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I'm sure everyone has at some stage been typing in an email message or word document (or for the weirdos - word perfect) and realised that something's just flashed on the screen but you missed it. It might have said something like "Your computer is about Read More

Playing around with XAML animations tonight. I should be placed against the wall for this, but I couldn't resist. Might start a new craze... Open up XAMLPad and past this rubbish into it: <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" Read More

Creating nice interfaces using CSS that are standards compliant is one of the more frustrating tasks for a non-web guy doing web stuff. While I understand the principles behind the tools I use, sometimes overcoming the annoying quirks of the different Read More

This site has some nifty UI patters for web stuff as well as windows GUIs. Interesting way to spend a few minutes. Read More

Every aspiring graphic designer needs a good source of quality stock photography to have a decent starting point. Read More

381's logo blog is an excellent source of inspiration for any budding logo designers. Some of the logos on display have such subtle, but effective graphical devices that it sometimes takes a few minutes for them to sink in. It's these intangible things that make a good logo a great logo. Read More

Just found a link to FamFamFam on Joel on Software. More fabulous icons to add to the icon list. You can never have too many icons. I'll post some icon use related UI tips soon, just to help all you other UI tragics like myself... Read More

Now this is worth writing about. I just upgraded my version of Axialis Iconworkshop. They give free lifetime upgrades to registered users. Read More

If there's one thing a developer should have, it's a good collection of icons. I've got a folder with about 18.7 kajillion icons in it that I've collected over the years. I've tried all sorts of tools to create my own, but lacking any serious form of graphic design ability, I've had to settle for modifying the ones that came with my development environments. Read More