We’ve all been there. You’re typing up a long comment on that blog you like or maybe you’re entering shipping details so you can get that über-geeky but yet somewhat fashionable and undoubtedly funny t-shirt already. Your browser decides it’s time to bash it’s head against a wall for a while and subsequently die. When… [Continue]
Cast Drop Shadow With CSS3
View Demo — Get Code There are many neat things you can do with the box-shadow property in CSS. Many of them we see almost everywhere now, including the famed paper curl effect. One effect I haven’t seen around though is a cast drop shadow, the kind you usually see under a device shot –… [Continue]
Samsung Galaxy S3 PSD Template
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of the most sold high-end Android devices on the market which makes it perfect for showcasing apps and websites. This is a simple PSD template based on a device shot of the app, but still has all the bells and whistles: Embedded instructions. Screen size at exactly 720x1280px which… [Continue]
Get Notified about Keyword Mentions in Skype Group Chats
Here’s a little trick that might come in handy for those that use Skype as a group messaging tool: set up the chat to only notify you about specific keyword mentions and mark other messages as read immediately. This guide is for Skype 6.1+ on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (untested on other platforms… [Continue]
WordPress Advice for Beginners
Smashing Magazine published an article titled “The WordPress Community Offers Advice To Beginners” a few days ago. Written by WP community rockstar Siobhan McKeown it’s a comprehensive guide to WordPress for the newcomer. So comprehensive, in fact, that I’ve yet to read the whole thing! I was lucky to be a part of the article… [Continue]
Hopes & Dreams
This year I vowed to blog more. It’s something most of us want to get better at, and when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve it seems like a reasonable promise to make: “in 2013 I want to blog more than I did the previous year”. Given that I published only a handful… [Continue]
iPhone 5 PSD Template
The iPhone 5 is an amazing, well-designed, and versatile device. However, as usual, it’s extremely hard to find good lossless pictures of the device for use in promotions, blog posts, and on websites. The press graphics provided by Apple itself have very strict licensing and only scale so far since they’re already rendered and you… [Continue]
New Gravatar
For some reason the lovely Sheri Bigelow of DesignSimply just takes the best candid portrait pictures. Attending WordCamp San Francisco and the subsequent Hack Day a few weeks back she was roaming the halls taking pictures of everything that moved. Or hardly moved at all, in my case. This is my favorite: The photos are… [Continue]
I’m speaking at WordCamp San Francisco!
Boom, done. Finally submitted the title and description of my State of the Mobile Word talk for WordCamp San Francisco ’12. It feels good to have it over with. Oh wait, the presentation itself is still only drafted and I need to practice lots more. Dang. In all seriousness it’s going to be awesome to… [Continue]