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The app that makes this possible runs in a kind of kiosk mode: there’s no way to exit the app because the home button is disabled.

Using simple layout wireframes, this illustrates how a series of pages could work across these different devices, by simulating how the layout of each page would change responsively, to suit the context.

Basil helps you find great recipes, organizes them for you, and makes cooking easier.

After asking me for a reference code it returns the reference code and URL in exactly the format I need, ready to copy into my document. Simple, quick, painless.

I'm working on a project that demands a darker theme, so I made darkstrap.css that turns the lights out on Bootstrap vanilla. Just include it after the Bootstrap stylesheet so it can cascade over the lighter theme.

Telling people at parties that you are an 'Information Architect' generally leads to blank looks all round. Here is a brief overview of "the art and science of organising websites".

Después del pánico que deriva del cambio repentino de rutina, recordé como tener el diccionario de la RAE como una fuente más para la aplicación que viene por defecto en Mac OS X.

The Digital Government Achievement Awards (DGAA) recognize outstanding agency and department Web sites and projects at the application and infrastructure level.

It’s important to point out that while the ePub format works on most ebook readers (including Apple’s iBook reader) and is opensource, it is not the format used by Amazon’s Kindle reader (which uses the MOBI format). There are software tools, like Calibre, available to convert from ePub to MOBI. (I may do a post in the future going over these conversion tools and options.)

To learn more about using the ePub format and get a better feel for how a Pages document might appear as a book in iBooks, it’s a good idea to download the “ePub Best Practices” sample document. After reading the guidelines and instructions within the document, you can use it as a template to create your own document. You can also import the styles from the sample document into a new document you create. 

However, it is possible to do manually with Apple Pages. It takes about ten minutes. Here's how to generate a Kindle table of contents or TOC on the Mac, using Apple Pages:

I got pretty excited at the idea and started messing around. I was able to get it done and can present to you now: How to Hack your MacBook Air Software Reinstall Drive to install Lion!!!

I moved my tumblr log to calepin.

I read a couple tutorials on how to reproduce this on a Mac, here I present a simple distillation of those instructions.  It should take only a minute or two to do.

Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams.

Most people have an inkling of what the load averages mean: the three numbers represent averages over progressively longer periods of time (one, five, and fifteen minute averages), and that lower numbers are better. Higher numbers represent a problem or an overloaded machine. But, what's the the threshold? What constitutes "good" and "bad" load average values? When should you be concerned over a load average value, and when should you scramble to fix it ASAP?

Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet 2.0.

To prevent an epidemic of Ménière’s in the venture capital community, I am evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

This excerpt is from Confessions of a Public Speaker. In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well.

Ubuntu's default web browser is Mozilla Firefox. Some web sites require Internet Explorer for full functionality, and it is possible to make the browser claim to be Internet Explorer.

So, here’s the proper way to enable TRIM support in SSD

Now for the Keyboard Shortcut:
Launching the bookmark is the same as opening the link, so if your shortcut contains the CMD key, the bookmark will open in a new tab.
Using Shift will result in the bookmark being opened in a new window.
Somehow using the alt key does not trigger a force-download though, so only use Ctrl and Alt if you want your bookmark to launch in the same window.

The above animation shows an approximation of the sequence of landfill projects in Boston in chronological order. The scale of this project is one of the largest of the 19th century.

Well, it ate up an entire day, but I’ve finally moved my blog from Tumblr to WordPress. For all those who wish to move their blogs, I’ve compiled a list of links that helped me along the way. Good luck!

This how-to outlines the steps I used to add a subscribe to Google Groups form on my school website.

The problem with email is that people think it's electronic mail.

Email is not mail in electronic form. You are not writing a letter.


Few send readable email or tap the deliberative potential of the medium.

For example, email should be formatted into points--not paragraphs.

And, you should not always reply above the message you were sent.

Many of the tips below are already widely followed in academia, where debate and discussion over email have been taking place for decades.

As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.)

MultiMarkdown gives us a simple, intuitive way to make HTML tables without generating an amorphous blob of code. Instead of remembering HTML table codes, you simply use the pipe symbol | to separate columns.

This tutorial shows you how to enter data in an on-line spreadsheet to generate a set of placemarks in Google Earth and Maps. Google Docs' web-based, collaborative editing allows your team members to simultaneously enter data and instantly publish updates.

Here’s how to embed that video as only an audio player. It’s very easy.

Grab the embed code from YouTube and paste it into your site.

If you’re like me, you’re mildly daunted at the idea of getting your hands dirty with Linux and Terminal. Don’t worry; it’s easier than it looks. I’m a designer, and until recently knew almost nothing about Linux or Terminal. I found that after you get the basics down, it’s surprisingly easy to get moving with the rest.

Looking at your three examples, I would say the following:

The first one (hyphens) emphasises that it's his third meal of the day, making it at least as important an idea as the broken table.

The second one (commas) downplays the idea, making the broken table more important, just leaving us with an impression about the eating. This is the most subtle of the three.

In the third one (parentheses), the narrator is speaking directly to the reader and is making an out-of-character remark about Bilbo's eating habits. This is the most blatant of the three.

These features include the ability to use the “esc” key to close the compose window, type anywhere to tweet, user timeline derepeater, as well as others. Here’s a screenshot of the secret preferences pane in Twitter for Mac, which you can activate any of those settings in terminal. I will update this post as I find the other terminal tweaks.

This article presents just one method of losing weight. It’s worked very, very well for me. It doesn’t require an extreme diet, it doesn’t require much money (you’ll save money, in fact), and it doesn’t require extreme amounts of willpower. All it requires is a bit of method and preparation.

Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality?

Here's what you need to take backpacking, where to get it from, how to pack it and how to keep size/weight down.

A multilingual human-readable Markdown reference you can include in your projects.

The trick I’ve used is to create subdomains for each static page. My personal blog is at jerrybrito.org, but my about page is at about.jerrybrito.org. That “about” subdomain is not hosted by Tumblr; it’s hosted on my own server. I simply took the HTML for my Tumblr template and replaced the dynamic content (the code that calls for the blog posts) with the static text of my about page. Voila, a static page for Tumblr.

Spend more of each day burning fat than you do storing it, and over time, you'll bury your belly forever.

I’ve been inspired by many books and been educated by countless more. But Murray’s work is different. He’s on a different level — broadcasting from the inside, if that makes any sense.

Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!)

the setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews

What do people use to get the job done?

There are a lot of great sites out there that have beautiful Typography using only CSS, however simply looking at them is only half of the picture.

Microsyntax.org is a non-profit focused on identifying, researching and finding consensus on information syntax.

Normal words that would be part of the content of a tweet anyway SHOULD NOT be hashed.

Here's how I turned a relatively cheap yet powerful home theater PC into a DIY Boxee Box for my HDTV.

Business card websites come in all shapes and sizes, but popular charactersitics include a compact, lightweight design, often small in size.

Mercurial from macports on Mac OX X Leopard gives this error message on any hg command:

Here I’ve collected 60 awesome Mac apps websites for your inspiration. If you know more, I’d love to hear about that in the comments.

H4 Font Size 3 12pt 16px 1em medium

The sweetest stuff has to be unearthed and recommended by people we trust. Which is why everyone should blog. When you blog there are two types of entries:

What makes iWeb so great? Compared to Photoshop, iWeb is quick and easy. You can create the components you need for mockups, experiment with different fonts and colors, shuffle things around to explore layouts using dynamic alignment guides, and drag and drop images and videos from the Media Browser. Page size expands automatically to accommodate new content, and iWeb looks like a web browser, so it’s easier to visualize how your page will look.

Background image grid + pixel ruler + column divisions for 960px-width layout, all in one mean little package. Consider the possibilities:

Pick a dish (ie pasta, green curry, pizza, chocolate chip cookies)
Select the ingredients you want to use
Get a list of recipes you can make

He’s a web designer, but he doesn’t have a resume. 10 great designers have volunteered to do it up for him. You can read the whole account on Smashing Magazine and get a bit of advice on what makes a good one.

Jonathan Diba writes to ask how the effects are achieve on Tim Van Damme’s portfolio site, referring to Tim’s site as one of the most compelling site design he’s seen.

The two key effects Tim is using are a simplified accordion and a hover effect. It’s worth noting that the hover effect only works in WebKit (Safari & Chrome), but I’ll show you how to create the effect using jQuery too.

kernel_task is the first process that is run by the kernel (core of the OS) during system startup. It is responsible for system initialization and starting up further process in the system init process. I'm not sure if it does anything after system startup - it may well be what controls basic operations such as disk / file access, etc, which make the computer do its thing. I'm not really sure if that stuff is in kernel_task or if it's buried deeper within the kernel itself. But rest assured that this process is vital to your machine being able to do anything at all!

WindowServer draws everything you see on the screen. It acts as a mediator between applications that want to draw on the screen and the graphics hardware. When an application wants to draw something, it establishes a connection with WindowServer, tells WindowServer what to draw, and WindowServer handles the drawing / compositing / Quartz Extreme hardware acceleration to finally produce what's seen on the entire screen.

As a technical matter, I write for 20-30 minutes every day. I do it at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. in the morning. I write 250 words, about one page. At that rate, I do a little over a novel a year and that's not a bad clip to go at. Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

A greatly increased volume of work. I have found that I am able to process work much faster. This seems to be mainly due to the fact that there is very little friction in the way of resistance or procrastination.

That self-defeating behavior coined the phrase "Streisand effect," illustrated by an axiom from John Gilmore, one of the pioneers of the Internet, that: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

To help give a little more context to this discussion, I want to use the exact slides I used when I was out raising money for the angel round of IMSafer. These slides constituted the entirety of our business plan as of June 2006 when we were raising money, and served as the roadmap for how we were going to spend the next 12 months. It took us 8 days to raise $1.2 million.

here are really only a few tricks to writing properly for the web. If you know how to write, you are already 95% of the way there.

These are some of the more common mistakes that I’ve seen in web copy and some tricks that I use every day to write effectively, from e-mails to site pages.

A list of the best scifi cusses in the frakkin galaxy. Check it out, you floops.

The "AutoFill" button also has a keyboard shortcut associated with it   - Command-Shift-A.

International Country Codes, made simple

I thought this week would be the time to share with everyone examples of extreme minimalism in web design, and how with minimal elements, when properly used, so much can be achieved.

The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge.