The Art of the Title Sequence

Michelle’s been burning thru concept artwork & one thing she really enjoyed was the title sequence from the recent Sherlock Holmes motion picture.

Below is a link to the Concept Art that sold the idea to Warner Bros

Next up is a web site that celebrates the art of the title sequence

The Art of the Title Sequence

And what you’ve been waiting for, the end titles…

Sherlock Holmes End Title Sequence (quicktime required)

& Michelle’s recent Google Doodles

min-height for IE + clearfix

great little snippet for dealing with IE6 min-height (or lack of) troubles,

also check out my iemustdie repo on github, got a nice collection of swiss army knife snippets for IE’s problems; plus the best clearfix solution i’ve seen in years (no more empty div’s).

enjoy, let me know if i’ve missed anything.

Deconstructing the Design Process

Just read an excellent article by Aarron Walter on mocking up your application’s design.

Well worth the read along with some Visio templates

Binding Things to DropBox

One of the apps I’ve really come to love is Things.  All it is is a ToDo List generator but it’s conquers the task with so much ease that I just can’t fault it.

However with my growing dependency on it grows my need to keep those tidbit’s safe, and like the Ad says “theres an app for that” :-)

I have to admit something now, I never heard of DropBox till Paul Boag announced them as winners in this year’s .NET awards; must be losing my touch because this gem really is wonderful.

DropBox is simply a directory on your machine (be it Mac, Win or Linux) that sits there and mirrors whatever you put into it in a virtual memory stick on the web, backing up your important bits seamlessly in  the background while you continue to work.  No annoying “44% done” popup’s or “Connection Failure!” prompts, if it gets into a tiz it simply fixes itself and leaves you be until you fill up your free 2GB allowance.

Then if you fill up that 2GB you can pay to increase it to 50GB or 100GB, renewable monthly ($9.99) or yearly ($99)

Anyway I digress, back to the matter of hand.

With DropBox installed, make sure Things isn’t running then fire up Terminal and type:

mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Library
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cultured\ Code
mv Things ~/Dropbox/Library/Things
rm -rf Things
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Things Things

What we’ve basically done here is move Things’s ToDo database into the DropBox folder, then created a symbolic link from it into the orginal database’s location.  Fire up Things and it’s none the wiser, but take a gander at the DropBox icon in your menubar and you’ll notice it quietly backing up that database, just in case the worst happens.

Priceless!

10 Things to do After Installing Wordpress

Nice list and some good pointers to make sure your Wordpress blog is in tip-top condition and not about to crash on you.

Great stuff;