UI Design Palettes for Illustrator : If you prototype in Illustrator, consider downloading this framework. Includes GUI elements, interface icons, and buttons styles, all of which can be dropped into your artwork and customized as needed. /via Zeldman … Read the rest here
How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made : Just yesterday I contemplated authoring something on what I think is the most fascinating advertising campaign in recent memory. I’m glad I didn’t. It wouldn’t have come anywhere close to the insight offered by ReadWriteWeb in this article. I do wish, however, that the article would have mentioned more about the equipment and software being used for the ingenious, real-time shooting. Video DSLR? Final Cut… Read the rest here
The Unfathomable Octophant : The latest hand-printed screenprint from Phineas X. Jones. We have this one framed in our dining room. Love the style, detail and craftsmanship. … Read the rest here
Hard Candy Case for iPhone 4 : It’s thin, comes in a few colors, and — most importantly — it’s not rubber. This may be the perfect fix for my Bumper woes . Update: Phil Coffman found another case , less expensive and perhaps even thinner. /via @carlpeterson … Read the rest here
If you upgraded Thunderbird and discovered that the fonts used to display messages suddenly changed, and worse still, you were unable to get all messages to obey your font display settings, then this post is most likely for you. Here’s what happened to me: I upgraded to Thunderbird 3.1, and suddenly all my messages were in a font I didn’t recognize or appreciate. I insist on seeing only the plain text version (technically, the text/plain part) of all my e-mail; and what’s more, that it be displayed in a monospace font. Courier 13, in my case. So I made sure “View > Message Body As” was still set to “Plain Text”, which it was… Read the rest here
One of Textpattern’s drawbacks has always been that page templates are saved in the database. Editing them means using the textarea in the TXP admin interface, but I’m sure most people would prefer to use their favourite text editor. Here’s a workaround that works in TXP 4.2.0 (I haven’t tried other versions). Once you’ve enabled ‘Allow PHP in pages?’ in Advanced Preferences and set up your sections and page templates, put everything in your page template into a file (such as ‘pagetemplate.php’), and replace it with a PHP include: <txp:php>$docRoot = getenv("DOCUMENT_ROOT");include($docRoot.'/pagetemplate.php');</txp:php> You still need to setup your templates in TXP admin, but from there on in, you can edit the templates in a text editor and upload them. There may be a performance hit doing this, but all TXP tags work. Much easier! Update : Thanks to Sam Brown for this much neater version: <txp:php>include(txpath.'/pages/default.php');</txp:php> This is much shorter, but be aware that the ‘txpath’ value takes you to the textpattern folder rather than the site root… Read the rest here
Zacuto Z-Cage for DSLR Cameras : There’s a Canon 5D MKII hidden amongst all the gear. Kind of reminds me of another kind of cage . … Read the rest here
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
I’m fresh back from New Zealand where I took part in FullCodePress , a knock down, drag out, web design competition to make a website for a charity in 24 hours. The competition was put on by the wonderful folks at Webstock and pitted teams from New Zealand , Australia , and the US against one another. Our teams were each paired with a charity, who was only revealed when the competition started. From there, each team took whatever assets the client brought along (all in various states of completion, or, uh, viability); copy, photos, and loads of information, to make a complete functioning website in a single day. … Read the rest here
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. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana… Read the rest here
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. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. You’ll have an edge over other applicants if you can “coherently explain what ‘fat models, skinny controllers’ means and why it is good.” Alas, I cannot. … Read the rest here
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. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana… Read the rest here
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
Moleskine® Kindle Cover, iPad Reportedly Coming Soon : Suede lining and blank ivory paper for jotting notes. Available on Amazon , though the reviews aren’t all that positive so far (mostly dealing with right-handed vs. left-handed users). Core77 says an iPad version is reportedly in the works. If, however, it has bands covering the corners, I won’t go for it… Read the rest here
Coding Cheat Sheets by Dave Child : A collection of free, printable quick references for a variety of languages and web technologies—PHP, CSS, Subversion, Ruby on Rails, Microformats, etc. … Read the rest here
Modify the Presentation Layout of Safari 5 Reader : This tip will work for modifying just about anything, not just color. Try eliminating line 85 if you’re as unenthused as I am about justified text. … Read the rest here
For Sale: Pile of Trash Lawnmower : Let’s kick off the weekend with a chuckle. Actual classified ad for a Craftsman 21” 5.5hp Mower: This lawnmower is no ordinary lawnmower. No. I had hoped to buy an ordinary lawnmower, but instead got this pile of trash…. This lawnmower has actually achieved Sainthood, when in 2002 it mowed a twenty foot strip of lawn without having the bag chute get clogged! This miracle, though it has never happened again, was witnessed by a 12 year old boy. I bet those of us mowing lawns have all had the pleasure of using a fine machine such as this at one point or another… Read the rest here
Following on my “HTML5 vs. Flash” talk of a couple of weeks ago, I’m hoping to do a bit of blogging about HTML5, Flash, mobile apps, and more. But first I need to get some terminology straight. As I did in my talk, I’m going to refer to the collection of front-end web-standards technologies—(X)HTML (of any flavor), CSS, and JavaScript—as “the web stack”. I’ve seen the term used here and there and it makes the most sense to me as a condensed verbal shorthand. It beats writing out the specific technologies every time or trying to use similarly clumsy constructions like “front-end tech”. … Read the rest here
Email Bankruptcy : If you’ve emailed me in the last few months and haven’t seen a response, Fred Wilson’s explanation for declaring email bankruptcy could very well be my own. As much as I try to respond to nearly every email I receive, I echo Fred’s thoughts: I hate it but I cannot operate without it. I have gotten hundreds of suggestions on how to become more efficient with email and I have adopted many of them. But the more efficient I get with email, the more of it that comes in. One of the biggest challenges with email is that replying to email creates more email to reply to. It’s a vicious cycle that has no end. … Read the rest here
A friend and I have decided to build a web service/site/whatever the kids are calling them these days. A thing on the web to help you out from time to time. As a result, we’re looking for a web host with great service, reliability, and scalability, and I was curious about your experiences. Here are a few details on what we need: A managed server where patches are applied automatically. Neither of us are Linux experts, and we want something secured for us without us having to worry about whether some patch breaks the system… Read the rest here
Apple Acquires Personal Mobile Assistant Siri : They’re not just acquiring an iPhone app, but all of the smarts behind its mega-aggregator connecting to services such as Rotten Tomatoes, Yelp, TaxiMagic, OpenTable, and so on—just about anything a user could ask for with a natural language query. Watch the demo and you’ll probably be as impressed as I am with not only the query data but the user experience, too. … Read the rest here