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So recently I came across this article regarding future Journalists and what skills they must have: 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist. This got me thinking about colleges and the kinds of Journalism classes they…
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I read this great post on the simplicity and effectiveness of craigslist and they also talk about how this site like wikipedia yearn for fundamental function over any design quality or extra features. It got…
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it seems sometimes it takes a bit of a catastrophe to remind us of the importance of a fail proof backup system. have an automated on-site backup system, using an external hard drive if possible…
simple iconic design
Here is a pretty basic overview of how to load fonts from a .swf, great for sites that have many languages, particularly asian characters, where you may need to specify characters or fonts while not…
I've been playing recently with Chevy Ray's FlashPunk library, which can be found here. It's a 2d game library built on the premise of bitmapped data for all the speed and performance benefits that comes…
I updated XCode and my iPhone SDK today to the latest 3.2.3 and iPhone OS4 only to find that it broke my video players, so below is the code to play it the same way…
With the new changes to google’s logo, you can see they’re starting to take design seriously. These subtle adjustments to the bevel and drop shadow make a dramatic difference in it’s appearance and much less…
if you include the suffix "@2x" at the end of your image names the app will use these images instead of your regular low res images. For example if I have an image "title.jpg" I…
awesome illustrative beer labels.