Eight percent of all men suffer from some form of colorblindness, a condition that can interfere with their ability to distinguish things designed for unimpaired viewers. Color Oracle aims to change this by making it easy for designers to see their work as a colorblind person would. Color Oracle ...

by Dan Lurie on May 21st 2007 11:30AM

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Over 8 million people live in New York City, and for those of them who use Google Earth, things just got a whole lot easier. The NYC Google Earth Mega Pack adds a boatload of new layers to enhance the Google Earth experience, including complete mass transit routes (including into Long Island an ...

by Dan Lurie on May 15th 2007 5:30PM

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Yesterday afternoon, popular social event website and Yahoo! property Upcoming.org surprised users by redesigning and requiring the merging of existing accounts with Yahoo! accounts. The changes came without warning, possibly in an attempt to avoid a user backlash similar to that which erupted ...

by Dan Lurie on Apr 20th 2007 11:00AM

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Being a designer requires at least some degree of perfectionism, a fact which often boils to the surface when working with imperfect tools– such as when one needs to create a barcode for a package or book cover design. We know of more than a few designers who have gone so far as to attempt to ...

by Dan Lurie on Apr 11th 2007 4:00PM

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One of my favorite parts of being a college student is the fact that I have access to pretty much any and every scholarly journal and article database on the planet. That's why was so excited to read about The New York Times' decision to provide their premium TimesSelect service free of charge to ...

by Dan Lurie on Mar 14th 2007 11:00AM

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Breaking news on the internets right now as Matt over at WordPress is reporting some serious issues with packages of WordPress 2.1.1 downloaded over the past 3-4 days. According to a blog post, a malicious intruder gained access to the wordpress.org servers and modified the files being made ...

by Dan Lurie on Mar 2nd 2007 7:45PM

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You know we're living in a beta world, and I am a beta girl guy. It seems that we're constantly hearing announcements about "The Next Big Thing" to reach private beta and how totally awesome it is - and then the waiting game begins. True to boom form, most of the services never actually make it ...

by Dan Lurie on Feb 16th 2007 6:00PM

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I'm a very visual person, so when planning a trip, I like to have some sort of idea of what my destination looks like. Google Earth and the 3D imagery it provides a great way to get a feel for where you're going, but it's not always practical to open up such a resource intensive application when ...

by Dan Lurie on Feb 13th 2007 10:30AM

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This isn't exactly the kind of promotion one normally sees leading up to a major OS update. PowerTogether.com is a promotion put on officially by Microsoft offering full licenses of Windows Vista Business or Microsoft Office Professional 2007 to any US resident (sorry international readers) willing ...

by Dan Lurie on Nov 28th 2006 10:00AM

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Cabs are expensive, especially when considering that in most situations one can take public transport for about a fourth of the price. But for those times when you simply have to get somewhere quickly and with minimal hassle, taking a taxi is often the only option. Readers in large megalopolis's ...

by Dan Lurie on Nov 15th 2006 10:00AM

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