Category: Technology

Ideas Behind Responsive Emails

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Say you’ve designed an HTML email with 3 columns. Because of limited and weird CSS support in email clients, email design is done with tables. That 3 column design looks great on large-ish screens, but it squishes awkwardly on small screens. Theoretically a media query would save us here, but as we can’t even count on floats we sure can’t count on those. There is still a way though. In this article, I’m just going to poke at some ideas around responsive email. These are not robust, production-ready ideas, I just thought it was fun to think about. It was inspired by listening to Fabio Carneiro speak recently. Fabio works for MailChimp doing all this hardcore email layout wrangling and shared some of the ideas behind responsive …

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Ideas Behind Responsive Emails

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How to Get Security Updates for Windows XP Until April 2019

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Microsoft’s official support for the Windows XP operating system ended more than a month ago. While some companies and organizations are still receiving updates for the operating system, end users do not. These companies pay Microsoft for that, usually because they were not able or willed to migrate computer’s running Windows XP to another operating system before the extended support phase for the system ended. There is another exception to the end of support rule: Windows Embedded Industry, formerly known as Windows Embedded POSReady, operating systems continue to receive updates. What makes this interesting is the fact that Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 is based on Windows XP Service Pack 3, and that the security updates released for that system are identical with the ones that Microsoft would have released …

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How to get security updates for Windows XP until April 2019

12 Free Ebooks For Designers

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

We’ve done some extensive research and found these brilliant free ebooks for you to download and read – but let us know in the comments if you’ve come across a good book we’ve missed! There has always been a healthy market for commercial books written by experts, and this isn’t likely to change any time soon: sometimes there’s just no substitute for splashing your cash and getting high quality content in return. That said, there’s a growing movement towards free and freemium content on the web, and the quality of the content is often on a par with the books you’d part cash for. What’s on offer Obviously nobody can afford to print and distribute free books (with the exception of the excellent World Book Night movement), but …

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12 Free Ebooks For Designers

From Gmail to Fastmail

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Email is crucial to me, I can’t even remember the last day I didn’t check my inbox. It’s my preferred channel for communicating and interacting with other people “electronically”. Like many developers I also use emails to keep track of the activity of all the projects I contribute to. I also receive all sorts of emails from machines, sometime server alerts or even from my Arduino powered home automation. Finding a good email provider is a hard task. You need a company you can trust to receive, manage and deliver all your emails especially when you have more than 80k+ emails in total (like I do). In this article I’m going to do a quick overview of the reasons I chose Fastmail …

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From Gmail to Fastmail

10 InDesign Preferences You Must Change Today

May 24, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

By Kelly Kordes Anton InDesign CC makes a lot of assumptions about you. For example, itâ€™s pretty sure that your world view is pretty Dark. It thinks you understand picas. And itâ€™s pretty sure that you donâ€™t want to take advantage of that gorgeous display your monitor offers. I canâ€™t tell you why it makes these assumptionsâ€”but I can tell you where to change them if theyâ€™re not working for you. So if you’ve never customized your InDesign preferences, just press Command+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) to open the dialog box and follow along. 1. Lighten Up Does anyone really like that awful Dark interface? You do? Fine, skip to No. 2. The rest of you, select Interface > Color Theme in the …

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