September 2010
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Homemade is Best →
via cameronmoll:
Carl Kleiner carefully arranged and photographed the ingredients for each recipe in IKEA’s new book, Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade is Best). The results are outstanding.
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How Food Cooks →
Simple and a bit obvious, but recently I found myself hard-pressed to concisely describe the entire process. A bit of chemistry here, a bit of nom nom there and you have a short, informative, tantalizing read.
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Browser UI for Photoshop →
/via cameronmoll:
How handy is this? Create a browser window around any size document, existing or new, with this Photoshop action by Ben Shoults. Just $3 gets you individual actions for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
And generously, Ben is donating all proceeds to the Authentic Jobs charity: water campaign for the next 5 days.
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Tumblr Staff: Queues at capacity →
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Later this week we’re pushing a complete overhaul of the Queue feature with some killer new functionality.
In the meantime though, the existing queue service is handling a volume of posts it was never designed for. To prevent it from becoming unstable and mis-publishing posts, we’ve decided the…
Finally! To prevent double-posting and other random issues, I’ve had to save...
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A Video Guide to Akihabara →
Tokyo Hackerspace just put up a video guide to Akihabara in Tokyo, an area that’s densely populated with electronics components shops. We get a lot of questions about where to go over there and also requests for guided tours so we figured it’s probably best just to up videos, descriptions, and Google map markers. It was always difficult to tell people where to go since the places are...
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A good CMS gives you total markup freedom →
Why is it that so many CMSs make it harder than it should be to use the markup you want to? And why do CMSs still, in the year 2010, output cluttered/inaccessible/outdated HTML that can’t be easily overridden? There may be exceptions of course – I haven’t used all CMSs that exist. There are hundreds of them, so I doubt anyone has.
A CMS should never, ever output HTML that is beyond the control...
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Xbox LIVE Update Preview Program →
Here’s a demo of the new dashboard if you want to see what the fuss is about. It’s slick. So sign up now and get accepted in mere seconds. Ahh, instant gratification
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How to Kern Type [Well] →
via cameronmolll:
The title of this post is actually “How to Kern Type Perfectly”, but you and I know there’s no magic formula for perfect kerning.
…however, the post does Include a really helpful tip that I’ll be adding to my workflow. Thank you kindly Rob Sutton.
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Why is the design community/industry fucked? →
Thanks to the western world’s shift in discourse medium (from typography to television) the written theoretical realms of design have been totally marginalised, while the poor visual products of the past have been foregrounded.
People, including many designers (especially new to the industry), perceive visual design as a simple craft with no history or laws, rather than an in-depth field of...
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Rock Band 3 to introduce *gasp* "real" guitar... →
This was long overdue. Its existence kind of makes the hours of practicing clicking colored buttons a bit moot, but it’s ok. Now people who actually play guitar have a chance to gloat with the backing of wildly-applausive, simulated fans.
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WatchThe “Reel Homez” trailer for Plants vs. Zombies which premiered 4 days ago on XBLA. It has every bit of love and humor as the original and serves as a great introduction for the neophytes out there.
Time to download it and stop some brain-eating… co-op style!
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