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Your iPhone Icon is Wrong.
14 Jun 2009Found this site while checking out Chris Glass’s site during the Friday LayerTennis. Too funny, too true.
Why?
You are not an unique snowflake so don’t try to make your icon stand out by “de-buttoning” them on the home screen.
No matter how beautiful you are, you are not better than everyone else by [...]
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Get Excited…
In: Design
12 Apr 2009I thought that this is a good motto to start the week out with. There’s a pretty cool back story on what inspired the design here.
The need for speed
28 Jan 2009As I’ve written before, the main engine that we are using to provision users on our Exchange system is Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) framework.
I’ve had a few issues with it and various hoops that I have had to jump through. Many of which I have not had a chance to [...]
Hacking Wordpress
27 Jan 2009I’ve been doing quite a bit of side work for friends and family putting together some low traffic ‘business card’ sites. I used to do a lot of custom programming for each of these where I would put up the site and then have a CMS on the back end so they could log [...]
Secure Backpack
In: Design
14 Jan 2009Those that work with me know that I am a huge fan of the products put out by 37Signals. They have created some great apps that are simple, clean, and rock solid. The concepts aren’t always new, but they have made it so anyone can login in and hit the ground [...]
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- Cryptogram #1 – Solution - /usr/local.com: [...] So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram? [...] [...]
- Another Goal - /usr/local.com: [...] already stated my main 5 goals for 2010. But this morning I realized that I have developed a v [...]
- Judas wears a purple #4 - /usr/local.com: [...] written about it before, I enjoy watching number 4 play. But for the Vikings!?!?! [...] [...]
- blog.brentb.com » iTunes 8.2 Released: [...] but I want a mouse when I have 8-9 pages of Apps on my phone that I want to sort. Matt with [...]
- IgniteIT Talk - /usr/local.com: [...] a month ago I gave a lightning talk at a local IgniteIT Event. I haven’t done a lot of p [...]
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