November 2009
40 posts
WatchPushing 70MPH On SeaDoo’s RXT iS
Thankfully, this 255 hp beast is also the first personal watercraft with brakes. This is what it’s like to go from zero to sixty on water faster than an Italian supercar
SeaDo Review Here
Watchjoelaz:
Jellyfish, by Jon Rawlinson
Jellies are absolutely amazing. Great video footage by Rawlinson of some at the aquarium.
“REGEX - \b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))”
– from DF blog
A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern:...
WatchBombproof Wallpaper vs. a Wrecking Ball
Rapid Coding Download plugin: Zen Coding - A... →
Today, we’ll introduce you to Zen Coding, a set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. Originallyproposed by Vadim Makeev (article in Russian) back in April 2009, it has been developed by yours truly (i.e. me) for the last few months and has finally reached a mature state. Zen Coding consists of two core components: an abbreviation expander (abbreviations are CSS-like selectors) and...
Jason Ronson: 'I'm going to tell my son the worst...
‘I’m going to tell my son the worst swearword in the world’
“Sometimes the mystery is better than the knowing, wouldn’t you say? Sometimes the journey is better than the destination” My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than fuck. “No,” I say. There’s a silence. “You’re...
Hiro Snoring (Jack-Pug)
Read a Barcode (with your own eyes) →
Why are barcodes so cryptic? Those little graphics found on the packages, composed of straight thin and bold lines, are the universal way to keep track of inventory. It stands to figure that these things have got to be useful, if only you can crack the code. Well, you can. In September of 1999, a 16-year-old Louisiana high school student named Jonathan Washington demonstrated an ability to read...
SM: 20 New High Quality Free Fonts →
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Madawaska ExtraLight, Apparatus SIL,...
WatchThe Engadget Show: Inside the mind of designer Philippe Starck
Download: 20 Free Mac Apps For Web Designer’s...
Link to download list here
noupe:
Professional web designers on the Mac platform rely on commercial heavy-hitters like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and InDesign for their graphic design needs. And when it’s time to slice and dice, some depend on the excellent Dreamweaver CS4 for WYSIWYG design/development; while many Mac code jockeys swear only by editors like Coda, BBEdit or...
Nextrapixel: Written by: Charlotte in How-To, Web...
Full Article here
Audiences who visit a web application website consist of generally 3 groups - those who wants to sign up; those who are here to explore and to confirm what they sign up for is beneficial; and lastly, those who are not convinced and needs to find out more. Hence the position of the sign up buttons, the graphics used, copy writing and the other elements that come into play should...
Border FX plug-in (Free) for Aperture and iPhoto →
Awesome free! plug in for Aperture and iPhoto, let’s you customize, add text, water mark etc… and save profiles.
WatchBon Iver - Wolves (act I & II) - Une Soiree de Poche
“But Moon was just like everyone else on that night: he didn’t want to do the filming only. He also wanted to be thrilled, to close his eyes and sway. So he abandoned his camera. It passed from hand to hand before Vincent took it back and moved gently among the people who were sitting while Justin performed “Wolves”. The...
Download: Bambooapps - Quiet Read App →
Tuaw:
Bambooapps has released a simple and useful utility called Quiet Read that has earned a spot on my Mac’s menubar. With a simple drag-and-drop, it lets you save a web page for later review.
Advance uses for DropBox →
MacAppStorm has a great article on some other uses for the awesome dropbox app
FSJ: Why the mainstream media is dying
Article Link
Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. This week TechCrunch and the New York Times (photo) provided just such a lesson.
