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3rd March 2008, 3:30pm / Web News
NewsFire is a news reader for blogs, news sites, and anything else that publishes an ‘RSS’ syndication feed. When a new story is published, NewsFire brings it to your attention with some super-slick animation. Unlike other readers, NewsFire is designed with a deliberately minimal interface.
Download NewsFire at newsfirex.com.
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Professional CSS XHMTL Techniques
Eric Meyer takes this 2 day workshop on how to build top-quality CSS XHTML websites. It runs from August 13th - 14th in London and there's an early bird registration for only £595.
Visit the Carson Workshops website for further details.
Future of Web Apps - Expo
The best speakers in Web 2.0 gather at The Future of Web Apps in London on Oct 3rd - 5th.
Visit the Future of Web Apps website for further details.
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@media 2008, London
16th February 2008, 12:50pm / Events
Europe's biggest web design and development conference, @media 2008 hits London this May at the Southbank Centre.
@media 2008 London is again over two days, 29th-30th May and includes over 20 panels and networking parties. The conference is set over two tracks with presentations and discussions covering topics including writing for the web, information architecture, JavaScript libraries and internationalisation.
Speakers confirmed already include Patrick H. Lauke, Nate Koechley, Andy Clarke, Andy Budd, Jon Hicks, Simon Willison and expect a whole host more to be announced over the coming weeks.
Early bird registration is now open and will only cost you £395.
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Anything for Christmas?
11th December 2007, 8:04pm / Web News
If I could have anything for Christmas then I think the new iMac would be top of my list.
Of course I'd go for the 24-inch anodized aluminum frame and glossy widescreen display, upgrade to the 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme with 2GB memory, 500GB hard drive and hATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory.
The iMac really does set new standards for elegance and power.
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Finding that font
11th November 2007, 9:36pm / Resources
Ever wanted to know what font you've seen but it's in an image or on an off-line resource?
Well this situation came to me not so long back when I wanted to recreate a font on a flyer, so I took to a great online resource at MyFonts.com. All I needed to do was either submit a scanned image or an URL to the What The Font recognition system and they returned the names of all the nearest font matches from their massive font database.
It's that simple! The My Fonts website has loads of other font related information, news, libraries, packs and much more. It's definitely worth a look and bookmarking.
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Layer Tennis
1st November 2007, 9:01am / Design
I was recently put onto this fascinating Friday afternoon game where two artists (or two small teams of artists) swap a file (usually a Photoshop or an Adobe related file) back and forth to enhance at their leisure as a third participant gives the match commentary. Each artist has 15 minutes to complete their "volley" and after 10 volleys, everyone puts their opinions on the forums and a winner is declared.
The likes Jason Santa Maria, Shaun Inman and Chuck Anderson have all recently participated and all game volleys, match comments and schedules are available on the Layer Tennis website.
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