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
My thoughts regarding Instagram as Flickr
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
Know Your Type: Baskerville : Part of a series of posts on idsgn , this one guest authored by Cheryl Yau. Previous posts cover Cheltenham , Gill Sans , Clarendon , Gotham , Futura , Verlag , and DIN . … Read the rest here
To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish : I seem to be on a kick today quoting myself and others, so bear with me. Eric Karjaluoto
BBEdit 9.6 Adds HTML5 Support, Among Other Things : Plenty of people have tweeted or blogged this already, but having been a BBEdit user for nearly a decade, I
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
Things will probably be a little quiet around here this week. I
I done a podcast! In each episode, ClagTunes will feature five of my favourite tracks; four of which I will have bought since the previous episode of the podcast, plus one bonus track from the archive, so to speak. I don’t know how often each episode will come along. Essentially it’ll be when I’ve got four new tracks I want to tell you about, so I guess every month or so. But no promises. You can visit the clagTunes page for full subscription details, or click one of these links: RSS Via iTunes Thanks to Huffduffer for making all that very easy. … Read the rest here
TED iPad App : Just diving into this myself, but I
A few days back I tweeted a request for a Textile filter for BBEdit , which is one of those things people have asked for over the years but has never actually appeared. There’s been a Markdown filter since forever, but since I find myself on Basecamp a lot for business reasons and Basecamp uses Textile I’d really prefer to stick to one syntax instead of constantly confusing myself by switching between two similar syntaxes. (And I prefer to use BBEdit because I like it a lot, know it well, and have no compelling reason to switch. Please take any thoughts of text-editor snobbery or flamewars elsewhere.) In response, the mighty Arlen Walker told me how to install Xcode, the Text::Textile module, and a short Perl script to drop into ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Unix Support/Unix Filters . I did that, and it all worked, but I was unhappy with the <span class="caps"> that default Textile litters all over. I tried to disable it, failed, tweeted for help, and was contacted by the incredible Brad Choate (who wrote the Text::Textile module!). … Read the rest here
On an impulse, I decided to buy the Bluetoothed Apple Wireless keyboard for use with the iPad. I felt there were times where I would want to create content without wanting to pull out my laptop and still have the flexibility of putting the keyboard away to enjoy the usual benefits of the iPad. I’m sitting in the middle seat of a six-hour flight home and thought, "this would be a good time to give this a try"— especially with blog post ideas popping to mind. As it turns out, the experience is quite nice. … Read the rest here
I’ve been pretty quiet as of late — except the deluge I usually subject my Twitter followers to. Fear not, as I have plenty to say and plenty of places to say it. November is turning out to be a busy month of speaking engagements as I cram four different events into the span of two weeks (with a possible fifth for good measure). One, two, three, four Starting things off is a trip to Malmo, Sweden for the Oredev conference being held on November 10 through 12. This three-day event is jam-packed with speakers and therefore jam-packed with information! I’ll have two sessions: one highlighting CSS3 and the other will be revisiting my talk on font-face embedding on the web, which has seen a continued evolution over the last year. … Read the rest here
Authentic Jobs: 21 Gifts Awarded Starting Tomorrow : Just a friendly notice that Authentic Jobs will be awarding 21 gifts
If you’re looking for something to give you inspiration, not just visually, but on a business level too, this is the book you need to buy: It’s not often I get so excited about a book (the last one was Jon Burgermans Pens are my friends ) but “I’m all over this” as the young people like to say. Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community could’ve just been a published collection of illustrations from Threadless shirts, and still would’ve been a must-buy. The variety and quality of Threadless designs are stunning, and I’ve always touted them as an inspiration source in talks like “How to be a Creative Sponge”. It goes much further than that though. … Read the rest here
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
This is a test video shot by Oton Ba?ar with a Canon 7D at 60 frames per second (fps). Yes, the headline is confusing. It says 1000 fps. What up, Jack? … Read the rest here
Boxee Available for Pre-Order in U.S. and Canada : U.S. customers can pre-order at Amazon , and Canadian customers can pre-order at Best Buy and Future Shop . Available soon in most of Europe. The big sell, in Boxee
Canon 60D vs. 7D : Dan Carr: [At] first glance it might seem like the 60D has made the 7D somewhat obsolete but that really is not the case. A closer look at the specs reveals a camera that more carefully fits into the