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Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims…

In the world of freelancing, the entrepreneur has to take on a number of tasks for themselves that would normally be handled by a separate department at a bigger company. Most of these tasks are not…

Zoltan Hawryluk has written a detailed in-depth post on @font-face. Not only does he go into detail on using fonts via CSS but he also goes into detail on how fonts are rendered in various browsers:

finermac:

LittleSnapper, Realmac Software’s tool that lets designers and web developers collect, edit, and share photos and website inspiration, now has a bookmarklet. It lets you automatically launch LittleSnapper to capture the current webpage, and it has a special trick when browsing LittleSnapper’s companion web service, Ember.

If you’re viewing a shared web snap at Ember, using the bookmarklet will tell LittleSnapper to launch and capture its own version of the website being shared, not the Ember page you’re viewing. Slick.

Coming soon for iPhone and Mac. Sounds like it could be a good one, we’ll see.

The hot topic of the day. Paul Boag has a nice article about Google Chrome Frame.

A decent follow-up to the Ikea 2010 dust-up that occurred recently.

matthewb:

A very clever bookmarklet by Steve Souders that examines the background images on a page and automatically generates CSS sprites (and recomputes all background positions!) based on how the images are used in the page, and grouping by size. The interface displays a running tally of the number of HTTP requests saved as well as the reduction in filesize. My only (very minor) complaint is the manual work required to fold the changes back into the source CSS files, but this is genius. (via Tim Dawson)

A great summary of the new features in iTunes 9, also offers a few tips that aren’t widely known.

This article on Carsonified explains why GIT is fundamentally better then SVN and why it’s worth the switch.