Posts Tagged ‘room

Space heaters are the perfect winter companions: They cut down on heating costs when you’re only spending time in one room, and they keep you fireplace-toasty when you want to heat up quickly. The New York Times highlights five great models. The Times’ Stephen Treffinger put 10 commonly available space heaters to the test, rounding [...]

Flockpoker

In: web resources

14 Jan 2010

Flockpoker is a free service that allows you to create a Texas Hold Em Poker Room that is accessible by anyone with a browser. Simply create a poker table from the homepage then send the link it gives to you to anyone you want to play with. Your poker room stays around for ever and [...]

We’ve been eager to get our hands on the social media-center-software-turned-hardware Boxee Box since it was announced back in November. The fact that it was shaping up to also be cute as a button certainly played a part. We had a chance to go hands-on with the device here at CES and also chat with [...]

Drop-shadows and gradients are two of the most common design elements on the web. You’ll find them accompanying many different styles. They’re handy effects for web designers because they’re attractive, useful and easy to create with any graphics program. But they have a dark side: they’re frequently abused. Using amateurish drop-shadows or gradients is almost [...]

My friend, the content strategist Kristina Halvorson, likes to call content “the elephant in the room” of web design. She means it’s the huge problem that no one on the web development team or client side is willing to acknowledge, face squarely, and plan for…. Without discounting the primacy of the content problem, we web [...]


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