel compelled to process. To deal with this, I’ve been very mindful of where I put my attention of late, especially when it…