I noticed today that the reflection on the metallic sliders in the iPod app actually change as you tilt the phone from side to side. I wonder how many weeks a few developers spent on this before getting it perfectly right.
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Responsive images: Current state & overview
Responsive images is a surprisingly complicated topic, and one that’s been steadily gaining attention over the last year as more developers discover they need them and then discover there’s no good solution yet. This article aims to give an overview of the problem itself, and show the different proposals in the works to address it. …
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Convert Photoshop Layer Styles to CSS3 with CSS Hat
Mrs. Doubtfire (recut)
Portal: Terminal Velocity
New 3D imagery for Google Earth for mobile
iPhone Simulator: The simulated application quit
Fresh OS X install, fresh XCode install, and starting the iPhone Simulator (without launching any custom app) quits at start-up and spits out a “The simulated application quit” error dialog. Turns out the Asepsis feature from TotalFinder (the feature which prevents the creation of .DS_Store files) is the culprit. Disable that feature and all will …
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on{X} – Automate your life
on{X} lets you control and extend the capabilities of your Android phone using a JavaScript API to remotely program it. Kinda like ifttt but then based on actions that happen on your mobile: an SMS being received, a location being entered/left, a change in mode of transport (from car to walking), etc. A recipe like …
Photoshop CS6 Little Secrets with Scott Kelby
xip.io – Wildcard DNS for any IP address.
xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1. Using xip.io: 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 www.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 mysite.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 foo.bar.10.0.0.1.xip.io resolves to 10.0.0.1 …and so on. You can use these domains to access virtual hosts on your development web …
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