JulyJul 14 Monday 08
A beautiful day in Stumptown as seen from my office at Grady Britton.
This was a test of ShoZu, an application for the iPhone.
JulyJul 9 Wednesday 08
How to download and save online or YouTube videos and play them offline
Most of the online video content you're going to see online these days has been encoded by Adobe Flash.
JulyJul 3 Thursday 08
Disc vs Disk. What's the difference, if there is one?
It turns out, there is a difference.
JulyJul 2 Wednesday 08
Happy Wordpress Day! Why we heart WP.
It's the day we unofficially celebrate the existence of the Wordpress blogging platform.
JuneJun 20 Friday 08
5 basic rules to better accessibility in web design.
I'm kind of a podcast fiend.
JuneJun 6 Friday 08
Battle of the clickTAGs for Flash ad click throughs.
First, a bit of background.
JuneJun 3 Tuesday 08
A couple of Wordpress fixes for tags and post login screen.
I came across a couple Wordpress hacks that helped me get tags to behave.
MayMay 28 Wednesday 08
Popular blog search engines and RSS tools
I've compiled these helpful links for a Grady Britton PR introduction to RSS.
MayMay 21 Wednesday 08
Cables on the cheap, debunking the monster.
No matter what your situation is, get it out of your head that you must have gold plated cables or wires.
Updating Wordpress plugin Popularity Contest for WP 2.5
Down at the bottom of this page, you'll see a list of the most popular posts.
MayMay 10 Saturday 08
What version of Flash Player do I have?
Some sites will tell you that you need to upgrade your Flash player to see their content. Don't always believe it. Check your Flash Player version, and compare it to the latest Flash Player version here: http://tinyurl.com/yrlrvb. Sometimes, the developer makes an …
MayMay 5 Monday 08
Sync Creative Manager Pro events with iCal and Google Calendar
The advertising/creative agency I work with uses a web hosted version Creative Manager Pro, which will soon become Workamajig. Aside from being quite unattractive and difficult to use, one of the biggest disappointments I had when introduced to the CMP system was it's …
AprilApr 9 Wednesday 08
Why the Apple earbuds are better than Bluetooth headsets
Let's start with the obvious answer. No matter how you slice it, having that blue blinking pen cap sticking out of your ear is goofy. Borg fan or no, that's never going to be flattering.
Do you really need your hands free? Most of the folks I see wearing the …
AprilApr 7 Monday 08
Browser dependent, conditional CSS styles
I have a client who doesn't like the way the font I chose for their headers looks across platforms. I am using Lucida Grande for all the Mac browsers out there and Verdana for the PC users, since Lucida Sans Unicode on PC IE6 doesn't look great.
MarchMar 27 Thursday 08
Google AdWords "Update Your Billing Information" email phishing scam
Some folks are really ruining it for the rest of us. What if I really did need to tend to something in my AdWords account? After noticing this little gem of a phishing scam, I am ruined from ever trusting any email reporting to be Google AdWords related.
This one is …
FebruaryFeb 19 Tuesday 08
Rotate and animate dynamic text fields in Flash
By now you've seen the Dylan Messaging viral campaign. It's a pretty hip use of Flash. I was pretty sure I knew how the effect was done, so I was running some Flash experiments to test out my theory. Everything was just as I expected until I hit a snag. How [...]
FebruaryFeb 17 Sunday 08
OmniGraffle maybe the best tool for wireframing a web site layout
I know it goes against every good web design how-to book on the market, but I rarely start with a real pencil and paper. In fact, I rarely sketch out wireframes even digitally. I just go for it.
Part of my design resolution for this year has been to start sketching …
FebruaryFeb 13 Wednesday 08
Illustrator CS3 crashes on "Place...".
I finally dove in and upgraded to Adobe CS3. Unfortunately, Illustrator was crashing whenever I called the "Place.." command.
I found a fix pretty easily though, and an official Adobe TechNote at that.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 products crash when you save, open, or …
FebruaryFeb 3 Sunday 08
Hex color picker for mac copies well to Photoshop
Yea, I know it's been a long time. Busy is a great state for a little shop like ours. Onward.
I like the little Digital Color Meter that comes with the Mac (ApplicationsUtilities), but it falls short when trying to copy colors from the screen and paste them into …
OctoberOct 26 Friday 07
To do lists for iPhone, the missing app.
I'm not a giant GTD fanboy, but I do follow the basic principals when I can. Like every other iPhone owner who needs to keep a list of to-do's, (and really, who are you people that can do this in your head!?) I am pretty shocked by the lack of a to do [...]