A collection of essays, HOWTOs, rants, inspirations, and links for coders, designers, and other folks tickled by the details of technology.
I'm Bruce Alderson. I design and build software and other interesting things. I also love to push pixels, pencils, inks, web design, and digital imagery.

A short sheet of the [Markdown], Markdown Extra, and [SimpleLink] syntax.

A simple, beautiful and powerful notes app.
The nice user interface lets you focus on the important things - just notes.

With Dazed Digital now one year old, it is now bringing that same cutting-edge and ground-breaking ethos to the web. The world's first Ideas Sharing Network, Dazed Digital posts exclusive video interviews, live footage of tomorrow's music stars, behind-the-scenes fashion reportage, and exclusive features above and beyond what is in the magazine, all alongside daily blogs and submissions from its extended global network of writers, photographers, artists, and activists. Dazed has also taken its long-established tradition of nurturing and supporting new talent to the next level in the Rise section of Dazed Digital, where new talent in music, illustration, fashion and photography is profiled by Dazed's in-house creatives, with a special guest judge each month.

Lion Disk Maker is a small application programmed with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 to burn a DVD or build a bootable USB key from Mac OS X Lion’s Installation program.

Type anywhere and use the awesome bar straight away!

The location bar is often called the Awesome Bar because it’s great at remembering websites you’ve been to and guessing where you are trying to go.

I often find myself editing websites on several different computers. One of the more tedious things is keeping all my FTP settings updated across them. I’d start development on a new site at work, then try to continue from home, only to find I’d forgotten to write down the connection credentials. Alternately, even if I did have them on hand, entering them for each FTP client is a waste of time. Dropbox to the rescue!

Фактрум — сайт фактов обо всём. Мы собираем, отбираем и публикуем истории на всевозможные темы от… и до. Наша миссия — развлекать и удивлять, так что, если вы хотите узнать что-то новое и интересное — вам сюда.

The elevator pitch is that Scroll helps you make magazine style layouts for the web and iPad without needing to know how to code.

Enter your company name and click "Generate" to generate several paragraphs of corporate gibberish suitable for pasting into your prospectus.
(The gibberish is geared more toward Internet and technology companies.)

You forgot to include paywalls...

Select the object to be clipped and choose Edit > Cut. Select the clipping frame and choose Edit > Paste Into...

В штате Мэн, США есть город Бангор с населением в 35 000 человек, что, для сравнения, в 6 с лишним раз меньше Великого Новгорода или, скажем, Пскова. В Бангоре с XIX века существует городская газета — The Bangor Daily News. С середины июня сайт издания работает на движке WordPress — этим фактом после того, как на нём же стали работать Techcrunch, Mashable и другие крупномасштабные медийные проекты, уже никого не удивишь.

Background Labs feature a wide variety of Photoshop backgrounds, patterns, textures and graphics for use in customizing your Twitter profile, blogs and websites. Browse by color, by tags and styles. It can't get simpler to find any graphics than on Background Labs!

The Ministry of Type is a weblog by me, Aegir Hallmundur, about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire me. I am a designer originally from the far north of England, now living and working in Brighton in the far south of England. I love hand-tracing and recreating old designs as vector artwork, and there are many examples of that in this site. I have a portfolio here containing some examples of my paid work. I don't do comments here, but you're most welcome to contact me: I've got a contact form on every article page, and one here.

If you wanted to design your own bank notes or passport you might consider using a Guilloché pattern as one of your anti-counterfeiting measures.