Topic archive for
June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Rhapsody has officially announced the DRM-free MP3 store today. According to Rhapsody it was because of the incompatibility to the iPod that hurt their market share. Before this announcement, Rhapsody was a purely subscription based company. You could stream all sorts of songs on your computer, but could never put them on a music player.
The [...]
By: John Vinson in Apple, Mac, Software
Friday, June 27th, 2008
This is a follow-up to my post “Live Uefa Euro 2008 via FMS”. I’ve just heard that the Euro 2008 is streamed live with Flash in France too.
This time DBee is doing the encoding for the website of the french TV Channel M6. They are serving a 1.1Mbps stream (1Mbps VP6 video + 64 Kbps [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Adobe, Flash, PHP
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
For those of you who love anime and love blogging I have come up with a wordpress layout so you can express both your loves together.
By: Christopher Heiss in Design, Photoshop, Web Design
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Now that we’ve had a chance to really sit down and experience Apple’s newest cat, its time to share our initial reactions to OSX 10.6 – Snow Leopard. Right off the bat, its fast. Very fast. A clean installation took about 13 minutes from start to finish, which is a world of difference from the [...]
in Apple, Mac, Software
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
In this tutorial I will show you how to take a friend, boss, random person and turn them into a slithery animal. The trick is to find the skin of the animal you want to cover the person with. Snake skin is fairly easy to manipulate, so for the sake of this tutorial it’s what [...]
in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop, Snake
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Ever wanted to submit a single input submission form without a submission input? Well this is the right place for you!.
in HTML, Web Development
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Working backwards…
I already blogged the Adobe keynote at Scotch on the Rocks but wanted to cover some of the sessions and the overall feel of the conference.
As I said before, it had a nice, relaxed feel to it and Andy Allan, Big Mad Kev and Stephen Moretti did a great job creating a conference that [...]
By: Sean Corfield in ColdFusion, jQuery, Programming
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
In this tutorial I am going to show you some simple ways using the pen and brush tools to create a really cool abstract background. These techniques can used for
many different projects. In this particular tutorial I thought it would be cool to show you how to make a wallpaper using these techniques.
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By: John Overbee in Design, Photoshop, Wallpaper
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The default buttons in today’s browser are plain. Mostly just a shade of gray, and do not fit with the color scheme of most sites. With the use of the HTML button tag and some CSS, you customize your buttons for your site.
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Web Development
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
There are a lot of benefits to being a freelance web designer. The freedom to work your own hours (all of them) and the ability to choose what web projects you take on (how much you charge) and which you decline. However, with as much responsibility that a freelance web designer takes on there is [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in Apple, Design, Flash, Freelancing, Google, Open Source, OSX, Programming, Web Development