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• 11.7.07 Safari (my new crush) posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Besides being enamored with all things Leopard, I’ve developed an intense and burning love for Safari. With a couple of exceptional plugins, it’s become my general web browser of choice. The powerhouse that is Firefox+addons may still be hard to leave behind for webdev, but for beauty, ease of use and overall integration (and awesome applescripting), Safari is definitely my new top choice…

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• 8.11.07 MoodSwing 2 and Qurl Clipboard posted in Geekery

  After being featured at TUAW yesterday and getting a few comments, I decided to take a closer look at MoodSwing. I’ve added a few new @keywords, more Skype support, Jaiku support, and the ability to clear out your mood message on your chat clients…

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• 6.21.07 My Personal iGTD posted in Geekery

  I get a lot of searches coming in related to iGTD. So, inspired by a recent article on 43 Folders, I decided to offer a few of my own tricks for working with what I consider to be one of the best GTD apps for the mac.

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• 6.14.07 Easy WP2.2 Slugs with TextMate posted in Geekery

  Here’s a quick tip for making use of the Wordpress 2.2 xmlrpc slug capabilities with TextMate…

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• 5.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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• 4.16.07 Rotating VIRB Headers Revisited posted in Web Design

  If you read the original rotating VIRB headers post with great curiosity, you’ll want to read this. A great secret has been passed down to me from the top of the VIRB mountain…

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• 4.15.07 How-to: Rotating VIRB Headers posted in Web Design

  I get a lot of questions about how to do rotating headers on VIRB profiles. So here’s a quick tutorial. If the technique provided here is beyond your skill level, you’ll probably need to find someone who can help you execute it. But if you’ve got enough skill to create between 2 and 15 headers of the same dimensions, and enough CSS knowledge to put them at the top of your page as a background image in a div, you can probably pull this off.

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• 3.12.07 A VIRB Quickie posted in Web Design

  Not sure why I didn’t try it before, but here’s a quick tip. If you modify your HTML section on VIRB and hit preview, then save the source of the preview to a file, you can separate out the CSS and HTML for live editing in CSSEdit.

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• 3.11.07 VIRB Customization Tips posted in Web Design

  I thought I’d jot down a few notes on my experiences with customizing VIRB pages for those with enough skill to pull it off on their own. This is NOT a CSS primer, I’m just some workflow tips I’ve picked up on the way. It’s all fairly obvious, but I thought it might help some aspiring designers who might be doing things the hard way. I just finished redesigning my own page after a sleepless night…

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• 1.9.07 Better CSS Debugging with OSX posted in Web Design

  CSS has never been the easiest part of web design. Browser inconsistencies, holes in the specs and some things that we just haven’t figured out how to do can leave a designer a little frustrated (and thinking about slicing up an image in Fireworks and building on of those table things). But […]

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