The best color tool for your Mac

by Gaston on January 25, 2010

ColorSchemer 2 is out. This is the best color tool I’ve ever used for the Mac. It has tons of features:

  • Color Picker
  • Let’s you create triads and harmonies
  • Integrates with ColourLovers.com

It’s pretty much a must for anyone working in any field of design. It’s quite handy.

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Switching to ExpressionEngine 2.0

by Gaston on January 20, 2010

The desicion

I’m moving this blog to ExpressionEngine. I’ll be using EE 2.0, which just came out about a month ago. I’ve had a personal license for quite some time and I’ve decided to use it and explore what it’s got in store.

Is there something wrong with Wordpress?

Absolutely not. I’m 100% sure that it’s the best blogging platform available. It rocks and I love it.

So why ExpressionEngine?

Well I use ExpressionEngine daily at work. About 95% of the sites we do are on EE. I haven’t had the time to play with version 2.0 and I want to get the hang of it.

I love EE’s templating system and I’m looking forward to creating a blog “theme” in EE.

So for now, thank you Wordpress. Hello EE.

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Music for sleeping

January 4, 2010

I love Slaapwel Records. They publish music to make you fall asleep. It’s just a beauty.

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Sticking with LaunchBar

December 26, 2009

To the LaunchBar vs Quicksilver debate I’ve got an answer: I’m sticking with LaunchBar.
During the last 3 years I’ve used Quicksilver, LaunchBar 4, Google Quick Search Box and now LaunchBar 5.
Right after I got my Mac people started suggesting I use Quicksilver and sure enough I fell in love with it. I had never had [...]

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TaskPaper and the Pomodoro Technique

December 2, 2009

I’ve been practicing the Pomodoro Technique for about 1 month now. It’s been an incredibly useful tool for me. It’s brought about changes on many levels. One of which is the kind of To-Do lists I create.
I’ve loved the GTD methodology since I found it 2 years ago. I’ve used many of the most popular [...]

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How to hire a programmer

December 1, 2009

A great post on how Aaron Swartz hires programmers. I love the way it’s written and I love the approach.

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Browser Testing in 2009

December 1, 2009

A great article written by Andy Clarke on how he handles browser testing for the sites he makes.
I like the fact that he relies on educating the client to cover his ass about older browsers. I just lived hell myself a few weeks ago when a project practically came to a halt due to [...]

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Transforming an image —Acorn gets it right

November 29, 2009

I’ve been integrating Acorn into my work-flow for about two months now. (Acorn is an image editor of OS X —an alternative to Photoshop or Fireworks). I’ve been using it for cropping images, creating transparent pngs, optimizing jpgs and basically any “small” task that would require me to open up the gigantic monster called Photoshop. [...]

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Social web applications? Anyone can do it.

October 29, 2009

Advertising Age Digital just posted about the announcement of the Forrester Groundswell Awards. They have awarded successful and groundbreaking social web apps. The list of entries and winners is great. And according to Josh Bernoff the most important lesson to learn is this: anyone can do it.

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Editing the default Wordpress Search Form

October 13, 2009

Most Wordpress themes come with their own HTML markup for it’s search form. But sometimes you just don’t know where the hell the code is coming from.
Let’s say you drag the Search widget to your Dynamic Sidebar but want to change the text of the search button. Well here’s what you gotta do:

Look for a [...]

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