While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there’s certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers. K-fx², Inc. … Read the rest here
How to Add PDF Files to iBooks : This is fairly straightforward, but apparently not straightforward for me—I wasn’t able to figure it out without googling the solution. (Love the double irony in the article’s final photo: Using iPad to read a Windows 7 manual, whose cover includes a doctored Apple PowerBook photo as the featured Windows computer.) Alternatively, you can move PDFs from Dropbox simply by clicking the arrow in the upper right of the Dropbox app for iPad and then selecting iBooks: … Read the rest here
How to Add PDF Files to iBooks : This is fairly straightforward, but apparently not straightforward for me—I wasn’t able to figure it out without googling the solution. (Love the double irony in the article’s final photo: Using iPad to read a Windows 7 manual, whose cover includes a doctored Apple PowerBook photo as the featured Windows computer.) Alternatively, you can move PDFs from Dropbox simply by clicking the arrow in the upper right of the Dropbox app for iPad and then selecting iBooks: … Read the rest here
How to Add PDF Files to iBooks : This is fairly straightforward, but apparently not straightforward for me—I wasn’t able to figure it out without googling the solution. (Love the double irony in the article’s final photo: Using iPad to read a Windows 7 manual, whose cover includes a doctored Apple PowerBook photo as the featured Windows computer.) Alternatively, you can move PDFs from Dropbox simply by clicking the arrow in the upper right of the Dropbox app for iPad and then selecting iBooks: … Read the rest here
“Swype” Input for Touchscreen Mobile Phones : The New York Times reports on a technology in development by the same inventor of T9, a predictive text input technology used by most “candy bar” phones with numeric keypads. Watch the Swype demos on YouTube . Try it out on your iPhone or similar touchscreen device. You won’t be able to type anything, but it seems to me there’s a noticeable speed improvement over thumbing. This tells me the technology has potential… Read the rest here
Type Hinting : Peter Biľak: I have been designing type since the early 1990s, and for as long as I can remember, type designers have been saying that hinting would soon be made obsolete by new advances in hardware and software. Now, almost 20 years later, hinting seems to be more relevant than ever. According to Peter, hinting—the process of mapping a font’s mathematical outlines onto a monitor’s pixels—remains relevant even with @font-face in play, which explains why it’s likely we’ll see font foundries republish their libraries as “web safe” (e.g. FontFonts Web Fonts ): Last year there was considerable hype about the @font-face declaration, a function that makes it possible for a webpage to display any font, freeing designers from dependence on the ‘web-safe’ fonts and opening new design possibilities (not the least of which is the creation of visual identities which are consistent across both print and web media). On the other hand, this also raises new issues, including poor onscreen display of non-hinted fonts. … Read the rest here
If you’re designing anything that’ll be viewed on either the iPhone or iPad, you’re going to find LiveView a godsend. It’s been out a couple of years, but I only discovered it this week. It comes in two parts – a Screencaster app for your Mac, and a companion app for the iPhone/iPad. As you work on the graphics, you can view it live on the device. An essential, and free tool. … Read the rest here
iPhone 4: 600,000 Pre-ordered on Day 1 : An official statement by Apple, reportedly. (I’ve been hunting for an official Apple.com link but can’t find one. Until then, this will have to do.) Update: And there it is. Statement by Apple on iPhone 4 Pre-Orders . … Read the rest here
Android and the 22 Immutable Laws : Scott Sykora: When people talk about Andoid’s fragmentation problem they’re usually thinking of issues developers face. The much bigger issue is Android’s and its many sub-brand’s marketing fragmentation. Most people don’t read gadget blogs and don’t care about clock speeds. They want a simple choice of Coke vs Pepsi when they’re thinking about a new phone. Android vs iPhone is not Coke vs Pepsi… Read the rest here
Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 Phone Call : “prbuckley”, whose profile mentions being the owner of DODOcase (see my review ), explains he’s due $126,000 from payments via Google Checkout. But Google isn’t handing over the money, and their customer service is just as reserved. The discussion that follows in the comments is worth reading for business owners in a similar scenario, that of having far more orders than you can fulfill in a timely manner. I’ve run into the same issue with my letterpress posters before, and resolving customer service issues can be trying. Thankfully, I’ve had fantastic customers, and by now I’m much better at preventing delays from happening. … Read the rest here
The DODOcase, made by hand in San Francisco. As much as I love technology, my love for handcrafted goods probably exceeds it. To merge the two together is like bacon wrapped in bacon . The DODOcase for iPad is made by hand in San Francisco, California. It blends materials such as bamboo and fabric to create a Moleskine-inspired cover for your iPad, complete with elastic strap to keep the case closed. … Read the rest here
Full D8 Steve Jobs Interview : Enlightening 1.5 hour interview on Adobe, stolen iPhone 4, and more. Most interesting was the confession that work began first on the iPad almost 10 years ago. Later, it was shelved temporarily when they realized the touch screen would make a killer phone. … Read the rest here
Change Gmail’s ‘from:’ Address on iPhone/iPad : This is a simple fix if you need to change the ‘from:’ address when sending mail on your iPhone or iPad. Works like a charm. The only drawback is you’ll have to do it each time you send a message. If you’d like to make it permanent and not have to change it each time, try putting your email on a Google domain . … Read the rest here
WirelessIris: Follow Focus for Your DSLR via iPhone or iPad : Having not used a follow focus on set before myself, I don’t know how practical this is. But if you’re an indie filmmaker with an extra $1,389 lying around and don’t know what to do with it, this could be a fun toy to spend it on. … Read the rest here
Why I Dislike “Freelance” : Brian Hoff: Make no mistake about it; running an independent business, no matter what field you are in, is extremely time consuming, exhausting and requires a lot of motivation and dedication. It’s not for everyone…. If you are an in-house designer, responding to emails, answering phone calls, and marketing, among other things, are payable because you are on the clock. You get paid for the time you are under the roof of your office. … Read the rest here
World Cup iPhone Papers : A lovely set by Phil Coffman. Related, let’s just all agree here and now that Switzerland has the best home jersey of any team. Ivory Coast’s away jersey is a close second. … Read the rest here
While I agree with Neven Mrgan’s Walled Gardens , I feel like the whole imagery of walled gardens is a bit of a metaphorical stretch—not because it’s inaccurate, but because it’s fundamentally unnecessary. We don’t need metaphors here. That’s because the iTunes App Store is just what its name states: it is a store. That has a fairly specific and intentional meaning in the world of commerce. It means that the stock is not infinite and that someone has screened it. … Read the rest here
ESPN 2010 FIFA for iPhone : Just 10 days until the first game. ESPN’s app is a fairly solid experience for tracking scores, news, schedules, and the like. The New York Times reviewed several other apps , some of which also run on BlackBerry and Android. What’s interesting to me is that for the FIFA 2006 World Cup, SMS and the mobile web were the primary means of following scores and updates. In 2010, nearly all of us with something other than a Nokia will probably track the same with an app. … Read the rest here
What the Twitter for iPhone icon could’ve been . … Read the rest here
Steinway & Sons : An amazing update to Steinway & Sons’ website by the equally amazing Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain . There’s also other work coming from Jesse, such as this metronome app for iPhone . … Read the rest here