Mar
17
This prototype of a Microsoft iPad-alternative looks surprisingly useful and well-designed. This video is dated before Apple’s announcement, so it’s not a iPad clone.
Given this video and their pretty decent IE9 preview release, can we conclude that Microsoft is not really going extinct after all?
Jan
26
When choosing a font for use on a website, you are restricted to one of the 15 or so “web fonts“. That sucks. The only way you can use a different font is by resorting to hacks such as Cufon, sIFR or FLIR.
But if you do that, you’ve only solved half the problem. You’re still in muddy waters regarding the licensing of the fonts you’re using, possibly opening yourself to future litigation. And, whether you choose Cufon, sIFR or FLIR, the text that’s in a different font will behave differently than ‘regular’ text. You can’t select it, copy it or edit it like ‘regular’ text. That’s because it’s not regular text. It’s a Javascript image, Flash movie, or plain image - respectively. That sucks!
Fortunately, there’s a solution for that: the CSS3 @font-face tag. It allows you to set the font of any given text on your web page. If the user does not have the font you indicated, it will be downloaded and used. It even works cross-browser.
So only the legal issue remains. Obviously, you can’t redistribute high quality commercial fonts like Minion or ITC Franklin Gothic. The companies holding the rights won’t allow it, and probably rightfully so.
So what to do? As Mark Pilgrim so eloquently stated: Fuck the foundries. If we can’t legally use their fonts on a web page, then we’ll have to look for high quality fonts that we CAN use on a web page.
And that’s when I came across Font Squirrel, and I must say: I LOVE IT! Free high quality fonts that you can use on your website. 100% free for commercial use. No licensing issues! Just what web typography needed 
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Stephen Anderson talks about creating seductive interactions and how to create passionate users. Highly recommended.
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This guy is sooo messing with the other guy
It is called the “I accidentally”-meme and it’s quite funny actually
Mar
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24
If you’re developing a website, or a web application, you sometimes need to know which web browser you’re dealing with. So how do you know?
That’s what the user agent string is for, but it has become a complete mess, as described in this hilarious article.
Jan
21
Use these 12 standard screen patterns for inspiration when designing web interfaces.
Jan
18
Change one button and earn another $300 million in revenue? Here’s how to do it.
An eye-opener and great business argument that shows the real value of usability.
Jan
9
Dec
11
Why are these people in my LinkedIn network?
So I know people who have friends that met Barack Obama? Cool.
Nov
29
Jacob Seidelin over at Opera.com has a very interesting write-up on how to create the basics of a 3D game engine in Javascript. The final result is here (move around by using the arrow keys) and looks like this:
While it may not look like much, it’s still a Wolfenstein-quality 3D-engine in Javascript - and I think that’s quite impressive.
Nov
24
Fantastic Contraption is a fun online flash game where you need to use the laws of physics to move an object to the target area, like this (click ‘play’, ‘continue’, and finally ’start’ to set things in motion).
Oct
28
With this you can take a picture of an album cover, and find it in an online shop or on Wikipedia.
Made with the technology from this post (by the same guys (again)).
Oct
28
Is this is bound to revolutionize image search?
I think so.
EDIT: Nope, this is:
And guess what? It’s the same guys.
Oct
12
Sep
25
Ok, not all, but still I really dig YouLove.us and Volll, but the others seem promising as well.
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This is what searching for “The world according to America” on Google’s image search turns up:
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This is a screenshot of a computer booting inside your web browser. Imagine the possibilities
link so you can try it yourself.
Jun
23
PicLens is quite possibly the most shiny Firefox add-on I’ve ever seen. Oh, and it’s quite cool too
Jun
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May
23
WebAppers is a great site for web application developers - like me. It highlights great open source web application projects, like the AtMail project I blogged about earlier.
May
23
I really like this new & open source webmail project called AtMail:
May
9
“Much of the online literature about starting up is focused on how to create some fantastic product which will gather millions of visitors and make you a billionaire, and the “new wave”, so to speak, proposes that rather than taking a 1 in 10’000 bet that you can make billions, it is better to take a 1 in 10 bet that you can make millions.
Since I have started two such businesses already, here are thirteen tips from my own experience.”
Link - very worth a read
May
8
Take a look at this beautiful text-only website.
More examples here.
Mar
30
ADrive, Drop.io and File Dropper are excellent services to put large files online for free. Bookmarked!
Mar
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Joel, from Joel on Software, has a long but interesting post about web standards. A must-read for every serious (web) developer.
Mar
16
Hi there,
I’ve managed to port TinyMCE to Drupal 6. You can download it here: TinyMCE for Drupal 6.
Mar
12
Strange I didn’t wander into the Wired Science Blog before. I found it through blogged.com, which appears to be a very useful service to introduce yourself to new and exciting stuff to read.
Jan
25
It sure is strange to read the New York Times’ first mention of YouTube, “an amateur video-sharing site”, especially since it was written only two years ago.
