Archive for Useful links

James / May 7, 2009

Introducing iPhoneFAIL - 320 by 480 pixels of FAIL

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Introducing GoSquared's latest world changing project - iPhoneFAIL.org. If you've ever suffered from a failing iPhone, a stupidly buggy app, or just come across an error that you thought was laughable, you can now share your angst with the rest of the world.

If you have an account with GoSquared (including Liquidicity) then you can sign in and comment with the same username and password etc. We like to make things easy for you.

All in all, we'll let you check it out for yourselves - we've kept things nice and simple so you can just focus what's important - the FAILs.

Hope you like it,

The GoSquared team.

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James / February 21, 2009

Link Roundup Friday

We post a lot of links to some really useful, surprising, and sometimes just plain funny sites on Twitter. Until now, we haven't shared much of our Twitter chatter on Liquidicity, but we know you'll find (at least some of) what we share useful, so now you can pick up the best bits from the same place.

If you found any of this vaguely useful, you may want to follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/gosquared

Stay up to date with the team:

James - twitter.com/gosquared
Geoff - twitter.com/TheDeveloper
Caspar - twitter.com/MediaD00d
And JT needs to get Twitter!

P.S. We're trying these brief "link roundup" posts out. If you want us to follow you on Twitter, wanna share your Twitter finds, or have any suggestions on ways we can improve these posts, shout out in the comments!

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James / February 16, 2009

I Love Typography

I Love Typography

There's a site I've been following for a while that has been a great inspiration for some of the changes we've been making to GoSquared. Over the last few months we've paid a lot more attention to the design of Liquidicity (this blog), and more specifically, we've been looking into how to improve typography around the site.

I Love Typography is a really useful, inspiring site run by a guy named Johno all about typography. Covering the latest free fonts, type news, tuition on typographic terms, and a bit of humour to lighten things up, I Love Typography is a useful resource for anyone with an interest in making letters and words look as awesome as they can.

I've decided to write a little about the site because a) it's been a great source of inspiration to me, and b) it recently had a redesign that some of you may not have seen. The old site used to look great, but the improved design is much cleaner and easier to navigate - usability is paramount.

Some stuff from the I Love Typography Archives that rocks

Just a few examples of the kind of stuff that gets featured on I Love Typography include a limited edition Helvetica Moleskine (up for grabs!), tuition on vertical metrics, and a lovely leather 'type bag' for the other half.

Of note, every week you can be sure to be updated on the latest, best, and weirdest examples of type in the world in Johno's "The week in Type" set of posts. A huge amount of work goes into these hugely informative, inspiring posts that can only be produced by a true type fanatic. What would we do without him?

All in all, if you're ever stuck for typographic inspiration, you know where to look!

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James / January 19, 2009

TechFluff TV: Friendly Tech News From the UK

There's a lot going on in the UK and Europe. So much of the news we read online right now is focussed on the USA, and what's happening in the Valley, but a bunch of cool guys (and girl) recently started a video podcast to change that.

Techfluff TV is a great way to find out about what's happening on the UK and European tech scene. Essentially they cover the same kind of news as sites like TechCrunch, but focus on Europe, in a friendly, quirky video every week. Presented by Hermione Way, it makes for an amusing, light hearted way to catch up on the week's industry news in a few minutes.

Check it out, we're fans already!

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James / October 17, 2008

Panic Over! PHP, CSS & HTML Help Sheets

Today, we're introducing our all new Help Sheets. You loved our original CSS and HTML Help Sheets, so we went back to the originals, tidied them up, and gave them a sprinkling of coolness.

We're also pleased to bring you an entirely new Help Sheet - the PHP Help Sheet. This should be a saviour for you hardcore coders when you forget the odd array function or two.

You can download the full set as a ZIP (5.4MB) right here:

Download a ZIP file containing all 3 Help Sheets

The all new PHP Help Sheet. Everyone needs a handy reference now and then, so go ahead and print this off. Stick it on your wall and never get lost again!

PHP Help Sheet PDF Get the PDF [1.9MB]

The HTML Help Sheet has been updated and tidied up, so now you have no excuses for not decorating your office notice board with snippets of usefulness.

HTML Help Sheet PDF Get the PDF [1.9MB]

The CSS Help Sheet - our first ever, but updated to match the set. Never forget those styling options with this at your side.

CSS Help Sheet PDF Get the PDF [1.9MB]

We hope you like the new Help Sheets, and would love to know what you want us to Help Sheet-ise next: JavaScript? Actionscript? JQuery? Tell us in the comments!

Oh and another thing, the other day one of our readers sent in a photo of our CSS Help Sheet on his office notice board. If you're using our Help Sheets at your office / home / garage / Starbucks we'd love to see! Email us a photo or upload to Flickr with the tag "GoSquared".

Enjoy!

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James / October 4, 2008

Dear Adobe: Pay Your Full Attention to this Site

Read the Top 100 Requests on Dear Adobe and see if you agree.

Adobe has a lot of work to do to please their customers. This is a site that has been set up for us poor developers, designers, animators, and general creatives to vent our anger at Adobe - the company, the products, and their pricing. If Adobe ignores this site, and sees it as a small number of angered individuals determined to destroy Adobe's reputation they will be much mistaken. This site has comments from some of the most loyal users of Adobe products, from the people that genuinely care about their business, and these are also the most vocal - they are the core users that matter most to Adobe.

They are telling Adobe, directly, and in crystal clear English, exactly what is wrong with their current business. They're even telling them how to put it right.

Dear Adobe, Ignore this site at your peril.

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James / October 1, 2008

jParralax - View Images from a Different Angle

Parallax is a really cool, powerful use of javascript from Stephen Band. Think of looking through a camera and having layers of objects at various distances moving around. Parallax achieves that effect using a combination static images, one for each layer.

"Parallax [is a jQuery library that] turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way."

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James / September 30, 2008

Stainless Browser - Googleless Chrome for the Mac

Like the look of Google Chrome, but waiting for its release on OS X? Wish you had something similar to meet your multi-tab-tasking needs? Meet Stainless, the (very early) development version of the same concept. Stainless breaks each tab into an individual process just like Chrome to ensure when one goes wrong, it doesn't screw up the whole browser.

It's still early days - there's no bookmarking, history, or download management, but this WebKit based browser has a lot of potential. It also looks pretty good, with minimalism on a par with Chrome itself.

Stainless is for Leopard only (sorry Tiger users, time to upgrade!), and is very (VERY!) early beta. Try it out at your own risk.

Regardless, this is a fantastic start, and I look forward to seeing it develop. If a small group of developers can get this together in a matter of weeks, why can't Google get something out the door shortly?

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James / May 13, 2008

Ad this to your Resources: Web Banner Sizes

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Check the GoSquared Support Wiki for a run down on official and not-so-official web banner sizes.

You can use the example images as you wish. Give your readers an example of what ad sizes you offer if you want.

Hope this helps if you ever need a reference!

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James / April 14, 2008

A Few Updates

A Few Updates on GoSquared since launch 2 days ago

Just over 2 days ago, we launched the all new GoSquared, introducing the GoSquared Network, the completely rewritten Control Panel, Squares on other Sites, and more.

In just 2 days, we already have 14 Sites on the GoSquared Network, with more joining every day. We are really pleased that after a large influx of new users, the Control Panel is now available to thousands of Members.

The launch went smoothly, but there were a large number of bugs that simply couldn't be sorted out until we were online. We have been working without much sleep for the last few days to fix as many bugs as possible, and improve the most important areas of the site. Here's some of the fixes we have been working on:

New My Info Area

We have completely redesigned the My Info area, giving a polished finish to your GoSquared Account details. Editing your Account details will now lead to a more familiar CP edit pane.

New Icons and more for My Info

Top Sites

The Top Sites list on the Squares Homepage is now fully functional, and displays the most popular Sites at any given point in time based on their GoSquared Reputation.

Top Sites on the GoSquared Network

Recently Joined Sites

At the base of the Squares Homepage is a quick preview of the most recently joined Sites on the GoSquared Network. All Sites are given a large thumbnail preview image that is updated regularly. You can see more Sites by clicking the left and right arrows. New Sites are automatically added to the queue for this preview area, regardless of Reputation, giving all new Sites publicity before they have spent a penny.

Recently Joined Sites on the GoSquared Network

Support Wiki

The GoSquared Support Wiki is growing, with more and more information being added every day to help you out with viewing and using GoSquared. If you need help with anything, or think anything is missing from the Support Wiki, just Contact Us.

GoSquared Support Wiki

Other bugs that aren't so interesting

  • Fixed a bug where GoSquared Reputation displayed error codes before Site had installed GSTC. Now shows "GSTC not yet installed" message.
  • Sign in fields for drop down on Sign In and Join pages no longer take default "edit pane: appearance. Now take browser default appearance, and smaller size.
  • Added "New" icon to Squares title in navigation bar for non-secure pages. Members signed in to the Control Panel don't see this, because they already know the Squares system is new.
  • Added online status to Squares Overview in Control Panel, so you can see at a glance which Squares are currently public and which are awaiting approval.
  • Added a "Contact Us" and "Support" link to GoSquared Footer.
  • Removed unexpected errors from Money section of Control Panel. Improved "edit pane" styles for "Add Details" screen.
  • Fixed JavaScript "accordion" animation of Sidebar. Sidebar was expanded by default for most Members.
  • Removed typographical errors everywhere we have noticed. Please Contact Us if you spot any.
  • Removed links to currently unannounced areas of GoSquared.

Thanks for sticking with us, we're working to make GoSquared better everyday. We hope you enjoy the Site.

Don't forget, you haven't experienced GoSquared until you've signed in...

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