So this morning I was jumping a flight to Florida, and as per usual I had to shutdown my phone during takeoff. This, of course, was probably the first time I’d turned off my Blackberry Curve since the previous time I’ve flown. When I powered it back up, I was in for an unexpected surprise.

In my applications, their now lived an icon for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. I was sure I hadn’t added this app, and was a bit worried as to how it got there. A quick search (using google, of course) lead me to multiple forums discussing the exact same issue.

In their unending effort to force their products on users, it looks like Microsoft and Verizon are pushing this app to many of their devices. In usual MS fashion, the engine also doesn’t show up in my applications list, and cannot be removed. So much for the freedom to choose

If anyone knows any ways to remove this nuissance, other than removing the service book entry, please drop me a comment.

As you can tell by these crazy, ridiculous,

awesome

fonts, my first time with

Typekit

went rather well.

Last week, a friend of mine introduced me to Typekit. I was pretty floored. This is a HUGE step in the right direction for web design. Now that all major browsers can take advantage of the ability to link to a font, developers will have the ability to solve complex design issues while maintaining accessibility standards (without using flash, like SIFR does). I’m sure we will see more global solutions like this one for solving the legal problems with linking users to fonts they haven’t purchased in the near future.

Typekit also works with IE6, which is an honest to goodness miracle.

Thanks for this one Jake

Facebook has come out with a neat little “username” option for your profile page today. Basically, it lets you set your profile page to have a nice clean friendly URL, instead of those ugly PHP param laced monstrosities. Good call Facebook, good call.

By the way, here’s mine:

http://www.facebook.com/stinogle

… IN AMAZING FASHION!

http://www.opera.com/?

_Rob

Just got this awesome Wordpress smiley pack from NoktahHitam here. You can check out the rest of his site here.

Installation

1. Download the pack as above.
2. FTP and overwrite to your “public_html/wp-includes/images/smilies” folder.
3. Enjoy

Codes

Change ≈ to : if you want to use it. E.g. change ≈mrgreen≈ to :mrgreen :

1. – ≈mrgreen≈
2. – ≈neutral≈ or ≈|
3. – ≈twisted≈
4. – ≈arrow≈ or ≈idea≈ or ≈pirate≈
5. – ≈shock≈ or 8 O
6. – ≈smile≈ or ≈)
7. – ≈???≈ or ≈?≈ or ≈?
8. – ≈cool≈ or 8 )
9. – ≈evil≈
10. – ≈grin≈ or ≈lol≈ or : D
11. – ≈oops≈
12. – ≈razz≈ or : P
13. – ≈roll≈
14. – ≈wink≈ or ; )
15. – ≈cry≈
16. – ≈eek≈ or : x or : o
17. – ≈mad≈
18. – ≈sad≈ or : (
19. – ≈!≈
20. – ≈$≈
21. – ≈XO≈
22. – ≈vangry≈
23. – ≈up≈
24. – ≈down≈
25. – ≈halo≈
26. – ≈kiss≈ or :XOX :

Alas, I will be on sandy beaches in Hawaii this week, but everyone else should check this out. Refresh Pittsburgh and On the Fridge, LLC. are putting on this nifty one day conference centered on web design. It will showcase some serious talent from the Pittsburgh area, as all the speakers are local to here. If you want to keep up on the web design scene here in the burgh, this is the place to go.

Info

webdesignday
Saturday April 4, 2009
8:30am – 5:00pm
Left Field Meeting Space
116 Federal St.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40 per person

Looks like they are limited to 85 registrations, so hit it up quick!

_Rob

No pun intended, sickos.

Get your mind out of the gutter.

Seriously.

Today I tried to get on Google docs and WHAM! I’m hit smack in the face with this two by four of awesomeness.

I wonder who translates for them, or if they do it in house. I don’t even know what most of these languages are!

Salam, stinogle!

Yes, that multilingual greeting is back. The creators of the original Scrabulous have brought this facebook classic back in all its glory as Lexulous, and I for one am eternally grateful.
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