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Even while all digital cameras originally capture the image in color, black-and-white printing still has its charm and followers and many of those, who loved traditional black-and-white in the traditional wet darkroom, will be looking for digital black-and-white prints as well. The charm of black-and-white prints comes from its abstraction, from its strong graphic impression, from the reduction of the image to the essential. It may seem very easy to print in black-and-white—even easier than in color. But that is not the case. For good black-and-white prints you will have to do a good color to black-and-white conversion—just changing the color mode won’t do the trick. Then you need to use the right print modes to achieve a neutral or tinted print. There are also some considerations when selecting a printer suited for optimal black-and-white prints. We will deal with all these issues in this chapter.

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What we need to do is use jQuery to parse the DOM, find any character matching “&”, and wrap it in a <span> tag with the appropriate class. The rest of the work is done via CSS. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Well, with jQuery, it is.

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I’ve spent some time over the last week pimping the already fantastic Thesis and thought I’d share some of the things that I’ve done to this blog (which can really be done on any theme) in the past week, as well as over the last two years. These are things with a user focus and not an “SEO one”

Everyone is selling SSL certificates. Really? Not really. It turns out that the majority of quality SSL certificates are actually dispensed from the same company in some shape or form — VeriSign. VeriSign currently owns at least Thawte, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL. In other words, they own all but one of the "older-than-dirt" high-ubiquity certificate authorities, GlobalSign. Here's the lowdown:

I've made a set of custom shapes for Photoshop based on my plain black icon set, they are released under a Creative Commons license and you can download them.

A sense of movement is often the differentiator between Flash-heavy web sites and standards-based sites. It's high time to revisit the CSS Sprites technique from four years ago, and see if we can't interject a little bit of movement of our own.

This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.

Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Since we know we’ll be doing more of this, we created our own Photoshop file that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable.

otepad Chaos — a free professional Wordpress-theme. The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins.

speed/validity selectors test for frameworks. Every framework runs in his own iFrame, thus no conflicts can happen. Tests are run selector by selector, with an interval to prevent the browser from freeezing. Tests are run in a neutral environment, no library or framework is included in the main javascript test, to avoid favoritism.

Hong Kong buildings as patterned textures

Johno over at ILoveTypography.com got me thinking about my favorite fonts. I have a list of go-to fonts, but it’s not terribly interesting. On that list, however are a couple of free fonts that I love, so I decided to come up with 10 interesting free fonts that I don’t see people use that much.