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press check basics

Guide to Printing & Having a Successful Press Check.

colorburn

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Colorburn is a cute Tiger widget that gives you a daily color set for inspiration.

optical illusion painted rooms

Rooms painted in ways that look strange, until viewed from a particular angle - and then it’s a freak-out.

High-resolution Images on your site

A List Apart answers the questions I was just recently puzzling out — how to have a lovely, high-resolution image for your print CSS, and a regular webby one for screen media. Neato.

ALA returns

A List Apart: Not actually dead!

cöwbell for your letters

Ä Hïstöry öf thë Hëävy Mëtäl Ümläüt.

When Process Goes Bad

Creating Passionate Users on When Process Goes Bad. The large companies that are not afflicted with this are few and far between, and usually require some serious top-down drive away from process cruft. In most large institutions I’ve seen, no good idea goes unpunished, because it wouldn’t fit within the strict (and sometimes ridiculous) process guidelines, or someone else might have to do some actual work. Stay lithe! Stay open to the new!

Dreamweaver 8’s Code Collapse feature

Code Collapse looks pretty cool: you can set specific areas of your HTML to collapse and expand, not unlike the little expando-triangles that you use for layer sets in Photoshop or Illustrator. I’ll still be using the much cheaper (and faster, and lighter) BBEdit, but that’s a nifty trick.

gizmomaps

Export screenshots of Google Maps on your iPod (photo), or get them on your Treo.
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This post brought to you by the letters Q and M

A design critique of the (Latin) alphabet.