Category: bugs
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Get it right.
“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big…
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sh: /usr/bin/lockfile: No such file or directory
sh: /usr/bin/lockfile: No such file or directory in Mac OS X El Capitan explained and fixed.
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Zen & The Art of iTunes Failure
What a recent iTunes failure taught me about attachment to work and memories.
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Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.
Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…
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HTML5, CSS3 default templates
Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…
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When Ads by Google Go Wrong
When Ads by Google Go Wrong
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Opera loves my web font
And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…
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Opera hates my web font
So I’ve wanted to use a condensed, bold Franklin typeface for my site’s headlines since, well, forever. So I bought Fontspring’s fine Franklin Gothic FS Demi Condensed and licensed it for @font-face use for a…
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The dog ate my bookmarks
It’s been years (or is it weeks?) since something odd, implausible, and inexplicable happened to one or more of my Apple computers that doesn’t happen to anyone else’s. You know you want to hear this.…
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Last Tangle in Firefox
Snow Leopard + FontExplorer X screws up fonts in Firefox (especially Helvetica).
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Chicago Deep Dish
AEA Chicago, wrapped.
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In-Box Twenty
What’s inside.
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Firefox test page
Firefox developers, a test page demonstrating the Firefox bug has been created for your browser fixing pleasure.
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Firefox forces orange background flash
Imposing an ugly flash of orange background on all readers, using any browser, seemed to be the price necessary to work around a content bug in Firefox.
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Apple OS X 10.5.7 overheats some Macs
Apple OS X 10.5.7 overheats some Macintosh computers, creating instability and preventing backups.