Yearly Archives: 2010
One of the Coolest iPhone App Preview Websites
Dec 10The site for Ben the Bodyguard may be one of the most interesting web designs for a site advertising an upcoming iPhone app that I have ever seen. What the app does exactly, I do not know. What I do know is that the…
WPCandy Releases iPhone App With Interesting “Reverse Launch” Deal
Dec 8WPCandy, the prolific WordPress blog, has just released a new iPhone app for easy mobile access to their content. The interesting part isn’t the app so much as their “reverse launch” deal. The app costs $0.99 normally, but they are charging $5.99 instead for…
Reeder for Mac Beta
Dec 6One of the premier RSS reader apps for the iPhone and iPad is Reeder. It syncs fast, it has a great interface, and it uses Google Reader as a backend (which means you can keep it synchronized with all of your devices). The much-anticipated…
MediaElement.js WordPress Plugin
Dec 3MediaElement.js is a nifty jQuery plugin that allows you to use the HTML5 video and audio elements while still supplying a Flash or Silverlight backup for compatibility. There’s now a convenient MediaElement.js WordPress plugin that gives you easy-to-use shortcodes for use in the post…
CoffeeAddict: A Great Web Design Tutorial
Dec 1Webdesign Tuts has published a great tutorial on how to make “an illustrative wood design.” It walks you through the process of setting up a document in Photoshop, marking out regions for navigational elements and content and styling them with tasteful gradients and textures.…
It’s Safe to Use the HTML5 Doctype Today
Nov 29If you’ve taken a look at Google’s source code lately (and really, who hasn’t?) you may have noticed that they’re already using the HTML5 doctype instead of either HTML4 or XHTML. It’s certainly much easier to type that then hunt down and paste in…
BlogBuzz November 27, 2010
Nov 27Designing for iPhone 4 Retina Display
Nov 24With the iPhone 4, and later the fourth-generation iPod Touch, Apple introduced a much higher density of screen for their mobile devices. The Retina Display, has the same dimensions as its predecessors, but there are twice as many pixels per inch. This makes for…
