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mental_floss Blog » How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:43:06 -0700

mental_floss Blog » How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?

Outstanding Free Ebooks on Design » Arbenting Freebies - The Product of Being Creative

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:11:45 -0600

Outstanding Free Ebooks on Design » Arbenting Freebies - The Product of Being Creative:

Small collection of free design ebooks.

"The Magic Mouse fix is a quick and comfortable solution to the poor ergonomics of the Magic..."

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:15:44 -0700

“The Magic Mouse fix is a quick and comfortable solution to the poor ergonomics of the Magic Mouse…”

- Magic Mouse, Fixed - MMFixed.com

Camen Design

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:18:22 -0700

Camen Design:

mclaughj:

This guy doesn’t use any CSS classes or IDs for styling. Some pretty amazing stuff contained in his code (which he has made fully accessible to the public with links in the footer.)

An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:55:52 -0700

An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com:

This makes my head spin.

mclaughj: I love the Panic blog, but currently, there’s a bug...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:33:12 -0700

mclaughj:

I love the Panic blog, but currently, there’s a bug with the latest version of Safari that makes transformed (rotated/skewed) text blurry (it’s fixed in the WebKit nightly.) I made a quick user stylesheet that removes the rotation that Panic uses when you hover over a post. If you’d like, you can download it here.

Colosseo Letterpress Poster: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:53:57 -0700

Colosseo Letterpress Poster: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type:

Cameron Moll’s new artwork is inspiring.

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:01:17 -0700

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board:

We can pray they make this available to all of us.

Cellphone Quandary

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:54:36 -0700

My Verizon contract will expire in May, but they are offering an early upgrade if I choose to stay with them. I’m torn, however, on whether to stay with Verizon or switch to another carrier. Reception and call quality have been second to none on Big Red’s network, but the contracts are just too dang expensive. I’ve been itching to switch carriers for awhile now but I don’t want to wait until May for my contract to expire.

Another issue is which phone to buy. If I stay with Verizon, my options are Motorola DROID or Palm Pre Plus, if I choose Sprint the options are HTC Hero or Palm Pre, and if I go the the T-Mobile route the only real choice is the Nexus One. As bad as I want an iPhone, AT&T isn’t really an option because there is no 3G coverage in my area. I’ve wanted a Pre for a long time time, but the App Catalog just hasn’t matured as quickly as I would have liked. The alternative is an Android phone, which seems to be maturing quickly with support of the app creating powerhouse Google.

"…a new crop of tools aims to make things even easier by enabling individuals to quickly share..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:56:20 -0700

“…a new crop of tools aims to make things even easier by enabling individuals to quickly share several types of common content with others.”

- Tumblr vs Posterous: quick blogging showdown

CodeCanyon: jQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared « Ryan Florence Blog, MooTools Tutorials and More

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:15:49 -0700

CodeCanyon: jQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared « Ryan Florence Blog, MooTools Tutorials and More:

Here’s an interesting comparison of jQuery and Mootools.

“I recently read jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know over at Nettuts and thought it would be interesting to compare the features of MooTools 1.2 to the new features in jQuery 1.4, released 18 months later.

“I didn’t…

Access Local Mac Dev Environment from VM – Michael Grace

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:09:13 -0700

Access Local Mac Dev Environment from VM – Michael Grace:

Mike makes it easier for all of us to test IE from a virtual machine.

Integrating PHP and jQuery: New Plus Tutorial | Nettuts+

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:54:27 -0700

Integrating PHP and jQuery: New Plus Tutorial | Nettuts+:

In this Plus tutorial, you’ll learn how to take advantage of PHP’s MySQL improved and prepared statements to query a database, how to request that returned data with jQuery, and then how to filter through the returned items and display them on the page, adding a touch of animations.

Man, I wish I still had a Tutsplus+ membership. Jeffrey Way, the editor of Nettuts, keeps producing amazing tutorials covering all aspects of web development. What’s a broke college kid to do? (but seriously $9/month is dirt cheap for what is offered)

The social failings of Google

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:41:45 -0700

The social failings of Google:

The last thing I need is another social network, but maybe Google’s location aware services will breathe life into Buzz.

20 Years of Adobe Photoshop | Webdesigner Depot

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:20:46 -0700

20 Years of Adobe Photoshop | Webdesigner Depot:

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop will reach the 20 year mark. Webdesigner Depot has an excellent article outlining the history of the program we all know and love. Did you know that layers weren’t implemented until version 3.0?

Google’s two-front war with Apple and Facebook; who are the winners and the losers?

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:17:39 -0700

Google’s two-front war with Apple and Facebook; who are the winners and the losers?:

Robert Scoble has written an interesting piece on the upcoming battle between Facebook and Google. It makes sense that Google would like to steal some of Facebook’s market since its a hugely popular Internet hang-out with absolutely zero Google Ads.

You can see the battle being drawn right in front of you. This is why I believe FriendFeed decided to sell to Facebook. They knew this war was coming and they didn’t stand a chance against this epic decade-long battle that is just beginning between Google and Facebook.

The Apple iPad http://bit.ly/c7NPA2 according to Pogue Apple products have 3 phases…1-wild...

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:04:58 -0700

The Apple iPad http://bit.ly/c7NPA2 according to Pogue Apple products have 3 phases…1-wild speculation,2-blog bashing,3-wild success

My New Tumblog

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:35:30 -0700

I’m still working on a Theme, but Tumblr is shaping up to be a great platform to blog with.