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Speckboy: Mobile Web and App Development Testing and Emulation Tools

By Art Duszynski • Apr 12th, 2010 • Category: Found Elsewhere

Speckyboy Design Magazine has a great collection of emulators to test apps and sites for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian and Palm operating systems. I’m going to have to grab these and start playing…



TechCrunch: The iPad is a Kindle killer, but for all the wrong reasons

By Art Duszynski • Apr 12th, 2010 • Category: Found Elsewhere

I’ll summarize Paul Carr’s piece at TechCrunch with this simple statement – just because the iPad is a cool device, that doesn’t mean it’s a great device for reading. Quite the opposite, in his view. The whiz-bang features of the device make the Kindle (and other e-readers) look positively ancient. However, the interface and features [...]



GigaOm: Buying Palm Would Thrust HTC Into the Smartphone Spotlight

By Art Duszynski • Apr 12th, 2010 • Category: Found Elsewhere

This is an interesting thought from Kevin C. Tofel at GigaOm. With Palm’s fortunes looking increasingly iffy, they are reportedly looking for a buyer. Kevin posits this thought: What if HTC bought Palm? He makes some good points about why this would be a good move for all involved, although I’m not sure if Android [...]



Smashing Magazine: 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design

By Art Duszynski • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Found Elsewhere

Typography From the always-excellent Smashing Magazine, here are some great tips for CSS newbies and experienced hacks like me alike. The tips are grouped into these categories: Security and Performance Page Layout Menu and Navigation Customizations Typography Other Cool Techniques, Tips, and Tricks



SitePoint: The Slow Lingering Death of IE6

By Art Duszynski • Feb 24th, 2009 • Category: Found Elsewhere

Internet Explorer 6 continues to be the bane of a web developers existence. It is a major virus gateway for your computer, and with it’s goofy implementation of HTML and CSS and the DOM, it makes it hard to build the kind of sites that users enjoy, uh, using. Why won’t this madness end? Craig [...]



Babylon’s Burning: From Punk to Grunge

By Art Duszynski • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Currently Reading



What Makes Them Click?: Herd Behavior When Shopping Online

By Art Duszynski • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Found Elsewhere

Susan Weinschenk, author of Neuro Web Design (a great read, btw), has a great little post about research into online herd shopping behavior done by Yi-Fen Chen. Four studies were done, each with a pair of similar holiday traveling books to choose from. Each study displayed the popularity of each book differently; one with star [...]



Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

By Art Duszynski • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: Currently Reading



Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

By Art Duszynski • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: Currently Reading



Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground

By Art Duszynski • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: Currently Reading