So I have been seeing many Photoshop Brush lists lately and have picked out a few that will be downloading and trying out. So, I guess this is my top 10 picks from the Photoshop brush lists that I have seen recently, in no particular order.
dot splatter vol.4 – by brushing up
Light Beams – by Obsidian Dawn
Lightening Brushes – by Scully7491
Winter Breeze – by Axeraider70
Light Brush – by anodyne-stock
QuadGrunge – by env1ro
Watercolor Brushes – by BitBox
Cheers!
Border-radius is one of my new favorite additions to CSS 3 and it is already supported in some browsers. Border-radius allows designers to apply radius corners on elements on the page. There are a few drawbacks to this approach.
So, with that in mind I’ll move on.
Example 1:
CSS:
-moz-border-radius: 20px; -webkit-border-radius: 20px; border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 15px;
Example 2:
CSS:
-moz-border-radius: 20px; -webkit-border-radius: 20px; border: 2px solid #5c6528; border-top: 1px solid #8b983c; border-left: 1px solid #8b983c; background-color: #c7db4f; padding: 15px;
Example 3:
CSS:
-moz-border-radius: 20px 20px 40px 40px; -webkit-border-radius: 20px 20px 40px 40px; border: 2px solid #5c6528; border-top: 1px solid #8b983c; border-left: 1px solid #8b983c; background-color: #c7db4f; padding: 20px 20px 40px 20px;
So anyway, I was curious about this and thought what I found might be useful to others.
This is pretty cool stuff and could reshape commenting on sites as we know it. TweetBacks by Dan Zarrella searchs twitter for tweets about your url. After collecting this data, it displays them on the page, much like comments. This idea rocks and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
TweetBacks is still very new and in beta. I like how quickly it runs and how easy it was to get up and going. However, it is currently setup to run from Dan’s environment and my quick attempt to get it working in mine gave me incomplete results. I will continue playing with this later. I would like more control over look and feel as some styles are already defined inline, making it difficult to override them.
Overall TweetBacks is a great tool and like I said I can’t wait to see where this goes.
UPDATE: Dan just took care of the styling issue with a parameter that can be added to remove them. I don’t feel the need to run in my environment if I have control. AWESOME!
UPDATE 2: I just painlessly switched to the TweetBacks WordPress Plugin just released. Working great!
So I love the FireNES plugin for Firefox because I can play games from my childhood before deciding if I should buy them again. But, I do not have a game controller for my Mac and using the keyboard to play Super Mario Brothers is less than exciting.
Well, good thing for me the Xbox 360 controller has drivers available for the Mac. After some digging, very little actually, I found Tattiebogle.net has published a driver for the Xbox 360 controller. This piece of software got my computer to recognize the Xbox 360 controller, but I still wasn’t able to map it to keys on the keyboard. After a little more searching I found gamepad companion for the Mac which allowed me to map the keyboard keys to the controller. 🙂
The new NVIDEA Speak Visual site is one of the better Flash sites that I have seen in a while. The whole CSS/XHTML “movement” seemed to slow down good Flash on design on the web. Flash still needs to be used appropriately, and this site shows how powerful it can be when it is.
I am going to start my site over pretty much from scratch. I still have all of the old content available and it can be found here: https://jefferyrainey.com/blog.
