January 2011
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A real 'Dick Tracy wristwatch' may be coming from... →
Although this watch is geared towards military use, it’s finally making sense again to focus the evolution of consumer technology towards the wristwatch market. One of the first popular consumer digital devices, in the early 1970s, was the digital watch - and today we are going bananas for iPod Nano watch bands. No tubes necessary.
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Watchjimdoran:
You can see me talking to the kidos, and my buddy Zac.
How cool is this high school web design program? They get industry experience, in-school conferences on web design, and they get to have cool people like Jim Doran give talks.
Specialty programs go a long way with getting kids excited about technology. When I was in high school, I built a foam-board satellite designed after a...
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Expression Engine
I enjoy trying out lots of different blogging platforms and content management systems, instead of being hooked on just one. It’s good for my learning process, and it’s good for having different options for all of the different clients I have.
Today, I start working with Expression Engine, and I’m hoping we can become BFFs like I did with WordPress and Tumblr. Do any of you...
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“This is going to cost us close to $10,000 but I know it’s the right thing...”
– Normally when you promise something weekly and you do not deliver, a refund or some sort of credit is in order - and without trying to make it out to be some good deed that we should praise you for doing.
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Spring Semester 2011
Let’s make this one count.
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The Noun Project →
Just by scouring through the first page of these icons, there’s no doubt that The Noun Project can declare their mission of “sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world’s visual language” accomplished already. The icons are a-plenty, free, and simplistically stunning. I’m not surprised that they received nearly 10 times the amount of their original Kickstarter...
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Happy 123
1-10-11 is 1-2-3 in binary.
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The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web... →
Forrst user Dan Rose is working on a pretty neat (and visually clever, even at beta) compendium of .PSD etiquette rules. Some of my favorite tips are the simplest, like naming your folders and deleting unused layers. Oh, and PROOFREADING is cool, too.
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What developers think when you say "Rock Star" →
Job recruiters looking for “rock star” developers give me just as many douche chills as developers that call themselves “rock star” developers.
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Today in history: Morse demonstrates telegraph →
On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.
I believe Speedwell is a...
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Girls-only computer class hits refresh on IT's... →
Here is an interesting article about a high school in Ontario starting a girls-only IT class. They consolidated all the female students that had signed up for the class into one group, it seems, rather than actually advertise a girls-only class (something that, I think, would have been a bit more controversial). I’m not surprised that the response is positive from the young girls...
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iamlarryluck asked: I like your blog.
Thanks for being nifty.
Thanks for being nifty.
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Journalism and zip drives
My first workday of the year two thousand and teeeeleven was spent in Larchmont working with theLoopNY, a New York-based hyperlocal blog I am redesigning and building a site for. They have a new office, which is pretty rare for hyperlocal publishers. There was a big murder case in town that had developments breaking all day, so it was really interesting being in the middle of that newsroom rush....
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Fun Fact(s)
charlepaedia:
2011 is the sum of 11 consecutive prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211
2011 is also a sexy prime number, because the numbers 2011 and 2017 are both prime numbers which together have a difference of 6.
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OpenCola - The Open Source Soda →
terminally-incoherent:
I did not know that this existed. Neat.
It’s funny how the marketing materials became more popular than the software they were trying to market. Although Opencola the company is defunct, the recipe to their open source pop lives on.
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