Archive for December, 2010

How to Build iPad Apps with Xcode and Interface Builder

How to Build iPad Apps with Xcode and Interface Builder

A few weeks ago, Andy White gave us a quick tour of Xcode and walked us through the development of a simple “Hello, World” app for the iPhone. In this tutorial, we’ll build on those learnings and introduce you...

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Chrome 7 Overtakes IE7 to Become the World’s Third Most-Used Browser

Chrome 7 Overtakes IE7 to Become the World’s Third Most-Used Browser

It’s been a couple of months since I looked at the browser market. IE’s drop below 50% was the big news in October. This month’s news is less dramatic but web developers will let out a whoop of joy:...

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Design v8

Design v8

I had some extra time over Thanksgiving so I decided to spend it doing some recreational designing of this site. Here's a few quick notes (I need to get back to content!): Colorful! I think bold colors are fun...

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Logo Design Trends: Pixels

Logo Design Trends: Pixels

Last week I started a series looking at some of the trends that have been apparent in logo design over the past year. ...

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Name One Thing About Web Development You Never Saw Coming

Name One Thing About Web Development You Never Saw Coming

    Not that this is universally true, but some people look haphazardly into a field before deciding to dive in. We do the odd bit of research, investigating the ins and outs, slowly developing expectations about this new...

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Formatting CSS3

Formatting CSS3

With all the vendor prefixes and all the new complex properties like animations and gradients, it's nice to format them so they are nicely readable. I agree with David DeSandro here that lining up the values makes for nice...

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24 Ways 2010

24 Ways 2010

Twenty four great blog posts by top industry peeps in twenty four days. This year it's going print as well. ...

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Southern Savers Case Study, Part IV: Typography

Southern Savers Case Study, Part IV: Typography

When we last checked in on the Southern Savers redesign project, all the pieces of Jenny’s site were collated, just begging to be assembled into a fresh new design. Emily Smith laid the groundwork with her usability research, information...

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Best Photoshop Icon Design Tutorials Created in 2010

Best Photoshop Icon Design Tutorials Created in 2010

    In today’s post we have compiled a very useful list of Adobe Photoshop icon design tutorials that will teach you the techniques you will need for designing your own icons using mainly Photoshop. If you have a...

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24 Deals in 24 days. The Countdown Begins…

24 Deals in 24 days. The Countdown Begins…

For most of us, this time of year guarantees exposure to an abundance of Christmas sales in both online and retail stores. It’s the perfect chance to snap up all those things you’ve wanted to buy—at ridiculous bargain prices....

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