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In looking around the Habari admin panel I've got to thinking which areas are important to me in the way that I use the software and how to take care ...

http://brokenkode.com/habari-design-review

SourceForge Redesigned - Don't typically go there anymore as I've more or less found most of my software requirements in one way or another at the moment, however this was ...

http://brokenkode.com/sourceforge-redesigned

@font-face: The Potential of Web Typography - Great showcase of what's to come by using the @font-face rule in CSS. Open this in Firefox 3.5 only. Tried a couple of ...

http://brokenkode.com/font-face-the-potential-of-web-typography

Thought I'd write down a list of all the areas that this site still needs work on. This is for my own personal use which I'll be checking back on ...

http://brokenkode.com/housekeeping

Chrome Experiments - Crazy stuff that google's V8 engine allows you to do in Chrome. Not sure how useful, but you know experimentation breeds creativity, which breeds innovation.

http://brokenkode.com/chrome-experiments-home

Switch Display Options - Added to my collection of options I might use for my eventual illustrations category on the site.

http://brokenkode.com/switch-display-options

Chevereto - Open Source Image hosting script. This looks like a pretty cool idea, however I haven't had much love playing around with it, as the software hasn't really been ...

http://brokenkode.com/chevereto

First Screenshot of Chrome for the Mac - Easily my favourite app on Windows (after Excel). Although I've been using Webkit proper for a week now (much faster), the speed ...

http://brokenkode.com/chrome-on-mac-screenshot

feedly: a magazine-like start page - Easily my favourite Firefox plugin; so much so I'm considering using Firefox as my main browser because of this plugin.

http://brokenkode.com/feedly-a-magazine-like-start-page

TweetBacks - Great little plugin for WordPress (that will hopefully be making it's way over to Habari) that bring Tweetbacks. Think of them as trackbacks only made of tweets.

http://brokenkode.com/tweetbacks-beta-dan-zarrella

Carrot Creative - A bit jquery heavy (I don't think I've ever seen that many transitions in one place, but it's done relatively tactfully.

http://brokenkode.com/carrot-creative

Simple takes time - Jason Santa Maria on design times. I loved the Mark Twain quote, which I'd never heard before, "I didn’t have time to write you a short ...

http://brokenkode.com/simple-takes-time

Typeface.js - Great little alternative to sIFR (which I've never really used). The implementation on this seems very welcome and definitely something I'll look into for use on the site.

http://brokenkode.com/typeface-js

I'll be honest, it's been a while since I was even remotely excited about a new application. Chrome definitely fit that bill. For some reason or another I really wanted ...

http://brokenkode.com/first-impression-of-chrome

So Google is going to be releasing a browser later on today, called Google Chrome. You can also have a look at the comic book that Scott Mcloud did ...

http://brokenkode.com/google-chrome

After nearly 4 years running the Kode on WordPress, I'm making the jump and going to better pastures. The internet in general is not high on my priority list, however ...

http://brokenkode.com/goodbye-wordpress

There is definitely something to be said about a slow burning design. At least from where I'm sitting. I started redesigning the 'Kode last week but the deal I made ...

http://brokenkode.com/design-slow-burn

In a word, RUBBISH. The newest MacHeist is up and running and basically it's a really poor showing this time around. See the last time was an AMAZING collection ...

http://brokenkode.com/macheist-retail-bundle

Elsewhere.brokenkode.com (powered by Asaph) is a an images dumping ground for things that inspire me and has been up and running for a week or so. I'll hopefully get ...

http://brokenkode.com/elsewherebrokenkodecom

Late last year I made the move to a mac and while there was a bit of getting used to certain things I've been really very happy with everything that ...

http://brokenkode.com/the-fox-is-back

So the guys over at Pixelmator have just released yet another update on their excellent little image editor. Now the thing that has impressed me more with this little editor ...

http://brokenkode.com/pixelmator-release-schedule

I've got a question which I was hoping somebody would help me with. I love Google Reader, I really do, loads of great things about this little application to like, ...

http://brokenkode.com/google-reader

Firefox 2 is slow as donkeys on a Mac. It's true. Even with my 2Gs of RAM I can still notice the strain, that and it's constantly crashing for some ...

http://brokenkode.com/safari-plugins

A lot of people have been asking me about what I think about the new WordPress admin that's coming for version 2.4. No actually I am telling big fat porkie ...

http://brokenkode.com/new-wordpress-admin

Oooohhhh right, now I get it. So my mac mini arrived last week. Three seperate boxes, one for the mini, one for the wireless mighty mouse and another for the ...

http://brokenkode.com/taste-of-osx-part-one

VectorMagic is a free online application that turns your bitmaps into vectors. It's the work of two students at Stanford and I've got to say that it really does work ...

http://brokenkode.com/vectormagic

So I finally got around to doing some work on Habari this weekend, which was awesome. First time I actually used SVN and the guys and gals on the channel ...

http://brokenkode.com/habari-design-week-03

The Phiculator is a great little application, that you can download as a flash file as well (don't know but I love applications that come as flash files). It calculates ...

http://brokenkode.com/the-phiculator

Olav's just released his Blueprint CSS framework. What I like about it is the overall idea and clever little things like how to implement the grid structure.

http://brokenkode.com/blueprint-css-framework

The second official release of Habari, version 0.2 is out the door. Everyone has been working real hard, always with love, always with passion. One of the things that ...

http://brokenkode.com/habari-02-released

I'd also like to emphasise that this current incarnation of the website is version 3.0, with a major hard look at the oh, since I put this together in less ...

http://brokenkode.com/version-30-1