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October 2011
September 2011
Does Facebook's Subscribe Button Betray What the... →
This is a really good question, and also a great opportunity for me to test RWW’s Tumblr integration.
May 2011
Never forget.
shitmystudentswrite:
Was it the Revolutionary War or the Civil War that the Japanese dropped the atomic bomb on Pearl Harbor?
We’re doomed.
April 2011
At Soviet Create South
Ideas create you! Posted via email from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
March 2011
December 2010
Quick video of snow showers in GC.
Download now or watch on posterous movie.mov (20533 KB) Posted via email from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
November 2010
September 2010
Helping me justify the purchase of an iPad to my... →
I’d love to see this come to the iPhone. Even with the Newsstand feature, I still struggle to justify an iPad purchase.
timmy-james:
DF post on possible Newsstand feature for iPad.
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August 2010
July 2010
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Reality distortion field remains strong with Steve...
via youtube.com From the same people who brought you the Tiger Woods animations comes the best explainer video about the iPhone 4/Antennagate controversy ever. Posted via email from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
June 2010
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50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers -...
via smashingmagazine.com Lots of great tools in this Smashing Magazine article. My favorite, by far, is Support Details (pictured) — this will save me a lot of time asking “what browser and OS?” Posted via email from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
May 2010
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tint.de ¬ New Syntax Highlighting Colors for Coda
via tilman.me This has been around a while, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that it’s a very nice set of inverted color schemes for Coda. Way more visible than Coda’s default inverted colors. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
April 2010
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Geeked for WordPress 3.0? I am.
How to create a custom post type Custom post type [sic] are an incredible step forward for WordPress, because it will allow developers to create post types according to their needs.via catswhocode.com It’s fascinating to watch the question change from “WordPress or Movable Type?” to “WordPress or Drupal?” 3.0 is sickeningly powerful. Posted via web from...
QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession
Let’s break these sales stats down by continent. Asia excluding Japan first: Nokia: 75% Apple: 8% HTC: 6% RIM: 4% Samsung: 3% Motorola: 2% Western Europe: Nokia: 48% Apple: 20% RIM: 15% HTC: 10% Samsung: 5% SonyEricsson: 1% Finally North America: RIM: 51% Apple: 29% HTC: 6% Palm: 5% (probably includes PalmOS devices) Nokia: 4% ...
Need inspiration?
clientsfromhell:
from twitter @sradick A friend recently passed along what may be the worst website I’ve ever seen http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm #fail
MY EYES
April Fool’s Day →
Today I tweeted an announcement of a new phpBB book — phpBB 1 Essentials. As you might expect, it was an April Fool’s joke. It wasn’t a bad one, either — pretty sure a couple…
Color Me Blind →
Color schemes have been on my mind a lot lately. Contrast is King, an article in the latest A List Apart, shows you not only some cool tricks on making them but also how to make sure your…
Ten years of blogging →
The first day of posts at The Realm, the predecessor to jaredwsmith.com. (World, I am so, so sorry.)
March 31, 2010 marks ten years more or less “blogging” (the term had not yet taken…
March 2010
Pitfalls of location-based services as they hit... →
My colleague at ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez, does a fantastic job articulating the trouble people may have with location-based services as they hit mainstream adoption in an article this morning….
I love Opera’s iPhone app countup →
I love Opera’s running timer since Opera Mini for iPhone was submitted to the App Store. Opera does a lot of nifty and important things for the Web that we often miss out on. At SXSW, Chris…
Smart blog test tool: Is My Blog Working? →
If you’re looking to check the performance of your blog, check out Is My Blog Working?, a nifty site that examines your blog for functionality and performance troubles. I discovered it a year…
Cool, Mac-compatible weather software:... →
The first rumbles of Spring are about in Charleston today, and I still find myself longing for software comparable to GR2Analyst, my go-to RADAR analysis software, on the Mac. However, …
Tweet for a cause: CHSTwestival is tonight →
Be sure to check out Charleston Twestival tonight. It’s one of many Twestival events going on worldwide to benefit Concern, an organization working against the poverty problem in the most dire…
Coding Horror: The Opposite of Fitts' Law
via codinghorror.com This one got me thinking about just how much bad UX we deal with on a day-to-day basis. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
I’m off to SXSW →
I’m off to my first South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. I am not quite sure just how prepared I can be for this, the pinnacle of geek events. I can only hope to find enough…
Tuesday coworking recap: HTML and CSS fundamentals →
At Tuesday’s co-working session, I talked about a few of the basics of HTML and CSS (as best as I could within two hours, that is). One of the focal points of the session was the importance of…
Notes from my real-time research session at... →
I was fortunate to give a session about research in the age of the real-time Web yesterday at the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library as part of the library’s LITE series of technology…
February 2010
Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3 | Nettuts+
via net.tutsplus.com Some cool CSS3 techniques on display here, including the gradient technique, which before this article I didn’t even realize existed…(!) Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
Coming up at co-working: Basic HTML/CSS →
I’ll be leading a session about basic HTML and CSS on March 9 as part of the after-hours session series at Charleston Co-Working. My goal is to help attendees get a good grasp of HTML and CSS…
The most algorithmically-curated list of blogs...
From today NOOP.NL can claim to be the #1 software development-related blog in Europe. Well, that%u2019s nice. And some other people are also doing well on this new edition of the Top 200 Blogs for Developers. Jeff Atwood has replaced Scott Hanselman, meaning that he now has the #1 Development Blog in the world! And look at Scott Berkun, shooting up to the #3 spot. How does he do that?...
WordPress session at #chscowork tonight at 6 →
If you’ve been meaning to learn more about WordPress and you’re in Charleston, you’re in luck. Ian May, John Turner, and I will be giving a WordPress session at #chscowork tonight at 6 PM. Ian…
Optimizing Page Load Time
via die.net I’ve got performance on my mind lately. Good article talking about the little things you can do to speed things up. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
Why it's good to watch your kids
Or, hide the money.
fmylife:
Today, my 4 year old son thought it was funny to put money in the shredder. He stuck over 500 dollars in it. FML
Google Speed Tracer for Chrome -- awesome...
via chrome.google.com Must-have Chrome extension for Web devs who care about performance. I usually prefer the paned approach Firebug takes in most cases, but Speed Tracer in another window provides quite an excellent visualization of Web site/app performance problems. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids
via alistapart.com A ridiculously awesome walkthrough on how to achieve a fluid grid layout cross-browser via CSS, along with the best explanation of em measurements I’ve ever read. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
January 2010
The 5 Ways To Become A Social Media Expert
via youtube.com @tremendousnews makes me cry. This is hysterical. (Has language.) Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
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Clients From Hell
After having delivered an eCommerce site to a client, he called me on the phone, explaining that he had experienced some problems ordering products. While on the phone, I explained to him that I would do a test order to see if I could reconstruct the problem he experienced. The ordering went fine, but suddenly he says Client: “Wow, I got an order from you here. You want that Jacuzzi? I’d...
Can You Top This? 15 Practical Linux Top Command...
via thegeekstuff.com Calling all *nix sysadmins — some good stuff in here. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
Foursquare hits Charleston →
Joe Riley may no longer have a mayoral stranglehold in Charleston, as Foursquare, the location-based social game, has expanded to the entire world after a limited beta in certain cities.
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2010 →
Please, allow me to be among the last to welcome you to 2010. Here’s hoping that, despite the first six days of the year already having elapsed, that the remaining 359 days are happy and healthy for…
December 2009
Cartoon: Don't Push Me
via readwriteweb.com Totally using this on the kids whenever that time comes around. Posted via web from Jared, posterized. | Comment »
Collecta’s blog shows citizen news reporting in... →
The Collecta blog has posted a neat case study about the Charleston flooding that happened a couple weeks ago, and how people used Collecta to tie together information from places like …
An ode to Norm’s →
As you may or may not know, Norm’s Pizza and Subs — home of the fabled Nerd Table and an otherwise very important part of my college experience — is closing for good today. (The original closing…
What do you want to see from Social Media Club... →
The Social Media Club Charleston steering group is meeting in a few days to review 2009 and look forward to 2010. It’s been a great kickoff year for SMC (at least from my perspective), with a core…
Posterized →
Increasingly, I’m sharing things that fit my definition of “interesting” over on my Posterous blog. If you haven’t tried it yet, Posterous is a neat way to share cool things quickly (as easily…
I’m falling for Chrome →
I’ve resisted Google Chrome over the last year, primarily because it hasn’t been extensible. Well, that’s all changed. I’m running the development version of Chrome, Chromium, on my Mac, and…