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These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 02 July 2009 from 09:05 to 18:12:
How to Copy Content Into Wordpress From Microsoft Word - It isn’t unusual for me to get a request to fix a Wordpress site that doesn’t show some posts in Internet Explorer. After banging my head on my desk and cursing Microsoft, I get to work cleaning up these phantom blog posts. Upon looking at the code via the HTML tab on the Wordpress editing screen, I could easily put the blame on the post’s author by copying and pasting directly from Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Word, when pasted, adds a lot of junk code, which is intended to keep formatting, but instead can seriously annihilate a website layout and prevent browsers (such as IE) from viewing sections by using conditional comments.
So how can you keep the formatting you have in your Word Document without screwing up your post?
20 Great Online Image Editors - The online image editing space has grown rapidly in the past year, providing great free and subscription-based options for users of all levels. These well-rounded services let you import images from your social networks, touch up photos, promote your work, and more. Here are 20 online image editors that are worth a try.
What are you looking for from an image editor when you go online?
200 Mind-Blowing Wallpapers | Delliblog - When it comes to the nature, we can’t resist its beauty. The beauty of nature always comes with pleasant and mind-refreshing look. Even though we’re in the middle of our stressing work, we still can withstand it with the help of pleasant scenery of nature.
However, we won’t be able to leave our workplace for taking a walk all the time. That’s where nice nature wallpapers come in rescue. Luckily, there are a lot of amazing and remarkable nature wallpapers showcased around the web. Here, I only do a little help by collecting 200 nature wallpapers: Aurora, Clown fish, Rocks and Waterfall Wallpapers
20 Creative and Inspiring Free Design Magazines | Design Reviver - Over the years, PDF Magazines have become extremely popular. Unlike websites, these PDF design magazines aren’t constrained by browsers, coding, 72DPI, or even being online. Many communities have been built around these magazines, with many of them being created on user submissions. Take a look at some of the best PDF mags that the internet has to offer.
20 Brilliant Kinetic Typography (Motion Typography) Videos | Dzine Blog - Kinetic typography refers to the art and technique of expression with animated text. Similar to the study of traditional typography of designing static typographic forms, kinetic typography focuses on understanding the effect time has on the expression of text. Kinetic typography has demonstrated the ability to add significant emotive content and appeal to expressive text, allowing some of the qualities normally found in film and the spoken word to be added to static text. Kinetic type has been widely and successfully used in film as well as in television and computer-based advertising.
Here I’ve collected 20 brilliantly animated Typography videos which i enjoyed most ( I kind of addicted to it, now) hope you like it.
15 Useful Tools for WordPress Bloggers - If you use WordPress as your publishing platform, you’ll find a ton of useful tools you can grab off the web that’ll help you improve your productivity and make sure your WordPress site is running smoothly.
15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have | FreelanceFolder - There are a lot of details to consider when designing and developing a web site. In reality, it can seem like an endless list — but if you look carefully you’ll see that there are certain elements that are more important than others, elements that are used consistently among the most successful sites.
Once you’ve completed the Planning Stage of your website, the rest of the elements fall into broad categories ranging from User Interface Design to Content Creation to actual Development. Of course, there are also the issues surrounding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — but we’ll save that for another day…
With that in mind, here are the 15 elements that should always be included on any top web site.
15 helpful WordPress plugins for the savvy user - This article presents 15 WordPress plugins to help enhance and simplify the blogging experience of advanced users, especially web developers and designers. Most of the plugins were tested on a default installation of WordPress version 2.3.1 for basic functionality
These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 25 June 2009 through 01 July 2009:
Private Sector Shed 473,000 Jobs, ADP Reports - WSJ.com - Private-sector jobs in the U.S. fell 473,000 in June, according to a national employment report published Wednesday by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers.
The expected loss exceeds the 400,000 drop forecast by economists in a Dow Jones Newswires survey and suggests that layoffs may be worsening.
Michael Jackson: A Video Tribute - Michael Jackson, one of the biggest pop icons in modern history, has passed away at the age of 50. Although Jackson’s music career hit its peak in the 80’s, his influence on music, and especially music videos, has persisted throughout.
And Jackson’s YouTube channel – which celebrates the 25th anniversary of Thriller – includes all of his most popular videos, many of which have been viewed tens of millions of times.
Like comedian George Carlin, who passed away last year, we thought the best way to pay tribute to The King of Pop would be through sharing his work. Below, some of our favorite Jackson videos (a full collection can be found here), lead off by what’s regarded by many as the greatest music video of all-time: Thrille
Unintentionally Hilarious Domain Names - I have 11 unintentionally funny website names that will, hopefully, let people know that there's more out there than Penisland.net (which, by the way, is an intentionally funny parody site).
I would love to see some of these ideas appear in future versions of Mac OSX and Windows.
“Gnome3 - aka ‘Gnome Shell’ - has been met with a mirth of derision within the Linux community for various reasons. Some don’t like progress, some don’t like the way it handles windows and some don’t like it’s emphasis on more symantic use of search for both online data and stuff on the file-system. Some just hate it because, well, they’re bored!
[Above] is a brainstorm idea by Gnome-Look user Crantisz and its presents an intriguing, and delicious, concept for managing windows that doesn’t stray too far from the current way of managing windows, but also has a great wedge of new and intuitive ideas in it to appease others.”
These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 19 June 2009 through 24 June 2009:
7 Perfect WordPress Portfolio Themes - If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an easy to update, fast loading and slick looking portfolio than you should be using WordPress. Traditionally WordPress is a blogging content management system, but recently it has been used to be the back end for many cool types of sites such as portfolio sites for photographers and designers.
Learning To Say “No” Nicely — How to Keep From Burning Bridges - Saying “no” could easily upset them, and it’s very possible that they might even get mad at you. For all you know, they might write you off as a freelancer — never to call on you for work again.
10 Biggest Mistakes People Make on Twitter - Twitter is a great tool, not only for making connections with a large amount of people, but it is also a great tool to promote yourself, build your brand and help others while you’re at it. However, some people get it all wrong. I’ve done a few items on this list too, and have worked to change it and hope by the end of this article, you’ve picked up a couple tips on how to better your twitter experience as well.
The 10 biggest mistakes people make on StumbleUpon - Stumble Upon is a great place to find and promote awesome content. Not only is the use of stumble upon very easy with their tool bar, the community is great (for the most part). There are some mistakes people are making on a daily basis though that could drastically effect the way they’re perceived and the effectiveness of any marketing efforts they’re making. Below are ten of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen people make on stumble upon.
Ludicrous! #WordPress Forces Images 10px Wider! - I noticed this problem in one of my own designs. If I set the post width (class="entry") to be 600px wide, and uploaded and inserted through WordPress 2.7 and up an image that was 600px wide, WordPress wrote this directly into the caption div: "style='width: 610px'" . Thus my 600px column was being forced to 610px wide, overreaching it's bounds, and forcing a float drop of the sidebar.
Fortunately I found the solution in the linked WordPress Forum post–use the CSS solution at the bottom of the discussion, not the core file hack mid-way through.
The Bits and Pieces X: Training in Practice — Good read for anyone involved in in-house proj mgmt and training - There are many ways to train people to use complicated new software. You could sit down with each new user individually and show them what to do. Because you have 300 people on staff full-time to do that. The training might be a live demo of some of the processes, or one of those movies. It could be a series of online modules that take the user through various steps of various workflows. There might be a quiz at the end. Everybody likes quizzes.
We chose a variety of training approaches. This is a nice way of saying we didn’t really have a coordinated training approach. Our training started out with the best of intentions, of course. Unfortunately, our system was pressed into service before it was really finished, so the training program was REALLY not really finished.
43 Must Read PHP Articles and Resources - Whether it be a new tip to better organise your code or a way to speed up your scripts, this list hopes to be essential reading for both the PHP newbie and the the experienced developer.
Giving your clients a good answer will go a long way toward boosting their happiness with your work. It also will work wonders for your happiness as a freelancer.
So, how do you figure out what your production process is?
Watch for at least 30 seconds, and don’t worry if you don’t understand French. What the speaker is saying has little to do with what will happen in a moment.
These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 17 June 2009 through 19 June 2009:
35 Amazing (and Often Creepy) Photo Manipulations by Aaron Nace - Aaron Nace is a photographer and digital artist. His main focus with his work is portraiture, and he tries to create images that are more than just technically well done, he wants them to impact the viewer emotionally. He is very much into creating images using all the tools available, including lighting, costuming, set design, [...]
34 Free and Elegant TrueType Mini Pixel Fonts - If you have ever tried to make a font very small (usually, anything below 9px), and it becomes unreadable, you are in need of a specially designed mini font, and this post is for you.Mini-Pixel fonts have and are very popular within Flash applications, but sadly under used everywhere else. Even though, there is no denying Mini pixel fonts have an air of elegance about them.
Are You Tweeting Away Prospects? - Unfortunately, many freelancers, particularly, have seized upon the concept of “social media networking for business” without taking the time to find the appropriate boundaries between “social” and “business.” This is in part because people who do, say, copywriting or website design tend to be “early adopters” of new tools and technology.
Marketing Tips from Adolf Hitler - Why in the hell would we want to be like Adolf Hitler? Because he did his campaigning the right way and there are a few things we can learn from him and apply to the marketing that we do for our businesses. Now you might be apprehensive about reading this article, seeing as how Adolf [...]
Magazine Start-up Costs - Discussion - I know this will probably return more questions than answers, but what does it cost to start a magazine these days? I'm talking about a national consumer publication, gloss cover and coated paper, maybe 75 pages of editorial, most art and photos supplied with a circ. of about 300,000? I don't have answers to distribution, sales, marketing, etc. I'm looking for a very ballpark figure on the hard costs to create a design template, editorial calendar, etc. for issue No. 1.
Who Said That Magazines are Dead? - FOLIO: mediaPRO - I know that what I’m going to say is controversial but my personal view is that magazines are not just wonderful products but they are healthy products as well and with a great future! And I mean in print magazines.
Twitterfeed Gets An Overhaul, Adds Analytics - If your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created …
Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know - These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren't copyrighted, explore color, and more. By Pariah Burke on CreativePro.com
Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp - A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream.
Professional management tools for Twitter - Only a few tools help give multiple users coherent access to the same Twitter accounts. There are the two best. Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Webware.
Design Commandments - This resource was built upon the '10 Commandments' of good design, by Dieter Rams. The commandments was originally
It will be very much interesting to see how the objects look while breaking and shape it takes after hitting with a bullet.
70 Amazing Bokeh Photography, Wallpapers and Tutorials | Desizn Tech - Bokeh is a photography technique that has been around for a while. It creates almost surreal and beautiful photographs. Creative minds also produces bokeh using Application such as Photoshop and Pixelmator. In this post, we are sharing some of most beautiful Bokeh photographs, wallpapers and also tutorials that shows how to create Bokeh effect yourself.
SURVEILLANCE - Terrible, Predictable, Ill-Fitted Acting - It's been a hell of a day on the highway. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung out junkie and an eight year old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon discover that uncovering 'the truth' can come at a very big cost…
GurusUnleashed.com is a very cool web resource for expert information on a wide variety of applications, created by the nicest man in our field, Pariah S. Burke. The concept is brilliant. Instead of running all over the web for application resources, GurusUnleashed is your one-stop shopping. (God I wish I had thought of that.)
And, just in case the above isn’t enough of a plug, any print designer worth her salt really must check out Sandee’s From Design Into Print book, Website, and podcast. Follow the link above. You won’t be sorry.
WordPress 2.8 Released, Jazzes Themes and Widgets, Fixes 790 Bugs - I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:
The 6 Best 2012 Apocalypse Theories (Are All Bullshit) - You may have noticed a recent trend of trying to fit every hackneyed doomsday prophecy into the same red-letter year of 2012. The theories are obtuse, their connections are flimsy and the perceived consequences are completely unsubstantiated.
8 Ways to Create Paperless Business Cards - there are a bunch of different ways to construct a virtual business card, which is right for you? Below are eight ways to build a virtual business card that you can use to send your information to contacts the next time you’re at a networking event. Please share any other services you use in the comments.
Batman Arkham Asylum Screens - Here is a set of brand new Batman Arkham Asylum screens, fresh from E3 09. There are total of three sets of screens below. One set shows off some of the enemies you will be facing, which include Harley Quinn, and the man himself, Joker. The second set shows of the free-flow combat that everybody just can’t shut up about. The third set is shots of the stealth mode of the game.
5 Tips for College Freelancers - I’ve attended quite a few high school graduation parties over the past couple of weeks. During all those parties, I’ve gotten pulled aside several times by soon-to-be college freshmen who want to know if they can freelance while attending college. Considering I did exactly that, I think freelancing while in college can be a good way to bring in some money, as long as you are prepared to handle both your commitments to your studies and your commitments to your clients. There are a few steps you can take to make the whole situation easier, as well.
Large CMYK Lamp Shade - Unique design products created by the artists and designers at Meninos studio.
These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 06 June 2009 through 10 June 2009:
5 Rotten Things No One Else Has Told You About the Clients You’ll Work For - In over 10 years of freelancing I’ve had the fortune, and sometimes misfortune, of working with some unusual clients.While each client is a unique individual, I’ve found that many characteristics and behaviors are similar from client to client.Most of my clients are typically small business owners in the US.If you are working with a different [...]
Five Common Client Phrases Decoded - It may be easy for two design professionals to discuss hierarchy and layout, but it can be very frustrating for a client. During my experience, I’ve noticed a few patterns when it comes to client feedback and the phrases they choose when trying to communicate. Below are five common remarks I’ve picked up on and have translated into designer-speak.
How To Make Potential Customers Pick You Over ‘The Other Guys’ — Workflow: Freelance - Worldwide, individuals and companies are tightening their belts. They are approaching new purchases cautiously — in many cases delaying, or even avoiding, new expenses.Consumers and business buyers alike are looking to get maximum value for their dollar. The burning question at the back of every buyer’s mind is:Why should I buy something from you instead
James Cameron To Direct Heavy Metal - We’ve known for awhile now that some of Hollywood’s most powerful genre directors are collectively working on a new Heavy Metal movie, though when or how it might happen has remained well hidden. Well add another name to the Heavy Metal director list, which already included David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Zack Snyder, and Kevin Eastmen. Now James Cameron is getting involved.
Team Workflow: Working with a Designer - As a developer, working with a designer can be challenging. It doesn’t mean we can’t interact socially, it’s just that we don’t think at all the same way about a product and how to further it. The designer I currently work with has an artist’s background. His weapon of choice is a paintbrush, and Photoshop [...]
Rapid Prototyping Tools and Principles - Dan Harrelson from Adaptive Path has written a very interesting blog post titled Rapid Prototyping Tools and what makes good prototypes. My long time favorite Adobe Fireworks is mentionned along with Axure RP Pro (which is a newer tool in my arsenal) but also several others including online tools like Balsamiq Mockups. What is most interesting to me in the post is the first part before he lists the tools and where he explains the principles of good prototyping and why it should be done in the first place. For me, this comes following a very well received presentaion at the IA Summint 2009 from Fred — Scouring the Web 24/7 for the best creative pro news and how-to so you don’t have to. — Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, InCopy, QuarkXPress, and Acrobat tutorials, tips, tricks, articles, news, and reviews
MacBook Gestures to Control Photoshop CS4 - Photoshop CS4 can detect when you use more than one finger on the trackpad of the newest Apple MacBook laptops. Pinching your fingers together will cause you to zoom out on the active image. Starting with your fingers together and then spreading them apart will zoom in on the image. Dragging with two fingers held [...] — Scouring the Web 24/7 for the best creative pro news and how-to so you don’t have to. — Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, InCopy, QuarkXPress, and Acrobat tutorials, tips, tricks, articles, news, and reviews
Twitter to Launch Verified Accounts - It looks like a lawsuit was the final push TwitterTwitter reviews needed to announce a verification program to thwart celebrity impersonators on Twitter.
Preparing and Talking About Your Graphic Design Portfolio - As a graphic designer a portfolio is essential. While it's great to have an online one, it's also a good idea to have a physical one too to take along to meetings and interviews.
Putting together and showing this kind of portfolio of your graphic design work is quite a skill, and the best way to do it gets debated constantly by designers around the world. There is no right way of doing it – there will always be differences in what employers or clients expect, or would like to see. Some simple logic and advice will help you though, and I’m going to share what I have learned both from experience and from reading other articles.
Fortunately, it isn't required to go to design school in order to be a graphic designer. A good foundation in graphic design history, theory, and practical application will help you hit the ground running. There are plenty of resources available in which you can learn graphic design on your own. Don't set your expectations to high at first, as it will take enthusiastic study for years to become great. You can do it though!
If you would like to learn graphic design from the ground up, through self directed study, then this article lists some great resources that will get you started with your design education. Also, even if you do go to design school, at least three-fifths of your education will be through self directed study anyway. Let's get to it!
These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 03 June 2009 through 05 June 2009:
70 Ways Social Networking Fuels the Tech Revolution - From e-shirts that show your latest Twitter updates to interactive advertising campaigns on Facebook for everyone from politicians to porn stars, social networking is clearly the preferred mode of communication for the Web-savvy masses.
Tomorrow’s New York Times - A Better World - This special edition of The New York Times comes from a future in which we are accomplishing what we know today to be possible.
The dozens of volunteer citizens who produced this paper spent the last eight years dreaming of a better world for themselves, their friends, and any descendants they might end up having. Today, that better world, though still very far away, is finally possible — but only if millions of us demand it, and finally force our government to do its job.
George W. Bush Indicted for High Treason (Hoax from Fake New York Times) - WASHINGTON (AP) — George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, was indicted Monday on charges of high treason. The charges, filed by Attorney General Russ Feingold late in the evening, allege that Mr. Bush, knowing full well that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction, falsified information in order to pursue the disastrous Iraq War. (See “U.S. Knew No W.M.D.s in Iraq,” on Page A1, and the petition at www.democrats.com/pardon.)
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME Magazine - The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn't be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.
In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
The business models were heading in this direction, but the economic downturn has perhaps sped it along a bit. That, and the realization that online advertising just isn't going to pay for everything.
Genuine imitations | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog - Given that Matthew Carter was giving the lecture and he would be talking about his views on type revivals, it was perhaps not so surprising so many people wanted to go. For an hour he talked through the development of some of his typefaces and his philosophy not just on revivals but on type design in general. I suspect it’s this philosophy and thinking that interested a lot of the attendees, including me, so I’ll focus more on that here.
Google serves up the Top 10 sites to avoid at all costs - The Next Web - Google’s security team has identified the current Top 10 malware sites in the world. The list reads like a rogue’s gallery of the darker side of the web. Sites listed generally use ‘drive-by downloading’ to install and run malware on vistors’ computers automatically. To make things worse many of these domains are linked through to via advertising and other third party content on a vast number of high-traffic websites.
White People Problems (LOL) - Difficult crossword puzzles, in-grown hairs, and declining stock portfolios — it's hard out here for a caucasian.
How to Quit Your Job with Style - Steven DeMaio - HarvardBusiness.org - Maybe it's because I quit my job several months ago, but lately I've been connecting with a lot of other people who have just quit or are on the verge of it. Reasons for taking the plunge vary widely, of course. But oddly, approaches to announcing the decision don't seem to be nearly as diverse. Many quitters more or less slink quietly out the door, without fully articulating why they're leaving
Who owns your Twitter account? - So here is a legal conundrum. You’ve been active on a number of social media websites, such as Twitter, FaceBook or Digg. You have amassed a number of friends and followers and built a certain amount of credibility. You leave your job – take a better position elsewhere, move to another city, get laid off or fired – doesn’t matter the reason.
Who owns your Twitter account? Your FaceBook account? Etc.
I thought it was a very straightforward question, too. If it’s in your name, it’s yours. If it’s in the company’s name, it’s the company’s. Period. Or maybe not period. Maybe question mark.
Jeff Dunham, Puppet Master - TIME - For most people, being caught in an enclosed space with either a terrorist or a ventriloquist would qualify as a hostage situation. But Jeff Dunham, a ventriloquist, is perhaps the most popular stand-up comedian in the U.S. And he broke through by playing straight man to a terrorist — a fiberglass one.
* From the initial look, it seems that one can share images between his friends and perform real time communication for that as well. kind of real time comments. * Playback any part of wave to see what was communicated at that time * Waves can be embedded on blogs and websites and invite viewers to join your wave * Just drag and drop file sharing which means no concept of attachments * Language translation and spelling correction will be done on fly in Wave * Developers can develop gadgets for Wave. It is going to be an open source platform
Screenshot of Google Wave
20 Brilliantly Creative Bookcases - While it becomes easier to store digital media, it seems to become more interesting to store the real deal. Your book collection in particular says a lot about your personality, so why shouldn’t your book shelf do the same? We found 20 of the most brilliant bookcases for stylish readers.
These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 28 May 2009 through 29 May 2009:
Spy Vs. Spy: The Spymaster Backlash Begins And Twitter Needs To Fix It - Spymaster, the Twitter-based game that we covered last night, is spreading like crazy today. It’s been a trending topic on Twitter throughout the day, even ahead of the hype around Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Because of this popularity though, some Twitter users are getting inundated with tweets from the service in their streams. It’s not really spam, because it’s their friends doing it, but to some, it’s very annoying. Former Digg lead architect, Joe Stump, is particularly pissed off.
Why Spreading Twitter Across Your Social Profiles Is So Important - Do you do so? | Blog of Mr. Tweet - Have you checked your inbox lately for email subscription updates from the services you’re using? If you have, then you’ve seen plenty announcing support for Twitter comments and/or replies. From Disqus’ Social Media Reactions and Twitter Sign-In, to 12seconds.tv’s recent integration of @replies and DM’s in your real-time feed, services are aggregating as much of Twitter as they possibly can into the dashboards of your social profiles. Why are they doing this? How does this benefit you?
20 Futuristic 3d Scenes | Abduzeedo - It's very hard to imagine how our cities and landscapes will look in the future, but on this post you can get a taste of what may be coming in a long future. There artists have enough imaginations and skills to create their own view of the future.
8 Toxic personalities to avoid - Manage Your Life on Shine - Although we like to think that the people in our lives are well-adjusted, happy, healthy minded individuals, we sometimes realize that it just isn't so. Personally, I've had moments where I'll be skipping through my day, happy as can be, thinking life is grand and BAM, I'll be blindsided by someone who manages to knock the happy wind out of my sails. Sometimes it is easy to write it off and other times, not so much.
The two giants pride themselves for producing cutting edge consumer and business products, and are leading the developments in software and hardware.
But what about their websites? How do they both compare, and more important, which one is better and more usable?
9 Things You Didn’t Know About Newspapers - Very interesting read for newspaper design and editorial personnel, as well as for anyone who simply appreciates the world of newspaper publishing.
So Much For Twitter’s Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News - We already know Twitter can be quite the source for breaking news, but critics have in the past correctly pointed out that one should be aware of the fact that the mob isn’t always right, and unverified claims on the micro-sharing service - often from a single user or even a single message - can quickly lead to false or incomplete stories circulating rapidly and viciously until the dust settles and the truth surfaces. And even then, it’s often too late as most people will have probably moved on unless it was a topic they have a continued interest in. Case in point: the Prop8 debacle.
Unique Baby Names May Portend Narcissism Epidemic - American parents are giving their children increasingly unique and unusual names, while the most common names are no longer as popular or widespread as they once were, according to a study of baby-name trends out of San Diego State University.
Researchers caution that, while this trend indicates the increasing value parents are putting on uniqueness, it could lead to narcissistic behavior that could isolate children from the crowd their parents hoped they would stand out from.
For the study, researchers analyzed the names given to more than 325 million babies born in the US between 1880 and 2007. They found that - while Jacob is the top boy’s name for 2008 and Emma is the top moniker for girls - these familiar names and others are being given to a smaller percentage of newborns overall.
BREAKING: Time Warner Splits From AOL - New York Post - Time Warner Inc. is dumping AOL after spending nearly a decade trying to build a new-age media empire only to wind up in a weaker position than when the marriage began.
With two tiny code changes easily modify the popular WP-RelativeDate plugin to display just the relative date and time, and to show hours old instead of “today.”
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