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July 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
Title: Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design Author: Andy Clarke Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (November 25, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321410971 ISBN-13: 978-0321410979 This book isn’t really about Transcending CSS but instead equal parts history, technique, design, process and futures. And if you want to do more with […]
June 21st, 2009 by alephnaught
April 20th, 2009 by alephnaught
The fast, easy way to upgrade your Mac hardware
Aviva watched my laptop spin yet another beachball of doom and told me to get a new, more powerful laptop. I don’t have to be told twice! So I made an appointment and bought new computers for Aviva and I. She got a 20″ iMac, I got a new MacBook Pro 15″. When I finally […]
April 11th, 2009 by electricbob
April 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Blackberry App World quick review and pointer to a more detailed one
As I was reading the Engadget RSS feed, I saw an entry on Blackberry App World, so I grabbed a copy (you need to go to the Blackberry web site to download this application). And it seems to work. I’ve downloaded a free application already (a calorie counter) and will be downloading a few more. […]
March 6th, 2009 by alephnaught
Mac software: DropBox, Googaby, and Things
Thanks to Twitter, I found three tools that are now a critical part of my computing life. The first tool is Things. Things is a task list manager that implements the important parts of the personal task management system created by author David Allen called Getting Things Done. Tasks can have tags and notes; notes […]
March 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
The meaning of life – the 42 Firefox extensions I use
I thought it was time to share my own list of Firefox extensions that I use (I constructed this list using the Extension List Dumper, which I used to help me move from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 by identifying the extensions I needed to update or replace). I currently have 42 extensions installed. Aardvark […]
February 21st, 2009 by alephnaught
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers
Title: Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers Author: David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, Rich Tretola Paperback: 446 pages Publisher: Adobe Dev Library; 1 edition (November 24, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0596522509 ISBN-13: 978-0596522506 I found this book very useful for someone just starting out with Adobe Air […]
February 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
October 25th, 2009 by alephnaught