Mike McCarron. Design, Development & Technology

Paper for iPad. Sketch, diagram, illustrate, write notes and...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:00:32 -0400

Paper for iPad. Sketch, diagram, illustrate, write notes and more.

iPhone Wirefame

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:19:54 -0400

iPhone Wirefame: Nice iPhone Wireframe PSD by Gavin Elliott.

Adobe Shadow

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:44:32 -0500

Adobe Shadow: Adobe Shadow is for web designers and developers who are targeting mobile browsers....

The new iPad. Ordered.

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:41:59 -0500

The new iPad. Ordered.

An update to the extremely popular -9999PX image replacement technique.

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:00:00 -0500

An update to the extremely popular -9999PX image replacement technique.: .hide-text { ...

Apple iPad 3 Media Event “We have something you really...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:09:00 -0500

Apple iPad 3 Media Event

“We have something you really have to see. And touch.”

Trouble with @font-face Thickness in WebKit. While Webkits...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:31:00 -0500

Trouble with @font-face Thickness in WebKit.

While Webkits default subpixel-antialiased type looks good in many cases, if you’re using a font service like Typekit many of those fonts tend to render thick in Webkit. In my opinion WebKit’s text rendering is too thick and bloated by default. This is usually a problem that can be fixed by applying the following webkit vendor-prefixed property as mentioned in a blog post by Max Voltar:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

We recently ran into a situation where we were using @font-face to include a custom font in a mobile website we were developing. The type was still rendering thick even after we tried common fixes like applying a text-shadow to text and the -webkit-font-smoothing fix mentioned above. The solution was to apply a 3D transformation of 0px to the elements that we’re too thick.

-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);

The image above shows the before and after results when this rule is applied. By applying this rule to our CSS it also eliminates the “pop” you get when animating the element. The end result gave us consistent font rendering across all webkit browsers.

9-bits: Adobe Releases Photoshop Touch For iPad 2. Eager to try...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:16:05 -0500

9-bits:

Adobe Releases Photoshop Touch For iPad 2. Eager to try this out.

I’m very interested in seeing how much you can really do with this app.

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) arrives this summer. With all-new...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:46:10 -0500

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) arrives this summer. With all-new features inspired by iPad, the Mac just keeps getting better and better.

Mountain Lion looks like it will be a promising follow-up to OS X Lion. It will bring over popular iOS apps and features like Messages, Reminders, Notes, Twitter integration and Notification Center. Mountain Lion will also expand it’s iCloud integration by allowing you to store documents on iCloud and access them from your iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Additionally, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has an excellent article about how Apple’s Phil Schiller revealed Mountain Lion to him in his own person “Apple Media Event”.

szymon: iOS ‘86 by Anton Repponen

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:06:54 -0500

szymon:

iOS ‘86 by Anton Repponen

Audio

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:06:23 -0500

If you haven’t already, check out Path 2.0 for iPhone (or...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:55:19 -0500

If you haven’t already, check out Path 2.0 for iPhone (or Android). The UI design is just incredible. The attention to detail is meticulous and there is a lot of innovative functionality going on.

Best jQuery Plugins of 2011

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:09:53 -0500

Best jQuery Plugins of 2011: This is a great list of jQuery plugins. Many of these plugins...

Adobe Withdraws from Mobile Flash Battlefront

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:21:00 -0500

Adobe Withdraws from Mobile Flash Battlefront: Toolkits such as PhoneGap and Sencha Touch are...

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:05:26 -0400

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs: minimalmac: Mona Simpson provides, in daring yet delicate prose,...

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Issue

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:09:38 -0400

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Issue: via minimalmac: News of Jobs’ passing first broke on...

Steve Jobs: Designer First, C.E.O. Second - NYTimes.com

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:46:50 -0400

Steve Jobs: Designer First, C.E.O. Second - NYTimes.com: Steve Jobs eye for the most subtle detail...

Thank you, Steve. 1955-2011 

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:15:00 -0400

Thank you, Steve.

1955-2011 

Today Apple announced the iPhone 4S. Duel-core A5 chip, 1080P HD...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:06:00 -0400

Today Apple announced the iPhone 4S. Duel-core A5 chip, 1080P HD video, an all new 8MP camera and Siri, the voice-guided assistant.

Maniacal Rage: Gowalla 4 and Loss of Personal Milestone Data

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:15:00 -0400

Maniacal Rage: Gowalla 4 and Loss of Personal Milestone Data: Absolutely spot on blog entry by...