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Avatar font sadness

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 by Andrew

So we went and saw the much talked about Avatar last weekend. The movie and the 3d was pretty cool, but one thing kept bugging me, the font. So they spent 300 million making this movie, yet they used a font that is free with everyone’s computer: Papyrus. It saddens me that there is a [...]

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Happy Holidays From Pint

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 by Andrew

This a little something we made to spread a little holiday cheer. We hope you like it as much as we do.
http://www.pint.com/html-email/2009-holiday-email/landing-page/
Also as a special treat for the blog readers here are some holiday wallpapers:

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PINT Tweets for 2009-12-08

Monday, December 7th, 2009 by Admin

An interesting data point backing a theory that the Tweeto'sphere doesn't map to general population (not yet) http://tinyurl.com/ycgh86w #
Top Word of 2009: "Twitter" http://tinyurl.com/ydgzktr #
Rightward scrolling in a solar system infographic – http://tinyurl.com/yhzslkj Really drives home the empty space and scale of things! #
Markup for your melon or a nice [...]

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PINT Tweets for 2009-11-30

Monday, November 30th, 2009 by Admin

#HTML5 note: remove easy and useful data- attributes because of something few use & many find too complex!? http://tinyurl.com/yenzllq #
Socratic method? Instead spot the lie as a teaching tool. http://tinyurl.com/66ca92 These days one person's lie = anothers point of view #
Peering maps are back this time for the "clouds" http://tinyurl.com/yj44jfu [...]

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PINT Tweets for 2009-11-23

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Admin

#IE9 info soon http://tinyurl.com/ykzzlyt please Redmond can we have some CSS, HTML5, JS improvements, maybe <canvas> even? #
Despite usability studies pointing out rare use, here's a real reason for breadcrumbs in your Website design http://tinyurl.com/yzwbt3e) #
Well the #IE9 info is so far underwhelming http://tinyurl.com/yft9kmc though JS speed improvement & CSS3 selectors are welcome. [...]

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PINT Tweets for 2009-11-16

Monday, November 16th, 2009 by Admin

Geeky laws….not sure how bacon is geeky but many of these are certainly true http://tinyurl.com/yegvohd #
Reading about SPDY http://bit.ly/1l5zJm Finally movement on HTTP! #

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PINT Tweets for 2009-11-09

Monday, November 9th, 2009 by Admin

#HTML5 getting solid! http://tinyurl.com/yg9c82k Let's just hope last call doesn't mean moding large portions of spec as fast as possible #
PINT received a gold award in Consumer Products/Services category for http://www.spottedcanary.com in the 2009 Davey… http://bit.ly/3bKDvq #
Interesting post about cloud computing resources for password cracking http://tinyurl.com/yzwoavg Strong passwords always good idea. [...]

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PINT Tweets for 2009-11-02

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 by Admin

Procrastinate for 5mins watching a video about procrastination http://tinyurl.com/yhljaze #
Funny error messages are little solace – you CRASHED! Imagine if airplane software said "Aw, snap engine failure!" http://pic.gd/81c03c #
I posted 5 photos on Facebook in the album "Halloween 2009" http://bit.ly/2l57DH #
http://bit.ly/1YubEi #

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PINT Tweets for 2009-10-26

Monday, October 26th, 2009 by Admin

Sadly not an unreasonable idea http://tinyurl.com/yknbuh2 In the "real world" try wearing a mask to a store or being truly anonymous. #
Finding new W3C site http://www.w3.org/ improved though not super cool, most interesting is its view menu and *lots* of accessibility polish #
If you are into social networking be aware of Dunbar's Number http://tinyurl.com/yjhvq9h Humans [...]

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PINT Tweets for 2009-10-19

Monday, October 19th, 2009 by Admin

Plotting confusion vs. information http://tinyurl.com/yfsh5rb Simple point too little and too much info are both trouble! #
Nice new additions to Google Webmaster Tools http://tinyurl.com/yk4n7zv Google Bot View and Malware Detection #
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html reasons for an SSD drive upgrade, you can actually feel the speed! #
Nice network visualization for Twitter Accounts http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/ #InfoViz #Twitter [...]

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