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Infojocks Sports Graphics

Jul 21

Posted by Brian in Design, Sports | No Comments

Infojocks - Ohio State

I can only assume this chart is showing all Ohio State's various NCAA violations.

I love sports. I love designs. I lust infographics. What could be better than an awesomely designed poster that beautifully and nerdily displays detailed sports statistics? Designer Jeremy Yingling creates and sells great looking posters and prints that illustrate sports history through various types of data visualization techniques. The logo is great too. Definitely a Ohio/Pennsylvania area bias right now (Jeremey is an Ohio U grad), but hopefully Infojocks will add some Texas stuff so I have an excuse to give him some money.

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MediaElement.js HTML5 Video Player

Jul 16

Posted by Brian in Web Development | No Comments

Great JavaScript script for HTML5 video and audio players with a Flash fallback. Includes plugins support and skins. Visitors get a good and consistent media experience regardless of what browser they’re using.

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Screen Resolution != Browser Window

Jul 12

Posted by Brian in Design, Web Development | No Comments

Something I’ve been preaching for years, but just because your web analytics say everyone visiting your site has as screen resolution of 4,000 pixels by 4,000 pixels doesn’t actually mean their browser is that size. Screen resolution size is not the same as browser window size. Most users, including myself, surf the web with their browser window at only a fraction of their screen resolution.

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Does Your Facebook Page Work for Secure Users?

Jul 7

Posted by Brian in Internet | No Comments

New-ish Facebook security settings allow site users to turn on https browsing. Depending on how you set up your company’s Facebook page or what apps you have running, this change could be resulting in an awful experience for those users when they visit your Facebook page.

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CSS transitions & media queries

Jun 2

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Seen it happen accidentally since nearly the beginning of the responsive web design movement, but great writeup on how CSS3 transitions can add some fun to your responsive designs.

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Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead

Jun 1

Posted by Brian in Tech, Web Development | No Comments

A great article talking about the many advantages of the mobile web. A couple of great notes from the article. First, on the reach of the World Wide Web compared to the app stores:

One word: distribution. There are 2 billion web users versus 50 million iOS users.

And what’s in it for developers…

With web apps, developers could code once and be reasonably confident their app will work on any object — phone, tablet, laptop, etc. — with a standards-compliant browser. The implications for developer time and resources are profound.

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Dribbble introduces Browse by Color

May 29

Posted by Brian in Design | No Comments

Incredible. Pick a color use the color picker, browse pages and pages of shots that use that color. You can even define your own hex value, color variance, and color minimum. Great source of inspiration. Check out the blog post describing how it works.

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Think Apps are All That Matters for Mobile?

May 18

Posted by Brian in Web Development | No Comments

Great stats on the mobile websites for Facebook and Twitter outpacing their respective mobile apps.

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Classes of Mobile Web Apps

May 4

Posted by Brian in Web Development | No Comments

Great overview of the different options when creating mobile web apps from Brian Fling. Spans from iPhone only to universal apps.

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How free conference calling services make money

Apr 4

Posted by Brian in Tech | No Comments

In short, the FCC allows rural telecoms to charge long distance companies higher interchange rates. The local telecoms then split the fees with the free conference call providers.

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