Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
We all know and love the Firefox dev toolbar, but with so many of our visitors using IE, I like to work in this browser quite a bit as well.
(tags: developer tools browser toolbar webdesign)
Here's the view from my rock in the middle of the Roaring Branch of the Battenkill in Sunderland, Vermont. I was out for the day, taking a vacation day from work to fish and do a volunteer Web usability study at Orvis. It was [...]
RoundedCornr: Rounded Corner and Gradient Generator
Simple cool, free Web-based tool for creating rounded corner css boxes
(tags: free graphics javascript CSS tools webdesign Design)
Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Free tool for creating a custom search across a set of sites you select. Also indicates that there are partnership/cobranding options for publishers. A quick test produced [...]
Interesting piece (full of high praise) on Ning from fastcompany.com. Fast Company posits that viral expansion loops work exponentionally, like compound interest, or, umm… the Borg. Adam Penenberg writes, "By June, there were 60,000 Ning nets and by August, 80,000. At year's end, there were 150,000, and today, more than 230,000. About 40% of Ning's [...]
Buster Martin made headlines before the London Marathon for being the oldest person to attempt it (he said he was 101). Awesome. Halfway through the race he stopped for a pint, a smoke and some homemade sandwiches. Another awesome. And he finished the race in a little over 10 hours. Which is pretty slow [...]
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Laser dunes Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden
Or sun through blinds and curtains… The unusual shapes caught my eye at home this afternoon. Shot it with my cell phone.
According to the latest issue of Wired, which has a big feature about things that boost brainpower (and those things that supposedly do so but don't, such as eating fish, listening to Mozart), "aerobic exercise builds gray and white matter in the brains of older adults." Studies also "found that more aerobically fit grade-schoolers [...]
Bruce Clay's last two newsletters featured parts one and two of "BACK TO BASICS: Successful Site Architecture & Design." [Successful Site Architecture & Design part one, Successful Site Architecture & Design part two] I thought some of the folks I've talked to at recent regional newspaper conferences, who may stop by here as a result [...]
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0419081125.jpg Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden
Chatting with my mom while playing in the backyard with the kids after my run this morning. Mom gently reminded I hadn't uploaded any additional pics of Isobel following her birthday, [...]
I reviewed this interval training mix for Blogcritics last weekend, figured I'd post it here as well. The cool thing is; even since that time I've continued to shave significant time off my best speed during intervals. Now I'm sure some of it's the natural progression of the training, but I'll tell you, I [...]
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