Comment Jewels: Where the Real help is at.
In the world of social media sites, and the blogosphere, I’m sure you’ve read your fair share of very helpful stories. There are tons of helpful blog posts, tutorials, and stories out there, but if you don’t read the comments posted at the bottom of these posts, you may be passing up a treasure chest of helpful information. There are many reasons why a story will recieve a comment, and equally as many types of comments as reasons. However, the blogosphere has a unique characteristic that I have come to enjoy very much, and pay close attention to: Random Acts of Kindness hidden away in comments.
Finding your old stories with Digg’s Search vs. Google. Guess who wins?
Some of you already know this, but if you don’t it will save you a lot of time. Digg’s Search Could use some improvements, I try looking up old stories I’ve Dugg, and end up using Google instead, almost every time. I use Digg on a daily basis, not only to read interesting stories and important news, but sometimes to look up an old story I Dugg and reap its benefits. Most of the time, I’m looking up an old story to find a link to a free download I found on Digg while I was at work and want it at home, or a Photoshop tutorial, CSS tips, etc. Useful stuff. What bugs me is you can’t choose the time period or scope of your search at the top of the window. The default time period when you search from the top of page is the “Last 7 Days.” 99% of the times I search, I’m searching for an OLD story, imagine that. If I wanted to find a story from the past 7 days, it would be a lot easier to find, and I might not even need to use the search, especially if it was a popular story. Some of you may think this is ridiculous, but for those of us who digg a large amount of stories, a search feature should be the easiest way to find dugg stories. In Digg.com’s case this just simply isn’t true.
I see more and more fading corners every day, so I decided to put together some freebies, since they are becoming popular.
You will notice that all of these are white, but I included a Photoshop source file in each download so you can customize them. It seems to me that a lot of people are looking for these so, I thought I would do a good deed and help everyone out.
I tried to mix up the sizes a bit by making 2 different corner radii, as well as vertical, horizontal, and 2 border styles. If you like what you see here, and you absolutely do not have a way to customize it, leave a comment and specify a color in hex format, and I’ll see what I can do.
Who needs 4 round corners when you can have 1 or 2 that fade into oblivion?
There are a few reasons why this is not only kinda cool, but also a good idea for optimizing your site or blog:
1. It just looks cool.
2. It effectively separates content and keeps load times down because the background only loads once and doesn’t repeat.
3. It gives you freedom in your layout. Having a border that fades into your background enables you to leave the height and/or width of the column up to the content. For example, if you have a fading corner on the each section of the sidebar in your blog, you can add as many links as you want into that section and your CSS only loads one background image.
Putting your applications folder in your dock enables you to get rid of icons in your dock that you rarely use, and still have 1-click access to all of your installed applications. This not only keeps your dock clutter-free, it makes it easier to navigate to your applications folder after you install an application. (For example, a recent freeware install.)
1. Open a new Finder window.
2. Click on “Macintosh HD” (or your hard drive if you’ve renamed it)
3. Drag your Applications folder to the dock and release.
I thought this was kinda funny so I grabbed it for all of my fellow Diggers to enjoy.
Someone should tell these people what “Dugg” means.
This Adobe Illustrator bitt will show you how to make a funky custom brush for a fast and easy grunge-like effect.
1. Open a new new Illustrator document and make a few simple shapes on the artboard. Put a black stroke on the shapes, but no fill.
2. With your shapes selected, open the brushes palette, and apply an organic-looking brush stroke to your shapes.
I used “rough charcoal,” but choose whatever you like.
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