February 6, 2010
I have created two templates for creating wallpapers for the iPhone and the iPad. In the past I have seen many iPhone wallpapers that do not take into account the areas cut off by the lock screen which can result in key focus points being cut off (such as a character's head). The iPad presents the same challenge but wallpaper images must work for both landscape and portrait orientations as well as with the lock screen and home screen. Note that in both of the templates the lock screen bars are not semi-transparent as they are on the actual devices. I did not bother with this as bars are really just there to help with blocking your images.
In a future release of the iPad template I hope to include guides for all of the home screen icons to help create images with virtual shelves or some other interaction with the rest of the UI.
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January 27, 2010
These are my additions to Matthew Rex Downham's Phoney icons to match the Iconfactory's Flurry icons. This first collection includes: Espresso, CSS Edit, Echofon, Cyberduck, Cloud App, Picasa, Colors, last.fm, a home icon based on the iPhone's home button, and lastly a custom icon I use for one of the networked drives on my server--Big Dipper.
You can download the iContainer and ICNS files below. Be sure to go download the Iconfactory's Flurry sets as well as the Matthew's custom additions.
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January 27, 2010
I decided in December to start moving my website/blog/public files off of my personal server because when I graduate in May from Georgia Tech it will lose its home and where I'll be off to next is still up in the air. I already have a Flickr Pro account to handle all of my photos and design work, so what I needed was a place to host my blog. I looked at many of the blog hosting options available and Posterous stood out the most given the ability to post via email and broadcast your content to other services.
I was pleased to find that Posterous was opened up for full theming just before I discovered it. I decided to go ahead and develop a new theme instead of porting the latest Wordpress theme I had designed. The Posterous theming engine is fairly robust but there are some elements that can be a pain to customize and HTML5 elements are not recognized. All in all I think that Posterous is a great service and I hope that it will continue to improve and grow.
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