June 2010
24 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
ISAN (58)
Glenn Gould (54)
The Echelon Effect (50)
Tokyo Police Club (50)
65daysofstatic (27)
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Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures →
Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;declaration.
The declaration is currently supported by: Safari, The Webkit Nightlies & Chrome. Firefox already uses optimizeLegibility by default.
iPhone 4 and mobile web app icons →
Let’s say you’ve got a mobile web app, such as my own Glyphboard. Since it’s built using no images whatsoever - I rely on CSS effects instead - it looks great on the new iPhone’s mindblowing Retina display.
Well, there is one image, of course - the app icon. If you’ve read my post on the…
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iOS 4 Web App Home Screen Icon Bug →
iOS 4 has an annoying bug for web app developers. If you use the apple-mobile-web-app-capable feature to indicate that your site should launch as it’s own app rather than open in Safari, the OS creates a low-resolution version of your apple-touch-icon on the home screen:
The app on the right uses apple-mobile-web-app-capable. The app on the left doesn’t. They were both generated from the...
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Targeting various iOS devices with media queries
Today, I came across quite the conundrum; all Apple devices running iOS 4 return the same user-agent, regardless of it being an iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPhone4.
This created a problem—last week I created an array of pixel-perfect icons for the Campaign Monitor mobile application, and instead of using a single, large image for the webclip icon that shows on the users screen, I wanted to make use of my...
WatchDer Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] (by Henning Lederer)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
Eels (32)
The Beatles (29)
The Cinematic Orchestra (25)
The Flashbulb (19)
Balmorhea (18)
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0to255 — Perfect for hovers, borders, gradients,... →
Awesome little tool created by Shaun Chapman to find variations of colours. Simply whack in a hex code or generate a random colour to view stepped variations (lighter and darker). Perfect for hovers, borders and gradients. Winrar.
HTML5 presentation →
Great little slideshow created with HTML5/CSS/JS showcasing creative ways to use these newer technologies.
Trent Walton: Trimming the fat →
The last version of this site lasted just under a year. That may seem like a short amount of time until you consider how quickly things change on the web.
@font-face usage has been fortified by services like Typekit & Fontdeck, CSS3 & HTML5 are popping up everywhere, and with the release of the iPad, multi-touch technology is drastically changing web design. My goal has been to cut out...
Modernizr: JS library for progressive enrichment →
Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies.
Modernizr uses feature detection to test the current browser against upcoming features like rgba(), border-radius, CSS Transitions and many more. These are...
Hoefler & Frere-Jones: "The Murderer Wore Serifs" →
None of these strangenesses prepared me for learning this morning that in The Scarpetta Factor, a crime novel by Patricia Cornwell, there is a plot point that revolves around our Gotham typeface. The font first makes an appearance on page 400, when it’s name-checked by an FBI document specialist during the delivery of an expert opinion, but it returns on page 415 for a two-page discussion about...
Briefs: A Cocoa Touch Framework for Live... →
Presenting a toolkit for packaging your mobile concepts into prototypes that run live on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It allows you to experience the feel of your concept without expensive development.
Launchlist - Your one stop website checklist! →
Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large.
The product was born out of frustration. For too long we had been using archaic methods to conduct pre-launch testing and the web was an obvious choice to do it better.
The process is simple - Enter your name and email and the same for a recipient (not...
Client: “That’s way too much money to charge for... →
Client: “That’s way too much money to charge for an email campaign. It’s not hard to put a few graphics in an email.” Me: “I charge based off of my regular hourly rate and that’s how long it will take to complete the project.” Client: “Forget it. We’ll just do it in house. We have a copy of…
Device-scale user interface elements in iOS Mobile... →
Another fantastic post by the 37signals crew.
When we set out to build finger-friendly controls for iOS devices in Basecamp, two major constraints informed our design.
In Basecamp on a PC, when you hover over a to-do, milestone, or file, you’ll see edit and delete controls. But as has been covered here and elsewhere on the web, there’s no way to hover on a touch device. So our solution to this...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
The Flashbulb (45)
The Egg (11)
The Beatles (8)
Ott (7)
Entheogenic (7)
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Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale →
Amazing! Created entirely with CSS3 and HTML. No images used. Awesome work.
Gitbox — Git GUI for Mac OS X →
This app has plenty of promise!
Gitbox is a Mac OS X graphical interface for Git version control system. In a single window you see branches, history and working directory status.
Everyday operations are easy: stage and unstage changes with a checkbox. Commit, pull, merge and push with a single click. Double-click a change to show a diff with FileMerge.app.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →
Joe Hisaishi (28)
65daysofstatic (16)
Port Blue (14)
Pendulum (10)
Entheogenic (10)
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May 2010
38 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
The Raymond Scott Quintette (48)
Massive Attack (40)
Pendulum (37)
Mumford & Sons (28)
Infected Mushroom (20)
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