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Mailinator: Free, Disposable, Email
This post is being shared with you so you can understand how easy it is to use a fictitious email address when signing up for some sort of web service. Likely this web service may send you one confirmation email and then after that send spam to you, or sell your email...
Fiskars Rock!
Today I learned why Fiskars is an awesome brand. Here's why: Bought a pair of pruning shears. After a day of use they stick closed after making a cut. I can work them loose and pop them open to be ready for the next cut. But after repeatedly doing this a blister is...
Illustrator CS6 and Wavy Lines
Mathematical precision is awesome. Guessing or going by eye is not. For the years I've used Illustrator I never knew this following tip. Of course there are ways to accomplish wavy lines, but Illustrator contains an awesome feature for creating wavy lines (or even...
Documentary Addict: 5,000+ Curated Documentaries To Watch For Free
If you've got some time on your hands check out documentaryaddict.com which has more than 5,000 free documentaries to watch online. They've done a nice job of categorizing the videos and as well offer user ratings so you can easily view the "Top 100 Highest Rated",...
Some Handy CSS: Clearfix, Friendly Spacing on Named Anchor Jumps, Visually Hidden and Box Sizing
These aren't going to be terribly useful to you unless you're a developer. A few regularly used CSS tricks: The latest clearfix method (note this is for the parent container, not the child element) [code lang="css"] .yourcontainer:after { content: "";...
Windows Magnification Success!
For the record I'm not 50 or 60 years old. I'm 40. My eyes are in great shape! I also know that in Adobe software as well as web browsers I can use the hotkeys CTRL and + and CTRL and - to make things larger and smaller (CTRL-0 resets to the default view btw). Though...
Using a Middot For List Style Type
I have always "not loved" the giant circle that appears by default for a list style type of "disc". If you'd like to use a middot instead, which stands for middle-dot, change your CSS as follows: [code lang="css"] li:before { content: '\b7\a0'; /* \b7 is a...
Lazy Load Your Images To Significantly Speed Up Page Load Times
I'd seen the effect on other pages while surfing the web for some time now. Where you are scrolling down and the images load into view as the page is scrolling down. I immediately knew when seeing the effect in action just how beneficial this is. For one thing all...
Emoji: Twitter Open Sources 872 Graphics For You To Use In Your Next Project
Wikipedia defines Emoji as "the the ideograms or smileys used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages, the use of which is spreading outside Japan. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji)." Put those in...
Logitech k400 Wireless Touch Keyboard
We've never owned a television. Well, except for a 12" tiny colour TV my wife brought into our lives more than a decade ago. All of our media is played through our computers and displayed on a Samsung 27" LCD (the S27A650D). It's not a giant 40+ inch but for the...
Thunderbird Mail and Marking Junk
I've been using Thunderbird (Mozilla's email software) for years now. Because I'm a computer geek and NEED to have everything just right on my computer it bothered me for a long time that even messages Thunderbird would mark as junk and then move to the junk folder,...
Inspiring Designs for Nike by Marcelo Schultz
Came across these and thought they were inspired works. Love the details. Created by Marcelo Schultz (www.marceloschultz.com) for "Nike designs", a project on @Behance. Click images for larger version (will open in a new window, close to return here).
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