Month: October 2008

Calibrize is free software that helps you to calibrate the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. Just download the software and follow the procedure to generate a reliable color 'profile' and adjust the colors of your monitor automatically.

We wrote a script to "equalize" the heights of boxes within the same container and create a tidy grid — with little overhead.

jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).

We created an iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control. It's especially helpful when organizing large data structures that don't translate well into traditional dropdown or fly-out menus.

CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available to the web developer via Adobe Flash™ or other proprietary plugins. CrossSlide builds upon jQuery's animation facility, so it is as portable across browsers as jQuery itself (a lot.)

One of the most common problems a web developer usually face is related to continuously rotate a fragment of content. It can be a presentation of headlines, small fragments of news or a list of thumbnails. The nature of the thing being rotated doesn't matter too much here because all those kind of applications share always the same idea: Rotating. This objective can be achieve in different ways like fading and scrolling. Well here is iCarousel becomes useful. It's a one step forward trying to generalize all those types of widgets providing a rich presentation and making the task easy to be done.

This is Aaron Draplin telling me a story about a sign. He's a graphic designer and very passionate about what he does. This clip is an extra from a mini documentary I am about to finish with him. Strong language- mostly lots of F words. If you like design stuff you gotta check out his site.

Of course, Photocritic is your favourite photography resource in the whole wide world, and you’d be mad to think otherwise. Nonetheless, I have to admit that there are some pretty damn amazing websites out there. This is my attempt at collecting some of my favourites – which isn’t easy, considering how many bookmarks I have.
So, I give to you, 50 of my favourite photography websites – these should keep you busy for a while…

So, you like the idea of doing macro photography, but you think you can’t afford it? Think again – with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears (and blood, if you, like me, are a bit on the clumsy side), and you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens. Don’t believe me? Well, have a look at the article, and think again!

In this article we’d like to present a list of over 20 Useful and New jQuery plugins you should always have ready to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. Image Cross Fade Transition, Smooth Marquee, Auto-populate multiple select boxes, Feed Menus, sliders, menus, animation that should give you a useful and powerful toolbox which you can use in your future projects.

Ever print a web page only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free web page editor that gives you control of how web pages look when printed.

Our goal is to give exposure to Flickr's best fashion photographers and inspire our visitors. If you like a photo, please click it and leave a comment on the photographer's Flickr page.

Turn entire content blocks in to clickable targets with this simple plugin.

Automatic file backup and recovery for Windows Vista, XP and 2000

Controlled Vocabulary: your site for information on Keyword, Hierarchical Classification, Thesauri, Taxonomy and Subject Heading systems used to describe images in databases (Thesaurus, facet classification, hierarchy)

When it comes to beautiful web design, one of the most overlooked elements of a web site is the site’s archive listings. As a result, I really appreciate a well-designed archive listing when I come across one, and have gathered together some of the best examples I’ve seen for this article.

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is quite a hot topic among web developers. And well it might be! With AIR, Adobe’s new desktop-based web application system, desktop applications can now be built with the technologies web developers have been using for years—plain old HTML], CSS], and JavaScript.

For many web developers, myself included, the most intimidating part of the design process is getting started. Imagine for a moment that you're sitting at your desk with nothing other than a cup of coffee and the business card of a potential client who needs a basic corporate web site. Usually, a business card speaks volumes about a company's identity, and could be used as design inspiration.

In our previous tutorial, we created a personal notes storage database using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this tutorial, we’re going to explore the UI features of the AIR platform by building a simple Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. We’ll use those same technologies, as well as a local SQLite database.

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform changes the game for web developers, taking standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and bringing them into a desktop application environment. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a personal notes database with Adobe AIR.

For most developers, security is a prime concern when developing web applications: Password fields, SSL connections, and likely additional measures on the server. What happens when you're developing a desktop application for Adobe AIR where there is no server? With features like file IO, you could clearly store sensitive information on disk, but you don't want to use plain text. This article explores the encrypted local store feature in Adobe AIR to help you protect your users' data.

Adobe provides three assets that are essential to the deployment of AIR applications: the Adobe AIR install badge, the Adobe AIR browser API, and the Flash Player Detection Kit. When you use all of these tools, you can create a seamless installation process that installs the needed components for your AIR applications.

The update framework supplies a default user interface that your application can use. It provides the user with basic information and options related to application updates. Your application can also also define its own custom user interface for use with the update framework.

Badger is a Flex application built on AIR that enables developers to easily create install badges for their applications (see Figure 1). The application was created by Grant Skinner for Adobe Systems, Inc.
Badger includes the following features:
* Rapid configuration: Simply open the AIR file within the Badger application to retrieve information required for the install badge.
* Visual configuration: Preview the badge and make any necessary changes.
* Simple cut-and-paste deployment: Export and cut and paste the code to your web page.