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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Web designer’s dilemma. Getting rid of Adobe.

October 13, 2009

There’s a growing wish in the web designer community to get rid of Adobe products and find some kind of Photoshop / Fireworks / Illustrator replacement. Why replace Adobe with something else? Well everyone knows the answer to that: Adobe products are bloated and big. They have too many features that no one cares about. [...]

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Showing and hiding the file paths in Carrington Jam

August 27, 2009

Using Carrington Jam to create your own theme is the best thing since sliced bread, but it can become a bit daunting at times. It’s easy to get lost.
The little constant called CFCT_DEBUG that you can set inside the “funcions.php” file in Carrington can really save your ass. It defines whether you want to show [...]

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Four of five US internet users belong to networking websites

August 25, 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.

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Remove Safari’s input focus behaviour

August 25, 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;}

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Photoshop Hand and Arrow cursor icons download

August 24, 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)

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Carrington Core has been updated to 2.5

August 19, 2009

Carrington Core has been updated to version 2.5 and fixes a couple of bugs. Check out the announcement.

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jQuery Tools

August 17, 2009

A couple of good jQuery links. Probably everyone knows them, but hey, maybe you don’t.
First of all the official jQuery blog. It’s so freakin full of good stuff. You’ll find jewels like this article explaining how to set and delete cookies with jQuery or this super cool jQuery MP3 player.
Second, jQuery TOOLS. A collection of [...]

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Last.fm lets me remove artists from the list

August 17, 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 [...]

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