Ma.gnolia: Chris Ruzin's Bookmarks

Rent vs. Buy Myths That Ruined the Housing Market

Cruzin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:55:16 PDT

Very interesting article dealing with myths about renting vs. buying a home. Timely since I'm house hunting at the moment.

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Tags: real estate, housing, economics

Versions - Mac Subversion Client

Cruzin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:12:27 PST

Versions is the first Mac OS X Subversion client that won't make you long for the command line interface anymore.

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Tags: mac, software, subversion

GridIron Software - Flow

Cruzin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:26:23 PST

"A revolutionary approach to content management." Looks pretty interesting.

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Tags: mac, software, design

QuickLook Plugins List

Cruzin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:11:27 PST

Small but growing collection of QuickLook plugins for Mac OS X Leopard.

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Tags: mac, leopard, quicklook, plugins

The Bible According to Google Earth

Cruzin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:09:30 PST

Really cool artwork showing Biblical scenes as they might have looked through satellite imagery.

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Tags: google, art

Pixelmator

Cruzin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:45:14 PDT

A brand new, very well done image editor for OS X. It will handle most people's image editing needs and costs a fraction of Photoshop. It looks to be a contender now.

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Tags: mac, osx, software, photography

Challenging Crossword Game

Cruzin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:52:00 PDT

A fun crossword game that tests both your grasp of language and logic. Quite challenging after a bit.

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Tags: games

WoW Comic Contest Winner for May

Cruzin — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:54:31 PDT

The WoW Comic Contest Winner for May is particularly funny, because it's most likely true.

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Tags: warcraft, wow, humor, comic

PANArt HangDrum

Cruzin — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:15:56 PDT

In the Bernese language, Hang refers to the human hand, as in "hand-drum." This percussion instrument is comprised of two metal hemispheres bonded together: the DING side and the GU side. I want one.

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Tags: music

1-click Award

Cruzin — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:13:45 PDT

A very different kind of cursor. Pretty funny.

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Tags: humor, flash

DIY: Mod a $5 flashlight into a $95 light

Cruzin — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:26 PDT

Reader Kip modded a cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch that's brighter than a $95 fancy pants flashlight.

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Tags: diy

Rediscovering the Button Element

Cruzin — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:46:19 PDT

A short article on consistent styling of buttons across browsers using CSS.

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Tags: css, browser, form, buttons

Web typography: Bottom Margins of Paragraphs and Lists

Cruzin — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:02:35 PDT

Creating the perfect vertical space on the screen is easy. With a few lines of CSS, you’ll have a great typography foundation for your web site.

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Tags: css, typography

52 Ways to Speed Up OS X

Cruzin — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:58:21 PDT

Nice collection of tips for speeding up OS X on slower computers.

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Tags: osx, mac, tips

CSS Dock Menu

Cruzin — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:33:02 PDT

Very cool CSS-based, OS X-like dock menu. It doesn't degrade well, but it's still really fun to mess with.

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Tags: css, osx

iVisualize

Cruzin — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:56:37 PDT

Very cool iTunes visualizer plugin that allows you to use Quartz compositions as visualizers. There are some really nice compositions available for it already. And it's all free!

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Tags: audio, itunes, plugin, music

Keyboard-Friendly Link Focus - Accessites.org

Cruzin — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:09:33 PDT

Learn the importance of highlighting links in the focus state to assist a page's usability and accessibility for keyboard users

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Tags: css, code

Master Stylesheet: The Most Useful CSS Technique

Cruzin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:58:07 PDT

Before you do anything else when coding a website, you should reset the styling.

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Tags: css, design, code

Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine

Cruzin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:24:00 PDT

Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust.

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Tags: search, web, services

troovy | the world just got a bit smaller.

Cruzin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:04:55 PDT

troovy connects you to the world around you by inviting people around the globe to become urban anthropologists, travel writers and even citizen journalists.

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Tags: travel, world, culture

Designing With Grid-Based Approach

Cruzin — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:47:07 PDT

An enormous collection of links, quotes and examples from various sources on grid-based design for the Web.

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Tags: css, design, webdesign

Neave Imagination

Cruzin — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:19:53 PDT

Cool Flash site that lets you "paint" with your cursor.

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Tags: flash, color

Keepon Dancing to Spoon

Cruzin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:43:11 PDT

The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the song "I Turn My Camera On" by the band Spoon. This little robot dances better than I do.

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Tags: video, robots, music