Windows Vista Alphablended Cursors for Windows XP
When Windows Vista arrives, users can expect a new set of neat alphablended cursors, complete with anti-aliasing and everything. Apparently, there’s nothing to hinder these cursors being installed on Windows XP. As such, impatient fanboys have extracted these cursors and now you can download Vista cursors for XP.
Clinton Smacks Down Fox News
Here?s the key portion of the Fox News Sunday interview with President Clinton. He sets the record straight on his efforts to combat terrorism, the Bush administration?s record and the tactics of Fox News.
View the video. Clinton 4TW.
Textile Live Preview (AJAX Version) Plugin for Wordpress
Textile Live Preview (AJAX Version) is a Wordpress plugin which gives you a live preview of a comment as it’s being typed. This preview will feature accurate Textile syntax. The plugin is just a packaging of Jeff Minards excellent script, as such, the bulk of the credit belongs to him.
Finally packaged and released, this plugin [...]
Commentable Artwork
For the last 5 years, I’ve tried to adhere to a personal creative schedule of 5 illustrations (or whatever I feel like) per month. It’s worked so far…
Star Trek! Remastered! [Update]
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Star Trek, the wagon train to the stars, is going the way of Star Wars with regards to [...]
Engadget’s Scalable Images
Everyones favourite gadget site Engadget has just redesigned. The new design is stretchy and liquid width. That’s not all: their images scale-to-fit too using the following markup:
img.biggie { width: 98%; max-width: 860px; }
On the downside, letting the browser do the scaling means the image will be resized using nearest neighbour interpolation as opposed to bicubic [...]
Solon Solar Power Commercial
Kinda shows things in a new… light, doesn’t it?
Pretty Is Relative
In interface design, pretty is a secondary task. The primary task is to achieve a balance between form and function. In this article I would like to explain why this is important, and why it should be taken to heart by every interface designer.
The interface is what separates the user from the raw functionality of [...]
Representing “Elsinore” in Adobe’s Flash Tenth Anniversary
Browsing to 1999 of Adobe’s lavish Flash Tenth Anniversary presentation reveals a tiny red glowing dot hovering above the Danish coastal city of Elsinore. Sure enough, “Turtleshell” it says, which is of course referring to my archaic 1998-1999 website.
Ironically, this presentation website takes forever to load, reminding us all of the early days of abusive [...]
Peter Jackson To Direct “Temeraire” Fantasy Series
Peter Jackson is eyeing his next fantasy series, optioning “Temeraire.” The historical fantasy series (“His Majesty’s Dragon,” “Throne of Jade” and “Black Powder War”) was written by Naomi Novik.
The “Temeraire” saga reimagines the world of the Napoleonic Wars with the addition of an air force of dragons and valiant aviators. It centers on British naval [...]