PNG color shift from Photoshop CS2 'Save for Web' solution

This issue has plagued me for years. I'm pretty sure the issue came about from messing with color profiles on my Mac. I switch between web and print graphic work a lot, so somewhere along the way I must have checked the wrong box, thus leading to color shifts when …

Preview web pages as IE in Firefox

I'm a Mac user, but this Firefox plugin is so slick, I'm actually envious of my PC based web developer brethren. It's called IE Tab from PCMan (Hong Jen Yee). Once installed, you browse to any web page using Firefox. Then, simply right click to bring up the …

One Laptop Per Child: Give 1 Get 1 Promo

One Laptop Per Child, makers of the XO laptop, and who's mission is to "provide a means for learning, self-expression and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education", will be running a Get-1-Give-1 …

iPhone - dead spots on the touch screen

I've had my iPhone for a month or so.

Inconsistencies when embedding a Google Calendar on your web page.

I'm working on a project that requires me to embed a Google Calendar on a page.

Email list management systems

A selection of companies providing broadcast or bulk email list management solutions and their pricing at 1000 emails per month:

iContact - $11.90 per month*

Emma - $30 per month

ConstantContact - $30 per month

CoolerEmail - $39.95 per month

eROI - (contact them for a …

Encrypt and protect folders with a disk image

Need to keep specific folders locked down on your Mac? Sure, you can use the File Vault feature of OSX, but that encrypts your entire home directory. And if you're like me, some of the sensitive info resides on external hard drives. Solution? Encrypted disc images.

3D for 2D moving image slideshow effect tutorial

Ken Burns is in town, and of course, I thought of the Ken Burns effect in the Mac screensaver options. You've seen this slideshow rotating picture slideshow a million times. You know, the one where each image fades in, slowly zooms and or pans about the picture, then …

Google Pay-Per-Action may change your AdWords ranking.

Google Pay-Per-Action (further referred here to as PPA) is currently being given trial runs for some AdWords users.

Laptop sun shades for the non-pasty

It's no fun being indoors in a windowless basement while it's a rare-for-Portland 82 degrees and sunny, no matter how much fun graphic design is. I need to get one of those laptop sun shades so I can join in the outdoor WiFi coffee shop fun too.

I poked around, and …

Why does Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail etc think my emails are SPAM?

A client of mine recently asked me this question. It's a good one I hear all the time. This particular client designs and manages their own broadcast emails with a web based app built by local email marketing gurus, eROI.

First off, SPAM filtering is some of the …

The home page importance myth.

I was listening to the boagworld podcast today, and they brought up an interesting point in response to a listener question. The listener was a web designer concerned with the number of elements his client was adding to the home page. The common belief is that the …

Rhino Lacrosse JumboTron Commercials

Here's a peek at a couple Jumbo Tron commercials we did for Rhino Lacrosse. These played at every home game of the Portland Lumberjax at the Rose Garden Arena.

We teamed up with Resonance Productions to produce these spots end to end for 2006 NLL MVP Ryan Powell of …

Scientists develop invisibility hoodie.

Okay, so this image is more than a little doctored, but it was enough to make me read the entire story. The short of it is that scientists have been able to bend light around an object and, in a sense, make it invisible. The rub is that so far, it only works for a …

White space is the new black.

Buddy, let it breathe. The appropriation of white space in a design is one of the most over looked principles out there. Too often, I see graphics that are otherwise brilliant, but are too close to neighbors or borders, making the overall aesthetic cluttered and busy. …

Republicans make better graphic designers.

I ran across this image while researching for the white space post. It looks like this was in the NY Times in 2004.

I guess this just goes to show you that a little graphic design know how can go a long way. Oh, and having an ex-pres father and buddies in the oil …

Local Web 2.0 color superstars need your Webby vote.

Local Portland color gurus and personal heroes, COLOURLovers is up for a Best Community Website of 2007. That's a Webby Award, folks!

They are up against some fierce competition from big players Flickr, Threadless, Delicious, and Yahoo! Answers. Read all the …

Virb is to MySpace as Aphrodite is to well, MySpace.

Home to the worst 1998-looking, blink-tag-bearing, rainbow-background, browser-crashing designs of all time, MySpace is a single justification why page design should be left to the pros. That said, I know the masses love to spray comments containing 1400px wide images …

Adjust kerning in Flash 8

A design colleague of mine asked me if I knew how to kern characters in Flash. After some experimentation, I think I figured it out.

It's all about the letter spacing input in the Property Inspector. Create some text, select the text box, and adjust the letter spacing …

Virb is to MySpace as Aphrodite is to well, MySpace.

Home to the worst 1998-looking, blink-tag-bearing, rainbow-background, browser-crashing designs of all time, MySpace is a single justification why page design should be left to the pros. That said, I know the masses love to spray comments containing 1400px wide images …