Web/Tech
Speed Dial for Firefox
I recently tried the Opera web browser for the first time primarily because I read about the touted Dragonfly tool for web developers. Well in general I was underwhelmed. Despite the fact that Firefox has been unstable on my machine recently, I think it does a better job at rendering web pages than the Opera [...]
Tag Galaxy – Explore Photostreams
Tag Galaxy provide a rich interface to Flickr photostreams. Type a photo attribute such as “beach” and Tag Galaxy returns all photos from Flickr tagged with the word “beach” along with frequently related tags such as “island”, “water”, and “sunset”. The results are represented as planets orbiting in a microcosm of outer space. Planet sizes [...]
Mac OSX: Why You Need ImageWell
I frequently edit images for the web and presentations. Often I am using a screen grab or modifying a photo from a website and I need to make some quick adjustments. Using Photoshop to make simple changes such as cropping, resizing, saving for web, or adding shadows and rounded edges is very time consuming and [...]
JLern Design
I am very fond of the fluid interface for this design portfolio site. The concept is simple enough: click a section to zoom to the detail level. The rotation is very intuitive, the transitions are smooth, and the layout is clean. Notice the organic animation that takes place when you hover over a section.
link: JLern [...]
