June 2008
Teens jailbreak iPhone in Apple Store - Get... →
“Apple store employees caught four teenagers doing the unthinkable — downloading a third-party application onto a demo iPhone — which prompted their immediate banishment from Apple stores “for…
Photoshop Lady →
The Photoshop lady collects the best photoshop tutorials from around the world.
Hack Attack : Find The Font Used In An Image →
I’m one of the few kind who has more fonts on his system than any other type of stuff. Call me a font addict, but I love trying out the different fonts to see how it looks. Case in…
May 2008
★ Spaces in 10.5.3 →
Spaces was one of the new features in Leopard I was most excited about, but I found the actual implementation unusable. [Henry Story wrote a fine description][d] of the problems with Spaces in…
Pastel color menu with dynamic submenu using CSS →
This tutorial illustrates how to design a nice pastel color menu with a dynamic submenu which appears when you select a link in the main menu, using CSS and some lines of javascript code. The result…
FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war... →
By Bill Van Auken, WSWSThe most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had…
Canadian Border to Check iPods for Copyright... →
The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic…
Revision3 Sends FBI after MediaDefender →
The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers,…
Alien Video To Be Revealed To Media Tomorrow, Man... →
“It shows an extraterrestrial’s head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that’s visible through an infrared camera,” he said.
Expert says Denver Alien tape no fake →
The instructor at the Colorado Film School who analyzed a video that purportedly shows a living space alien swears the footage is real:”It’s not a trick done in special effects.” However, Hofmann…
NORAD Confirms Mock Drills Took Place →
North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) confirmed that mock shootdowns of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon took place in the two years preceding 911 attacks. Fact or Fiction?
If This Guy Played Guitar Hero He Would Pwn You... →
Yeah, say it ain’t so…
Detectives Investigate A Halo 3 Death →
So the grenade caused the explosion that caused the pylon to hit him in the head. It all makes sense.
Alien Video To Be Revealed To Media Tomorrow, Man... →
“It shows an extraterrestrial’s head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that’s visible through an infrared camera,” he said.
Don't These People Own Garages? →
Does this make sense to you? Buying a condo just for your car. It’s something the super-rich of Silicon Valley are doing.
'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws →
Actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog’s toe pads, probably when it is threatened.
Comcast Hackers Say They Warned the Company First →
The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. In an hour-long telephone…
NORAD Confirms Mock Drills Took Place →
North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) confirmed that mock shootdowns of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon took place in the two years preceding 911 attacks. Fact or Fiction?
Living Bacteria-Run Computer Solves Math Puzzle →
A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem.
10.5: Avoid Gmail/Address Book sync issues in... →
If you previously maintained your GMail contacts in sync with some application like A2G or whatever, enabling 10.5.3 Google contacts sync (in Address Book) may end in endless conflict resolution…
Comcast Hackers Say They Warned the Company First →
The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. In an hour-long telephone…
Google’s New Blue Fav Icon →
This is going to take some getting used to.
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Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender... →
Internet TV network Revision3 suffered a network failure during Memorial Day weekend as a result of a massive denial of service attack perpetrated by MediaDefender. Revision3 has asked the FBI to…
How to Hide “Expired” Posts in WordPress →
Today I came across an extremely helpful snippet of code for hiding “expired” posts in WordPress. It’s a few lines of PHP that you place inside The Loop to check for a custom field named…
DevKick →
Really digging the typography and color of this new web design and development aggregation site by the man originally responsible for Stylegala. #
Spore's Creature Stage Pictured, Detailed →
Electronic Arts has released details on Spore’s Creature Stage, the second phase of life in the upcoming evolution simulator from game designer Will Wright.The overarching goal of the Creature Stage…
'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws →
Actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog’s toe pads, probably when it is threatened.
George Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie... →
Scottie McC doesn’t know it yet. But that’s basically what he revealed this morning on the Today Show. During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pissed him off with the Bush…
Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs →
Effective web design doesn’t have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how…
Ryan Irelan's ExpressionEngine screencasts →
Just released from the folks at Pragmatic Programmers, Ryan’s EE tutorials may be just the thing I need to make a long overdue CMS update. #
Free Vector World Maps Collection →
A collection of free vector-based world maps.
Good products don’t make up for bad service … but... →
April 30th was my birthday and I took the day off. It was supposed to be a relaxing day. It began by making pancakes with my wife, then playing video games for a while. Soon after I went to get a…
Impressive Safari Plugins →
Safari has been optimized for Mac and because of that, it becomes the best browser for running on Mac. However, with Firefox empowered by plenty of plugins, it’s confusing to determine…
Monocle’s Disappointing Myopia →
I often lust after Monocle for many reasons and am always trying to make myself buy a copy. However, whenever I actually pick a copy up at the newsstand and give it a good read through, I place it…
45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or... →
WPZOOM rounds up an impressive collection of 45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts, including Futurosity Eos and Upstart Blogger Underscore (my last design for Upstart…
CSS Decorative Gallery →
Did you like my previous CSS tutorial on how to create gradient text effects? I’m using the same trick to show you how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source…
New Google Android Touchscreen Demo →
Looking good. The home screen is far more like a Mac/Windows-style “desktop”. I love the gesture-based screen unlock feature — both cooler and more convenient than the iPhone’s number combination…
Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their Thoughts →
I can’t resist linking to any article with both monkeys and robots in the headline.
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10.5.3 Address Book Now Syncs With Google Contacts →
Turn it on in Address Book’s preferences window. Update: Here’s the curious thing: the feature is only available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. I don’t understand why either Apple or Google…
Top Quality Premium Web 2.0 PLR Membership Site →
There are loads of PLR membership sites with low quality of the products. However, we have got one truly amazing PLR memebership site that enables you to sell products on your own site and…
WhatTheFont →
“Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.” I’ve been using this site for years, but I don’t think I’ve ever linked to it. Works surprisingly well. …
WordPress Theme Releases for 5/28 →
One Column Theme
WPTouch
WPTouch is a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured…
<em>Aligned</em> release - theme... →
I have chosen to release Aligned today, even though I have run into some minor issues with Firefox 3 RC1.
I must admit, that I really like this theme myself - I have chosen to make it the default…
Google Spreadsheets Tips: Invert word position... →
Ok guys, finally I have a litte bit of time to add a new post on my blog. Today I want to return to talk about Google Spreadsheets, illustrating simple tips very useful to invert automatically…
On Getting Robbed →
Those of you following my Twitter account will know that my house was robbed early in the morning on Memorial day. Nothing of mine was actually taken but the three guys that broke in assaulted my…
Guy gets hammered, plays GTA IV. Hilarious →
Kotaku’s Owen Good does a comparison; which is worse, the drunk driving gameplay in GTA IV, or getting drunk and driving in GTA IV. The results are ROFL funny.
Instense: Iraq Soldier Discusses His "Kills" →
In the spring of 2007, a conference was held on the outskirts of Washington, DC. Entitled Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, it harkened back to the Winter Soldier testimonies held three decades…
Creating Geometric Patterns in Illustrator →
Always with the Kubrick references in these sites in the Deck network. Always.
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daniel mall →
It’s a tough thing, reviewing sites designed and built by friends. But then, it’s also very easy, because my friends are great web designers! Well, you didn’t think I’d associate with bad designers,…
Smashing Texture Contest Results →
Last week was really full of hard work for us. The response to Smashing Texture Contest was impressive and overwhelming. We have received over 740 e-mails from over 600 participants, resulting…