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Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes

jba — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:26:00 +0000

Cool post from Shanemo formerly of Microsoft DPE fame:

Some experts say that rectangles with rounded corners are easier on the eyes than a rectangle with sharp edges because they take less cognitive effort to visually process. The fovea is fastest at processing circles. Processing edges involve more “neuronal image tools” in the brain [1]. Thus, rectangles with rounded corners are easier process because they look closer to a circle than a regular rectangle.

Sony Ericsson sues Clearwire over logo

jba — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:47:13 +0000

Spotted over on boing boing, Sony Ericsson is suing Clearwire over the swirl pattern in their logo .

ColorSuckr, for when you want to get the colours out of a picture

jba — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:32:13 +0000

Found on boing boing:ColorSuckr, an awesome site that can extract the colours out of any picture you point it to online.

WordPress Mobile Edition Now Active

jba — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:30:05 +0000

So I installed the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. I tested it on my iPhone and it seems to work rather well. Not sure about how good the default user agent matches are though.

I’m disappointed that this plugin uses yet another theme engine (Carrington as opposed to K2).

Let me know in the comments if your phone doesn’t render nicely or you experience other issues.

New look

jba — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:28:10 +0000

So the site style is largely there now.

I still have to tweak some subtleties (text and link corlours as well as header sizes), but it’s still pretty indicative of what the intended design was to look like.

K2 made this job far more easier than I thought it would be, though I did have a few issues with it’s use of padding css. In my experience padding and cross-browser design just don’t go together. You better served to try and make the design work with margins.

Thanks to my friend Joe Smith, for the original inspiration for this site’s current look and feel