Printer Friendly Pages
This online app helps to create printer friendly pages based on what you want to print on the screen. Brilliant!
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October 3, 2008
September 26, 2008
Happy Birthday Google!
Google turns 10 years old this month. There is a cool online timeline of all significant dates in Google’s history, which shows how overtime company started by only two guys ends up with 10,000 employees within 10 years. It’s amazing.
Happy Birthday Google!
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September 22, 2008
Google Analytics 101
Google Analytics is one of the best web tracking tools for web sites of all sizes and it is free. The video below goes through the basics of Google Analytics and its features which is great for people who are just starting to use this tool.
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September 15, 2008
Target Settles Web Accessibility Lawsuit
The giant retailer, Target settled the lawsuit brought by the National Federation of the Blind for inaccessibility of Target’s web site to people with visual disabilities. The magic number for the settlement was $6 million. Although the settlement amount is nothing to write home about. However this case will push other big box retailers (or any other online retailer) to start cleaning house and bring their web sites up to standards. By standards I mean the 508 Web Accessibility Standards.
Update (9/17/08): Just in time, Digital Web Magazine published an article on “Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website“.
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September 9, 2008
Browser Wars All Over Again?
It is great that Google is constantly innovating and coming out with tools and web applications that are used by millions of people around the world. However, the recent launch of Google’s own web browser Google Chrome makes me a bit worried about restarting of the Browser Wars of 1990s.
The release of this new browser could help to improve the web browsers, or it could potentially start a competition among web browsers to start creating “custom tags” or “smart tags” that render web sites in their own way. This will create even more work for web designers and developers, because Google Chrome will be another web browser that we have to test all our work on to make sure that our sites render correctly. Is Google really rocking the boat? We don’t know yet, it might take another few years to see the adoption rate of this browser by the public.
For now, dive in and try the new browser for yourself.
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August 4, 2008
Best Web Design+Development Toolbox
AgencyTool Dashboard has all the tools, tips, articles and howtos that you will ever need as a web designer or developer. This is an excellent site that must be on your bookmarks if you are doing anything web related.
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July 13, 2008
Septa Schedule on iPhone
This week is full of iPhone news and coverage of its new 3G debut on Friday. In the same spirit I thought I would share one of my favorite web applications on the iPhone, it is iSepta.org. This is a type of site that I use everyday. It has all timetables and schedules of trains in Philly.
Even if you have another type of mobile phone (Blackberry, Treo etc..) with a web browser you can still use this site.
Three geniuses put together this little web app, and kudos for designing such a useful and easy to use iPhone app. Thanks!
Check it out: www.isepta.org
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July 3, 2008
Email Design Guidelines
Email design is one of the most difficult tasks that take a lot of time and planning by web designers. Recipients of your pretty HTML emails have a very short attention span and on top of that your email looks different depending on what type of email program or service people are using. You have to keep testing the email to make sure it looks normal across many different email platforms.
Once the design of the email is completed, then you have to pay attention to the subjectline, images, wording and contents of your email, because it might trigger spam firewalls and throw your pretty HTML email into a Junk Mail of the recipient.
I came across this short article by good folks at Campaign Monitor on Email Design Guidelines, which could help us make sense of all this mess and maybe help to get our email message across to our recipients without getting shotdown by spam firewalls.
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June 19, 2008
Free Philly Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi junkies should rejoice….The Philly Wi-Fi will now be free to use anywhere in the city. The wireless network was bought out by private investors yesterday. It is not completely free, in that you will see ads when you surf the net, but that’s still a good deal.
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June 12, 2008
2008 Webby Awards Winners
April 30, 2008
In Memoriam: Adobe GoLive (1999-2008)
On Monday, Adobe finally pulled the plug on Adobe GoLive software. Originally, Adobe bought GoLive Cyber Studio in 1999 to replace its aging Adobe PageMills web editing application and to compete against Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage, but a lot has happened in the last 5 years.
In the last few years, Adobe bought Macromedia, Microsoft killed FrontPage and at the same time developed Microsoft Expression to replace FrontPage. In this midst, Adobe GoLive was lost in the shuffle and Dreamweaver pretty much kicked its butt in terms of popularity and use among web designers. In the past 10 years, I came across Adobe GoLive once, when I accidentally clicked on the GoLive icon instead of Adobe Reader. So this was long time coming, Adobe GoLive is finally dead. May it rest in peace.
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April 23, 2008
Top Web Apps of 2008
Check out the Webmare 2008 - 100 best Web 2.0 applications of the year.
My favorite 5 webapps from Webmare are:
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March 21, 2008
So your computer crashed….
Recently my computer crashed and it was quite a frustrating experience. When your computer is down, you really lose a lot of productivity. It takes a while to get all your files out of the old computer, setup a new machine or fix the old one, and re-install all the software and setup all settings etc…. One of the things I had to do was to transfer my files from the old hard to the new hardrive. In order to do this, you have to open up the compter box, yank out the the old hard drive and if you know what you are doing you will be lucky to get everything out of it without damaging the old drive. Although I backup most of my files, I still had some files I needed from the old hard drive.
I recently came across these really cool USB Hard Drive Docks that would have made all this much more easier. These USB Docks can also give a new life to your old hard drives which can be setup as an external back up drive. Pretty cool gadget!
Thermaltake USB Hard Drive Docks
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February 29, 2008
Air Car
This car runs on air. Yes, Air!
The prototype is in the works, and according to the company that makes them, the Air Car gets up to 100 gas-equivalent mpg and can reach over 90 mph. It has zero to low C02 emissions and seats six people. Now, that’s cool!
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February 4, 2008
GreenPrint: Save Money+Environment
Is this too good to be true? Saving the environment and saving money. Not really, GreenPrint can help you to save money by eliminating unwanted pages when printing which saves paper, ink, millions of trees and much more. It also comes with a free PDF converter tool, which usually costs about $450 if you buy it from Adobe.com. I have used it on my computer and it really works well. You can actually see how much paper and money you have saved right on your desktop, it is just genius.
