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Repetitive tasks can quickly become tedious. As a designer, you probably often find yourself designing the same elements over and over from scratch. STOP!
Wasting time is so old-fashioned. It also means you’re wasting money! So, let’s review some ways that you can automate and systematize your Photoshop workflow. And be sure to download the project [...]
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Warning: This teaser features some outrageous French accents.
The Real Secrets of David Stone hits our virtual shelves on March 22. Be ready…
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If you were interested in that CSS Tabs stuff from yesterday, check out the new demo. I got a little obsessed with it and tried out a bunch more things. Still nothing I’d call a 100% perfect replacement to using JavaScript for tabs, but getting a lot cleaner and closer. I’m sure most of you read [...]
8/03/10 | Comments Off
Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm, that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains. After spending a few hours with it, I’m extremely impressed! In this video quick tip, I thought I’d show you some of my favorite features that you, frankly, just don’t see much [...]
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jQuery is not always as it appears. There's a lot of cool stuff going on under the surface, and there are many methods just waiting to be discovered, and many potential usages of jQuery's API that you may not have considered before. In this article I'll be taking you through a few of the not-so-obvious [...]
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When you think of “tabs”, your mind might go right to JavaScript. Watch for a click on a tab, hide all the panels, show the one corresponding to tab just clicked on. All major JavaScript libraries tackle tabs in some way. But there is a way to accomplish this same idea with “pure CSS”. Just [...]
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The Gold Arcane is closer to someone’s hands, and you get a say who should win it.
Last night we posted the 10 finalists in our Arcane video contest, and it’s an incredibly talented pool of competitors. Some show a single trick with brilliant presentation. Others unleash a flurry of jaw-dropping moves.
Check out all the [...]
5/03/10 | Comments Off
When space is at a premium, making use of sliders is the optimal way to present information. Today, we’ll take a look at how to create a slider similar to the one used in the iTunes store.
Developers often seek the functionality provided by sliders in order to fit lots of information in [...]
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Reviews are coming in for Ellusionist’s Invisible Deck app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and they look pretty good:
“Ellusionist is always thinking outside the box. This is a clever app bringing magic and technology together. Great work!” ~Doug Freeman
“I just downloaded this app 10 minutes ago and have already performed this for my wife. [...]
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Reader Kartlos emailed me in pointing to me to an interesting article by the great Mr. Snook from a few years back. I don’t think I had seen it before and it’s a bonafide “CSS Trick” so I thought I would share. The idea is that you can use unicode characters (read: fancy symbols) for [...]