Archive for December, 2008

 

Firefox Input Background Image

Has anyone noticed this? When you put a background-image into an input field in Firefox Mac/Win, the input borders get distorted (it’s darker…) I don’t have a fix for it, actually, I am not even sure it’s broken. Also, the blue highlight the input field gets when it is in focus, does not appear when [...]

From freelance to fulltime

Today I joined the civilized world as the new UI Engineer for Netbooks.com. Although giving up afternoon naps is going to be hard, I am very grateful to be gainfully employed in the mist of this down spiraling economy. To be honest though, sitting at home writing code doesn’t feel any different than sitting in [...]

Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

Smashing Magazine has this awesome article on UI Designs: 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs. This has to be one of the most informative and well thought out web design article I have ever read. Although I am not a web designer, these are the kind of things I notice when I [...]

IE z-index anchor link bug

I was working on a client’s website and I discovered this strange bug in Internet Explorer that I am unable to reproduce ( too lazy to go through all the effort ), but I swear, it’s the strangest bug I have ever seen. Basically, I have a bunch of links that are set as ‘display:block’ [...]

Women turning things around

When arguing with my girlfriend, I often get blasted with “Why are you turning things around on me? This is not about me, it’s about you.” I always thought this was a very strange defense, but I just recently noticed that my girlfriend is not the only female who uses this illogical line of reasoning. [...]

stop calling me

Gadgetopia has a great article about why emails are better than telephones. I can’t agree more. I am so annoyed when I get phone calls, and even more annoyed when I get voicemail. Email, or even text messages, is a much better form of communication. Why? 1) Email = instant record 2) Email = allow [...]

retouching models

This image has been making the rounds on digg and reddit. It is a stunning example of how Photoshop can alter reality. But as one commenter pointed out, why do we need to use Photoshop? There are plenty of naturally beautiful women out there in the real world. I know because I see them every [...]