With the holidays just around the bend (ack! HOW does that keep happening every year?), your non-geeky friends, relatives, significant others and other loved ones are going to end up in the frustrating position of trying to decide what to give you for Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus. You are a geek, they are not. This causes them much [...]
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Loading ...With the Bakamatsu Koshashin Generator, you can turn any photograph from new to old in seconds. This vintage-style effect is quite convincing - check out our example below, and there are more samples on the website.
While its certainly possible to do this on your own in Photoshop, this online conversion does such a nice job, [...]
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If you develop software for a living, or if you moderate any online forums, you may have found yourself in the situation where you need a list of banned or blocked words. The problem is, what works for one application doesn’t work for another. A forums targeted at adults can probably have a little more [...]
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The website Poll Everywhere allows users to sign up for a free (limited) account and run an SMS poll of up to 30 votes per poll. For projects requiring higher volume capabilities, they have monthly plans going up to 10,000 votes ($370 a month, no contract) and they offer custom plans for even more extensive [...]
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Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop [...]
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For those of you who are already rock stars at Illustrator, Nick La of Web Designer Wall has some quick - but impressive - techniques that show you how to really jazz up the finished design using Photoshop. These 9 simple techniques add amazing amounts of depth and richness to vector art, and really turn [...]
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If you use the Firefox add-on ErrorZilla, which conveniently displays additional options (Try Again, Google Cache, Coralize, Wayback, Ping, Trace, and Whois buttons) when Firefox hits an error page, you may notice something frustrating happening in Firefox 3.
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Designing a good GUI is arguably one of the most difficult - and critical - phases of application development. It’s absolutely one of the most overlooked, and part of the reason for that may be the fact that we haven’t had many tools that allow us to quickly and easily throw together a GUI design [...]
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Since this question has come up at least three times in the last week, I figured it might save time down the road to jot down my take on Twitter, just so its in one place and I don’t have to try to dig up what I’d previously written about it.
Let me start off by [...]
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In my eternal quest to sync up all of the various aspects of my life (contact lists, bookmarks, addons), and to cover the control-freak side of things using version control systems like Subversion and CVS, Dropbox and Foldershare were the next natural step.
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Those of you who have upgraded to Firefox 3 may be feeling the loss of Google Browser Sync, Google’s free Firefox addon that previously allowed you to sync bookmarks, stored password, cookies and more across multiple computers. For folks like me, who work on multiple computers throughout the course of the day, this was an [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...With the holidays just around the bend (ack! HOW does that keep happening every year?), your non-geeky friends, relatives, significant others and other loved ones are going to end up in the frustrating position of trying to decide what to give you for Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus. You are a geek, they are not. This causes them much [...]
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop [...]
If you use the Firefox add-on ErrorZilla, which conveniently displays additional options (Try Again, Google Cache, Coralize, Wayback, Ping, Trace, and Whois buttons) when Firefox hits an error page, you may notice something frustrating happening in Firefox 3.
Those of you into nerdcore, you simply MUST check out Old Nerdy Bastard - a collection of FREE nerdcore mashups featuring the music of MC Frontalot, MC Lars, Baddd Spellah, Optimus Rhyme, MC Hawking, and others. It is teh awesome, and it is teh free, so get with teh downloady. Also, if this kind of [...]
This is part one of a series - the technical how-to of creating the application will be discussed in a separate article. This article is intended to help you plan out your application to best prepare for coding and best leverage the new aspects of Facebook for exposure and social interaction.
I gave up on e-cards long, long ago. Other than JibJab, there just weren’t any e-card sites that had anything worthwhile. Everything is always cheesy and stupid, and they spam the crap out of both the sender and recipient, if you can get past all their freaking ads to actually send the damned thing. I [...]
I prefer not to shoot with flash when I can help it - I don’t like the way it washes colors out. Unfortunately, sometimes if you don’t leave the exposure open long enough, or don’t have time to adjust your exposure in the first place (candid shots are my favorite but can be a bitch [...]
This post, written by web designer James Paden of Xemion.Com, takes a snarky look at Web 2.0 and the cookie-cutter websites that seem to be popping up everywhere. Make with the clicky here.
Incidentally, this is a great web development blog, by the way, especially for freelance developers interested in taking a closer look at conversion [...]
