Category: Bookmarks

It appears the javascript for flash solutions are no longer needed

“With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone.”

Styling of forms consistently remains elusive. Good resources to have.

Estimate traffic from given keyword phrases

OpenID 2.0 (including the attributes spec) has been released

Allows people deciding on a phone to try a web mockup of the interface.

Advertising and marketing guidelines. Need to see if IAB is in this space too.

“This tool was written to make my Java programming life easier. It can be used to build graphical user interfaces for the Android cell phone platform.”

Helps explain the significance of cloud database and computing structures for developers. These developments are a BIG deal.

Detailed article on using SVG for mobile. Makes sense because of resolution independence. Best quote: “This leads to a rather interesting situation where handset support for this standard [SVG] is arguably broader than desktop support”

Further details on Amazon Simple DB

I keep thinking I’m going to get a chance to look at the apps on this list, but it doesn’t happen. Time to store it for later.

Scrapbooking for design samples

A collection of different designs for inspiration organized by type.

Another flickr pool of design inspiration

Another design inspiration pool

Another gallery, but more focused on design patterns than overall design

Standards for email clients are long, long overdue.

Examining the input of address information in web forms

May have to take another look at developing using Safari. It will be hard to beat the Web Developer Toolkit + Firebug combo

Examples of building charts using Google’s new charting service

Directory of free fonts

This is such a nice tool for selecting the right type of charts for your data.

“CSS features that we can honestly list as having ‘full’ or even ‘partial’ support in IE are few and far between (color is one, font-size is not). Most of them are ‘buggy’, even in IE7 … and we expect even more IE bugs to come out of the woo

Alternative to viewcvs

“However, when we do run into two strong opposing viewpoints on a particular design decision, we usually diffuse the tension by making the person championing the progressive idea responsible for any issues related to their decision.”

Hope

Good overview on the ugly code you have to write to make sure html emails looked good in every email client.

qrcode reading open source

Great design patter library for forms

Uses css sprites

I love this ancedote about Dwight Howard: At one point Suns guard Raja Bell, never one to shy away from contact, asked assistant Alvin Gentry what approach to take when Howard comes steaming down the lane on a screen-and-roll. “Should I step in and plug?”

I got some push back at my last job for banning laptops during the meetings that I ran, but I noticed a big increase in the productivity of the meetings when people were engaged and not distracted.

Need beta service and plugin for wordpress that suggests links to content and photos as you type your blog posts.

Old stats from 1995 to 2003 on Internet adoption.

RSS aggregator and scraper

By the end of 2008, Verizon Wireless will open their network to any device which meets a “minimum technical standard.”

Great introduction to using Amazon’s network storage services

1000 free icons

Run Internet Explorer on your mac without parallels

ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode reader library implemented in Java. Our goal is to support decoding of QR Codes, Data Matrix, and the UPC family of 1D barcodes. It will provide clients for J2ME, J2SE, and

Extensive data lookup options