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iPad Pics

J.P. — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:39:42 +0000

Here are a few pics at the flag ship Apple store on 5th ave in New York and a few unboxing shots. Loving the device so far! Can’t wait to see what developers can dream up with the apps.

Good Resources to Help Improve Your Web Typography skills

J.P. — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:30:32 +0000

A few links to help with web typography.

Theory & Methods

CSS Text Tools

Typography Sites

How to Make a Homemade Tattoo

J.P. — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:02:59 +0000

So… I guess my roommate was creating some homemade tattoo’s over the weekend. Since it was the first time I had ever seen this done in person I thought why not share the method he followed to create a homemade Tattoo.

Before we begin will need the following ingredients:

Tecate 12 pack
Limes
Hot sauce
Number 2 Pencil
Sewing needle
Black India Ink
Lighter
Rubbing alcohol 70% +
Sewing string
Tattoo Artist or drunk friend
Felt tip pen

The process begins by mixing and ingesting the following ingredients

1 Tecate with salt limed rims. (repeat 5x)

Once initial buzz is reached convince the closest person near you that “we should tattoo hearts on each other”.

Crack another Tecate and start creating the tattoo gun

Grab the number 2 pencil, sewing thread Sewing Needle.
Thread the needle and tightly wrap the thread around the pencil leaving 3cm’s of needle and tip exposed.
Tattoo gun is now complete.

Next step ready the recipient.

Wash skin area and needle with rubbing alcohol.
Draw tattoo on with felt tip pen.

We are now ready to begin the Tattoo Process

Taking the tattoo gun firmly trace the drawing.
Stop every 10-20 pokes and wipe away the felt ink to see how well you are following that desired sketch. At this point you want to re ink the gun as well.
Continue step 2 until tracing of sketch has been completed.
Drink another Tecate and go look in the mirror at your new homemade tattoo.

Have IE6 act more like IE7

J.P. — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:15:32 +0000

Dean Edwards JS guru has been working on a JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser. Its corrects many CSS issues we have slaved over in the past. Another handy feature is it supports pngs in ie6.

With IE8 just around the corner adding this JavaScript to your header will help speeding coding and provide graceful degradation for older versions of IE.

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Clean Start for a Wordpress Theme

J.P. — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:26:45 +0000

For the first post of this blog I would just like to give props to the theme I’m using called “Wordpress Naked”. It’s a nice way to start your own custom theme since it strips out all css styles and leaves you with the very basics to get your blog starting.

The aim with Naked is that a developer with an XHTML template that they’ve already developed can very quickly apply it to this no-frills theme with the minimum of fuss and research.

Learn More Here