A major part of being able to secure clients for design projects is the ability to present proposals and communicate with clients who are trying to decide which designer to hire. Having a professional-looking proposal that provides the right details for clients will help to increase your conversion rates and to land more work. There…
Apple’s next Mac operating system could be an exciting one, with rumours that the new OS X – whether it’s called OS X 10.10 or OS X 11, or maybe even OS 11 without the X – will have a flatter, more minimalist design like iOS 7. This article was updated 9 April 2014 with claims that Apple’s…
Is your Mac’s hard drive near capacity, full to the brim with music, photos and videos? Do you have a Mac with a small SSD drive, having sacrificed storage space for the extra speed offered by flash storage? Are you confronted with having to delete photos and other media in order to accommodate your ever…
If you have an iMac with Thunderbolt or USB 3 but without an SSD you can boot from a full-speed external SSD without opening the case. It’s possible for that Mac to boot in under 30 seconds and to jump generations ahead for under $200. I have a mid-2011 iMac I use at my office…
Popular E-commerce websites allow payments from different credit cards and banks to get payment from all over the world. It is essential to have payment support for every customer who buy from you. Having a complete information about your customers where they are originated is beneficial in success of the products, services you are selling.…
You’ve likely used word processors like Word, TextEdit, and Pages, as well as plain-text writing apps like iA Writer and Byword. If you’re a serious writer, you’ve likely used or at least looked at advanced writing apps like Scrivener or the original Ulysses. But you’ve never seen anything like Ulysses III. It’s a totally new take on an advanced…
Bucky is a client and server for sending performance data from the client into statsd + graphite, OpenTSDB, or any other stats aggregator of your choice. It can automatically measure how long your pages take to load, how long AJAX requests take and how long various functions take to run. Most importantly, it’s taking the measurements…
We all know that developer tools can make our work easier. Most of us are probably already familiar with add-ons and extensions like Firebug, Web Developer, ColorZilla, and more. In this post, I’ll present you with some other add-ons that you may not have tried yet. I hope you’ll find some of these useful when…
In this article, we explore some of the rumours about Apple’s MacBook Air with Retina display. Stay up to date with the latest Retina MacBook Air release date rumours including claims that a new 12-inch model is coming soon by Karen Haslam , 30 Jan 14 In this new MacBook Air with Retina display release date rumours article we…
Popular Mac colocation service MacMiniColo.net has introduced a new Mac Pro colocation service with similar services to its existing offerings. After being the first company to offer Mac mini colocation, we’ve been at it for nine years. Starting today, we’re happy to offer colocation of the new Mac Pro. For those who need extra power in the cloud, MacProColo…
As a front-end developer you no doubt use HTML constantly and probably feel it doesn’t have any more unknowns. Nevertheless, the way it has evolved (in particular with the advent of HTML5) may surprise you at times. In this article, I’ll show you 10 HTML tags you may not be using or maybe even aren’t…
Last year came and went without as much as a mention from Apple about the fate of its Mac mini line of desktop computers. The Mac mini lineup currently on sale (and in plentiful stock) through Apple, Amazon, and other retailers last saw its hardware updated in late 2012 at the original iPad mini event.…
That interesting Web article. The emailed order for your new Mac. The snapped picture of the label as a reminder of that terrific pinot noir you just drank. A quick audio note you make with your phone. Those hundreds of downloaded PDFs of bank, brokerage, and utility company statements. You’ve got the information—heck, you’re practically…
Kickstarter success and Australian hardware startup LIFX is finally shipping its Wi-Fi connected smart lightbulbs this Friday. That’s a little later than originally promised in its Kickstarter campaign. LIFX had promised to deliver by March, so they’re officially quite late to the party, but they’ve also managed to secure some major retail partners for a consumer launch…
Starting a new year could hardly get any better for web designers than this. We have some of the best and most powerful web designing frameworks just waiting to be explored. These are frameworks that can help you build fully functional web templates within minutes and with extremely minimal knowledge of CSS and JavaScript coding.…
Ready to make your own gas alternative? These products can give you a start—but energy independence won’t come cheaply. BY ERIN SCOTTBERG Ethanol The EFuel100 MicroFueler home-brews ethanol by fermenting a mix of table sugar and nutrient-treated yeast in the system’s 250-gal. tank. The resulting fuel, which is 99.9 percent ethanol, can either be stored in the…
I’m a firm believer in using the right tool for the job. Right now I spend most of my time coding in either Sublime Text 2, Textmate, or Visual Studio 2010. There’s a lot of things I like about each of these editors but there is one that I find myself using more and more, however, I’m…
Here’s a scary fact. By the end of 2013, there will be more mobile devices on Earth than people. In fact, the smartphone market is now larger than the PC market, with global figures in 2012 revealing smartphones outsold PCs for the first year ever. Microsoft even predicts that mobile Internet use will surpass desktop use in…
Envato Marketplace has recently launched CodeCanyo. At CodeCanyon, you can purchase and sell scripts and components for a variety of languages and frameworks, currently including JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, and Java. Most of the items are at very low price. Here we have collected the following 20 Really Useful Scripts & Components on CodeCanyon. You may find…
I am a functionality-over-form kind of guy. I’ll use Windows and Android because of the programs I can run rather than the beautiful walled gardens of OSX and iOS. I prefer an LG television set with better USB options than a stunning Sony Bravia. And I’m all for buying ill-fitting pants if it means they…