Smashing Magazine is a great web design blog featuring fun and useful articles and tutorials for web designers.
When they announced they were releasing a book–The Smashing Book–I was eager to read it.
Disclaimer: This review is not a paid review. However, I did receive a copy of this book free from Smashing Magazine.
Who Is the Book [...]
As someone viewing websites on the web, ad-blockers filter out adverts for “enhancements”, and a bunch of flashing, ugly advertisements. Not only this, but ad-blockers can help protect you from potentially sneaky and malicious code.
This is why one of the most popular downloads for Firefox is an ad-blocking extension.
However, have you thought about the reverse? [...]
It’s only been a couple weeks since the newest version of Mozilla Thunderbird–Thunderbird 3–was officially released.
This new version of Thunderbird includes several new features.
Let’s look at 4 features in Thunderbird 3 that can help you stay more organized and work more efficiently:
Sync all your email accounts
Better Gmail integration
Better Email Search
Manage tasks, calendars, Google Wave, webmail [...]
In a previous post, I wrote about 10 creative ways to use Drop.io. Drop.io is a free online file sharing/collaboration service.
One of the ideas was using Drop.io’s voicemail as a way to let visitors leave audio comments.
Audio Blog Comments—A New Idea?
Short answer, no.
The idea of audio comments isn’t new.
Paul Boag, of the excellent Boagworld, allows [...]
Fugue is a free icon set created by Yusuke Kamiyamane–free for personal and commercial projects.
Let’s look at Fugue and how you can quickly add icons from the set to your site via the Fugue CSS Sprite Framework.
Fugue – A Huge Icon Set
This icon set currently has over 2000 16×16 pixel icons (in PNG format and [...]
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