I am the Editor of Nettuts+, and the Site Manager of ThemeForest and CodeCanyon. You're free to visit as often as you wish, but don't expect too many changes.
So you’ve seen a screenshot or a video tutorial, and noticed that the author somehow managed to places spaces in between the icons in his dock. How is that possible? There might be a more automated system, but I found that, simply by pasting in a snippet into Terminal, we can create spaces with ease. I’ll show you how.
I randomly created a little “featured” bar for the bottom of this blog, and have received a surprisingly large number of emails inquiring about how to mimic its functionality. So, I decided to wrap it up into a neat little package, and sell it for $3 on CodeCanyon.
I edit tutorials and articles every single day of the week for Nettuts+. While I do have a handful of authors who write perfectly well, there are countless others who submit somewhat baffling tutorials – baffling enough to make me ask, “Did you even read this before you submitted it to me?”
Now, I’m not by any means a world-class writer. I’m sure I make plenty of mistakes; in fact, I guarantee as much. Having said that, I do think I have a relatively firm grasp of the language. If I could force my writers to adhere to these following six steps, my days would be much easier!
I’ve always been a GMail fanboy – excluding one feature: push support for the iPhone. I can’t explain why, but it really irks me when Allie is notified instantly when she receives a new Yahoo email – probably from Old Navy – while I must wait 15 minutes for the iPhone to further drain my battery and fetch new emails. I should note that typically, I don’t last that long before manually refreshing, but that’s neither here nor there! Here’s how to do it:
Sylvester Stallone is the reason why I run two Envato marketplaces and a popular web development blog. Okay…maybe not really. But he did say one thing in an interview years ago which has always stuck with me. In fact, in a round-about way, this piece of advice got me my job with Envato. More on this at the end of the article.
My iPhone is both the greatest and worst piece of equipment I’ve ever owned. It’s strange to find a device which is so completely far beyond the majority of the competition. While, a few years ago, most phones were happy with tiny advancements with each new iteration, the iPhone came onto the scene and simply blew the competition away. Now, other than my keys and wallet, I won’t leave home without it. Therein lies the problem…
It’s no coincidence that I’m slowly releasing a cohesive suite of custom plugins which do everything I need (and would actually use)…and nothing more!
Like most services that sweep the world, Twitter has quickly been tainted by businesses hoping to take advantage of this crazy new “viral marketing” that the suits hear so much about. What’s unfortunate is that the majority of them seem to have missed the primary advantage: connecting with the consumer on a more personal level. Twitter is much more than a substitute for RSS feeds.
I’m getting lazy about updating the vault with new tutorials. I really need to find more of an automated way to do this; but it’s a bit difficult when they’re posted across multiple sites. Anyhow, here’s what I’ve been up to for the last few weeks.
I was recently asked on Twitter if I was aware of a simple announcement plugin for jQuery – where a little bar is posted at the top of a website informing the user that some important news/update is taking place. I’m sure you’ve seen them plenty of times. With jQuery, we can create a wrapper for this effect easily and quickly.
Hit the download link below to view examples, download the source, and watch a screencast to learn how to build it yourself!
