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Found Friday Vol 72

October 28, 2011

It’s nearing the end of the month, but before that happens: Found Friday Vol 71! This week’s finds are all over the place, but with one unifying theme: awesomeness. Yeah. Anyway, we have a new font creation app that looks fantastic; a neat site for copying & pasting cool HTML characters; a book on Pixar & their art; a short read on the effectiveness of different colors in call to action buttons; and a short but interesting look at CSS4. Yes, 4.

Glyphs

I’ve been studying type design like mad lately, and this app came across my radar. It looks really slick – way more user friendly than FontLab, the current industry standard. Mac OSX only; sorry Windows designers!

CopyPasteCharacter

This site lets you easily copy & paste cool/useful HTML characters. Simple but neat.

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Found Friday Vol 71

October 21, 2011

It’s Found Friday Vol 71, readers, and I’m sick as a dog. I thought about featuring Vicks Vaporub and Halls cough drops in order to garner some reader sympathy, but instead I decided to stick with the usual: the best design finds o’ the week. This week we have: an app for article-appreciating iOs users; a PNG masking technique for web images; a must-read on layout manipulation in WordPress; a bunch of pre-made CSS animations for your projects; and a javascript plugin that makes your videos responsive. It’s a good week to be a designer/developer, people!

Instapaper

I’ve been using Instapaper for a few months now, and it’s a must-have if you want to keep up to speed in the world of design and development. It just went through an awesome redesign too! Essentially, Instapaper ($2-$4 on the App Store, depending on whether for iPhone or iPad) allows you to save articles you find online to read offline later. Because there are so many awesome design & development articles being published each & every day, this is a great tool to save articles you want to read until you have time to do so.

PNG Masking: How to Dynamically Shape any Image on Your Website

This article gives a great tutorial on how to use PNGs to mask images on your site. For example, take a basic square image, use a circular PNG and some tidy CSS, and bam! You have a circular image. Worth checking out.

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Found Friday Vol 70

October 14, 2011

Found Friday Volume 70 is here, and with it we have the following great design/development finds from the past week: a beautiful wallpaper design based off a Steve Jobs quote; a site with a bunch of commonly used documents for web design/dev; a great responsive website framework; a collection of UX/UI documentation from large businesses like Adobe; and a big collection of links/posts regarding WordPress theme development. It’s a quality collection this week, folks!

Real Artists Ship Wallpaper

Free for your smartphone, tablet or desktop, this wallpaper is not only beautiful – it’s motivating to boot (via @swissmiss). We call that a double whammy in “the biz”.

DocPool.co

DocPool is “an effort to share and improve commonly used documentation in the web design & development community”. A great resource for web design/development freelancers both veteran and rookie (via @DesignerDepot).

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Found Friday Vol 69

October 7, 2011

It’s F-F-F-F-Found Friday 69, everyone! Commence your joyous celebrations for the following great finds this week: a UI stencil kit; a tutorial on how to build a responsive image gallery; some awesome color-dipped mugs for you fellow caffeine fiends; a bunch of useful CSS snippets; and a web app that turns your static website design mockups into actual clickable test sites.

UI Stencils

These stencil kits are a great way to lay out your next project, be it web/iPhone/iPad etc, on paper. Handy!

Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel

This tutorial teaches you how to make what the phrase above says. I’m too lazy to type that out again. Copy and paste you say? What am I, some sort of internet wizard?

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Found Friday Vol 68

September 23, 2011

We’re on volume 68 of Found Fridays, and this week we have something for everyone: designer, developer or small business manager. This week’s finds include: 10 free online storage solutions; a useful way to approach kerning; a bunch of useful online file conversions services; a little tool that makes Internet Explorer 6-9 more compatible with certain CSS3 selectors; and a great little read on common IE bugs and how to fix them. Read on!

Top 10 Free Online Storage Apps

Online storage (or “cloud” storage, as the cool kids say) is the new black. Access your files from anywhere with a connection, and your files are safe in the cloud in the event of a hard-drive failure (which just happened to us, but I digress). Here are ten solutions for you.