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In a fantastically timed bit of linkbait, Ryan Carson called bullshit on the title of “UX Professional” while attending the dConstruct conference we organise in Brighton. At the conference we announced that we were hiring a Senior User Experience Designer so it would be easy to put two and two together and assume that he was calling us out. However I actually understand where he’s coming from. I don’t agree with him mind, but I do understand. Back in the early days of the web you just had web designers… Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Twitter for iPad : Finally, an iPad Twitter app I can use without cursing the UI. If it detects a reply, it will show the conversation from the individuals included ( screenshot ). If it detects a URL, it displays the web page ( screenshot ). … Read the rest here

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Quipsologies Redesign : This is gorgeous and original. Fonts are rendered with Typekit, featuring Coquette, Skolar, and P22 Underground. (Armin, a Twitter account would let me credit you guys for all the linkage I lift from your site.) /via @jasonsantamaria … Read the rest here

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Shinya Kimura : A short film about custom motorcycle engineer Shinya Kimura, directed by Henrik Hansen. Shot on the Canon 5D and 7D. /via @iA … Read the rest here

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HTML5 Boilerplate : Similar to HTML5 Reset , but a bit more robust. As with anything cookie-cutter like this, take time to understand what’s in play and use only what you need to. /via @christianross … Read the rest here

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Is Zipcar for me? : A great way of explaining Zipcar’s service based on need (or want). /via @mikegee … Read the rest here

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Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg: A Path to an Open Internet : The CEOs of Google and Verizon authored an opinion piece in The Washington Post today, which closes with this statement: There are hundreds of millions of Internet users in the United States, and no two companies should be so presumptuous as to think they can solve this challenge alone. It is up to policymakers to establish broadband policy for the country. We are eager to work with Congress, the FCC and other interested parties to get this right. We hope that our proposal provides some concrete ideas to move this process forward. … Read the rest here

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Penultimate : Giving this sketchbook app a spin on the iPad. Hoping it helps me use it more. I’m finding that having an iPhone and a Macbook Pro has me pretty well covered. Waiting for a breakthrough moment with the iPad that goes beyond having yet another device to check email, web, Twitter, etc. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Using Magic Trackpad With a Windows PC : Mine is probably headed back to Apple , but if you’re a Windows user missing out on the test-and-return fun, here’s your fix. … Read the rest here

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“Dream big, implement small.” - twitter.com/simplebits … Read the rest here

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A month into using Tumblr for the blog and portfolio here, and I’m still happy I made the move. Something that had been bothering me was the redirect that was required for the homepage. I couldn’t point simplebits.com at Tumblr completely. If I had, over 10 years of files and old archives would’ve vanished. Setting up a subdomain avoids that, but I wanted the blog to be the main index of the site. So redirecting simplebits.com to stream.simplebits.com was the best I could do. … Read the rest here

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A recent plea on twitter for an Illustrator script has been answered! I needed to export all my artboards as 24bit PNG s, with the artboard name as the filename, but Illustrator doesn’t come with a built in method to do this. The closest it offers is the standard export, where it can save all artboards, but it always appends the document name to the start of the filename. Big hurrays then for Dan Smith for creating exactly the script I needed! It’s already made a big difference to my workflow. If you’d like a copy too, Download Artboards-PNG24.jsx . I placed mine in Illustrators Presets/en_gb/Scripts folder to make sure it’s always loaded… Read the rest here

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A recent plea on twitter for an Illustrator script has been answered! I needed to export all my artboards as 32bit PNG s (24bit + 8 bit Alpha Channel), with the artboard name as the filename, but Illustrator doesn’t come with a built in method to do this. The closest it offers is the standard export, where it can save all artboards, but it always appends the document name to the start of the filename. Big hurrays then for Dan Smith for creating exactly the script I needed! It’s already made a big difference to my workflow. If you’d like a copy too, Download Artboards- PNG .jsx . I placed mine in Illustrators Presets/en_gb/Scripts folder to make sure it’s always loaded. Tagged: adobe , illustrator … Read the rest here

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iFontMaker for iPad : Create your own handwriting font in TTF format. Check the gallery for samples. /via @wTyeRogers … Read the rest here

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Camera+ for iPhone: $253,000 in First-Month Sales : tap tap tap’s Camera+ , which sells for $1.99 in the App Store, sold 217,000 copies in its first month. That’s a quarter-million dollars in one month of sales for an app that sells for two bucks. Is it surprising to anyone that, right now, any mobile platform other than iOS is “ largely out of the consciousness of your average developer ”? BTW, the article, written by founder John Casasanta, contains lots of good advice for those hoping to accomplish the same as tap tap tap. … Read the rest here

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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

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Which loads faster? : Compare two URLs to see which wins. (via @trentwalton ) … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

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

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All of a sudden, people have been asking me to yak about myself and stuff that I know (or at least think I know). These things tend to come in waves, and right now I’m surfing like a search engine’s crawlerbot. I don’t think that metaphor made any sense at all. Anyway, here’s what I’ve had to say so far: The Geek Talk: Eric Meyer — a brief e-mail interview I did a week or so back. Want to know my favorite color… Read the rest here

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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