Font stacks
I’m working to incorporate some more varied fonts into a new design without resorting to Flash or image replacement.
Color accuracy and screenshots
Let’s say you need to take a screenshot of a website for your portfolio. A common task, right? If you are on a PC, simply print screen, paste in Photoshop, and away you go. On the Mac, use some unintuitive key combination, open in Photoshop, and wait! The color is different.
IE8 Compatibility View, Standards Mode, and IE7
Informative post at the IEBlog on the differences between the various modes of IE8—worth skimming to see if any of the cases apply to you.
22 tips on typography
I recently read a nice little guide called “Twenty-two tips on typography…”
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 requires admin account on OSX
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 looks to be a very useful audio editing application.
View MAMP sites via Parallels
This post describes how to view local sites using MAMP and Parallels with minimal configuration. I am using MAMP 1.7, Parallels 4.0 and Windows XP, and OS X 10.5.6. This is definitely not the only method, but it works for me, and it’s easy to set up. I realize MAMP is not completely necessary on OS X, but the one-click installation is nice and suits my purposes for now.