August 2008

The Archives

• Design

  3 Typefaces That No Designer Should Be Without (With Specific Style Variant Examples)

  08.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Helvetica Neue LT Pro (BUY HERE)

  Garamond Premier Pro (BUY HERE)

  Gill Sans Display MT Pro (BUY HERE)

• Design

  Inoperability in Action: mbusa.com (in Firefox on Linux)

  08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Mercedes-Benz USA apparently overlooks Firefox running on Linux (you must be running Linux and Firefox with any version of Flash to see what I mean).
  Almost one month ago I Emailed their web administrator about the problem:
  Good Evening,
  I’m contact you regarding an issue I’m encountering while trying to
  access msusa.com, please forward this to web development. The [...]

• Politics, Technology

  McCain is Prepared to Hand the Internet Over to Comcast, Verizon, AT&T

  08.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Excerpt from “Open left”
  “…his policy was written by the telecom lobbyists running his campaign and libertarian Michael Powell, who used his FCC position to garner lucrative business opportunities within the tech and telecom worlds. McCain will talk - just as Bush did in 2004 when he called for universal broadband by 2007 - about [...]

• Funny

  Rick Astley replacing Daniel Craig as James Bond in new film

  08.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  
  

• Design, Technology

  Throughthecameraeye.com

  08.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m working on a new project in the coming weeks. Another photography based site, throughthecameraeye.com. This site will be different than ANY I have ever created. The main site will be built without CMS, maybe some custom php to make uploading new galleries easy, but no help from Joomla, Wordpress, etc. The site is to [...]

• Technology

  Is openSUSE 11 an Ubuntu killer?

  08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve loved Ubuntu. Back when I first started running Linux, Ubuntu was my saving grace. It just worked. Everything, right out of ‘box’ just WORKED! I’ve promoted Ubuntu to dozens of friends/family and converted a few. I even give Ubuntu free advertising on my website and blog.
  But, suddenly I felt the urge to try something [...]