Daily Dish of Dominey Design

Enjoying Links for July 2005

So what has Microsoft been doing to improve IE's CSS rendering over the past few years? With IE 7 Beta 1, the answer is nothing at all.

Wonder why cross-domain files are a necessary pain in the arse with Flash? This slide show explains why.

Doom the movie trailer | Yeah, this looks pretty bad.

How to make Internet Explorer-specific Web applications work in Mozilla-based browsers | Or as I'd title it, how to make your web apps accessible to everyone. Very interesting read.

2.0 firmware for PSP adds a Mozilla web browser. Here's a screenshot of it in action. Check out that UI! And by the way, since it's Mozilla, could a Flash Player be next? Please say it's true.

Best Dashboard widgets for web developers

The web app Blinksale is out of beta and ready for business.

How popular are you and your contacts on AIM? AIM Fight

Signs of religion in the American South

Yahoo! buys Konfabulator | Wow. Congrats to the Konfabulator team.

Anthony Bourdain is back | My favorite Food Network show host is now on the Travel channel with a new show that looks just like the first one.

Why is Flash Player 8 so much faster on OS X? | It's using Quartz Extreme. In other words, hardware acceleration. Very nice.

MochiBot | Free swf tracking app

The Evolution of Evolution

Strategies for CSS Switching | An excerpt of Professional CSS at Digital Web Magazine.

Typeradio.org | Now podcasting from Typecon 2005.

Did you know that VLC can play FLV files? Me neither.

When Vector Meets Photo | How to create those trendy vector people you see everywhere

The Common Desk | How to design a creatively stimulating work environment. Fun video, and the portfolio of work mixed in is fantastic.

Finding Nemo custom swimming pool | How cool. Love the shark.

Sparkplug | Firewheel redesigns their blog

What's new in Movable Type 3.2 | Chances are I'll be turning comments back on after this hits final. Some nice new features coming.

Stuff On My Cat | Because stuff placed on cats is awesome

What's it like working at Cartoon Network? Check out these internal movies and photos

Color Contrast Checker

Becky Carter Photographer | Seriously strange glamor shots. Check out the color examples. Via boing boing.

Design In-Flight crashes and burns | Crap

Flash Player 8 Public Beta | Very fancy installer. Be sure to check your player detection scripts against this.

MakingRoom | Beautiful new online photography magazine. And they're using SlideShowPro for each of their photographers. Very nice!

Sabadabada | Site full of 1960s Bossa Nova / Samba mp3s and cover art ripped from rare out of print records. Fantastic.

yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows

Google Toolbar for Firefox now available

Too Much Bullshit | Drop dead hilarious critique of why blogs suck

RJD2 'Since 76' Video | iTMS music video link

David Byrne critiques Freedom Tower | "...a big fuck you to the rest of the world at the entrance of NY harbor"

All Things Considered podcast (iTMS link) | No content yet, but it'll (hopefully) be here soon. Link has been removed

Delicious Library made $54k in profit first day | ...and other nuggets of Mac software development insight in Wil Shipley's WWDC presentation

Frank Gehry's vision of Brooklyn

Make-A-Pass Dashboard Widget | Very handy if you need a random password generator

Best Live 8 viewing was online | My thoughts exactly. Half of MTV's broadcast was commercials and correspondents yapping.

Proxima Nova is now available from Mark Simonson | Would make a nice alternate to Avenir

What if corporate America sponsored album covers? | Hilarious Photoshoped album covers. I'll take the Guns n Roses one on a tshirt

Eric's Universal Child Selector | If you know CSS, you have to read this. Very handy.

Too Cool for IE | How snarky.

Our foray into mobile | Macromedia has an "Experience Design Team" with a new blog

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