Archive March 2009

• I’m on Twitter! 27.03.09

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  I keep forgetting to mention that I’m now on Twitter.
  Follow me at twitter.com/peteusborne

• Litmus 27.03.09

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  I’d like to share with you Litmus- it’s an “advanced testing tool for web professionals” that allows you to preview your website in a host of different browsers. It’s extremely fast, looks great and it’s free (kinda)!

  Visit the site

• Noah Stokes 26.03.09

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  If I really told you about how this worked, you’d crap your pants and your tiny mind would explode. Poof

  Inspiring words from Noah Stokes – who’s got possibly the best developer portfolio site I’ve ever seen (he’s worked on some pretty nice projects too!). Thanks Sara!

• Fluid for Mac 25.03.09

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  Fluid is:

  …an application that can create a ‘Site Specific Browser’ to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application.

  So basically, it creates a little application for FaceBook, your portfolio, LOLCats or whatever and put’s it right in your Dock. Brilliant and so useful! Visit the site

• Reno Ranger* Photographer 25.03.09

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  Loving the work of Reno Ranger!

• Coloured Backgrounds 24.03.09

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  There’s a reason whey people have been putting black text on a white background for 3000 years, it works! You’re not being “different”, your’re making it harder for me to read your blog. Please stop it.

  Ha! So true, via Performancing

• Major Re-design 24.03.09

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  I recently had an email who’d noticed that I had re-designed my blog/portfolio – and was wondering why. The whole thing made me think about re-designs in general – something we’re seeing a fair amount of (Facebook, WordPress, LastFM and … *ahem* me!) and their successes and pitfalls…

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• Cufón 24.03.09

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  I’m hearing a lot about Cufón recently – a javascript text replacement tool that looks set to overtake sIFR. Looks interesting – but there could be some serious licensing issues though.

  See the demo / Visit Cufón

• Shelfari 24.03.09

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  If you haven’t already, check out the beautiful Shelfari. They’ve recently done a few tweaks (see above, new on the left – old on the right), but they’ve got some outstanding examples of UI design.

  www.shelfari.com

• PNG Fix and Tooltip 24.03.09

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  Whilst doing a little bit of research yesterday I came across the attractive website of Unit Interactive. Amongst some great work, these guys have two little freebies I thought were worth sharing.

  The first is a really lightweight and easy-to-use PNG fix – which seems to integrate a little better than standard HTC PNG Fix. Check it out here.

  The second was a small simple tooltip (check it out, see above). So hard to find a small and attractive tooltip now that doesn’t depend on a giant JS library to fund the multitude of useless effects – but Unit have done a good job here!

• Introducing Previews App 20.03.09

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  I’m extremely happy to announce the launch of my own webapp, Previews. It’s a simple and friendly application that allows designers (regardless of web knowlege) to showcase website concepts online!
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• Random Observation 16.03.09

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  A developer here just pointed out something I hadn’t noticed before

  Isn’t Dreamweaver a terribly camp name?
  “Hey boys, lets go weave some dreams.”...  It doesn’t work on a number of levels

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