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Windows 8: Reinventing the Basics of File Management

Lance — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:54:19 +0000

We wanted to do an early Windows 8 post about one of the most used features, and one we have not improved substantially in a long time. With the increasing amount of local storage measured in terabytes, containing photos (in multiple formats and very large files), music, and video, these common operations are being taxed in new ways. These changes, along with consistent feedback about what we could improve, have inspired us to take a fresh look and redesign these operations.

Read the full article here

Why Wireframe?

Lance — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:11:38 +0000

Wireframing, on the other hand, is all about corralling these ideas into a cohesive flow of pages with a clear, well-executed focus. A ruthless eye for editing is paramount: throwing every “nice to have” feature haphazardly into the mix will do nothing but create a mediocre product that frustrates users.

Rockstar Designer Hourly/Contract Rates

Lance — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:16:25 +0000

What is the current market hourly rate (contract) for a great web designer who can design (visual/ux/product) award winning user interfaces as well as develop them? Me: Price is what you pay for value.

Become a Layer Mayor

Lance — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:42:39 +0000

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful.

Browsing the web late on a weekend night can be rewarding, here we have an interesting find. Thanks to HappyCog, always interesting stuffs for people who make websites.

Yay! Insync just went live

Lance — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:51:51 +0000

Insync, the Dropbox alternative for hardcore Google Docs users and Businesses just unveiled their public beta. TechCrunch, LifeHacker, VentureBeat, NYTimes, DownloadSquad, CNet got it covered. More oil to @terencepua and team for a kick-ass product, proudly PH brewed!

September Meetup

Lance — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:01:56 +0000

Hi guys, I’ll be attending DjangoCon Cebu and RailsJam Cebu my first ever. Here’s a my mission: meet new people and make friends, listen and learn, and of course share something back. Definitely this won’t be my last. Special thanks to Eric Malloy and Jason Torres.

Python Imaging Library for Win x64

Lance — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:55:00 +0000

So I’ve been playing around with Python and the Django Framework and found that the official binaries provided on the PIL site are incompatible with the 64bit editions of Windows. In case you don’t know what PIL is all about:

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats, and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.

After a couple of minutes sniffing into StackOverflow I’ve found this custom compiled binary and it just works perfectly! Special thanks to Bill Mummert for providing it.

PS. If the download link doesn’t work, Download it here Directly.

Google Font and the Web

Lance — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:56:32 +0000

Introducing Google Font.

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers

Now that’s a nice little gift for us Web Designers and Developers. The next time you’re looking for fonts for the web but don’t want to spend a dollar or lurk into technical stuffs, be sure to checkout Google Fonts (They have a sleek preview tool too).

Also worth mentioning, TypeKit and Google recently announced some sort of partnership regarding this matter, you can read it on TypeKit’s official blog entry here.

This is insane.

Lance — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:36:36 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Photoshop product manager Bryan O’neil Hughes give a sneak peek on “Content Aware Fill” feature for Adobe CS5 (launching this Apr 12) and just like the iPad, CS5 will change our work-flow definitely (and some people are just not happy about it).

Things out there in the wild

Lance — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:04:42 +0000

Hey its been a while! Here’s some interesting links:

Byebye Bebo? AOL must be in a tight situation
Cassandra for Dummies Oh yeah, NoSQL is hot this days.
The Kids are Fine indeed Kids do love the iPad, kudos to Gruber!
Git for the Faint Hearted let’s move on to distributed version control.
Obox Redesign A writeup about the design process.
Django Advent A bit late but sure enough to excite a budding django developer.

Coffee. No more.