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Category Archives: ProductReview

The Future will be Captioned – On Your iPhone – Maybe

Friday, April 29, 2011

There’s a new free app called Clear Captions. It captions phone calls. It works with a phone and an Internet-connected computer, but it can also be downloaded as an app on iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone. When I heard about it and checked out clearcaptions.com, I thought it was worth a look. If it’s as [...]

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Review: Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout

Monday, April 18, 2011

product Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout by Eric A. Meyer is from Sitepoint, 2011. This is a very different sort of book by Eric Meyer. Not in subject matter, of course, but in tone and purpose. Instead of his previous rather pedantic and encyclopedic listing of every thing you might ever want to [...]

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With luckychic, you’re thrilled or you’re screwed

Thursday, March 17, 2011

I got a PR email from a site called Lucky Chic. The email talked about getting iPads and other tech toys for almost nothing. They guarantee that their products are the real thing. When I look at the site, I saw bidding on items that looked like this. I decided to register to check them [...]

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Review: World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

product World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet by Michael Chorost is published by Free Press (2011). The title of this book is a good summary of what it’s about. It’s not about web design or web education, it’s about how the human brain could connect with other human minds [...]

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Find the perfect font combinations

Thursday, January 27, 2011

There’s FontFuse and there’s WebINK. They go together like oatmeal goes with brown sugar. One of them suggests pairs of fonts that look really good together. The other one offers up the fonts for embedding in your web pages at a reasonable price. FontFuse offers great font pair suggestions, like this one: They invite you [...]

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How to Find the Right Online Shopping Cart for You

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

An efficient and user-friendly online shopping cart is an essential tool for any business or website owner involved in e-commerce product sales. But with so many online shopping carts available, it can be hard to decide which cart application will be up to the task at hand. To begin with, there is the issue of [...]

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I’m loving paper.li

Friday, November 12, 2010

A while back I put together a Twitter list of the women in web education. Right now there are 45 women on the list. Here’s my original post explaining the list: Where are the Women in Web Education? When I started the list, I wasn’t thinking about paper.li, I was thinking about finding a group [...]

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Web Design Book Review: HTML5 for Web Designers

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

product HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith is the first book under the A Book Apart imprint, published by Jeffrey Zeldman (2010). It’s available from A Book Apart. It’s a small book, less than 100 pages, with only 6 chapters. The chapters are A Brief History of Markup, The Design of HTML5, Rich Media, [...]

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Useful Links: Difficult Fonts, Hardboiled, Firesheep

Monday, October 25, 2010

Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’ at BBC News says that reading something in a “harder” font can boost retention of the information. The easy font they tested was Arial at pure black. The hard fonts tested were Comic Sans and Bodoni, both at 75% grayscale. Does that mean that if I can [...]

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Klout – what’s it to ya?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Klout.com, a service that has measured a person’s influence and reach on Twitter, just added Facebook to its Klout calculations. The alliance with Facebook was announced in Do You Have Facebook Klout? Here’s a bit of their explanation about how it will work. On Facebook, like Twitter, we assess how conversations and content generate interest [...]

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