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Often what happens in many small design departments. Is that the designer is forced to take on many roles. Designer, Art Director and sometimes sales person. As this wonderful article points out often the people involved don’t know what these roles really entail.

Check out this article over at A List Apart

“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.)

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.

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.)

(Via Nettuts+.)

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.)

HTML 5 and CSS 3 Browser Compatibility Checklist

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.

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

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.

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