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Companies starting to shift away from Google?
Are we starting to see a little bit of a Google backlash? Not sure, but two major players in the past week or so have announced that they are no longer going to be using Google Maps to provide their mapping solutions. Foursquare is an extremely popular social media site that lets you discover nearby...
Grid apps, bookmarks and coffee tables
There are many things that consistently vex me. Solutions for three of them presented themselves this rainy Tuesday morning – too good not to share. Bookmarks I don’t have a problem with bookmarks. (We’re talking about the physical book mark here – something you use to keep your place in a real, physical, book). My...
So, it has come to this
More from the excellent xkcd.com.
Round up of recent responsive web design articles
So, most of these links and articles are concerning Responsive Web Design – a particular focus of mine at the moment as my second large responsive project gets underway. The first was for a Fermanagh based hotel – the second for a new project from the people behind Donegal Cottage Holidays which is going to...
An Interview with Chip Kidd
I’m a big fan of the work of Chip Kidd – probably best known as the book cover designer for titles such as Jurassic Park, much of Brett Easton Ellis’s work, David Sedaris … etc. etc. Anyway, there’s a good interview with him over on Smashing Magazine. If people liked everything I did just because...
Starting A Freelance Web Design Business
I had my second Freelance Switch article published a couple of weeks ago now (my next one is scheduled for some time in the next week or two) – this one focuses on some of the things I learnt in starting up as a freelance web designer. 9 steps in fact … I love the...
The right kind of water
I love needmoredesigns.com – they’re a web firm based in Portland, Oregon. They do good work, which you can check out on their site. But it’s their blog that is never less than informative and frequently fascinating. Today, for instance, I learnt that boiling water first and then letting it cool, reduces the oxygen in...
Everybody’s favourite Duluthian
Everybody’s favourite Duluthian now has an Etsy store. You can spend days looking through the lovingly made bits and pieces on Etsy … but you’d be hard pushed to find anything more joyful than this work by Marian Lansky (from Kenspeckle Letterpress fame).
Smartphones overtake computers shipped in 2011. Yikes.
It had to happen … and it did in 2011. Sales of smartphones outstripped sales of traditional computers. Apparently, there was a 60% increase in smartphone shipments from 2010 to 2011 – which is remarkable in itself when you think how ubiquitous iPhones and the like have been – or, rather, for how long they...
Sidewalks that create electricity
File this under ‘brilliant ideas’. PaveGen – a UK Company no less – has come up with what appears to be a product of absolute genius. Each time a person steps on a little rubber mat, their kinetic energy – the energy expended with the foot fall – is converted into electricity. A single step...
I Am Not A Web Designer – Freelance Switch article
I meant to post this here last week, but I recently had a guest blog post published over at Freelance Switch. We need to get away from defining ourselves as the core service we provide. Yes, some of what we do may well be web design, but if we can define ourselves in the terms...
A better way to manage email: transitioning from Mac Mail to Sparrow Mail
Sometimes, it’s just time for a change. I was fed up with how I was processing my email – it seemed to have little relevance to the way I work, clogged up with systems that I didn’t use and weighed down with 12 years of evolution. Folders, rules, smart folders … ways of organising incoming...