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More social media icons

Speaking of icons for popular social media services, Komodo Media, who recently updated their collection, has a set of over 130+ icons also.
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Vector Social Media Icons

Icon Dock (love the name, branding, pretty much everything) has just released a set of 50 icons based on today’s popular social media services in full vector including the one I love most. Very nice and very free. Be sure to check out their other products. Thanks Icon Dock. /via David Kaneda.
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The Twitter blog takes one step forward and two steps back

The Twitter blog has a brand new design and it looks pretty slick. However, it no longer shows trackbacks and/or comments for each blog post effectively losing a few years worth of data. Boo.
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Twitter theme designer

The folks at Colour Lovers (we’ll excuse the U for now) have put together a really great Twitter theme designer that somehow saves directly back into your Twitter profile. I didn’t realize this was possible so perhaps they have a “deal” with Twitter? Perhaps Twitter should simply buy the app? /via Evan Williams on Twitter.
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A new theme for iPhone, more mobile devices to follow

Last weekend I rolled out an updated theme for this site when your browsing it with an iPhone. The main reason for this is my mobile photos. When I post a mobile photo my site automatically Twitter’s a link to it, like this, and a lot of people flood in to view the photos and [...]
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The next challenge for Web designers, choosing font faces

For years the Internet has challenged those that work on it. At first it was all about how to get the bits from here to there. Then it was how to link them together and to navigate through them. Then it was about adding media. Next came display ports and fitting well-designed information on them using [...]
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A Fall refresh

I know we’re 1/3 of the way through Fall but for those of you that haven’t yet visited the site in a little while – come take a look at the Fall refresh.
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viewport=550, or, the new mobile photos pages if you’re using an iPhone or iPod touch

As of a few hours ago, if you’re viewing any of the mobile photos (such as this one that I just put up) on an iPhone or iPod touch, the viewing area should automatically ‘zoom’ into the proper area. You may send payments via Paypal.
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Getting out the summer clothes

Annnndddd…. refreshed. It is summer and that means its time to reach under the bed, pull out the boxes full of shorts, tee shirts, snorkeling equipment, and frisbees. Time to get away from the TV and computer screens, get outside and enjoy the sun. That same spirit is what spurred me to give this site a slight [...]
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Beak, a fantastic Twitter client from Mike Rundle

John Gruber made an excellent point in his piece called “Twitter clients are a UI design playground“. The excellent point I’m talking about is made apparent within the very title of the piece. That Twitter (I’m @cdevroe, btw) is an excellent playground for designing UIs for third party clients. Mike Rundle, whom I had the extreme [...]
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Designing for Big Data, by Jeffrey Veen

First of all, a note to all event holders – please take the care and time to record all of your speakers with slides like this. Web 2 Expo did a fantastic job putting these videos together and the world would be a better place if all of these tech conferences that are sprouting up [...]
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Juice that tastes and feels like fruit

Naoto Fukasawa, a name I dare not pronounce around little children, is an industrial designer from Japan who decided to redesign some juice boxes to make them look and feel like their contents. I think they look delicious. Via Ainsley Drew filling in for Jason Kottke.
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The new SimplyRecipes.com

A new site for Simply Recipes.
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Tutorial: Seamless grunge textures with Photoshop

An easy to follow tutorial to make seamless grunge textures.
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Six shirts I want to buy at Threadless

My current Threadless wish list.
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iWork and iLife ‘09 UI overview

A great visual list of the changes to the iWork and iLife '09 application suite's user interfaces.
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Subtle Keynote icon changes in iWork ‘09

I examine the subtle differences between the Keynote '08 and Keynote '09 icons.
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Not so random after all

Another update about how my headers work on this site.
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Something new, something fun

Refresh this or any page of my site to see some of the color / photo combinations I have so far. As of this writing there are 15 combinations.
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