Ebay could stand to give its homepage images a once over before publishing them. The compression in this is pretty bad. The difference between a glossy, professional image and a thrown together artifact filled image can make or break an initial impression. (Artifacts are the little jagged areas you can see around the text in [...]

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Google’s last update to Chrome changed many things, one of them being the “Inspector” functionality. Before, when editing css in the inspector window, Chrome would autocomplete the property, but not the value. Also, use of the TAB key to selected the auto completed element was not enabled. You had to use the left arrow key. [...]

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Is this bad design? Ehh… It is persuasive design. TED ( or the designer) knows that if you want the video to start, you will find the play button. It’s in its logical place, just not highlighted. By making the Share and Rate buttons stand out, they increase the chance they will be clicked, without [...]

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We are starting to see Mac OS X Lion hit CouchSurfing.org! Coming soon indeed. Can’t wait to play with this operating system.

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Green Tunnel from Kevin Gallagher on Vimeo.

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