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.

Gild is a startup that launched today out of TechCrunch Disrupt and can conceptually be described as LinkedIn meets OKCupid. Social gaming through CV’s is definitely a prospect that I’d be interested in trying out. What’s thoroughly disappointing though is that the tests that comprise the “social gaming” part are stupid. The “software engineering aptitude” gives you way too little time for in-depth, scribbling-necessary questions that cover logic, algebra, and economics (?). The “HTML/XHTML” test covers CSS too for some reason and the questions/answers are almost unbelievably crappy and a decade-outdated. See the screenshot above for a laugh. Honestly, I’d be laughing a little harder if I didn’t just spend an hour trying to get a high score on crappy tests. Sigh.
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Gild is a startup that launched today out of TechCrunch Disrupt and can conceptually be described as LinkedIn meets OKCupid. Social gaming through CV’s is definitely a prospect that I’d be interested in trying out.

What’s thoroughly disappointing though is that the tests that comprise the “social gaming” part are stupid. The “software engineering aptitude” gives you way too little time for in-depth, scribbling-necessary questions that cover logic, algebra, and economics (?). The “HTML/XHTML” test covers CSS too for some reason and the questions/answers are almost unbelievably crappy and a decade-outdated. See the screenshot above for a laugh.

Honestly, I’d be laughing a little harder if I didn’t just spend an hour trying to get a high score on crappy tests. Sigh.

Why you don’t like changes to your design by The Oatmeal Featured above: you, the wacky designer.
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Why you don’t like changes to your design by The Oatmeal

Featured above: you, the wacky designer.

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 And why do CMSs still, in the year 2010, output cluttered/inaccessible/outdated HTML that can’t be easily overridden?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 of the developer.

The robustness of a CMS is bottlenecked by the ability and clout of its developers.

A Real Web Design Application

The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs.