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The Art of Washing Forks 9 Oct 2009 | 05:40 pm
Washing a fork is a special skill, often requiring an extensive apprenticeship—usually at the hands of your mother, father, or skilled caregiver—and years of practical application. If you don’t get i...
The Final Word on IE6 4 Sep 2008 | 03:19 am
A friend of mine recently asked the question “Why the Hate on Internet Explorer 6?” He explains some very logical reasons why it doesn’t make sense to be so negative about IE6, and as I agree with him...
Regex Patterns for Single Line CSS 30 Aug 2008 | 01:30 am
Update: You can now download the Textmate macro file rather than recording your own (skip to the download »). There has been plenty of discussion about the pros and cons of single-line style sheets, ...
Simple CSS Hover Tab Thingy 20 Aug 2008 | 02:52 am
Update: The original edit of this post and demo file didn’t quite work in IE6/7 (ok, didn’t work at all, really). That’s what you get when you rush and/or don’t care about certain browsers :) See the ...
I Need Some Spacing 19 Aug 2008 | 06:28 pm
Way back in June over on Subtraction, Khoi presented a tweaked version of the Gmail interface (and then a follow-up article regarding the feedback on the first), improving spacing and alignment by mak...
Some Thoughts on Logo Design 20 Jun 2008 | 10:26 pm
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of answering a few questions for an article being written by my friend Elliot Jay Stocks for .net Magazine (Practical Web Design here in the States). Elliot quoted...
Screencast: Finder Window Icon Trick 10 Jun 2008 | 03:18 am
To celebrate Mac Day (any Steve Jobs keynote address deserves a worldwide holiday as far as I’m concerned), I’ve decided to do my first screencast, so you’ll have something to play with while waiting ...
Sidebar Creative: Collective Realignment 10 Apr 2008 | 11:46 pm
Two years ago in Austin, Texas, at SXSW Interactive 2006, an idea was conceived by 4 friends, and nine months later Sidebar Creative was born. That was a little over a year ago, and now that our fledg...
Email Doesn’t Scale 28 Feb 2008 | 01:07 pm
I’ve been wanting to write about my problems with email for a while now, but keep coming up short when it comes to explaining exactly why it fails for me. That is, until reading Tantek’s latest on the...
Pardon Our Dust 28 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
If you’re visiting this site for the first time, and are seeing the default WordPress theme (aka Kubrick), please rest assured that a custom designed theme is hiding somewhere within the WordPress ins...
