Faceplate Sans by Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos

I've learned from my last story with the FontShop newsletter, that it is worth to
read indeed, or at least to browse trough, because there are true beauties
to discover every month if you happen to be a typo-nerd... Exactly just like this time, and what's the best? …

Finally received my US Visa

Making people stay in line twice(!) on the street, before even getting inside the
building of the embassy isn't exactly the way I think you should handle people
who want to spend their holiday and money in your country... Besides that, I'm excited to visit the States …

Specialize smart - Preselect your clients

Specializing your business profile helps you to find the right clients, which
is important, because it again assures you the ability to work your way to
the top in the masses of “all-in-one design shops” flooding the web nowadays. Hiring the right clients, as once …

Maquette by ARS Type

Fact is, I fail very bad in newsletter reading, I'm always months behind,
so it's no surprise that I've just discovered the march newsletter from FontShop
with this must-have beauty in it, called Maquette. Designed by Angus R. Shamal, Maquette is in 5 different …

Voicemail - Apple?s new ace?

Short answer - Yes, I think so.
Maybe we could be soon witnesses of the voicemail evolving to a real
communication platform, enabling you to send and receive voice messages. First of all, what am I talking about? The last week announced iPhone has an application …

Great Podcast Extravaganza

If you are lucky and your brain can handle visual and audio separate,
so you can still focus on working while listening some blabbing, the time
spent in front of computer could be just more entertaining listening to podcasts. Podcasts? OK, for those of you don't know …

Adding hCard to your site with microformats

Microformats are a new and simple to implement way to handle your existing
data on your website, to enable its exchange with web apps like Google
Maps or flickr or even with desktop apps like Mail or Outlook. Sweet. For getting started let's just take a small step …

VIRB

The talented guys over at UMI know that social networking in it's current form,
not quite satisfy everybody. But they did not stop at this point, they decided
to do something, which will be much more fun, especially for CSS gurus. So long story short, VIRB

Apollo 13 and web typography

"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
...were the words Jerry Woodfill, the Apollo 13's Mission Warning System
Engineer heard in his headset that Monday evening, April 13th back in 1970. Without diving deeper, long story short, an oxygen tank explosion forced …

Fresh features in double pack

Two weeks gone since my last post, but don't think I wasn't around.
I was here, thinking about my needs and this site's abilities
and if they could maybe get better together in some form of new entry types. Since this is my first blog ever, and I want to maintain this …

Introducing Work - Flickr slideshow gone wild

I was on the search for an easy, yet impressive way to show off my portfolio
with the prior accent on fast and easy maintenance to keep it fresh. So with this on my mind I thought a kind of slideshow would be nice, and started to think about a flash-based solution, one …

CSS Lesson No.1 - More classes to a tag

Well, it's quite simple, goes just like this: <div class="message error"> So I wanted to start this new section with a very impressive technique, I just discovered a couple of days ago. Although it's very plausible, I've never used this before, but probably would have …

Designing the experience for website hallways

Let's make an experimental analogy between a hotel suite and a website.
The experience you get from your stay in the suite doesn't come from shiny
pictures in catalogs, but more from walking through the rooms – using hallways. Accepting rooms in general and pages on a …

The success of Firefox

Firefox is one of the best examples that you don't have to be afraid of
competition, not even if it's coming from a monstrosity called Microsoft,
especially not in cases where you're confident about knowing people better. As in every business, the key for success in …

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