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Kristin is a UX Designer living in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two boys.
This website is a stream of her daily activities, updated via iPhone, with an occasional blog post here and there.
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Compare The Old and the New Google, Side By Side
*Update: it seems that comparegoogle.com has stopped working, but you can also check out a similar service called http://www.comparecaffeine.com. Remember Google Caffeine? It’s the new Google search engine that’s going to replace the old one. We’ve tested it thoroughly, and…
VirtualHostX: Easy Virtual Hosting configuration on OS X
Having discovered VirtualHostX, I can’t imagine going down the path of manually editing OS X configuration files ever again. If you have ever setup a local environment to test your website(s), you have surely found yourself spending a few minutes…
100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration
Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you’ve been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be…
1. Small Feature Set 2. Good API 3. Profit!
I start my work days by checking out the Mashable inbox. In the last couple of months, I can easily divide the news into two parts: news about Twitter, and everything else. And the first part is almost as big…
Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Printed Albums
Digital photography has brought us the benefit of being able to take as many photos as we like without additional cost, but also the curse of nearly never having the actual physical photos in our hands. With Facebook, it’s gotten…
The Importance of Focus: A Guide for Social Media Brands
Paul Worthington is head of Strategy for Wolff Olins New York. You can follow his updates on Wolff Olins’ Tumblr and Twitter. Brands must not lose their internal focus amidst the din of new information. The world has changed. The…
Firefox Has Got a 100% Market Share…In Antarctica
And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter’s recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only…
Skittles Site Receives an Extreme Social Makeover
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole. Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles,…
Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr;…
Twitter Fail Whale Tattoo is Awesome, Kinda
If you must ink some kind of web 2.0-related geekery on your body, there’s a whole lot of awful choices and only a couple of good ones. Within that scope, Twitter’s fail whale doesn’t fare too bad; in fact, “normal”…
HOW TO: Organize a Successful Tweetup
Stuart Foster is a marketing consultant in the Boston area. He specializes in brand management, social media, and blog outreach. He authors a blog at Thelostjacket.com. Tweetups. You can’t escape them. They are pretty much ubiquitous these days. The @…
I Can Has Cheezburger to Launch “Son of a Tweet”
Pet Holdings, the company behind sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and GraphJam, is moving into the realm of tracking Twitter memes. They’ve purchased a website called Twittypic that monitors Twitter for popular pictures and videos and posts…
Google Chrome for Mac (First Screenshots)
Google’s first try at building a web browser was almost an unexpected success: Chrome is fast and quite reliable, and I’ve made a habit of firing it up whenever my trusty old Firefox goes out of breath. Unfortunately, it’s available…
When You Love WordPress Very Much, You Tattoo It On Your Arm
This is nice, in a slightly creepy, and yet delightfully geeky kind of way: a fellow named Ed Morita decided to tattoo a WordPress logo on his forearm. It’s not just a plain, boring logo type of tattoo, there’s all…
GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done, also abbreviated as GTD, is a popular time management productivity method created by David Allen. The method is just as popular today as it was back in 2007 when we ran our GTD Ninja post featuring more…
DMfail Fails, Reborn as Re-Twit’d
The creators of sneaky Twitter app DMfail are back creating apps, but this time they’ve released something pretty useful that’s likely to last more than a week. re-Twit’d is a simple application that lets you see what’s hot on Twitter…
Send a Virtual Drink That Will Actually Get You Drunk (Invites)
Virtual gifts are big business, and virtual drinks – sending someone a cute graphic featuring a martini, a Jack and Coke, or a Mike’s Hard Lemonade, for example – is an immensely popular activity on social networks. GiveReal is a…
Top Five Firefox Add-Ons for Mom Bloggers
Jessica Smith is Chief Mom Advisor of MomForce.com and Chief Mom Officer for Wishpot.com. She chronicles her experiences as a mom and virtual executive at JessicaKnows.com. Multi-tasking is something moms, especially those online, master pretty quickly. That doesn’t mean we can’t…
Atomeet Might Be the Simplest Event Management Tool Yet
This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Atomeet 20-Word Description Atomeet is a free web service that helps you organize parties and…
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