December 2009
71 posts
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Dec 22nd
clientsfromhell: Client: We need to use WeirdoFont on our website. Me: That’s not possible, the font is not a common web font. Client: Nothing is impossible! It’s just a question of time and money. Me: Well, OK, I’ll travel around the world and install the font on all internet-connected computers, if you can get the copyright clearance for the font. Client: That’s more like it! You’ll be...
Dec 22nd
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“The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via marco)
Dec 20th
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“Can you make sure nobody links to our site on MySpace, Facebook, or anything...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Dec 20th
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Help make Kohive the best tool for you!
kohive: What is Kohive? Kohive is an ambitious project that is creating an online platform for collaboration. It’s built using the latest technology to offer desktop-quality apps online. We want Kohive to be the perfect collaboration tool for the modern web professional, so we asked Six Revisions to help bring developers/designers to test our product and  work together via it. Take part! ...
Dec 18th
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GoSquared Interview with MacStories →
You wait all year for a decent article to get written about you and 2 come along in the same day. Funny that eh?
Dec 18th
App Store vs. WebKit
stevenf: Slightly longer version of a tweet from this morning: Apple makes the iPhone SDK. They’re also one of (if not the) biggest contributors to WebKit. WebKit’s capabilities continue to grow exponentially. I’m blown away by what can be done with it today. If development continues apace (and there’s no reason to believe it won’t) it seems realistic that within a reasonable amount of...
Dec 18th
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Google Dominance
marco: Aaron Swartz: Google gets a lot of criticism (often deserved), but it’s worth taking a moment to think of all the things they haven’t done. If Microsoft had Google’s market share in search, is there any doubt that they’d be systematically demoting or even banning their competitors in the search results? Demoting someone in Google is a virtual death sentence, and yet not only has...
Dec 18th
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Awesome Review of LiveStats by Macmylife (in... →
We’re going global baby.
Dec 18th
Dec 17th
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“The noisier the culture becomes, the stronger your voice has to be to be heard...”
– George Carlin (via marco)
Dec 17th
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Dec 14th
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“Looks fine, would suggest changing the font to, say, comic sans possibly?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Dec 13th
60 notes
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Dec 12th
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WatchWatch
Designing Battleships - the iPhone game. Nice video by Cocoia.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
“This color scheme is a bit too intense. Can we try something a bit more...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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iMac Vector Icon →
Another little pre-Christmas treat from us at GoSquared - the iMac in all it’s glory, in vector form. Get the Adobe Illustrator CS4 File [258KB] Don’t have Adobe…
Dec 11th
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iMac Vector Icon by GoSquared on Liquidicity →
I like making icons of Apple products. Unless there’s shiny chrome involved (iPhone rim), they’re usually nice geometric shapes with rounded corners and subtle gradients.
Dec 11th
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Shout out to Matt Ellis →
Matt’s gonna be helping out at GoSquared over the next few months. Pleasure to have him on board. If you have a spare minute, check out his posts on TheNextWeb.
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Learn to Spell →
Brilliantly designed article on the most commonly misspelled and misused words on the web.
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close... →
Google have put more thought into the interface of Chrome than Apple have into Safari, on the tabs side anyway. Very impressive.
Dec 10th
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Showtime, and Apple's Problem →
Showtime, if you haven’t already seen it, is a beautiful web app designed for the iPhone to find out what’s on TV and remind you when your favourite programmes are on. It’s a lovely, really well designed web app, but what’s important here is what this means for the App Store. As more and more developers get sick of the approval process, it seems web app development is...
Dec 10th
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Feedback on LiveStats
I don’t think I have ever felt so happy - so proud - of anything I’ve ever done when we get positive feedback on the level we’ve been receiving for LiveStats
Dec 10th
WebKit is available as an alternative to Flash for... →
adobegripes: Great news!
Dec 10th
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GoSquared Site Map →
Been tidying up the Site Map for the GoSquared site. It’s a pain having to keep it updated manually, and then providing an XML version for Google too. There are better ways of doing this and I should really look into them.
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
The Sum of All Choices →
Unit interactive on the decisions everyone makes within a team that contribute to the overall outcome. Every decision counts.
Dec 10th
“Your display ad has been sitting on my desk all day, and I tell you, it keeps...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Designing the Browser of the Future →
Some great ideas from Aza Raskin, iA, and Cocoia. Oh, and some work from our very selves at GoSquared :D
Dec 9th
Speaking of Watches
russianpencil: Another post about simplified watches from Dezeen, this time about a watch sans minute hand: Defakto is a young brand established at the beginning of the year 2009. We have made it our objektive to redefine the feeling of time by the creation of a mechanic single hand watch. Within this form the single hand principle is unique. We build place our confidence on understatement and...
Dec 9th
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How to Build a Brand - Skype's "How We Think" →
Nice flat vector artwork, great document. Inspiring.
Dec 9th
Dec 9th
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Create a lovely SLR Camera Icon in Photoshop →
I always struggle to get the lens looking right. Seems simpler than I thought. Overall camera could do with more details and texture in places though (in my opinion anyway).
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
Dec 8th
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Panic Blog →
Beautiful. Liking the CSS3 text rotation on some of the individual posts. Truly inspiring work.
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour →
(via adellecharles)
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
grid based designs →
Beautiful gallery of grid based layouts.
Dec 8th
The Jaw Droppingly Beautiful Architecture of Zaha... →
Speechless.
Dec 8th
What's your Business About? By Paul Boag
Listen!
Dec 7th
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Nokia shuts up Regent Street shop - Times Online  →
I can’t help but laugh. The most amusing thing is their store is right opposite Apple’s Regent Street address. I remember on iPhone 3GS launch day Nokia launched a phone too. BBC Radio 1 reporters were outside interviewing customers who had just bought the iPhone 3GS and comparing their comments and thoughts with those who had just purchased the new Nokia device. They never managed...
Dec 7th