Archive for October, 2009


These are my links for October 28th from 13:22 to 17:19:

These are my links for October 9th through October 23rd:

These are my links for October 5th through October 8th:

  • Becoming a Font Embedding Master – Snook.ca – I've spent a couple days worth now trying to figure out the best and most complete approach to font embedding using @font-face. It really is a dark art that must be mastered. It is by no means a straightforward process.
  • How to Best a Master Lock – Master lock hack – Gizmodo – There are 64,000 potential combinations in a Master Lock. With a few easy steps, you can figure out the last number of any combination. From there, you'll crack the lock in 100 attempts or less.
  • Titanium Mobile | Appcelerator – With Titanium, you get native access to device features like geo-location, local file system / database, photos, and touch / accelerometer controls. Your apps look great because they use native UI elements, styling, transitions, and they run great because we compile Titanium to native code for peak performance.
  • This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind – Photosketch – Gizmodo – PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right. Seems unbelievable but—as the video shows—it works:
  • Wireframes Magazine – Axure is quite the popular prototyping tool for which a ton of widgets and libraries have started emerging. These downloadable and reusable pattern libraries can often speed up the prototyping process. Here is a quick compilation of the latest I recently found:

These are my links for September 29th through October 5th:

  • Fur Felt Hat – hard graft® – LIMITED EDITION / MADE TO ORDER
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  • C–Inspector: Test your information architecture – C–Inspector is a web–based application that helps you to test the information architecture of your website.
  • Knowledge Capsules | Detecting unused CSS selectors – Anyone working in large web projects in collaboration with many people at the same time will see the consecuences of many hands on style files. May selectors and classes come and go while developing and testing. After a while, you will easily see style files that become untouchable: you don't know which classes or selectors are being used or not. The same uncertainty creeps in when you maintain someone else's site.
  • The Income Tax: Constitutional? – A janky website going over the argument against "graduated" taxes vs "income" tax.
  • Carrer Blog: CSS Specificity – Cheat Sheet – Cheat sheet on CSS specificity. Easy to use calculation on what value is placed on what css string and element combination.