apple, design, user interface

Dribbble favorites safari extension

25.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Dribbble is an invitation only service (which is great). However, when you are unregistered user, you cannot save your favorites. So I made this Safari 5 Extension which saves your favorites in your browser when you click the heart icon+link. It makes use of html5 localStorage. This means your favorites will be available to you [...]

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design, user interface

Helvetimail is here

13.09.09 | Permalink | 80 Comments

So you can finally grab the Helvetimail at josefrichter.com/helvetimail. This took a lot of time, because Gmail html, css and js are extremely messy. Does anyone know why? If you like Helvetimail, please see also my Helvetwitter. Please use discussion under this blogpost to submit comments, report problems, etc. I am aware that Helvetimail is [...]

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design, user interface

Helvetwitter to accompany Helvetireader and Helvetical

07.09.09 | Permalink | 37 Comments

Probably everyone, including me, likes Helvetireader and the new kid on the block, Helvetical. My despair with Twitter website as well as standalone clients, made me create a minimalist twitter client, using custom CSS and Fluid. Please click the icon to go to special Helvetwitter subpage. This blogpost is mainly a support for Helvetwitter. If [...]

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user interface

Helvetireader 512px mac dock icon

23.08.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

UPDATE: Helvetwitter is out! check www.josefrichter.com/helvetwitter If you are using Helvetireader, maybe incorporated into Fluid or Mozilla Prism, you might have been looking for a nice 512px icon. As I didn’t find any nice one, I decided to make one myself. So here is the result. Feel free to donwnload and share it (please include [...]

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webdesign

IE6 no more. And IE7 and IE8…

18.08.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

UPDATE: now with new Opera icon You may have heard about the IE 6 no more initiative. It asks webmasters to put a banner on their page, which detects Internet Explorer 6 and suggests to download ‘a modern browser’ instead. While I generally support the initiative, the banners are unusable for me. One of the [...]

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fun

Probably the best typo in history

17.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Read this letter and try to spot an amazing typo. Click on the letter to enlarge it. If you didn’t find it, click here: where is the typo?

webdesign

CSS positioning with vertical spacers

08.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Making layouts in CSS is a real pain. To me it’s like cleaning toilet with a toothbrush – it can be done, you can even achieve great results, but you would probably choose different tool if you could… The community, including Eric Meyer and Shaun Inman obviously longs for a real layout system. Before we [...]

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jQuery, user interface

Clear and re-fill form fields using jQuery

17.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This piece of code makes form fields more intelligent and usable. It clears the field on focus and if nothing is filled-in, it puts back the default value. There is a single line function MooTools for this, but I used jQuery elsewhere on the web, so I needed jQuery solution. But couldn’t find any good [...]

apple, fun

Unexpected PC upgrade recommendation by PC World magazine

14.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Sweet photo taken somewhere in the US

fun

What followers/following ratio can tell you about the Twitter user

30.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Even if you are a Twitter novice, you may already have noticed that the figures of “following” and “followers” for individual users vary considerably. There is actually quite a lot these figures can tell you about the user. So what may help you get the basic feeling about the Twitterer are the absolute figures of [...]

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