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Espresso. Time for something new in web development.

Espresso is not a bunch of apps thrown together. Instead, we looked at the needs of web developers and streamlined their workflow into one gorgeous, focused app. Fast and powerful editing, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit after all), awesome publishing and extensive synchronization tools. All this, and an amazing extensible core? It's not too good to be true. It's only one click away!

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Tape portraits

A showcase of a number of portraits made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels.

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17 Strategies to Killer Ads


In the Advertising world, the creative process look like this: Strategy > Concept/Idea > Campaign & Tagline > Executions. You can see, the Strategy is in the most beginning of an entire idea and it is an appproach, based on market research and insights, as to how a product or service will be positioned/repositioned. Via The Familiar Strangers.

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Where the Wild Things Are - New photos


USA Today has new photos up of Maurice Sendak's timeless tale of Max in Where the Wild Things Are - directed by Spike Jonze.

Looks amazing. Not due to be released until October unfortunately. More on Flicks.

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Sola Rosa - Turn Around Feat. Iva Lamkum

This is the second single off the new Sola Rosa album, directed by Tim Van Dammen. You can grab it from Bandcamp for anything over $10 or if you're a bit old fashioned like me & want something tangible get it on Amplifier. It's really good.

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10 Apps for Developers on a Shoestring

There are many many different areas web developers need to cover. First you need to find the perfect text editor, set up a local environment, find a database management tool and then find a great FTP application. And for many of us out there freelancing, we have less of a budget to work with. So here's 10 cheap or free web development tools for Windows and OS X. Via Tuts +.

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The importance of wireframing

Certain requirements and concepts can seem like great ideas during
initial project calls, but things can quickly fall apart when you start
laying them out on paper. Since wireframes take considerably less time
to generate than full color comps, you can spend time early on using
them to map out all of the pages for a particular site. Even at this early stage you can get a sense of the user experience and therefore spot potential usability problems with your design. Via 45royale Inc.

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L&P campaign from Ogilvy

More AdShells here and the new web-only show based around backyard cricket called The BYC Chronicles on TVNZ OnDemand. Via Ad Hoc at the NBR.

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Michael Muller

Grant Wood American Gothic tribute by Michael Muller featuring the Flight of the Conchords.

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Leica M8.2

The Leica M8.2 ($6,213) is a small, but significant overhaul of the company's successful M8 rig. It features an ultra scratch-resistance sapphire crystal LCD display, redefined bright frames in the viewfinder, an easy to use snapshot mode for those who don't want to bother with all the manual settings and metal blade focal plane shutter that makes it sound more like a film camera. If a camera could get you chicks, this would be it, too bad you'll have to sell an organ and/or your first born to afford one.

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