Archive for the ‘Shorty’ Category

The best color tool for your Mac

Monday, January 25th, 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.

Social web applications? Anyone can do it.

Thursday, October 29th, 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.

Four of five US internet users belong to networking websites

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Forrester just published their annual Social Technographics Report. I don’t have the $500 bucks to buy it but the information they published in the announcement is pretty amazing. 4 out of 5 american internet users are using Social Networking sites. Go check it out.

Remove Safari’s input focus behaviour

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Thanks to Josiah Platt I’ve removed the annoying focus effect that Safari forces on all input fields. Just add this piece of magic to your CSS. *:focus {outline: 0;}

Photoshop Hand and Arrow cursor icons download

Monday, August 24th, 2009

We’ve all needed the hand and arrow cursors for graphic work from time to time. Michael Mulvey has created them and provides a handy download for the rest of us. Very useful. (Via Swiss-Miss)

Last.fm lets me remove artists from the list

Monday, August 17th, 2009

This is not new, but I’m so happy that Last.fm allows me to remove artists from my charts. About 4 years ago I left my MP3 player submitting tracks to Last.fm during an entire weekend. I forgot to turn it off and Kitaro ended up as my all time favorite artist. Today I happily removed [...]

The end of browser wars?

Monday, July 13th, 2009

A great post on using the right browser for the job.

Google Chrome OS – What people want according to Google

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The post where Google announced the launching of their new Operating System has a brief description of what people want from their computers. It’s a good summary of the tough demands people have on machines today: People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers [...]

Nice overview of Google Page Speed and Yahoo’s YSlow

Monday, July 6th, 2009

This post at The Web Squeeze is a very good overview of the site optimization tips given by both Yahoo’s YSlow and the new competitor Google Page Speed.

Expression Engine’s automatically generated URLS

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Man I always forget to turn off Automatically Generated Links in EE weblogs. Weblog Administration -> Preferences -> Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links? NO! Dammit.