randomness

Spell Check

March 9, 2008

In this day and age with project managers and copy artists, why do so many ads have misspelled copy? The latest one brought to my attention by my designer cousin, in Florida, can be seen on the Project Runway web site. On top of that I...

Design a Playing Card 2008

by coderman

randomness

February 19, 2008

A few years back (4 to be exact) I was part of a forum based project where we each designed a playing card to complete a deck of cards. This was my first PHP project where I allowed the members to auto-register, pick a card,...

iTunes getting prerelease content

by coderman

randomness

December 1, 2007

Getting advanced copies of music has never been a problem because of torrents and other means, but this is the first time I have seen iTunes with an advanced copy. The latest Armin van Buuren is slated for a December 4th release, but I was just...

Leave my credits alone

by coderman

randomness

November 29, 2007

Earlier today I received an email from iStockPhoto stating that I had some credits set to expire in 90 days. Fair enough, they give me warning that this is going to happen, but I came to an interesting thought, why do electronic credits expire? I...

NBC Direct, missed the memo

by coderman

randomness

November 11, 2007

Well NBC decides to leave iTunes, roll there own video player and then thinks a non cross-browser/os applciation is going to take off? Then to top it off they used Windows Media Player to distribute the video? I am going to pass on this one even...

Do you owe someone a beer?

by coderman

randomness

November 8, 2007

Foamee helps track who you owe beers to (and vice versa) Learn how (need a Twitter account, but who doesn't have one of those) This is a pretty neat concept built by Dan of SimpleBits. Go check it out and start sending beers. :)...