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The best quotes from FOWA

This years Future of Web Apps conference was an absolute blast, I’m hoping to give a full write up of my experience, but for now, here’s a list of my favourite quotes from the two days.
Stop thinking you understand your users.
Kevin Rose
Don’t build anything you don’t need for launch.
Mike McDerment
jQuery is like cocaine. One line [...]

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Deliciously Timed Tweets

What is it?
Deliciously Timed Tweets (or DTT for short) is a collection of API’s which allow you to bookmark links in Delicious, and then automatically tweet them at a specified time interval.
What’s the point?
Delicious does already allow you to tweet your bookmarked links, the only problem is that this can result in Twitter spam if [...]

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Lose the snooze

I’m always up for a bit of ‘life hacking’, figuring out ways to get the most out of everday life and recently I’ve noticed I’ve been feeling extremely tired on a morning, almost fatigued and this feeling continues for most of the day.
I get a decent amount of sleep, usually going to bed before 11pm [...]

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New stylings

As you can see, I’ve been tinkering with a new theme for the blog! Please feel free to let me know what you think! I’ll be using the same leathery style on the Coffeepowered frontpage also, once the blog is done
Disclaimer!
This theme isn’t finished, isn’t cross-browser tested and probably doesn’t validate. It’s to [...]

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Printable logos

This is one of those tips where I think “surely everyone knows this already?” but it’s a solution to a problem that I found which was quite neat and I’ll use all the time from now on.
When it comes to embedding a company logo into a page, quite often the logo won’t be suitable for [...]

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Featured : Designers scribbles

I’ve only just spotted this, but some of my moleskine scribbles were featured in Niki Brown’s Design O’Blog a while ago.
I love my moleskine, although I need to get into the habit of scribbling more!
http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2008/12/01/designers-scribbles/

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