February 2012
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The Piracy Threshold →
Music and movie industries, you’re well-known for being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I’m not going to argue with that, because you really are.
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Let me make this perfectly clear: piracy is your own fault.
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Musings on Preprocessing →
The mighty Chris Coyier shares his recommendations for working with CSS preprocessors.
Thanks to a Twitter reply from Paul Irish and this post, I can now rest knowing that I made the right choice by choosing SASS over LESS a few months ago. (Also, I installed CodeKit and LiveReload at the same time but decided to try CodeKit… Great minds… :P )
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Call For Action: The Open Web Needs You *NOW* →
Without your help, without a strong reaction, this can lead to one thing only and we’re dangerously not far from there: other browsers will start supporting/implementing themselves the -webkit-* prefix, turning one single implementation into a new world-wide standard.
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“Can you try a more serious font here? No offense, but your font choices are...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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January 2012
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Small but important (and final?) change to linear... →
bricss:
After redefining angles in gradients, another small but important revision was made to the linear gradient syntax last week. It’s outlined in full detail on Peter Gasston’s blog, but the gist is this: If you need a direction keyword, you’ll have to specify the destination keyword and prepend…
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clientsfromhell:
Me: I still haven’t received payment for X
Client: Ah yes, there’s a very good reason for that. The invoice number was 666.
Me: And?
Client: And I’m not associating with the devil in any way.
Me: What if I send you another invoice?
Client: Nice try, but you’ve already made the mistake. Just try and sue me, I have religious rights.
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of... →
understatementblog:
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
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iPhone 4S PSD Template →
marshallbock:
Pretty much every decent iPhone app ever made also has a website extolling the virtues of the app and its features. And pretty much every one of those sites has one thing in common: an image of an iPhone, its screen displaying a shot of the app.
It’s an incredibly common …
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jribbble, a jQuery plugin for the Dribbble API →
thechangelog:
What do you when you want to work with the Dribbble API in your website?
Check this out …
jribbble
What can it do?
Get a shot
Get the comments of a shot
Get the rebbbounds of a shot
Get a list of shots by the list name
Get a list of a player’s shots
Get a list of shots a player is following
Get the profile details of a player
Get the followers of a player
Get the players...
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“I’m trying to type my password, but all I see are stars!”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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“We sent you an email, like, four days ago telling...
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Why haven’t you fixed our email?!” Me: “I didn’t know you had an email problem…” Client: “We sent you an email, like, four days ago telling you that it doesn’t work!”
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The UI Guide | Part 2: Backgrounds, Forms, and... →
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“I’ve sent you a photo of the team to include in the brochure. Rob, the guy on...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
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Clients From Hell: Neurotic restaurant... →
clientsfromhell:
Client: “The act is up, man.” Me: “The act is up on…?” Client: “You could at least have given us a fair price, if you were going to outsource the website work overseas.” Me: “Okay. Two steps back. What are you talking about?” Client: “We’re talking about the little scheme you’ve been…
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Q: "What browser are you on?" A: "Google."
clientsfromhell:
Me: “What browser are you on?”
Client: “Google.”
Me: “Google Chrome?”
Client: “No, just regular Google.”
Me: “That’s the site. I want to know the browser.”
Client: “Google.”
Me: “No.”
Client: “Look, we can have this conversation forever, man. But when I hit the internet logo, Google comes up!”
Me: “Okay…What does that “internet logo” look like?
Client: “…A fiery fox, I...
September 2011
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jQuery Mobile 1.0 RC1 Released! →
The jQuery Mobile team is thrilled to announce the first release candidate for version 1.0. This new release brings a long list of bug fixes, refinements and optimizations, as well as support for the Meego platform.
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How to remove the "People To Subscribe To"...
I got really annoyed with Facebook’s “People To Subscribe To” sidebar block so I opened the source code to see what’s that element’s id and to hide it. Turns out that the id is: pagelet_ego_pane.
So, just add the following to your user.css file (or your browser’s equivalent):
#pagelet_ego_pane { display: none }
Surely, someone has already written about this...
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Folyo: "How much does a website cost?" and other... →
folyo:
If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site.
The results of this situation is that it can be pretty hard to know how much to spent on design. Spend…
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More on client logo design pricing and deposits →
Graham Smith shares more tips and advice for logo design pricing and payment structures
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Honest-to-god conversation with a new client
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I hate the color yellow. Don’t ever use it. Nothing good has ever been yellow: urine, dead skin, um, hippy’s shirts, the desert… you get the point.” Me: “What about lions?” Client: “Lions are just fruity tigers.”
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clientsfromhell:
A client hadn’t replied to my latest proof. I asked if he’d seen it yet, to which he replied: “There are too many words. I don’t like to read that much (nor do I have the time), and frankly, I don’t think other people do either” There were literally seven words on the proof.
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