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The best color tool for your Mac

Gaston — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03:59 +0000

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.

Essential and non essential apps for my Mac

Social web applications? Anyone can do it.

Gaston — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:43:49 +0000

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

Gaston — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:10:19 +0000

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

Gaston — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:45:12 +0000

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;}

Last.fm lets me remove artists from the list

Photoshop Hand and Arrow cursor icons download

Gaston — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:58:35 +0000

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)

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Last.fm lets me remove artists from the list

Gaston — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:40:34 +0000

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 him.

Remove Safari’s input focus behaviour

The end of browser wars?

Gaston — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:47:24 +0000

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

Browser Testing in 2009

Google Chrome OS – What people want according to Google

Gaston — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:05:14 +0000

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 to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.

Nice overview of Google Page Speed and Yahoo’s YSlow

Gaston — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:36:54 +0000

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.

Google Chrome OS – What people want according to Google

Expression Engine’s automatically generated URLS

Gaston — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:06:49 +0000

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.

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