Firefox, CSS and Goowy… oh my!

Or at least fun at other folks expense. So you’re in the mood to mess with your friends and co-workers? Good. I have just the thing. There’s a feature in Firefox that will allow you skin any website through the use of the ever-powerful CSS. In your Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles?*.default/chrome folder, you can add entries to … Read more

Dear Lord, I have found what I was searching for….

Be still my beating heart. This keyboard is a thing of sheer beauty. Utilizing OLED lights to create a customized display of what each key is currently programmed and/or mapped to – the Optimus Keyboard destroys the traditional keyboard and ushers in a new era of pure geek-dom! I’m still geeking out about it – … Read more

Who’s afraid of Macromedia Central?

I’ve been playing around quite a bit lately with Central. You know, that obscure Macromedia Widget app that it seems never really caught on? I’m not sure why people have been stand-offish about it, though. I mean, to create an uber-simple Central app and pod, I added a whole whopping 1 line of code to … Read more

A sudden and sharp turn to the left.

Toronto I found myself in Toronto this past weekend for a seminar put on by Shawn Pucknell and the FITC (Flash in the Can). The speaker was the somewhat infamous David Carson, so naturally I was intrigued and very much desired to go – hence I did. The start of the seminar was a rocky … Read more

More Standards-Oriented design

I was perusing the wonderful world of the intarweb, and came across this article/interview of Eric Meyer on UIE’s website by David Poteet. It was a very interesting article, as I am right now endeavoring to do just that with my current big arse web project at work. I just love this kind of information … Read more

Ooops… Design feature or Actual error?

Since folks relish so much in pointing out when my stuff is broke – wassup guys?! Never heard of cross-browser development? This thingy no worky…. Anyway, it never ceases to crack my sarcastic behind up when developers up and decided all they have to support is IE. Microsoft may have the biggest boat, but they … Read more

Circle, triangle, square… which do you prefer?

I found an interesting article (thanks Molly) on a study done at the University of Glamorgan, comparing the aesthetic differences inherent in the design created by men versus women. Some of the conclusions are no big surprise, regardless, it is interesting that more and more often now, universities are getting interested in the underlying dynamics … Read more

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