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We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from web design mastermind, Dan Cederholm: CSS3 for Web Designers . What’s more, no waiting for pre-orders this time around, you can grab the book right now , in both paperback or ebook formats. The books are just finishing up at the printer and should ship out on Monday, the ebooks are available this very moment. What’s it about? CSS3 opens up many possibilities we’ve had to bend over backwards to achieve in the past… Read the rest here

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A couple of months ago I traveled to Reykjavik as a guest of Iceland Air to speak at a web design conference they were sponsoring. My talk was all about delivering exceptional customer service so it’s ironic that I received some of the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced at the hands of their UK team. It all started when my bags got lost of the return journey. Loosing bags seems an unavoidable part of modern air travel and I’d had lost bags successfully returned in the past so wasn’t that worried. I simply logged the loss at Heathrow and two days later my bag was found and delivered to me. However upon receipt of the bag I noticed that it was lighter and decidedly less bulky that I remembered… Read the rest here

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A brief followup to “ A Question of Degree “: I received the following message from the person who first asked the question: I just spent the last hour or so reading through the comments and, let me tell you, I can’t express how much they helped me! It is now clearly obvious to me that finishing my CS degree is the way to go. A CS degree can make me a better web developer by teaching me about algorithm design and analysis, performance issues, and just how to think like an engineer. Also, since the web changes constantly, a degree will help me embrace those changes. It will always be there for me to fall back on if the web industry doesn’t work out for me. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion, either in the comments here or elsewhere on the net. You made a positive difference in this world… Read the rest here

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The Boxee Box launch party happened in NYC last night, and with it, was the first look at the Boxee 1.0 software. When Boxee first appeared in alpha, this is what it looked like: It was OK, but I wasn’t a big fan of its aesthetics. However, early this year they unveiled the Boxee Beta interface, with IA work by Whitney Hess . I was won over. It had warmth, atmosphere and character. The main navigation icons were really well done, and gone was the quirky typeface that didn’t have big screen impact. … Read the rest here

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I’m not usually the type of person to talk about who I follow or why I follow someone on a social network. And yet, here I am writing a blog post about it. Okay then… I’ve always liked Twitter . I like it’s simplicity. I also like that there’s the ability to do a one-way association by following somebody without requiring a reciprocal association… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

My thoughts regarding Instagram as Flickr

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Modernizr on the Server-Side : James Pearce: The current vogue seems to be to do as much [adjusting web content] as possible on the client-side: media queries, progressive enhancement, adding CSS body classes, and so on

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I’ve been banging on about them for ages, but I’d finally whittled down my choices of “what Media Center to adopt next” to just 2 choices: the New Apple TV or the Boxee Box. Why not a HTPC ? I’ve tried that route before, and while I could run Boxee/Plex/whatever from a PC such as an Acer Revo, I want to use something that was designed to be controlled by a remote, and run just the media center app. No OS getting in the way, or needing a mouse and keyboard to keep it running. … Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

by Kristina Halvorson “ In the last few years, research has suggested that addiction involves many of the same brain pathways that govern learning and memory. ” — Harvard Mental Health Newsletter, July 2004 I’m one of those people who really doesn’t have many childhood memories to speak of. The years just blur together, bound by images, places, feelings. But the memories I do have

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Last night some friends of ours in Oxford took us out to see a Norwegian singer called Unni L

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

by Jessi Arrington I dreamt of you again last night… I can’t remember the specifics; maybe it was the one where Gene Wilder hands me a pool skimmer to gather rogue gummy bears from that chocolate river of his. Or maybe it was the one where I’m Alex in Flash Dancer , and when I pull the chain, I’m drenched by the powder of a thousand Pixie Stix. Whatever it was, I know it must have been good: I woke up in a puddle of drool and immediately reached for the bag of Skittles on my nightstand. Alas, it was empty. The man in the white coat breaks the news: I’ll need another three fillings and a root canal. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Apple Developing iPhones with Larger, Smaller Screens : AppleInsider, quoting analyst Shaw Wu: One possibility we are picking up is a

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How Analog Rituals Can Amp Your Productivity : Scott Belsky: Many admired (and extremely effective) leaders use an analog approach to productivity as a way to stay accountable and feel connected to their decisions around how they spend their energy. Yes, monotony and routine can be truly wearisome. They transform our colorful, over-stimulated existence into black and white. But a task left undone SHOULD be a burden. If you make your system for productivity too productive, you will become anesthetized to your responsibilities. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Lessons from the Chewbacca Incident : This article recaps the flood of traffic to Michael Heilemann

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Webfonts.info : A handy resource containing @font-face information regarding browser support , fonts available for embedding , foundries that allow embedding , and more. Thanks to Tiffany Wardle for a similar list , which in turn pointed me to Webfonts.info. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

MSN Spaces Closing, Becomes WordPress.com : Matt Mullenweg: As just announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt , Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to WordPress.com. Four years ago I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only Blogger remains, and is firmly in our sights. Blogger, no doubt, has the lion

Cameron Moll Go to the source

How to Kern Type [Well] : The title of this post is actually

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Fillerati Filler Text : While the debate about the merits of filler text will continue indefinitely, I still find use for it from time to time. Lipsum.org has been the go-to site for years, but why not give those who review your comps some quality reading instead

Cameron Moll Go to the source

FormBox: jQuery/CSS3 Drop-Down Menu with Integrated Forms : Most common use case for something like this is probably hiding login fields inside a drop-down (or flyout) menu, e.g. Twitter.com and other sites. /via @ smashingmag … Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Today marks the beta launch of Internet Explorer 9. To celebrate the release, Nishant Kothary from the MIX Online team at Microsoft reached out to me to help showcase its support of WOFF . I knew immediately this was a great opportunity to collaborate with people I admire, so I dropped a line to Frank Chimero and Naz Hamid to lend their design talents, and Trent Walton (who also brought in the skilled Dave Rupert ) to help pitch in on coding duties. As things progressed, Trent and Dave really came in swinging and the group ended up collaborating and nurturing ideas together. … Read the rest here