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Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills

brad_strickland — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:51 +0000

I once heard the statement.

“If we work harder on ourselves than we do at our job. We reap untold benefits in every aspect of our lives.”

I was reminded of this when I discovered this article. While having nothing to do with Web Design or Development. It’s fun to go down the list and learn new things.

Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills: “The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills, but I figured I’d save you some time.

Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new.”

(Via marcandangel.com.)

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Retro Apple Wall Art

brad_strickland — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:13:00 +0000

This is a Apple logo in my home office. Tim Spinosi “The artist” put the original grey logo on the wall. Tim has done a lot of deck art, “The bottom of skate boards” in recent years. So he wanted to redo my wall art in the same style, using Apple’s rainbow logo colors.

I recorded the works progress with photos and decided to post them.

Apple Wall Art - This was put up by Tim. When I moved into the house. He never liked it so he's come to redo it. BTW the white outline is tape.

Tim

At this point. I'm a little nervous because the colors are so dark.

The yellow is popping off the wall.

The tape is coming off.

The finished product.

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WWDC 2010 Sells Out In 8 Days – Mac Rumors

brad_strickland — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:58:28 +0000

WWDC 2010 Sells Out In 8 Days – Mac Rumors

Apple has updated their WWDC website to indicate that the event has sold out. The event took only 8 days to sell out after being officially announced last week.

(Via Mac Rumors.)

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Quick Tip: A 4 Minute Crash-Course in WordPress Custom Fields | Nettuts+

brad_strickland — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:30:13 +0000

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Apple throws Adobe a bone — on the Mac

brad_strickland — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:30:16 +0000

Apple throws Adobe a bone — on the Mac

Adobe’s Flash Player has never performed as well in Mac OS X as it does on Windows-running PCs. The traditionally poor performance of Adobe’s plugin on the Mac has led many iPhone and iPad users to support Apple’s decision to keep Flash off of its mobile devices. While the upcoming Flash 10.1 does boast some significant performance improvements over its predecessors, the performance is still pretty terrible compared to h.264, which has access to hardware-accelerated video decoding via the GPUs in Macs.

(Read the rest of the article via tuaw Apple throws Adobe a bone — on the Mac.)

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HTML 5 and CSS 3 Browser Compatibility Checklist

brad_strickland — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:59:21 +0000

This is the most complete HTML 5 and CSS 3 Browser Compatibility Checklist I have found to date. If your interested in progressive enhancement or adding HTML 5 to your site for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch compatibility. This is a good resource to have.

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Opera Turns-In Opera Mini To The App Store Review Group

brad_strickland — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:15:44 +0000

On the Mac, I don’t use Opera’s browser. I use Safari myself. But you have to admire Opera’s “Chutzpah”. Not only have they made and submitted a browser to the iPhone app store that has no chance in hell of getting approved. They are drawing a line in the sand and daring Apple to cross it. This has never worked for anyone going up against Apple in the past. “At least not publicly.” But maybe Opera believes that this could be the time it does.

Opera your so full of wonderment.

Perhaps you think that with the FTC looking into the Google Voice App rejection or infinite evaluation process. You think that it may now be your chance.

It isn’t.

Not because you don’t make a good browser. It’s because your not Google.

Check out the story at macappers and the Opera Mini’s Demo Video below.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5′s Content-Aware Tools

brad_strickland — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:49:33 +0000

Adobe has released a video on the new content-aware feature in Photoshop. Wow! If you do a lot of photo retouching this is a feature worth paying for.

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Blizzard working on StarCraft II Mac beta

brad_strickland — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:45:55 +0000

Blizzard has always been a game developer near and dear to my heart. Not only for their great games, but also for their support of the mac platform over the years. Now with the coming of Starcraft 2. I can’t wait to do battle with the Zerg once more. Blizzard is working on a Mac Beta version of it’s upcoming Starcraft 2. I look forward to cutting my Zerg slaying drought “a little” short. By trying to get in the mac beta program.

Check out the article over at Macworld.com for more details.

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Flash Player 10.1 running on a Nexus One “Google Phone”

brad_strickland — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:39:38 +0000

Flash running on the Nexus One is no real surprise. Google has been working with Adobe for years to make Flash more indexable in it’s search engine. Everything performed well in the video, but it’s a video it’s suppose to perform well.

Will Apple start to allow Flash on the iPhone? Maybe?

Google is a huge advocate of web standards. Their search business model depends on an open and indexable internet. Perhaps they feel that the Adobe Flash 10.1 Player finally meets the minimum standards for a good net citizen? Or perhaps they have much less controller over the Nexus One, than Apple has over the iPhone and this is a concession to HTC? Both questions are speculation at this point. What isn’t speculation is that Apple has a worthy competitor to it’s iPhone and it runs Flash.

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Extended Toy Story 3 clip!!!

brad_strickland — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:34 +0000

Check out this extended Toy Story 3 clip!!!

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Microsoft opens its first Apple… I mean Microsoft Store.

brad_strickland — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:04:37 +0000

Well my local Apple store is closed for remodeling and it’s pretty clear why. Microsoft had opened it first retail store and it is almost indistinguishable from a Apple store. Think I’m kidding? Let’s go to the video.

Wow! Come on Redmond, have you no fresh ideas at all?

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Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow?

brad_strickland — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:37:19 +0000

We’re not sure why John Gruber and Dan Lyons are having some sort of megalomaniacal Apple super-pundit standoff, but we’ll sit here and take the spoils: Gruber’s just one-upped Lyons’s earlier vague tease of new Apple gear tomorrow with a pretty specific list of things he’s apparently heard we’ll see, including new iMacs and plastic MacBooks, revved Mac Minis (including one that runs OS X Server), a new multitouch “Magic Mouse” (ha!) and some sort of multitouch desktop trackpad accessory.

For the rest of the story check out the original article at Engadget

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iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon

brad_strickland — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:04 +0000

MIT has a wonderful lecture from the Woz himself. Woz tell you about his long strange and wonderful ride inventing the Personal Computer, Co-Founding Apple, and having Fun Doing It. Check it out.

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ADOBE MAX: Adobe developed iPhone tool without Apple’s help

brad_strickland — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:08:13 +0000

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