Ah, Washington, land of the power nabbing elite.
Not content with control over banks, auto industry, healthcare industry, wall street, executive pay, and anything else they can get their hands into; Capitol hill is busy drafting (or rather re-drafting) a bill to give the White House control over non-governmental critical infrastructure systems or private computer networks in the case of a “cybersecurity emergency”.
QR Codes are a form of 2D barcodes developed and popular in Japan. Found on websites, advertisements, business cards and many other things.
In the sidebar of this website you will find a QR code for each page. If you have a QR Code reader on your mobile phone you can just take a picture of the code and you will be directed to the URL you scanned the code from on your mobile device.
This is just a silly toy on a blog like this but can be good for things like your business cards, especially if you do mobile development or just want to look nerdy.
Alton Brown is my culinary hero. Food messiah. What-have-you.
He recently did an interview on Gizmodo with Wilson Rothman about his famous “repurposing” of things to use in the kitchen. Nothing too wacky, but a good read nevertheless.
Via: Alton Brown: Safe and Scary Kitchen Hacks – alton brown – Gizmodo.
I know this is old news, but I’m going to blog about it anyway as I don’t want to forget it. I love the Gmail gradient buttons and the fact that they do not use images makes it about one thousand times better in my view.
When I say end, I mean the end of his involvement. If you view the source of Gmail or any other google app that used the technique, you will see a few changes from what Douglas created.
I certainly didn’t create the concept of custom buttons at Google. Nor did I write the final code that made it into production. I merely initiated a couple steps to improve the methods we use to render custom buttons. My portion of the iteration is what’s documented here. There were many other steps in making these buttons a reality.
Via Recreating the button | stopdesign
I’ve had quite a few “Color Scheme Generators” in my bookmarks for years, though most of them leave a lot to be desired. Color Scheme Designer is the newest one to catch my eye. The amount of options you have with this app is astounding.
Color Scheme Designer certainly goes to the top of that bookmark list.
Via makeuseof.com