Alex Filatov
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Yellow Bird – new look of an old Google Street View
Aug 21st
The name is YellowBird!
* you can drag the video by your mouseImagine Star Wars refined with this technology? 
read article on techcrunch
Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
Aug 21st
Just read interesting article on Smashing magazine regarding best practicies in website typography.
Conclusion:
The study shows a clear set of common practices and guidelines for setting type in Web design. Note, though, that these findings are not scientific and should serve only as rough guidelines:
- Either serif or sans-serif fonts are fine for body copy and headings, but sans-serif fonts are still more popular for both.
- Common choices for headlines are Georgia, Arial and Helvetica.
- Common choices for body copy are Georgia, Arial, Verdana and Lucida Grande.
- The most popular font size for headings is a range between 18 and 29 pixels.
- The most popular font size for body copy is a range between 12 and 14 pixels.
- Header font size ÷ Body copy font size = 1.96.
- Line height (pixels) ÷ body copy font size (pixels) = 1.48.
- Line length (pixels) ÷ line height (pixels) = 27.8.
- Space between paragraphs (pixels) ÷ line height (pixels) = 0.754.
- The optimal number of characters per line is between 55 and 75, but between 75 and 85 characters per line is more popular,
- Body text is left-aligned, image replacement is rarely used and links are either underlined or highlighted with bold or color.
Read full article here: Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
Hi5 social network – a trick how to uncheck all your contacts from thirdparty address book
Aug 18th
Hello!
Just got an invitation to hi5 social network and accepted it.
After that I decided to find which of my friends are already there and imported all contacts from GMail address book.
Threre were more than 500 contacts but only 30 were already registered in hi5.
And, the worst news, ALL of them were checked! This is unfair because there no any possibility to uncheck them all.
To uncheck them all you need to do the following steps (assume that you use Firefox with Firebug addon):
1. Select “manually send invitations” (instead of automatically sending) and you’ll see the list of all your contacts.
2. Take a look in hi5 html page source code and and make sure they are using JQuery there.
3. Open console in Firebug and execute the following code:
$("INPUT[type='checkbox']").attr('checked', false)
All checkboxes became unchecked.
4. Manually check all necessary contacts and press submit.
This is minus for hi5 developers – there MUST be a possibility to uncheck all contacts!
