“This is a quick PHP script to help generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css.”

View space with updated version of Google Earth.

“This time, for some reason, I decided to take a look at my underlying assumptions.” Sounds like famous last words to me.

Paper by Shai Avidan of Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and Ariel Shamir of The Interdisciplinary Center & MERL

It’s been a while since I had to convince anyone of switching to CSS. Are we still in the 90s?

Free and fairly robust screen capturing tool for the Mac platform.

“It’s codenamed Moviestar, because it includes H.264 standard video support – the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players.”

“A lot of people ask me where they can get good-quality images, so I thought it would be good to have one post that I could bookmark and send out to people.”

A rundown of the Web services that provide support for third-party application development. Next step is profit.

Convert HTML text to wiki markup. Finally, I can start using wikis now. 

“A Design Description Document (DDD) is, essentially, a slide deck that shows detailed use cases alongside wireframes or comps in an effort to detail all the interactions in a design. And it has quite a few major benefits.”

Funky Web application

Tripoli is a CSS standard for HTML rendering. It adds the CSS base you need to skip the typographic basics and get on with design customization while relying on a solid, cross-browser backend.

“Guess what happens?”

“On Amazon.com Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?”

Something I always tend to forget and relearn.

Nice color schemes, although Korean Air’s looks like a dentist office from the 1970s.

“A couple of weeks back, we asked our readers to submit questions for Eric Olson, the designer behind some of the most popular typefaces of the past decade. Here is the result.”

“Backnetwork is an online social networking tool designed specifically for events.”

“The acquisition marks the first major successful exit of a Facebook application since the Platform launched just under three months ago.”

“I continue to see web sites that are affected by this issue. After giving Google more than a year to resolve the issue, I have decided that the only way to spur them to action is to publish what I know.”

Khoi Vinh instructs print designers how to take on the digital medium.

“Thoroughly rewritten for today’s web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design.”

“Yet, in all, the short text is a must-have reference for any developer/designer — newbie, hacker, or old fart. So keep on stylin’, and try not to become a Browser War casualty.”

Jonathan Snook’s top CSS tips for developments

“This Photoshop + Flash tutorial will show you how to design a cool photo gallery as seen on AppleTV website and in many Mac application.”

A WordPress plugin allows you to order posts by context (i.e. if you don’t want to order posts by date).

Creates color schemes from any online photograph you submit.

Passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers.

“Under the agreement, Apple and Microsoft are extending the seamless Web and software experience Apple users have enjoyed for years when using and viewing popular Microsoft fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial and Verdana.”

“Don’t break the chain.”

Sci-Fi fan music video of various Star Trek incarnations set to the Rocky Horror Show track “Time Warp”.

“Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of web site owners and developers.” Companies need to realize that customers are always right even when it comes to how they digest media.

Jon Hicks’ beautiful custom theme underscores the point that site visitors control how they take in media. Well done.

A good presentation of setting up an intelligent hacking system with CSS.

For a product that’s not even in public beta, OmniFocus sure gets around.

“Taking a look at what is causing pages to hang from too many single lines of javaScript; and what can be done about it.”

It seems that every couple of years or so, Jeffrey Zeldman writes about this topic. It’s sad for our industry he needs to bring it up all.

“Very few designers appreciate the aesthetic of a text input field…”

“Still wondering why you submit an article on Digg or Reddit and it goes nowhere?”

Alessandro Segalini’s PDF cheat sheet on Mixing Typefaces can help you decide on which combination of typefaces to use.

“I set the boundaries and the rules, but whatever comes out at the end is a surprise. I don’t know what’s going to happen. It could look cool. It could fail.”

Might as well as ask people to give up gradients while you are at it.

“Reading between the lines is no less important here than it is with a more conventional specification.”

Paul Boag says there’s no place like home…page.

Pre-order the documentary about Helvetica. Yes, Helvetica.

“I decided some time ago that if I was going to build an issue tracker that I’d have to start by creating a simple issue life-cycle and workflow.”

A very cross-browser solution to vertical centering when the height of an element is known.

A Firefox extension that extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used.

Find out what a site is built with. 

“T‑shirts inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20^th century fiction.”

Don’t forget to catch Molly E. Holzschlag presentation at the bottom of the page.

Might be a little too esoteric, but still amusing to my tastes.

“Microsoft and Google are both eagerly working on ‘cloud storage’ solutions in the hopes that you’ll start keeping more and more of your data on their servers, keeping you coming back to their services.”

Includes the job IT Project Manager as one of the fastest-growing careers.

Customize that “loading” GIF animation for your Web 2.0 site.

User’s of Google’s free email service noticing an increase storage capacity of up to nine gigabytes.

“My iTunes widgets are simple, self-updating add-ons for your web page, social-networking profile, or blog.”

Gangsta rap-style video about graphic design. Keep those guides locked.

“Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.”

Aaron Gustafson’s content-rich slides from his WebVisions 2007 presentation.

A native NES emulator for the iPhone.

“Much of CSS is pretty straightforward,… but there’s a wall that people will run into.”

“Many executives and managers, regardless of education, experience, or salary range, don’t often understand what to do or expect with a headhunter calls.”

“As a Google Business Referral Representative, you’ll visit local businesses to collect information (such as hours of operation, types of payment accepted, etc.) for Google Maps, and tell them about Google Maps and Google AdWords.”

Designer Khoi Vinh weighs in on the Blueprint frame work and interviews its inventor.

“Can you really create an infinitely scalable infrastructure for less than $100 using Amazon’s storage, grid, and queuing services platform? It appears so, at least for the right application.”

Debbie Millman shares an excerpt from her book 20 Interview with the Worlds Greatest Graphic Designers.