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Some noteworthy sites with non-web design inspiration:Faces in PlacesBlack StorkInert Grey MatterForm Fifty FiveCool Hunter
Tired of pulling large suitcases behind you while traveling? Russian robotics company Robotronic has created Tony, a robo-suitcase that uses a combinations of a gyroscope, ultra-sound, and infra-red sensors to move around a complex environment following a sensor card in the owner’s pocket.The company is currently trying to determine if there is a market for a $2000 …
In the Installer of one of my applications, I created a a batch file with an AT command to add a task to the Windows Task Scheduler. It all installed fine, but the scheduled task never ran. The error message the task log gave was:The task completed with an exit code of (1)After a little bit of frustration, I managed to find the error code definitions for the task …
I'm thankful my God loves me, even when I turn my back to Himeven when I love His enemieseven when I break His heartI'm thankful my God never leaves meeven when I shame His nameeven when I become ashamed of HimI'm thankful my God came for meeven when I drove a nail into His handeven when I pushed thorns into his headeven when it meant to die in place of meMy Web Design Blog here
Here’s some good articles to read about link formatting:Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking : Great (visual) article by Jeff Atwood on best practices when using hyperlinks.11 Link Usability Tips Philipp Lenssen’s post that inspired the above article. Five Types of Links: Hyperlinks from a blogger’s perspective.
Jakob Nielsen makes a good point about wording titles and summaries, which is as good for usability as it is for SEO. Users generally use the first 2 words of a paragraph when scanning. So imagine your meta description in the SERPS. You have 2 words to make an impact, and if those 2 words are the same as those in the title, it’s been wasted.Read the full article here: …
While growing up, I was taught that promises should never be broken. Saying "I promise" was the acid test of honesty. Whenever an important issue arose, a typical dialogue would go as:me: Did you lose my new ball?my sis: No. I didn't even touch it.me: do you promise?my sis: silence....me: LIAR LIAR LIARSo sacred was a promise, that we were thought that we would receive all of …
Mass marketing requires an average product and plenty of ads. Tribes, on the other hand do the marketing for you.
A rather uninterested Sergey Brin announces Google’s latest greatest toy, and Google’s Steve Horowitz demonstrates applications made using the Android SDK. The demo shows some very interesting capabilities of Android. Possibly sad news for the iPhone fan-boys when all the mac-only cool apps start appearing on everyday mobile devices.Towards the end of the video …
This week's creative link roundup#1 Future Past - Radical Retrofuturistic Directions in Design & TechnologyThe 21st Century was the distant future of the 1900s. Even when I was growing up in the 80s, I was always facinated by artist's renditions of "the future". This blogpost on the Web Urbanist shows a fabulous collection of retro visions of our …
It seems to me that you ought to say goodbye with the same care and attention to detail and honesty you use to say hello. You never know when you’ll be back. - Seth Godin
Need some fresh thinking for your advertising brain? These blogs showcase great guerrilla marketing campaigns from all over the world. AdverBlogStuff4BusinessAdverBoxGuerrilla Communications
MySpace has been heavily criticized for it’s non-standard markup which promotes code which would make most web developers puke blood. Meanwhile, Facebook has been steadily gaining ground. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, looking at it the other way around, making MySpace look like FaceBook is the sincerest form of insult.Justin Tadlock’s theme does …
Out of the labs of Phoenix Technologies comes HyperSpace, a technology that allows software to be installed directly in the BIOS. So the next time you’re stuck in a lobby or in a bus, all it takes to start answering those long-overdue emails is just a push on the power button, and tada! your program is there ready and waiting for your command. Quoting from the Phoenix …
I am both a programmer and a designer, and so I was always fascinated with idea of using programming logic to create art. Golan Levin, who calls himself a performance artist, does just that. He writes software that creates art. In this 15 minute presentation, he puts up quite a performance using only his software. You won’t be drooling at first, but as it progresses, …
Does anyone remember a TV show called Viper? Viper was a high-tech crime-fighter car that could change color and transform at the touch of a button. Ever since I saw the pilot episode as a little boy who was intrigued with Physics, I was dreaming of ways to make paint change color by sending some electric current through it.As it turns out, scientists were busy working on it …
I love the simplicity of the Kubrick theme, but when my site started automatically reverting to the default theme every once in awhile for no apparent reason (especially after referring a bunch of people to my website), I started to hate it with a passion. Something was obviously going wrong, but I still haven’t figured out what it is. Neither have anyone else going by …
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14 Revival is....Dry bones coming to lifeStreams gushing through the dessertRain falling on parched groundA closed heart opening up to GodRevival …
PersistenceI was listening to an interesting (as always) talk from Gary Vaynerchuk, and he mentioned what he called the "Hot Girl Rule". It goes like this: Nerd Friend: Hey Gary, how can I date a hot girl? Gary: Easy! You go and ask a 100 girls out. Eventually one of them will agree to go out with you.This was in response to someone asking how to sell their website to … 
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