Visual Studio 2008 – Clear Recent Projects List
Have you ever wanted to clear your “Recent Projects” list on your Visual Studio 2008 start page? If so here’s how: Copy the text below and paste it into a new Notepad file and save it as...
View ArticleThe Toolbox / Time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web.
The Toolbox is a directory of all the useful single-page sites, apps, and bookmarklets that we often come across but can never recall when we need them. So now, no need to obsessively bookmark...
View ArticleBranding the CS6 Desktop System
A great article on Adobe’s new Brand Experience blog about the process of creating all the 5000 or so assets which make up the CS6 release. The list of assets includes application icons, splash...
View ArticleRemove the F5 shortcut from Visual Studio
If you’re anything like me, when developing a website you switch back and forth between Visual Studio and your browser; making code changes and hitting F5 to refresh your browser. And if you’re...
View ArticleAlways include the latest jQuery library
Tip: To keep your jQuery projects always up to date, you can include the following snippet of code: <script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script> By...
View ArticleVisual Studio Macro: Collapse Solution Explorer
One thing that’s always frustrated me with Visual Studio is the lack of a Collapse Solution button to reverse the effects of the ‘Nest Related Files’ button which essentially expands all nodes of the...
View ArticleBreaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown – Ben Kamens
Just came across this great little article which dissects the slick and super-fast Hover Menu used by Amazon. It uses a little bit of J-Query to detect the direction the users’ mouse is travelling in...
View ArticleLeave lots of whitespace
A desktop background wallpaper I’ve created. Feel free to click on the image below to download a 1920 x 1080 version And yes… it is Helvetica Neue
View ArticleQuick Tip: Duplicate Layer Groups in Photoshop
As you probably already know, in Photoshop you can duplicate the currently selected layer by simply hitting Ctrl/Cmd + J. Unfortunately this doesn’t work for Layer Groups. To duplicate a layer group,...
View ArticleThe Ugly (Type)Face of Downing Street
Arguably one of the most famous doors in the world, number 10, Downing Street is an iconic piece of British History – but I’m not going to talk about that.* Take a look at the number on the door. How...
View ArticleThe Productivity Manifesto
What if you could sit down at your computer and write 1,000 words? What if you could focus without impulsively opening Twitter and Facebook? What if you could write three books in a single year? The...
View ArticleMinimize all applications on Mac OSX like Windows
There’s no shortage of people asking how to minimize all application windows on Mac OSX in the same way that pressing Windows+D works on Windows. It seems the best that people have come up with so far...
View ArticleAdd Mac OS X’s ‘New Folder With Selection’ feature to Windows context menu
One of the features I love about OS X is the option to select multiple files and create a new folder containing those files by way of a right-click option This neatly creates a new folder in the...
View ArticleAwesome Dribbble Tools – A collection on Product Hunt
Product Hunt is a place to find curated lists of the coolest products and services across the web – updated daily and voted for by the community. There are collections covering every imaginable topic...
View ArticleWhat is Branding? This two-minute manifesto by David Brier explains.
A brand is so much more than a logo; a name; a font; a colour. This two-minute, thought-provoking video combines a simple narrative and beautiful animation to answer that basic question “What is...
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