The home page importance myth.
I was listening to the boagworld podcast today, and they brought up an interesting point in response to a listener question. The listener was a web designer concerned with the number of elements his...
View Article3D for 2D moving image slideshow effect tutorial
Ken Burns is in town, and of course, I thought of the Ken Burns effect in the Mac screensaver options. You’ve seen this slideshow rotating picture slideshow a million times. You know, the one where...
View ArticlePNG color shift from Photoshop CS2 ‘Save for Web’ solution
This issue has plagued me for years. I’m pretty sure the issue came about from messing with color profiles on my Mac. I switch between web and print graphic work a lot, so somewhere along the way I...
View ArticleIllustrator CS3 crashes on “Place…”.
I finally dove in and upgraded to Adobe CS3. Unfortunately, Illustrator was crashing whenever I called the “Place..” command. I found a fix pretty easily though, and an official Adobe TechNote at that....
View ArticleOmniGraffle maybe the best tool for wireframing a web site layout
I know it goes against every good web design how-to book on the market, but I rarely start with a real pencil and paper. In fact, I rarely sketch out wireframes even digitally. I just go for it. Part...
View ArticleRotate and animate dynamic text fields in Flash
By now you’ve seen the Dylan Messaging viral campaign. It’s a pretty hip use of Flash. I was pretty sure I knew how the effect was done, so I was running some Flash experiments to test out my theory....
View ArticleWhat version of Flash Player do I have?
Some sites will tell you that you need to upgrade your Flash player to see their content. Don’t always believe it. Check your Flash Player version, and compare it to the latest Flash Player version...
View ArticleHow to take a screenshot of your iPhone display.
Whoa. To take a screenshot or screen capture of your iPhone display right now, simultaneously press the Power and Home buttons. That’s the one on the top, and the big button on the face. The image...
View ArticleMac owners beware, all Nvidia 84 and 86s graphics cards are bad… or are they?
We’re upgrading our laptops here at DWC. In fact, we were about to sign the papers when we heard about this story in The Inquirer. (Thanks @inneralien) In a nutshell, the article claims that all...
View ArticleMagnetic fields visualized in a short film
Kind of scary to think of all of the fields that are passing through you at all times. This short film helps illustrate that thought. And it’s stellar motion graphics work as well. Magnetic Movie...
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