I was researching some web-work last night and embedded in the article was this presentation by Randy Pausch. I began to watch, realized it was an hour and a quarter, gasped… and proceeded to watch the whole thing intently. Randy’s talk had nothing to do...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) .yourcontainer:after { content: ""; display:...
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...
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: li:before { content: '\b7\a0';...
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...
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) +...
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