Placehold.it
Handy service creating placeholder images for website development.
Jim Barraud web designer
Fuck You. Pay Me.
Mike Monteiro on getting paid for what you do and protecting yourself in the process. Required viewing for anyone doing client services.
Mobile email design in practice
I've been meaning to look into this. It's nice to see that @media queries work in mobile clients.
Robotic Attack Fonts
Nice assortment of free cartoon and comic book fonts.
IE6 Countdown
The most positive thing Microsoft has done in years. I said goodbye to IE6 years ago, now it's time for everyone else to say their goodbyes.
TextExpander Projects – Brett Terpstra
Some handy TextExpander groups and snippets for your coding pleasure from Brett Terpstra. Particularly handy are the CSS3 and Lorem Ipsum groups. If everyone else could create TextExpander snippets for ideas floating in my head that would be greeeeat… mmmkay?
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
I preach pretty much every point of this site to my class. And yet I still know plenty of professionals that could benefit from reading this. But I think the creator of this site could benefit from a "How to increase the usability of your valuable content without unnecessary razzle-dazzle" manifesto.
HTML5 — Edition for Web Developers
A great version of the spec formatted specifically for web developers that leaves out all the info meant strictly for browser vendors.
Lego iMac
Love this. The best part is the designer is offering up the Lego Studio Builder file so you can order the bricks to build it yourself. Very tempted, but with a trip to the Lego store a couple weeks away I'm holding off… for now.
Disassembly: Product Photography for Industrial Designers
Great set of photos of exploded views of vintage gadgets. Particularly love the typewriter and clock radio.
LiveView for iPhone and iPad
LiveView is an essential tool for designing interfaces for your iOS device. Comprised of software for both your desktop and iOS device, LiveVew allows you to work on your designs and view the results in realtime on you iPhone or iPad. Best of all, it’s free.
Make Photoshop Faster
… in two simple steps.
Ikea Switches From Futura to Verdana
The sad thing about this is that it's not April 1st.
Snow Leopard Compatibility List
Helpful for those making the jump to the new cat.
Dark Night of the Soul
New Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse album that has an interesting backstory to it. Basically he's in a dispute with the record EMI and if the album is released there's legal implications. So it's being sold it as a blank CD-R with a book of photos by David Lynch. Leaving it to you to acquire and burn the music through other avenues. It's good, search around and you'll find it.
The new Van Halen is surprisingly good. 8 hrs ago
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Media-Hive Company Site
A little over a year ago I did a refresh of the Media-Hive company site. Based on the original design direction by Greg O’Keeffe, I set out to tie together loose ends of the previous site and simplify some of the information architecture.
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Instagram
Over the past few months I’ve been obsessed with a little app called Instagram. It’s an app for the iPhone that lets you take square format photos, apply a filter, then post to multiple services such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and others.
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Nine Inch Nails : Wave Goodbye in Holmdel, NJ
This past Saturday I had pleasure of attending the NIN/JA (Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction) show at the PNC Bank Arts Center (Garden State Arts Center to those of use who know better) in Holmdel, NJ. It was a big day for me as I had been looking forward to this day ever since I purchased the tickets a couple of months ago.
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Manifest – Two Months Later
It’s been two months since I released my first Wordpress theme, Manifest. And in those two months the response has far exceeded my expectations. Which honestly wasn’t that hard since I didn’t really have any. Since it’s release, Manifest has been listed on various Wordpress theme blogs and used on countless personal blogs. It’s also enjoyed over 1100 downloads. Which still boggles my mind.
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Manifest & IE6
One of the key features of my recently released Wordpress theme, Manifest, is that IE6 is unsupported. This hasn’t been an issue with the vast majority of people using the theme, but there have been a couple of comments and emails asking about IE6 support. I figured I’d clear the air on the subject.