Creatives all over the globe use indexhibit, a mySQL-driven CMS designed for personal portfolio sites.
The CMS has a devastatingly simple design. If you want it to, the interface stays completely out of the way of the content. indexhibit.org was used as an example of "no style" style in More Eye Candy from the Underground by Curt Cloninger. It has a correspondingly simple back-end you can play with in the online demo.
Indexhibit is built by "Daniel Eatock, Jeffery Vaska And You." It doesn't compete directly with Posterous, but seems like this CMS could work for almost anything that doesn't need a social media arsenal -- see the indexhibit Idea page.
To keep clutter off the desktop, think about filing by date. For those who don't have the gift of hyper-organization, sorting things by date can be faster and doesn't require creating -- and remembering -- that perfect file name for less-than-important stuff.
The Secret: it's amazing how infrequently you need to find the files stored this way. But when you do, all you need to remember is "when" you made the snapshot of that amazing logo/page layout/type treatment/color pallet/or that interesting PDF or white paper -- not "what" its name is.
Set up a directory called something like Desktop_by_date and place it in an appropriate spot OFF the desktop
Make an alias of this folder ON the desktop
Give it an interesting icon
Anytime the desktop gets cluttered, throw everything in a folder named with today's date, with year and month first -- as in 2009Jun4desktop -- and place it in Desktop_by_date
Put the folder into Desktop_by_Date where it will arrange itself neatly by year, month and day
Not the first time I've raved about something on MyFonts.com (and no, am not an affiliate) but their latest newsletter included a link to this lovely typeface, DIN.
Originally designed in the 1920s, the railways alphabet became part of that
thorough German system of standards known as DIN (for Deutsches Institut für Normung, or German Institute for Standardization). From 1936 onwards, DIN 1451 was the standard type of lettering for road signage, described as “a
style of lettering which is timeless and easily legible”.
Timeless indeed. This font in its new reincarnation is totally fresh!
Just as interesting is the MyFonts.com beta site's new Overview interface: hover in lower right to preview the family's headline fonts, a text block
and (drum rolll...) the Greek and Cyrillic variations! This must be due to the font's European roots...
"There
is a town in North Carolina that attempted to get Embarq (a DSL
provider) and Time Warner Cable to increase the speed of their
broadband offerings. When they refused, the town became an Internet
Service provider and let the data floodgates open wide. They called the
service Greenlight. Now Time Warner is lobbying the state of North
Carolina to shut it down due to the competition with their Roadrunner
cable modem service. You got to suspiciously watch Time Warner. They
will stab you in the back every chance they get."
My
name is Brian Bowman. I’m the Public Affairs Manager for the City of
Wilson, NC, and I’ll bet my broadband is faster than yours.
If the cable/phone companies really want a level playing field, they’d
open their books just like we do in the spirit of open meetings and
open records law. They don’t want a level playing field. They want to
be the only team on the field.
American Violet,
opening nationwide on April 17th. Starring newcomer Nicole Beharie as
Kelly, as well as Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson and Charles S.
Dutton, the film is practically a primer on drug-task-force abuses
under what is known as the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Program.
In
November 2000, a drug task force arrested 28 residents of Hearne,
Texas, almost all of them African-American, and charged them with
distributing crack cocaine. Pressed to plead guilty to the charges by
their public defenders, several of the accused did, but Regina Kelly, a
single mother of four, refused. The American Civil Liberty Union's Drug Law Reform Project
eventually took up the case and filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf
of 15 of the arrestees, accusing the local district attorney and theSouth Central Texas Narcotics Task Force with conducting racially motivated drug sweeps for more than 15 years.
Enacted in 1988, and recently refunded under President Obama's
stimulus package, the Byrne grant program is designed to help states
and local jurisdictions fight drugs and the violent crime associated
with drug trafficking. The program provides federal money in 29
specific "purpose areas," including crime-victim assistance and
alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders, but most of the
grants are intended for police activity. And a good deal of the money
disbursed is predicated on the number, not the quality, of drug arrests.
"Throughout America, Byrne grants are consistently used to target
very low-level drug dealers for arrest and long-term incarceration,"
said Graham Boyd, lawyer for the Hearne plaintiffs and director of the
ACLU's Drug Law Reform Project. "You have a drug task force whose goal
is to arrest as many people as they can, their funding stream is based
on that, so they rely on confidential informants, and their racial
profiling is staggering."
"The block grant is based on population and crime rate," added Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance Network.
"Because it's based on arrests, the incentive is to focus on arrests,
and the more the better. They have an incentive to go after low-level
drug dealers, and it leads to civil rights offenses because they have
quotas to fill, and that might entail cutting corners."
Hearne was not the first case, nor the most notorious, involving
drug-task-force abuses. That honor belongs to Tulia, another small
Texas town where, on July 23, 1999, and based on the word of a single
informant, 46 people, 39 of them African-American, were accused of
selling drugs. As recounted in Tulia, Texas, a documentary recently shown as part of PBS' Independent Lens series [available on DVD at www.newsreel.org], the informant, Tom Coleman
— at one point named "Texas Lawman of the Year" - had a checkered law
enforcement career, did not wear a recording device during any of his
alleged drug buys, made numerous evidentiary errors and was accused of
being a racist.
Not terribly coherent about this yet BUT am posting anyway -- mostly in the form of a bunch of links (for non-geek designers: sorry, there may be nothing for you here -- if you love grids and want to know more, please read on).
Have been using CSS since the late 90's, but for whatever reason only just discovered the existence of CSS Frameworks -- by following links on the Posterous site Mockups To Go (thank you!) about the grids used by the Blueprint CSS framework.
Another CSS framework is the Yahoo developer YUI (vaguely remember being told to check this out a few years ago, but just wasn't ready). There's a Yahoo webcast with an introductory explanation of the framework along with a pretty good introduction to CSS.
Most of the netbooks sold today run on an Intel chip called Atom, which is a lower-cost, lower-power version of the company’s standard laptop chips. And about 80 percent of netbooks run Windows XP, the older version of Microsoft’s flagship software.
The new breed of netbooks, built on cellphone innards, threatens to disrupt that oligopoly.
Based on an architecture called ARM, from ARM Holdings in Britain, cellphone chips consume far less power than Atom chips, and they combine many functions onto a single piece of silicon. At around $20, they cost computer makers less than an Atom chip with its associated components.
But the ARM chips come with a severe trade-off — they cannot run the major versions of Windows or its popular complementary software.
Netbook makers have turned to Linux, an open-source operating system that costs $3 instead of the $25 that Microsoft typically charges for Windows XP. They are also exploring the possibility of using the Android operating system from Google, originally designed for cellphones. (Companies like Acer, Dell and Hewlett-Packard already sell some Atom-based netbooks with Linux.)
The cellphone-chip makers argue that the ARM-Linux combination is just fine for a computer meant to handle e-mail, Facebook, streaming video from sites like YouTube and Hulu, and Web-based documents.
And then there's Tim Geithner, who wore an orange-and-lavender striped tie. Orange. And lavender. Interesting how this guy makes his boldest fashion statements at the biggest press conferences. Perhaps he's feeling emboldened now that the markets are reacting positively to him. Perhaps he's getting a jump on Easter.
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