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Posted by Richard Ziade on December 30, 2008, 09:49AM64 Vector Arrow Icons
I like arrows. They tell you where to go. Go Squared’s Liquidicity blog has consistently shared free, quality vectors. Their latest is 64 Vector Arrow Icons. Usefully wonderful and wonderfully useful.
Offline Prototyping Awesomeness With The Web Stencil Kit
Prediction for 2009: paper’s making a comeback. I’m talking about things like writing, taking notes and keeping a sweet-as-hell looking Moleskine under your arm as you strut to your next meeting.
Want proof? Take a look at this UI prototyping stencil whipped up by the Design Commission:
They’re not available just yet but they promise to have them up for sale in January. I want one.
Posted by Richard Ziade on December 23, 2008, 12:42PMsIFR Lite
sIFR Lite is a nice rethinking of sIFR the Flash-based font replacement library that lets you embed virtually any font on your website without images. It’s a hell of a lot smaller and actually pulls off some new features. Very nice.
Posted by Richard Ziade on December 22, 2008, 12:14PMFonts And The Web
My latest obsession these days is Web typography. We still can’t compete with the fidelity of a book yet we’re increasingly spending our days reading online. Web Design Wall has an excellent summary called Fonts and the Web.
Posted by Richard Ziade on December 10, 2008, 02:21PMNeed Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Hipster?
Mighty Goods has nice gift ideas for hipsters. While you’re at it, if your hipster friend happens to be smart, there’s gift ideas for smart people. If these hipsters and/or smart people (yes, hipsters are sometimes smart) happen to work for you, there’s gift ideas for employees.
Now let’s all do our part to help the struggling economy by buying all kinds of stuff for each other. Oh, and for Jesus too.
Posted by Richard Ziade on December 5, 2008, 05:59PMSome Good Reading At The Arc90 Blog
The Arc90 blog is often laden with highly technical tips on everything from SQL to Flex to JQuery. It’s nice to see some non-technical stuff show up: Kamni Khan’s When We Were Young talks about Arc90’s early years (Brooklyn!) and Jennifer Epting’s The Liftoff Moment expounds on the struggles (and triumphs) of doing that thing we do here at Arc90.
They’re both really well-written and not laden with code snippets…so have at it!
Does Anybody Use Trackbacks Anymore?
Does anyone use trackbacks anymore? Is it dead and/or de facto dead? I’m thinking of removing it from basement.org.
Also, while I’m at it, does anyone give a crap about Technorati tags? Heh.
Posted by Richard Ziade on December 4, 2008, 04:46PMGoogle Reader Gets A Facelift
Just visited Google Reader (which I do 500 times a day) and notices that it’s gotten some nice interface tweaks. The Google Reader blog has more. I like it.
Posted by Richard Ziade on December 1, 2008, 02:10PMElsewhere Links RSS Feed Fixed
Just a small Public Service Announcement: the Elsewhere links RSS feed was botched up for awhile and wasn’t getting updated. It’s now fixed and working just fine. Note that the full basement.org RSS feed includes all the Elsewhere posts as well. Sorry ‘bout that.
Give Me Something To Read
I’m a big Instapaper fan. The iPhone app is sweet as all hell and I love marking things to be read later. Now there’s Give Me Something To Read, a site (and feed) that bubbles up popular Instapaper articles pegged for reading later. Very, very (very) cool. Now my cousin in Dubai can stop asking me to recommend articles. (via Waxy).