June 2010
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March 2010
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Firefox 3.6's CSS Font-Stretch Support
For a brief history of font-stretch I would recommend reading an article by Mr Richard Rutter: Whatever happened to font-strech?. Playing with Firefox 3.6 it would seem some support for font-stretch has been introduced though. My problem lies however, with how it deals with font’s that are missing the required ‘stretch’.
Having read through a number of the bugs in the Mozilla and WebKit bug...
November 2009
1 post
“Offline Application Cache available in HTML5 is killer. However, it’s a giant...”
– Jonathan Stark - Debugging HTML 5 Offline Application Cache
October 2009
5 posts
“TextMate Bundle [that] adds text expansions for Google AJAX Libraries”
– koorb’s textmate-google-ajax-libraries-bundle. This just made me quite a lot happy.
“A war? When did Apple start a war? I distinctly remember Steve Jobs saying he...”
– PacMan3000’s response to Apple Cannot Win The Smartphone Wars. (via John Gruber)
Don’t Tell Me, Show Me!
Over on Malarkey’s blog Relly is currently doing a series on posts on how to write copy to convert your audience in to customers. After reading her posts I thought I would chime in with some badly written copy that has been written to target the wrong audience.
modx is, as far as I can work out, some kind of php based framework. However, as a developer who cares about developing websites,...
Previewing Short URL’s
The instructions in how to do this are written for OS X but should translate fine on to any other operating system
With the rise in short url services the internet (but mainly twitter) is becoming a spammers dream. They can now create a URL that comes from a website you trust tinyurl.com, is.gd, bit.ly, j.mp, tr.im, etc. and takes you to myspamsite.com. The first url shortener that really gained...
September 2009
7 posts
“Safari has a not-so-lovely way of bulking up text using sub-pixel rendering. On...”
– Thin Text in Safari with Snow Leopard
“As Mac users, the admiration and passion we have in using the products is just...”
– Simply Apple (via Minimal Mac) A stunning selection of photos of Apple products. Well worth a look at.
“If you don’t want people to download the latest episode of Lost, don’t wait 6...”
– Generation Y-pay - Andy Budd That is the the main reason you find me “stealing” videos. Having to wait while its already being discussed on the internet sucks.
WatchVerdanagate A short on the Futura & Verdana Ikea decision. I see what he did there only using Futura during the video.
“Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good...”
– Baseline Framework
August 2009
13 posts
“Lessn is an extremely simple, personal url shortener written in PHP with MySQL...”
– Lessn // ShaunInman.com This looks like it could be really useful for something.
“in the iPhone 3GS, closing the gap between intention and result by processing...”
– Always On (via John Gruber
HTML 5 Offline Data Storage and the iPhone
HTML 5 comes with two ways for developers to keep data on a users machine to speed up data delivery. These are offline file caching and client-side databases. Both of these features have been implemented on the iPhone and are available for developers to speed up page loads and create better browsing experiences.
Offline caching in particular is extremely easy to implement and can vastly improve...
“If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into...”
– Jim Coudal Of Coudal Partners (via John Gruber)
“So let me get this straight. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype, but that didn’t...”
– Licensing Issue Threatens to Shut Skype
July 2009
10 posts
“Often, when someone thanks me, I find myself saying “Don’t mention it” or “No...”
– The Appreciation Paradox
“[…] the system we have now is analogous to a person coming by your house...”
– The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real
moddims →
Apache 2 module which exposes ImageMagick as a URL-driven service, allowing you to request an image from a whitelisted host server and resize, thumbnail or alter the quality of it.
This looks like it could be really useful for creating photo galleries or image hosting services. I know I have written and used several php functions to do the job that this does using almost the same arguments.
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“The iPhone 3GS includes a hardware encryption chip that uses the...”
– iPhone 3GS Offers Enterprise-Class Security for Everyone (via John Gruber)
WatchBrooklyn Fare (via Eat Me Daily)
A complete brand make of cheeky copy, a custom font and four colours. Outlined in their most recent newsletter, Mucca Design designed everything from their coffee cups to their bags, t-shirts and napkins.
Welcome to Greg Woods Website →
Following on from industry leading peers such as Jason Santa Maria and Ryan Simms, I’m designing each individual item that I publish.
In theory, each entry will subsequently be more engaging and digestible, being designed in a way that suits the content. But I’m mostly doing this as a means of creative release. The way I see it, creativity is like a big pair of bollocks, and regular releases...
“… I’d like to think that smart Apple engineers are hard at work on this feature...”
– The em and en of iPhone 3.0
April 2009
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