Cordless Dog: Stay
Utility for keeping application windows in place.
mac  osx  software  windows  utility  independent 
20 hours ago
Pixel patterns for photoshop [Naomi Atkinson Products]
For use as background textures in web page design. Via Dan Cederholm.
design  pattern  patterns  photoshop  textures  resources 
7 days ago
Call for Papers: Settler Colonialism [arena]
New issue of Arena Journal will focus on settler colonialism.
colonialism  journal  arena  criticism  culture  indigenous 
10 days ago
Mac OS X Automation: Services
Quick overview of Services in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
mac  osx  automation  scripting  howto  video 
25 days ago
Antennae galaxy photos [Chandra X-Ray Observatory]
Composite image from NASA’s Great Observatories shows Antennae galaxies collision.
space  stars  galaxies  photographs  nasa  telescope  observatory 
25 days ago
All My Bikes: 5, GT Interceptor - chrispiascik.com
Check out the “All my bikes” series by , especially the shin murderer detail…
illustration  bikes  artist  from twitter
26 days ago
Harmony Website Management
Hosted content management system build on rails.
cms  design  development  tools  rails  ruby  hosting 
27 days ago
Horizontal and vertical centering using CSS [Noobcube]
Details various methods and browser differences.
css  design  layout  tips  howto 
4 weeks ago
Padlicious
Information on automatically building iPad web apps using a Mac.
development  ipad  osx  automation  content  mobile 
4 weeks ago
Local Harvest
Search tool for local farms and farmers markets.
food  local  farms  search  tool 
4 weeks ago
CSS3 Generator
Works for Border Radius, Box Shadow, Text Shadow, RGBA, @Font Face, Multiple Columns, Box Resize, Box Sizing, Outline, Selectors and Gradients.
css  css3  tool  generator 
4 weeks ago
Net Index by Ookla
Ranks various locations (from cities to countries), and service providers, on Internet bandwidth.
bandwidth  broadband  data  international  internet  speed  performance 
4 weeks ago
Autoresponders are here! [Campaign Monitor]
Campaign Monitor’s post introducing their new autoresponder feature gives a good overview of the functionality, pitfalls, benefits and strategies.
bulk  email  marketing  communication  subscrition 
5 weeks ago
User interface design framework – GUI elements library for Illustrator
Free (back-link required) GUI elements, interface icons and color schemes for Adobe Illustrator.
design  gui  icons  interface  vector  adobe  illustrator  plugin  mockups 
5 weeks ago
CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
Converts certain CSS3 styling features (e.g. border radius) into instructions that IE6-8 can render.
browsers  css  css3  ie6  ie7  ie8 
5 weeks ago
Big wins with quick changes [Think Vitamin]
Ryan Carson on the value of iterating quickly on a web page layout based on user feedback.
site  layout  design  iteration  user  feedback  wireframing 
6 weeks ago
FontFonter
Tool from FontShop that lets you preview a site in their fonts.
design  tool  typography  webfonts 
6 weeks ago
SVG with a little help from Raphaël [A List Apart]
Brian Suda on using JavaScript to draw SVG graphics.
javascript  svg  browser  graphics 
6 weeks ago
How to bring back to your site all your online videos… [collegewebeditor.com]
Karine Joly on the new Duke on Demand site that uses Miro Community: video aggregation software.
video  aggregation  webapps  content  strategy 
7 weeks ago
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
Anthony Kolber on a CSS kerning option, available in some browsers, for better typography. Interestingly, this is not defined in any CSS specs. Apparently it is an SVG property.
css  design  web  svg  typography  usability  text 
8 weeks ago
Touch gesture reference guide [LukeW]
Luke Wroblewski’s tough gestures guide and resources.
design  reference  ui  touch  mobile 
9 weeks ago
Scripts [Red Sweater Software]
Useful scripts by Daniel Jalkut.
apple  mac  osx  script 
12 weeks ago
What should the client ask (to get really good marketing consulting)? [Marketing Education]
Mark Neustadt on the best question to ask a potential consultant: “show me the quality of your thinking.”
marketing  education  consulting  hiring  problem  solving 
may 2010
15 gorgeous and effective HTML emails [SitePoint]
Mathew Patterson provides a showcase of HTML e-mail designs.
html  email  design  layout  type  usability  conversion 
may 2010
10 reasons to delete your Facebook account [Business Insider]
Contains a link to the account deletion page, which is apparently quite difficult to find.
facebook  privacy  information  security  user  data 
may 2010
Embed videos in your web pages using HTML5 [Webmonkey]
Scott Gilbertson HTML5 video embedding techniques that work in most browsers, with fallback to object/Flash.
html5  video  source  object  elements  h.264  flash  browsers  howto 
may 2010
jQuery Cycle plugin
Image gallery script using jQuery.
javascript  jquery  images  gallery  animation  ui 
may 2010
John Hofmeister: our energy predicament viewed from an oil company’s perspective [The Oil Drum]
Gail Tverberg touching on why the future is going to be so incredibly expensive and different.
oil  energy  environment  economics  consumption  production  future 
may 2010
Embeddable tweets made easy [Carsonified]
Keir Whitaker on a tweet embedding script by Robin Sloan.
twitter  integration  scripts  howto 
may 2010
Arizona law draws widespread indigenous opposition [Indian Country Today]
Rob Capriccioso reporting on tribal nations’ responses to Arizona’s S.B. 1070.
law  politics  race  justice  immigration  indigenous  tribal  nations  usa  mexico 
may 2010
jQuery Masonry [David DeSandro]
jQuery layout plugin by David DeSandro that enables uneven sized columns (length and width) to slot together as in print.
css  javascript  jquery  layout  plugin 
may 2010
Remove the hidden attribute [Bb RealTech]
Shelley Powers’ thoughts on the proposed hidden attribute in HTML5.
html5  accessibility  criticism 
may 2010
The state of web development 2010 [Web Directions]
Data from John Allsopp’s 2010 “state of web development” survey.
data  industry  web  development  survey 
april 2010
Following up on ‘What Neil Gaiman said…’ [American Indians in Children’s Literature]
Debbie Reese on the Twitter exchange with Neil Gaiman that ensued when she called him out for a comment he made to the press.
communication  twitter  race  argument  context 
april 2010
Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice [The Guardian]
15,000 to converge on Cochabamba, Bolivia this week for people’s climate summit,
from twitter
april 2010
NUMMI [This American Life]
My new favourite episode of This American Life: no. 403 “NUMMI.”
cars  industry  history  analysis  labour  radio  manufacturing  usa  japan  #403  403  from twitter
april 2010
HTML5 input types [456 Berea Street]
Roger Johansson has made a test page for new HTML5 input element types. Mobile Safari, Safari and Opera are already recognising some of these.
forms  html5  ui  ux  browsers  elements 
april 2010
Flash video, Daring Fireball, & Engadget [John Nack on Adobe]
John Nack on video workflow for serving H.264 via Flash and HTML5, and gripes besides.
h.264  video  flash  html5  ipod  iphone  ipad  workflow  process 
april 2010
iPad orientation CSS [Cloud Four]
Jason Grigsby’s notes on targeting the screen orientation of an iPad via CSS.
css  html  ipad  iphone  ux  screen  orientation  howto  apple 
april 2010
iBooks on the iPad, a first glance [Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis]
Liz Castro on the display of ePub-formatted books on the iPad.
css  html  xml  ipad  books  design  apple  howto 
april 2010
iBooks and ePub [Threepress Consulting]
Liza Daly on the display of ePub-formatted books on the iPad.
css  epub  html  xml  books  ipad  apple 
april 2010
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