Designified

Re-visiting culturally ingrained movies and creating posters for them.

Jeremy Keith’s thesession.org has fallen foul of a possibly dastardly use of the DMCA – either a huge and unwarranted over-reaction by the owner of perfectpitch.com or a very sneaky way of getting a page with a better search engine ranking for his ‘key phrase’ removed from the Google listing…

UPDATES 6th & 8th November ’09

An Applescript to Validate the HTML / XHTML of the current document in Panic’s Coda using the standalone Validator S.A.C. application’s web service feature.

On OS X 10.5 (and maybe later, not tested), there’s a slightly annoying Time Machine dialog box that pops up each time a different external drive is plugged in – this is how to stop it.

A plugin for Internet Explorer which replaces the IE rendering engine with Google’s Chrome rendering engine.

Some notes on running concurrent versions of browsers under Windows & OS X for testing purposes.

A couple more enhancements, utilities and applications I’ve been using.

The default output from Xdebug is a bit gaudy and not very nice from a design point of view… so I whipped up a quick bit of Jquery+CSS to restyle it on a per-page basis.

A quick JQuery snippet for detecting if the useragent is an iPhone and adding a link for dialling phone numbers directly from the web page.

Well written article about the dangers (both to clients and designers) of free, pro-bono and spec work by Emily Lewis at ablognotlimited.com