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	<title>Craig Koster</title>
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	<description>Design, Develop, &#38; Deliver</description>
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		<title>Font Squirrel &amp; Free Font-Face Kits</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/font-squirrel-free-font-face-kits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[font-face fonts typography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Found a nice set of free @font-face kits from Font Squirrel today.  I have not used the @font-face functionality of CSS 3 before so I gave it a try here to test it out.  Works great and it was easy to implement.
Fonts seen in the example are Hill House and Kulminoituva.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found a nice set of free @font-face kits from <a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface">Font Squirrel</a> today.  I have not used the @font-face functionality of CSS 3 before so I gave it a try <a href="http://www.craigkoster.com/playground/font-face.php">here</a> to test it out.  Works great and it was easy to implement.</p>
<p>Fonts seen in the example are Hill House and Kulminoituva.</p>
<div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/FullFontFace.png" rel="lightbox"><img src="http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Safari.png" border="0" /></a></div>
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		<title>Classic Dilbert</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/classic-dilbert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilarious Dilbert today.  They&#8217;re always pretty funny but this one hits home.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hilarious Dilbert today.  They&#8217;re always pretty funny but this one hits home.</p>
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		<title>Photoshop Polaroid Action</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/photoshop-polaroid-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photoshop polaroid design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Found a great Photoshop action today that turns any image into a Polaroid picture.  Here&#8217;s a shot of an old town in Alaska.

Just go to this site and download the action file.  Install into Photoshop, open your image, and play the action and you&#8217;re good to go.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found a great Photoshop action today that turns any image into a Polaroid picture.  Here&#8217;s a shot of an old town in Alaska.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/OldTownKetchikan-PE.png" alt="OldTownKetchikan-PE.png" border="0" width="476" height="540" /></p>
<p>Just go to <a href="http://rawimage.deviantart.com/art/Polaroid-GENERATOR-V1-42651542">this site</a> and download the action file.  Install into Photoshop, open your image, and play the action and you&#8217;re good to go.</p>
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		<title>iMovie &#8216;08 Archiving</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/imovie-08-archiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[imovie archive mac os x]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve accumulated quite a bit of home video on my hard drive and wanted to see how I could archive all my clips onto an external USB drive.  After some Googling and experimentation I found the following to work nicely:
1) Right click in the &#8216;Events&#8217; panel at the lower left of the iMovie screen [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve accumulated quite a bit of home video on my hard drive and wanted to see how I could archive all my clips onto an external USB drive.  After some Googling and experimentation I found the following to work nicely:</p>
<p>1) Right click in the &#8216;Events&#8217; panel at the lower left of the iMovie screen and make sure &#8216;View Events By Volume&#8217; is checked.  This will list all volumes available for archiving/reading events.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Setting.png" alt="Setting.png" border="0" width="449" height="459" /></p>
<p>2) Just drag the events you want to archive to your backup volume (USB drive, Time Capsule, etc.) and iMovie will move them for you nicely.</p>
<p>One disadvantage of this is that anytime you want to work with or play projects that depend on the events you moved, you&#8217;ll need to make sure your backup volume is accessible.  You&#8217;ll see a little yellow caution sign on any project that uses event clips that are not available.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Warning.png" alt="Warning.png" border="0" width="147" height="95" /></p>
<p>I was tempted to move all my files via the Finder but I&#8217;d recommend staying away from this method as iMovie is not aware that you&#8217;re moving the files.</p>
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		<title>Logo Of The Day</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/logo-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally I try to come up with logos for fictitious companies just to practice my design work.  Here&#8217;s one I did today for a company called 4Square.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Occasionally I try to come up with logos for fictitious companies just to practice my design work.  Here&#8217;s one I did today for a company called 4Square.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/4Square.png" alt="4Square.png" border="0" /></p>
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		<title>Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox)</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/stop-password-masking-jakob-nielsens-alertbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/stop-password-masking-jakob-nielsens-alertbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox)

Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn&#8217;t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.
I&#8217;d agree that masking does inhibit user feedback and causes some problems but it&#8217;s been around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html">Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox)</a></p>
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<blockquote>Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn&#8217;t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;d agree that masking does inhibit user feedback and causes some problems but it&#8217;s been around for so long that it&#8217;ll be a hard habit to break.  I&#8217;d say keeping the mask with a small icon or link to show the password to the user if they want is the best option.</p>
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		<title>Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/build-your-own-captcha-and-contact-form/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/build-your-own-captcha-and-contact-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form

Ever get hit with spam through the contact form on your personal site? Well, here is a short tutorial on how to build a custom captcha to keep the bad guys out.
Nice tutorial on building a contact for with a captcha in PHP.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/build-your-own-captcha-and-contact-form/">Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form</a></p>
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<blockquote>Ever get hit with spam through the contact form on your personal site? Well, here is a short tutorial on how to build a custom captcha to keep the bad guys out.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nice tutorial on building a contact for with a captcha in PHP.</p>
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		<title>Email Standards Project</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/email-standards-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email Standards Project

Our goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently. This is a community effort to improve the email experience for both designers and readers alike.
Just found this via http://fixoutlook.org.  Nice to see someone trying [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.email-standards.org/">Email Standards Project</a></p>
<p>
<blockquote>Our goal is to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently. This is a community effort to improve the email experience for both designers and readers alike.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just found this via <a href="http://fixoutlook.org/">http://fixoutlook.org</a>.  Nice to see someone trying to bring HTML email up to standards.</p>
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		<title>Check My Colours</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/check-my-colours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check My Colours

It is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.
Nice little tool to ensure accessibility compliance.
(via www.zeldman.com)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.checkmycolours.com/">Check My Colours</a></p>
<p>
<blockquote>It is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nice little tool to ensure accessibility compliance.</p>
<p>(via <a href="www.zeldman.com">www.zeldman.com</a>)</p>
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		<title>8th Grader Builds Solar-Powered Bike</title>
		<link>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/8th-grader-builds-solar-powered-bike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craigkoster.com/blog/8th-grader-builds-solar-powered-bike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[8th Grader Builds Solar-Powered Bike With GPS, iPod Dock : Gas 2.0

Eighth-grader David S. Dixon–along with his dad David G. Dixon–has built a street-legal quadricycle powered by a solar-charged electric motor. The bike not only carries his dog and three friends, but it has also has an iPod dock and GPS.
Somebody needs to make this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://gas2.org/2009/06/17/8th-grader-builds-solar-powered-bike-with-gps-ipod-dock/">8th Grader Builds Solar-Powered Bike With GPS, iPod Dock : Gas 2.0</a></p>
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<blockquote>Eighth-grader David S. Dixon–along with his dad David G. Dixon–has built a street-legal quadricycle powered by a solar-charged electric motor. The bike not only carries his dog and three friends, but it has also has an iPod dock and GPS.</p></blockquote>
<p>Somebody needs to make this kid the CEO of Chrysler.</p>
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