I love this. The iMac 2065, with the new 10 HellaByte HD!
Petition to make “Hella” the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – Boing Boing
Twitterbar + ScribeFire + Firefox = Awesome
If you have a WordPress blog and you like to tweet these 2 Firefox addons will make life much more pleasant.
Twitterbar is a Firefox addon that lets you tweet right from the address bar in your browser. You just type in your text and then hit the “Post to Twitter” button right in the address bar. Can’t get easier than that. Does the character counting and if you leave the url in the address bar it automatically shortens it for when you send your tweet.
ScribeFire is a Firefox addon that lets you create posts right in Firefox. If you right click on any page in Firefox you’ll get a “Blog this Page” option that will pop in the text from that page automatically. Allows you publish to multiple blogs, add images, videos. Most of the stuff you can do in the standard WordPress Post editor. Great tool.
Great Comic About the History of IE6
Now that IE6 is finally dying we can all look forward to the HTML5 browser support wars.
The Life, Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer 6 (Comic Strip) – Smashing Magazine
6 Predictions for the Future of the Internet
I’d be very happy if the only thing to come true was IE6 dying a quick death. Bonus points if Google Voice gets number portability set up (in the near future).
6 Predictions for the Future of the Internet: “
Last September the Internet turned 40. I think it’s safe to say that no technology has evolved so much in so little time. Even in the past fifteen years or so, it has completely reinvented itself; arguably several times. Now we not only shop, bank, work and meet people online; but we share what we are doing at any given moment (e.g. Twitter), and even keep statistics on daily minutia. We read, listen and watch everything. We Digg, rate, share and favorite content daily.
So what’s next?
Really nice charting API
Title says it all. Via Ajaxian:
Highcharts: Really nice charting API
We all want better and better charting libraries. Dojo has some good stuff, Protovis is a good option, and there are many many more (put your favourite below!).
The latest guy in the ring is Highcharts uses either jQuery or MooTools for some common JavaScript tasks. In addition, Internet Explorer needs ExCanvas which emulates the Canvas element.
10 Great WordPress Tutorials
Designm.ag has a great post that links to 10 great WordPress tutorials. I’ve been working on a big WordPress project at my day job, this site runs on WordPress and so does my personal site. It’s a really great platform for publishing content and extremely flexible, handling simple blogs to more extensive news sites. Highly recommend it to anyone looking at options for any kind of web hosting.
10 Tutorials to Take Your WordPress Development Skills to the Next Level
As the community of WordPress designers and developers continues to grow, and as new versions of WordPress are released, there are more opportunities to learn different techniques and tricks that you can apply in your own work. In these 10 tutorials you will find strategies that should prove to be very useful in your own theme development.
Free Stock Photos
Six Revisions has a great list of the “15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online”. I’ve personally used a bunch of these sites including NASA’s Image Galleries, which are fun to just browse, as well as stock.xchng, MorgueFile and Creative Common’s image search. Your results will vary. If you’re not having any luck with any of these sites I highly recommend dropping a buck on something over at istockphoto.com.
15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online: “
I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos.
Modpoll Gets a Few Updates
If you’re looking for a poll for your website or blog or just want to add a poll to your Facebook or Twitter page just hop on over to modpoll.com. It’s easy to use, no registration required, and it’s free for everyone!
We’re always working on making our product better based on our user’s feedback and best practices we’re come across in our careers. This weekend we pushed out a few more updates to modpoll.com including:
- Updated Theme Chooser with improved scrolling and easier clicking.
- Improved My Stuff page UI. Less wrapping titles in the list of polls.
- Link to viewed and unviewed version of your polls under the My Stuff page instead of just a link to the viewed version.
- Minor design changes including new, brighter logo text, background and promotional area.
- A new poll on the homepage. We’re looking to get some feedback on new features.
- Confirmed that all pages are valid XHTML.
Zen Coding: Generating HTML from selectors
Wow, this is awesome. I’d love to see a BBEdit plugin for this.
Zen Coding: Generating HTML from selectors
Normally we use CSS selectors to find and tear apart HTML. Sergey Chikuyonok’s jujitsu move is to do the opposite. With Zen Coding you take a CSS selector like this:
(Via Ajaxian » Front Page.)
The Funny and Bizarre World of Client Requests
Great article about client requests. I’ve personally come across probably all of these at one time or another. One of my favorite requests when was someone asked if I could make the bullets in a bulleted list blue because the color blue was more “internety”. I’m not making that up.
1. Bigger Logo
Probably the most requested of all time is to make the logo bigger or more ‘prominent’. Many clients seem not to recognise branding as a whole and think that the most effective way to improve that is by increasing the size of the logo.
The logo must be a 200% bigger
Source: Paz Odone (Facebook)
Read the full article at Inspect Element