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I had already started working on a blog post with my top 10 most useful Web design tools but, like many other things these days, I had continually postponed finishing it in favor of “more important things”. Like client work… ;-) But I saw a post today on the Visualrinse blog that tackled the same…

I’ve been reading a few more comments about Google Chrome last night and this morning and have kept using it for browsing since yesterday. Here’s a few more points : My comments from yesterday and today take into account that Chrome is a first beta. People have to remember that this is not yet a…

I just downloaded and installed Google Chrome after reading the comic book that explains the details of the project. I had been hearing rumors about it last week but I didn’t pay much attention to them. In the last couple days there had seemed to be much anticipation (and over-hype) about its release and what…

3 days ago, I started my new career as a full time Web design professional freelancer… Well, it’s actually not a new career because I’ve been doing it for over 12 years now. But for a while in the mid 90’s, it did play second fiddle to music and working a production job in a…

For the last few weeks, I’ve been having a lot of issues with my font management software. For a Web or graphic designer, a good font management program is very important so I’ve been scrambling to find solutions. I had been using Extensis Suitcase for a long time but the Windows version doesn’t have a…

An overview of the last year on pixelyzed.com Now that 2008 is just about to start, I thought it would be a good idea to write a pixelyzed.com style year end review. There’s been a lot of activity in our little world last year as well as in other areas of the software industry. Throughout…

It’s rare that I simply link to a post or article when i have nothing to add. In fact I’ve really tried to avoid that on this blog. But the following article by Jeffrey Zeldman on A List Apart is really worth reading and says everything better than I could: Understanding Web Design It’s a…

Famous blogger Robert Scoble has published a very interesting post today about Apple’s advertising and brand promise following his experience upgrading his Mac computer with Apple’s latest updates. He is making the point that Apple claims the Apple experience is better, that Apple builds better quality computers, various hardware and software than its competitors. So when he…