http://scottorchard.com portfolio and journal of scott orchard freelance graphic artist and web developer Tue, 27 May 2008 01:51:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been awhile since I've posted anything or updated my portfolio. I've just added some recent work from some of my newer clients. First up is SALT. Optics, a Southern California company that produces some outstanding sunglasses and optical frames for perscription lenses that are distributed worldwide. We worked to improve ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2008%2F05%2F25%2Frecent-client-updates%2F&seed_title=Recent+Client%26%23160%3BUpdates I previously wrote about Tredosoft's Multiple IE, which is great for testing my web development in legacy versions of Internet Explorer. Today I came across Multi-Safari and just installed Safari 2.0.4, which is the latest non-beta version of Safari on most Mac's running Tiger. I've been running the Safari 3 ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F08%2F30%2Fmulti-safari%2F&seed_title=Multi-Safari Pixelmator looks like a possible Photoshop competitor with a pretty slick UI and is based on Apple's Core Image technology. It's supposed to take advantage of GPU-powered image editing, so your video card can handles some of the processing and frees up your CPU for other tasks. It doesn't look ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F05%2F31%2Fpixelmator%2F&seed_title=Pixelmator Microsoft Surface looks pretty amazing, not only the technoology, but their site as well has a great interactive feel. I'd be impressed seeing a multi-touch display like this in restaurants or other areas as demonstrated in the videos, but I doubt this would be inexpensive. I'd expect to see something ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F05%2F30%2Fmicrosoft-surface%2F&seed_title=Microsoft%26%23160%3BSurface Running multiple Internet Explorer versions on one system used to be a bit unreliable and offer some problems for web developers that need to ensure cross-browser compatibility. Thankfully there are a couple options, one from Tredosoft another from Microsoft. What Do I Know recently touched on Tredosoft's Multiple IE, which allows ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F05%2F24%2Fmultiple-ies-from-tredosoft-virtual-pc-with-ie6%2F&seed_title=Running+Multiple+Internet+Explorers%26%238217%3Bs+with+Tredosoft+%26%23038%3B+Virtual%26%23160%3BPC A great collection of photos of heavy metal bands from the early 80's on Flickr. Looks like most of these were shot at shows, a nice slice of metal history. (via Kottke) http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F05%2F10%2Fye-olde-metal-days%2F&seed_title=Ye+Olde+Metal%26%23160%3BDays I attended the 4th Annual Magic of Memories Dinner on April 28th, 2007 with my good friend Angela Cronk. In November of last year, Angela asked if I'd be interested in helping design the logo, in-store posters and invitations for the Magic of Memories fundraising campaign. The campaign's goal was ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F05%2F02%2F4th-annual-magic-of-memories-dinner%2F&seed_title=4th+Annual+Magic+of+Memories%26%23160%3BDinner A List Apart has a Web Design Survey for 2007, if you have some time, answer a few questions that could help give better demographics on web design. Plus you could win some free stuff. http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F04%2F24%2Fthe-web-design-survey-from-a-list-apart%2F&seed_title=The+Web+Design+Survey+from+A+List%26%23160%3BApart MacRabbit just updated CSSEdit to version 2.5, which brings some new features such as tabbed windows and the X-ray inspector for all of your CSS needs. I've been using this quite a lot since the 2.0 release, the new features have been very helpful with development; I can't recommend this ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F04%2F23%2Fcssedit-25-and-coda%2F&seed_title=CSSEdit+2.5+and%26%23160%3BCoda As of the beginning of April, I've left my job as Senior Web Devloper at Evolve Media, to work for myself and build a business doing graphic design and web development. I've recently updated my portfolio with some new projects, but I have a lot more work to add and ... http://www.scottorchard.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fscottorchard.com%2F2007%2F04%2F21%2Fgone-freelance%2F&seed_title=Gone%26%23160%3BFreelance