January 21, 2007

How to make your website appear more frustrating than it probably is.

Flipping through my December edition of Photoshop User magazine tonight I came across this bit of misadvertising:

I dunno about you but I really resent the many hours I waste paging through irrelevant search results on stock photography websites. Can you think of a better way to emphasize this pain?

January 18, 2007

Mashup Camp and more about coder’s block

Just got home having spent the last couple of days in Cambridge, MA attending the Mashup Camp unconference there - I have a lot to say about the experience (100% positive) but it’s going to have to wait until after I’ve had a night’s rest - tonight is the first opportunity I’ve had to do […]

January 12, 2007

15 Firefox extensions no web developer should live without

Spending all your income on Prozac? Stop the pain at it’s source! Install one or all of these Firefox extensions and I guarantee that your job, whatever it is, will become dramatically easier overnight. Preliminary tests have shown that Firebug’s strategy of pure, undiluted sexiness will instantaneously correct erectile dysfunction. Side-effects may include more free […]

January 10, 2007

Input fields that resize themselves?

With multiline input fields text is word-wrapped and a vertical scrollbar appears if the allotted space is not enough, but when you outgrow the width of a single-line text input no horizontal scrollbar appears to help you out - at least, not in any browser I’m familiar with. Does that seem right to you?
I suggest […]

January 8, 2007

Zirrus: Not Quite There Yet

Zirr.us is a sexy newcomer to the web-based To-do list scene enjoyed by 37Signals and activeCollab, among others. But instead of listing, they’re tagging. Your default view is a cloud, with a slider to adjust the priority (size) of each task. I was initially very impressed by the simplicity and beauty of the website, and […]

What’s the first creative act of your day?

I’m not a morning person. Climbing out of bed is like ascending Everest with my hands tied behind my back. Getting out of the shower is the most difficult part of my day (what I would do without heated running water, I dare not even think). Even worse is the fact that once my body […]

January 7, 2007

Cleartype in Firefox…and beyond

In case I’m not the last person on earth to discover how to do this…..
IE7-rendered pages looking crisper than in Firefox? That’s Cleartype. And the rest of your XP desktop can take advantage of it too.

Links:

Download Microsoft’s ClearType Tuner PowerToy.

Learn how it works.

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Inspiration

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