February 2009
PREFAB FRIDAY: KT 1.5 from LivingHomes →
Building Magazine, a leading resource for home building, joined up with LivingHomes to produce a modern prefab home designed by Kieran Timberlake, the 2008 AIA Firm of the Year. The…
January 2009
Cracked Officially Starts Feeling Sorry for MAD... →
You’ve been having kind of a rough time, lately, haven’t you? We feel your pain, really, we do. (Well, not REALLY; things are actually pretty great over here. But you know what we mean.)
10 lightweight apps to make older PCs fly →
If your underpowered PC is slow, put it on an application diet.
Bentley to premiere fastest GT ever, will run on... →
Bentley will be using the upcoming Geneva show as a launchpad for a biofuel powered GT that Bentley’s PR reps promise will be the fastest and most powerful production car in the company’s history.
Coming Soon →
Horror Vacui for the iPhone & iPod touch. ●
Ajax Spy →
Last month I showed you how to create a spy effect as seen on the first version of QuickSnapper (though they’ve since changed their site design with to release the release of Little Snapper). However…
CSS: Menu List Design →
This is a quick CSS tutorial to show you how to create a menu list using either the CSS border style or a background image. The trick is to apply a bottom border to the <li> element, then…
Elegant animated weekly timeline for websites →
Yesterday my friend Nick asked to me some suggestion to design an original weekly timeline for a web application which he is developing. I suggested to use the following animated timeline…
How To Create A WordPress Category-Specific... →
Do you want to create a unique category-specific page template for each of your Categories? Here’s how…
A little WordPress education first: WordPress has built-in logic so that when a Category is…
Mimbo 3.0 Released →
The theme is new and improved, but the download page remains the same. Please have a look and go play around with the live Mimbo 3.0 demo. Obviously WordPress itself has gone through major…
Free open source Wordpress theme consultation for... →
Everyone has at least one good book inside them. Or at least that is what the age old adage tells us. Sadly however, many of those books never see the light of day as a result of many writers…
Flash Photo Gallery 22 - Flash Flipping Book... →
Time to Change Jobs →
Watch this commercial now. If you can make it 35 seconds you will receive a treat that will make your entire day brighter and better for the duration. You think I’m kidding? Try it out.
Adobe UI Gripes →
The Adobe UI Gripes Tumblr is pretty amusing, albeit a bit NSFW in the language department. That’s partially what makes it so amusing but it’s mostly that the observations made are completely true…
Review: Flickr apps for iPhone →
Trio of iPhone apps let you enjoy photo-sharing site on the go
Checking the Economic Pulse at Davos →
Solutions to the world’s economic problems can come from anywhere of course but at Davos, the people coming up with them may actually be in a position to make them real. So, at the annual meeting of…
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich ousted →
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been ousted from office after being found guilty of abusing his powers.
Very Efficient Vertical Wind Turbine Once Thought... →
As wind industry claimed that vertical turbines are ineffective, inventor Adam Fuller developed a project to prove this theory wrong.
Frozen in indifference →
Life goes on around body found in vacant Detroit warehouse.
Colors In Corporate Branding And Design | How-To |... →
In this article, we’ll take a look at the impact that website color schemes have on the overall branding of a company, and we’ll also look at plenty of examples. We won’t be going into the subjects…
Just talkin [PIC] →
Speechless
Google Gobbled Up 90 Percent Of U.S. Search Growth... →
Google ended the year with 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., estimates comScore. And that market share has inched up steadily from 58.5 percent in January, 2008….
AT&T and Apple Discussing 3G-Ready MacBooks →
AT&T is hoping to make 3G-enabled notebooks a staple of its cellular business, and in an executive interview hints that it may be chatting with Apple to extend its reach into MacBooks or other…
Obama May Hit Snags in Banning Space Weapons →
President Obama’s pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of defining whether a satellite can be a weapon.
Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid →
Check out this fluid version of the popular 960 grid system.
WordPress Tutorial: Category Trick for WP 2.7 |... →
Interested in adding a unique block of content at the end of certain categories on your site? Check this tutorial for customizing the bottom of your posts.
Paging and Custom WordPress Loops | Weblog Tools... →
Getting pagination working with your custom wp_query loops.
Setting Up a Killer, Local Web Development... →
Not the method that I personally use for setting up local dev environments for projects, but definitely sounds easier. Maybe if I got a new machine with zero customizations…
How to Only Retrieve Posts With Custom Fields |... →
Create a re-usable functions.php file which will retrieve posts based on a custom field value which you specify.
Lifestreaming for bloggers: teh blog ar (not) dead... →
Nice theme replacement for Sweetcron.
Introducing EverSave 1.0.1 →
Automatically saves your work at a specified interval. Works with the applications you use on a daily basis. Set the options in the menubar.
Total Attorneys can't live without Basecamp! →
Inc.com interviewed Ed Scanlan, the founder and CEO of Total Attorneys, about some of the tools they can’t live without. They had some great things to say about Basecamp. Thanks guys!
Gmail, MobileMe, Address Book synced contacts... →
When Gmail first opened its perpetual beta email service, I realized that having contacts automatically added to my address book was a huge advantage. When it came time to compose a new message, the…
Crazy parking ticket in Graz, Austria: 21,000 euro →
Now this is a good one: Two years ago, Austrian authorities arrested the immigrant owner of the car right on spot and deported him back to Romania. Yet, yesterday issued him a parking ticket, too….
Coming to a screen near you… →
You remember when the first TV’s started entering our homes back in the 1930’s and we all sat glued to the screen, as if watching TV was gonna change our lives (I’m improvising here, since I wasn’t…
1 Family, 445 Credit Card Offers. Junk Mail... →
Offers for the kids!
Lamborghini Gallardo: Lots of Fun in the Snow... →
We want to be like Tiff Needell when we grow up. In this week’s Fifth Gear, Tiff gets his hands on a green Lamborghini LP560-4 he calls Kermit and hits the snow, sans traction control.
Fire In Space (Pic) →
This is what fire looks like in outer space (or zero gravity)
Obama and his Mac →
If Only Game Covers Were As Classy As Book Covers... →
Olly Moss has drawn up a few examples of what it would look like if classic games shared the same cover art as classic books. Specifically, Penguin’s old classics range.If the children of the 21st…
Gmail Finally Adds Offline Support →
One of Gmail’s most requested features – offline support – is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail…
Invisiboard: Stop-motion brings invisible... →
Students use stop-motion techniques to make it appear as though they are skating on air. Countless hours of footage and editing for an amazing two minute video.
Civil rights group to Obama: Release secret Bush... →
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling on the Justice Department to release Bush administration documentation pertaining to torture, surveillance and other national security policies.
5 Things Shuttleworth Learned about Organizational... →
Mark Shuttleworth, the open source leader and founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution explains the elements that can inspire innovation and change the world—or at least your small piece of it.
Jessica Alba schools Bill O’Reilly in WW II... →
Alba and O’Reilly traded punches last week after the presidential inauguration. After Alba told a reporter that O’Reilly was “kind of an a-hole;” he retaliated by calling her a “pinhead” for telling…
WTF! Bart Simpson Promotes Scientology? →
Scientologist Nancy Cartwright, who does the voice of Bart Simpson on “The Simpsons,” has recorded a message in the voice of the iconic animated character promoting the controversial quasi-religious…
Bill O'Reilly Will Not Report on Caroline... →
Design and production bible pictures →
Today we received the first thin print samples of the Design and production bible, and as I promised, here are some photos:
When I have more news about the…
Design and production bible →
Sample print from the Design and production bible.
A golden opportunity for one blogger to ride a... →
My recent tussle with the premium Wordpress themes establishment has sparked debate that will, no doubt, continue until some consensus is reached over just what can and cannot be done to relicense…