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I do a lot of design work, you know, ’cause I’m a designer and all. I often need to display web pages within the context of a browser, and I typically use Safari to display those pages. Why? Because Safari is very minimalist, and allows my designs to show through, not a bunch of Fox-flavored bright blue windows or whatever.
Therefore, I’ve created templates to quicken my workflow, and I thought I’d share those templates with everyone. The following three Photoshop files are free for the downloading, here’s some more info:
- Safari Photoshop Template. A simple PSD template that includes different layers for just about all of the elements in a Safari browser.
- iPhone / iPod Touch Safari Browser Template. This PSD focuses on the mobile version of Safari, for those of you who might need to display your iPhone specific site designs. Includes default font sizes for this browser as well.
- Safari Vector Template. This is also a Photoshop file, but everything in the file is built using shapes and styles, so it’s completely scalable and vector based, for all of your large format display needs.
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written 12 Oct 2008 in the late evening dusk
Thank you, dearest readers, for your loyalty and humble fromage…however, as you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting quite as much lately. That means less political rants about the status of my local bus stop, less sacrastic attempts at dissecting the human psyche for the purpose of good times, and less writing long paragraphs about the beautiful subtle nature of that first day smelling Autumn.
Fear not, though, while I have been posting less frequently, I will not neglect my blogging duties (we all remember the blog scare of September 2005….). I have simply been writing over at tumblewagon.com, a website 100% dedicated to our life on the road.
Life on the road?
That’s right, my dearest family and I have taken up the full time RV lifestyle as of a couple of weeks ago. There are three of us, for those not “in the know”: Tristan, the rousty youth, Olivia, the sexy foreign lady, and myself, the guy who thinks he’s the most important one. We live in a 29′ RV that could probably fit into your living room, floorspace wise, and we’re traveling the North American continent, primarily that bit known as the USA.
We’ve got blogging, info on RV type stuff, and also photos, videos and a soon to come podcast. So please do enjoy, if you’d like!
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written last Wednesday in the earliest morning
For those of you who read the blog, and thank you very much by the way, but haven’t yet had the chance to listen to my podcast, simply and beautifully titled “ClickNathan the Podcast”, perhaps you don’t know what you’re missing, eh?
- 7 hilarious episodes (and one that’s only slightly hilarious) easily downloaded from or subscribed to in iTunes. You can also just listen to them right here on the site.
- Hard hitting facts such as made up stories about setting world records by wearing long hats and the plight of the modern elf in an all dwarf world.
- At least two accents per show. Usually more, just for you.
- Podcasts that are so free, they might even earn you money. If you listen to them while you work, for definites.
So please, stop wasting time rereading this post and just listen to the first episode already.
And if you’re still not convinced, take the word of Seliphie, who left the only (raving 5 star, I might add) review on iTunes:
This dude is awesome! This show makes me want to move to Pittsburgh.
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written last Tuesday in the earliest morning
Apparently there’s some type of election going on, and so the two people who are soon to be leader of the free world will talk it out over American flags and bald eagle logos tonight. I think I preferred it when kings would joust to the death for the amusement of everyone in Hollywood.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention, and this is bias, because like all intelligent people, I’m an Obama supporter over John McCain, but I noticed that when John McCain preaches to his choir, you hear a bunch of people booing; when Obama lords over his followers, they are all cheering.
Why is this? Obviously McCain’s supporters aren’t booing him, their fearless leader. They’re booing Obama. Meanwhile, Obama’s supporters are cheering him on.
The point? You don’t hear McCain supporters screaming and proclaiming their love of their candidate, only their disdain for the other candidate. When McCain gets a follower, he does so through slandering his opponent. Obama’s supporters do so because they believe in him.
I’ve never believed in anyone in Washington before now, and between the two choices, only one really does inspire hope vs. fear and hate.
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written last Sunday either awfully late or awful early
A headlock is just a hug from a person you don’t like.
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written 2 Oct 2008 while the school buses headed home
I don’t get a chance to update my portfolio all that often, though I build a website or two every month on average. I suppose the upside to that is simply that I’m busy enough to not have the time to update my portfolio, even if I definitely have the content.
I’d like to mention a few really nifty sites that I’ve had the fortune of working on recently, though, including one for local produce, one aimed at making life easier for your local farmer, and another aimed at helping Pittsburghers get on their bikes and ride.
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written 1 Oct 2008 over a light lunch
Everyone gets them, most of us hate them, and who the hell is forwarding them anyway? The paintings of animals on someone’s hand or those chalk drawings that one guy does that looked cool, the first fifty times. Forwarding emails costs American businesses $8 trillion every half-second and that doesn’t even include the time wasted waiting for all of those pictures to load up on your company’s DSL connection.
So today when I saw this image at the bottom of a forward menacing my inbox, which read “i’m emailing for the greater good” I started laughing both cheeks of my buttocks off. I was instantly reminded of those forwards that tell you to tell 10 other people or Jesus will lose the battle with Satan, or the countless Internet petitions that I’ve signed with the glimmer of hope that I really will end the war in Iraq and send a monkey’s trainer to Mars.
I just had to click on it to see what the situation was. And I must say, I was quite surprised.
i’m MAKING A DIFFERENCE is a website sponsored by Microsoft. It’s a ploy, of course, to get people to use Windows Live and Messenger more often, but it does seem to come with a benefit: every time someone who’s registered with the service uses Live or Messenger, Microsoft donates some cash to their partner causes (such as the Red Cross, National AIDS Fund, Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, MS, Unicef, National Humane Society, and more). So you can literally help fight everything from breast cancer to puppies just by using Microsoft services.
Of course, no one actually uses any of Microsoft’s web services, but…
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written 27 Sep 2008 over dinner
The Discovery Channel recently enlightened me to the fact that the Sun blasts Earth with enough energy every second to power all of humankind’s electricity needs since the beginning of hte Industrial Age. Estimates say that our current energy consumption, using our current methods (coal, oil, wind, etc.) are equivalent to about 1/1000th of the amount of total energy the Sun pours over us every day.
That said, if we could harness the power of the sun much more efficiently, we could theoretically have enough power in a couple of minutes to supply all of civilization for as long as we’re likely to exist on this planet. The entire idea is amazing, mind-boggling when you think about how much effort we put into sucking oil out of the ground or blowing off the tops of mountains to get the coal inside. We could eliminate greenhouse gases, advance development across the globe and eliminate much of our current reasons for war. Imagine a world where energy was in such abundance that Russia would have no reason to invade Georgia, Muslims and Christians would finally see the light and lions would no longer eat gazelles.
Okay, so obviously, that wouldn’t happen. As long as there are people, it seems, they’ll find a reason to club, stab, shoot or nuke each other. Nuclear bombs have already been used on fellow humans, and though it would seem that America and the other nuclear powers in the world learned their lesson from Hiroshima, more countries and terrorist organizations seem closer to producing nuclear power every day. The sheer terror that one of these devastating abominations of nature can produce is bewildering, and we could in fact already destroy our planet if we chose to do so.
Now imagine a world with the unlimited power of the sun to harness into weapons of seriously massive destructive capabilities. Suddenly a world where we no longer have to destroy our planet doesn’t seem to enterprising.
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written 21 Sep 2008 in the earliest morning
To the notion some candidates have of deregulating the government even more, clearly a free market doesn’t work when you allow some companies to inflate themselves like balloons in a world where there will always be pins.
“Less regulation,” they continue to cry. Massive companies have lost their bet — the stock market is just a casino after all, though one that you can actually win big at — and these companies have played their hand and lost it all. Were they to have won, they would have simply grown larger, more consolidated no doubt, and therefore even larger still.
One thing’s for sure: they would not have shared their profits with us, the common taxpayer.
So now that they have lost, why is it exactly that person — you and I, the common taxpayer — who will be bailing them out?
And by doing so, will we have a stake in the company’s financial futures? If we’re going to use taxpayer money to put these companies back on track, so that they won’t make the mistakes of the past, shouldn’t we also reap the rewards of their climbing stock prices in the event that does happen?
Because after all, if they fail to get themselves “back on track”, it will not be their money that they’ve lost this time, it will be ours.
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written 16 Sep 2008 while the school buses headed home
I’ve been pushing the fingers to the keys here on my blog for over four years now. That’s a good deal of time, seeing as how aside from being a father, I don’t think I’ve ever been anything for more than four years. I’ve certainly never held a job that long, never had a girlfriend that long (though we’re getting there, eh babe!) and I’m not sure I’ve even participated in any particular hobby for such a time.
What I find interesting is the evolution of what this blog has been over the years. I haven’t perplexed my brainstem over it in quite some time, though in days of yore I would be very consumed with whether I was becoming too commercial or too boring or if what I was writing about was in the proper context to find itself here and on my blogsite. I gave up on that, because the only reason I started writing here in the first place was to have an outlet for writing in the first place.
I’d spent much of my teenage life, my homeless days, and my college life writing in notebooks; the majority of which had been lost or burned for warmth, and the ones that did remain were becoming incredibly cumbersome to tote around. Now, four years of the near-every-other-day written word can fit into the size of a pinhead on a server in Santa Monica.
Nonesotheless, it’s incredibly fascinating to see the evolution as it has happened, though I’m likely the only one to have witnessed it as my long term readership is slender at best (as, I have no illusions to this, my overall readership is little to nil). Most fascinating to me, no doubt, for having a chronicle of the past four years of my life to peruse at will, if I were to ever get the inclination, and the validity of existence it gives me at the very minimum is a nice massage on the old ego. But even from the outside, to see how a person in my various predicaments might change over life and time.
What began as simple revelations over nothing, musings on a young Internet evolved into somewhat eloquently written observations on life, nature and my environment, in turn (d)evolved into matters of political discussion, of anger towards the state of society, and slowly moved into my general thoughts on my profession, mostly. Were you to read from beginning to end, you could see the childish plaything move onto the curious observer grow into the troubled world participant slow into the consumed professional. To summarize your life in a sentence is saddening exercise indeed. 
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