It’s that time of year; today is the International Blue Beanie Day in Support of Web Standards (Monday, November 30th). To show my support, I have put together this awesome Blue Beanie Poss:
For more information, check out Jeffrey Zeldman’s post, Toque o’ the Morning. There you’ll find a Photoshop file of the blue beanie, as well as more information on IBBDiSWS.
The possum is from That’s Not a Cat, That’s A Possum, by Rocksoft. Also, you may be wondering “why the possum?”.
I’ve been working for the Ferris State Torch for the past semester, mainly as the web editor. However, when I get the opportunity, I try to submit opinion pieces and even occasionally take photos. Check out my latest opinion piece, titled “Hit Me on the Tweet Side”.
There’s a new game in the twitter world, and it revolves around #hashtags. After an interesting discussion with some fellow classmates, we came up with an interesting idea. We could create hashtags based on a person and what they’re doing (or something relevant to them). Continue reading…
In lower elementary school, I would guess K-2, there was a show that we watched to help us learn the alphabet: The Letter People Show. This show revolved around puppets that represented each letter. For some reason, this is one of those things from my child hood that I have always remembered, and the other day I decided to do something about it.
After spending a while trying to actually find the name of the show (I guess it comes from the ALPHA-ONE program), it was just a quick Youtube search away. Checkout the video for Mr. M (pictured to the right) on Youtube.
After trying to setup a web service with Internet Information Services 7 on Windows Server 2008, I was running into a wall. I kept receiving the following error message: HTTP Error 500.21 — Internal Server Error. Handler “ScriptHandlerFactory” has a bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list.
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If you used a shared-hosting service like me, often times they allow you to host an unlimited number of subdomains. I’ve seen a lot of web developers let this go to waste; there is a huge opportunity here to brand yourself or your organization using your subdomains.
Recently, I picked up a copy of TinyGrab from the current MacHeist Nano Bundle. After playing with it for a few days, it has given me some suggestions for improvements to my screen capture app of choice, Skitch.
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I am currently taking a color management class at Ferris State University. In it, we talk about profiling devices for accurate color, how to convert from one device to another, as well as how to manage our color workflow. I have been aware for awhile that color calibration is important, but not until recently have decided to “standardize” myself.
To the left, you can take a look at my current color settings. I have put these together in Photoshop (because for whatever reason, Bridge doesn’t allow you to manual edit them, even though it is the app to sync all of the suite). To put this together, I started with the base profile of North American Web (an Adobe preset). I’ve modified some of the value to better suit my workflow, which is mostly web-based, with some design work for print.
View my settings after the jump.
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After reading the article on Lifehacker about giving your iPhone a “brushed metal” makeover, I decided to try it myself. Now, I had previously done this same technique back when I had an iPod Photo, and it worked quite well (especially since I bought it off a friend, so it already had some wear to begin with). After getting some materials together, I was ready to start my brushing adventure!
Yesterday at 4:45 PM, I called Apple to get a replacement set of headphones (my right earbud was going in and out). In 10–15 minutes, I had spoken with a service representative, explained my problem, gave my shipping information, and was off the phone. From there, I expected to see my new replacement headphones within a few days. More on the story after the jump.
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