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February, 2014

ACF { Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress

Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take full control of your edit screens & custom field data.

When to use icons vs. icons with text vs. just text links? - User Experience Stack Exchange

Icons are notoriously ineffective as labels, being very difficult to interpret correctly without training or experience. For most situations, users learn correct interpretations better with text alone than with icons alone.

2013: The Year in Interactive Storytelling - NYTimes.com

Multimedia Stories, Data Visualization, Explanatory Graphics, Breaking News, Visual and Interactive Features

The Agony and Ecstasy of Building with Data — The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium

Ah, Data. And of course, Data’s best friend, A/B Test.

Upbeat — The Internet's Music Charts

Upbeat is the internet's music charts, a place where you can find new and popular songs voted on by the users.

Добавляем словари в iOS 7 без джейлбрейка | Всё об iPad

Николай (niks26) на форуме сообщил о программе, которую я мысленно пометил «Must Have» и побежал сразу же её тестировать. С помощью описываемого в статье приложения вы сможете установить любые словари в систему iOS 7 без джейлбрейка. Я давно грезил установить англо-русский словарь. Теперь эта мечта стала явью.

Free alternatives to LogMeIn (updated) | PC Pro blog

I’ve been using the free LogMeIn remote access service for several years now. I’ve never felt the need to pay for the commercial service, as mostly what I use it for is connecting to my home PC while I’m at work – or vice versa – and copying whatever files I need into Dropbox.

How To Split PDF Documents Into Single Pages Using Mac OSX • Tips To Learn How To Go Paperless | DocumentSnap Paperless Blog

Today a consulting client had an issue that we’ve all done: He scanned a stack of paper intending to make it one PDF per sheet, but instead it went into one big PDF.
Since he didn’t want to re-scan, I broke down a few options for how to split a PDF using the built-in tools of Mac OSX. You can think of this as a companion piece to How To Combine PDFs Using Mac OSX Automator.

TOILETPAPER magazine

Conceived in collaboration with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published by Deste, Toilet Paper contains no text but combines commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery to create a journal that is as appropriate for the coffee table as it is for the WC.

New York Times website redesign critics - Slate

The most beautiful website, according to contemporary Web design, would be a completely blank page.

Факультет свободных искусств и наук СПбГУ

в сотрудничестве С ИНСТИТУТОМ ЛИБЕРАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

Rainy Cafe: Ambient White Noise Generator. 雨のカフェ

“A moderate level of noise enhances creativity compared to both low and high levels of noise. Moderate background noise induces distraction which encourages individuals to think at a higher, abstract level, and consequently exhibit higher creativity.”

Home | This Is My Jam

A place to put your favorite song of the moment & hear great music, handpicked every day by friends.

Pandoc include codeblock filter

Pandoc filter to process code blocks with class "include" and replace their content with the included file.

Chrome Remote Desktop // Chrome Web Store

Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files. All connections are fully secured.

CMD+Enter :: Дополнения Firefox

Press CMD+Enter in url bar to open a new tab with url bar contents.

Think of Life as a Video Game to Make the Most of Your Time on Earth

Most importantly, successful players put their time into the right things. Later in the game money comes into play, but your top priority should always be mastering where your time goes.

How to design news sites | Webdesigner Depot

Recently, a friend suggested that I write an analysis of news websites: what they’re doing right, and what they’re doing wrong. He suggested that the online news experience was too backward, and maybe a bit boring, and figured that they could make better use of AJAX and similar technologies to streamline content delivery and site navigation.

032c Workshop
Slate Story Index : Interesting stories - Google Docs

Interactive stories updated list, by Slate

Origins of Common UI Symbols

They are road signs for your daily rituals — the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins?

Mammouth - PHP preprocessor

Mammouth is a small language that compiles into PHP, inspired by CoffeeScript. It's compiled to PHP code/files that you can run on your PHP server.

Navigate Up :: Add-ons for Firefox

Navigate up one or more URL levels, by clicking on icon in URL bar, or using icon's context menu, or pressing shortcut key.

Tomato Can Blues

NYTimes interactive experience

regexpal - Javascript Regex Tester

Yes I know, there are many other JavaScript regex testers available. Why did I create yet another? RegexPal brings several new things to the table for such web-based apps, and in my (biased) opinion it's easier to use and more helpful towards learning regular expressions than the others currently available.

JQuery parallax plugin

JQuery parallax plugin

Open-Include - Packages - Package Control

Will open file paths found under the cursor with ALT+D

Look Up in Dictionary :: Add-ons for Firefox

Looks up a selected word in OS X's Dictionary.app

Progre :: Дополнения Firefox

Shows progress of page load in location bar.

UploadProgress :: Дополнения Firefox

Displays the progress of the current uploads. Useful for sites that does not shows the upload progress like youtube.

TeamViewer - Free Remote Control, Remote Access & Online Meetings (LogMeIn alternative)

TeamViewer - the All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings

Building a SublimeText command from scratch (and other useful bits) | 1klb

SublimeText is my current text editor of choice. While I use a few others for specific tasks1, if I’m just going to chuck words in a file I’ll probably find myself using Sublime Text. One of the nice things about ST is the extensive plugin framework: a series of python files in a pretty simple file hierarchy makes for a bunch of hackability.