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I were invited to Google Wave!

I got a developer preview invite earlier today, yahoo! I am kdn@wavesandbox.com if you want to get in touch with me on Wave. I got my invite by signing up on http://wave.google.com. You have probably read tens of Wave reviews so far, so I’m not going to bother and write another one.
The way the invite [...]

From WP to WPMU

I did my first Wordpress MU installation yesterday and here is a couple of notes on my experience so far, including some tips.
Wordpress
My usual installation procedure when I set up wordpress for the first time.

Upload WP to the server
Run the installation
Delete all plugins except for Akismet
Delete all themes
Upload BAREHTML5 (I’ll get back to you later [...]

Photoshopped to perfection?

Photo licensed with CC-BY-NC from Melissa Maples flickr
What is real and what is not? Everyone is exposed to a mistelling truth every day with pictures of a ideal human. The picture you see above is a photograph enhanced to perfection with photoshop.
Photoshopdisaster

Some people just don’t know when enough is enough. To me it’s out [...]

@Font-Face in Internet Explorer

Custom fonts in Internet Explorer have been around for ages with @font-face. As you all know Internet Explorer does bearly follow the last generation web standards. If you have read my previous post about @font-face, you know that the font format Embedded OpenType(.eot) works out of the box in IE.
Almost every font you buy/get is [...]

Microformats

This is a new way of thinking about your data. Microformat are small patterns of HTML/XHTML to represent commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews and tags on webpages. Search engins and browsers use the small snippets of code for a few different things. I’m going to go through a couple of the [...]

Text Shadow

Text-shadow is used to either get a shadow or an effect on a text element. You can pass multiple shadows to one text element. When you use text-shadow for a effect you may get totaly different resaults depending on the type of font you use. Lets take a look at the markup.
Regular black shadow

text-shadow:
1px /* [...]

@Font-Face

@Font-Face is only one of several technics to get selectable custom fonted text on websites.

@Font-Face
sIFR
FLIR

Licensing
By adding custome fonts to your site you might run into truble if you don’t check the license on the font you want to use. Some font designers have restrictions so you have to buy a custome license, some arn’t [...]

Webkit gradients explained

As explained in my portfolio the idea behind this site, was to create a website without using any images for the design. If you are viewing this site with Safari or one of the nightly webkit builds you might notice the gradient in the header. That is what this article is about.
Example page
Linear gradient markup

background: [...]

Personal blog available again

Welcome back to my personal blog. I have imported all previous content but I haven’t bother to update the layout of the post to the new design.
Im going with a very minimalistic design this time. Since I`m keeping it basic It took me just 2-3 hours to go from pencil drawing -> photoshop  -> html5 [...]

Taskbar > Dock? – A rant against Gizmodo

Gizmodo
So.. before reading this post I urge you to move along and read Gizmodo’s article.
The subject is Windows 7 taskbar against OSX’s dock and I am going to go through the list of points they have put together. First of all I just want to clarify for potential new readers that I am a Apple [...]

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