The past few months have been really fascinating to watch. My first little application Doomi has been passed around dozens of blogs, favorited, bookmarked, twittered, screencasted, and pretty much made the webernet rounds. Here’s some statistics. In the past 3 months, Doomi has been installed over 2500 times, it’s single page has been hit over […]
I’m always looking for better ways to organize my life which usually translates to “spending less time organizing and more time doing”. The amount of information you have to mentally gather when entering events, or to-dos is a unnecessary amount of mental work. Here’s some questions I ask myself every time I open iCal.
What day […]
Internet Exporer 6 gets absolute positioning all wrong.
If your using an element as a hook for another elements positioning. IE6 0,0 point doesn’t care about padding, so if you have an element styled like so:
Since working on Burnkit’s massive server the last week I’ve frequently come across the need to email the path of a file to another co-worker. I noticed yesterday that Finder doesn’t have a single place to extract the absolute path of your given location, they even tease you with it in “get info” but for some […]
So, after bashing facebook forever about what a pain it is to change your profile pic, I noticed something. When your flipping through photos and you see one you want for a pic, if you’ve been tagged in the photo you get a sweet menu option on the lower right —> “Make Profile Picture” […]
I have to hand it to Microsoft’s Live Image Search for finally get Image Search right. I can’t even remember the last time Microsoft did anything better than Google in terms of web technologies, but check this out:
Google for some reason only allows you to view 18 images per page. I find it very annoying […]
Ok, I have got to share this with you guys because this is just such an awesome tip. I just got out of a creative workshop with Joshua Davis, and the man is just full of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash hacks and tippies…
Use this to create some pretty awesome complimentary color palettes.
Here’s the core concept: Steal […]
Tip from an amateur. Start with the boring stuff, boring stuff can also be translated into Information Architecture, if you don’t know what that is, fire up this link and read for a few hours… or days. (note I said tab because I’m that trendy).
This step is key to functional design and making sure you’ve […]
I don’t know about you guys but I’m continually frustrated with the lack of BBEdits file browsing system…. I find myself constantly opening up finder double clicking through folders and files just to get my workspace set up properly. And even after multiple times of looking through menus and options I couldn’t find anything that […]
Ok, so I’ve been meaning to share some cool stuff I found in the last few weeks. Here are some links.
1. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Synergy: This is prob the one of the best apps I’ve found. Use synergy to share the keyboard, mouse, and clipboard between as many computers as you have. This saves tons of time […]
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UltraMon for Windoze rocks. I could really use something like this on the macbook. For a dual monitor setup it creates two* task bars.
John's a web developer and designer located in Vancouver BC. When he isn't busy with code he enjoys a 130 degree macchiato whilst improving his brain age.
