So you’ve downloaded YSlow and got your pages to load in less than half a second. Now the next step is to see how it works on a mobile phone browser (Safari Mobile excluded I would imagine) to see if you have too many images.

My Blackberry (which I love to death despite its behind-the-times functionality) usually loads average web pages at a brisk 2 minutes or so. And thats over Wi-Fi! Today I was browsing some of my websites and those that were light on images clocked in at far less than 60 seconds. Obviously most mobile browsers are antiquated to say the least, and images are necessary for web design but sometimes typography still trumphs imagery.

Give it a try and see how you match up.

Written May 31, 2009 and categorized in Web Design

I am loving this track jacket in purple (officially “Violet/Turquoise”). It’s a very edgy color for adidas’ mens line.

Update: this thing is huge. A small fit more like half-way between medium and large. Had to return it.

$65 from shopadidas.com.

Written April 9, 2009 and categorized in Fashion

The Federal Reserve is no more a part of the government than FedEx is yet it has absolute power. Even former chairman Alan Greenspan said that nobody can dictate what it does farther than mere suggestion.

The sticker is a 10″ x 3″ bumper sticker with two lines of text making it two-in-one.

Double sticker - $3.99

Written March 31, 2009 and categorized in Art Project

Before I bought my Blackberry 8320 I used to have Apple’s Mail.app connect to Gmail through POP. Obviously this is very cumbersome because I would have to periodically login to Gmail to clean out the emails I had deleted from Mail.

Enter the Curve. This smartphone has the option to delete emails from the server when they are removed from the phone. Add to this the fact that Gmail has since gone IMAP and you have a triad of email portals that are all synchronized.

Step 1. Configure your Blackberry

While in your messages, hit Menu and navigate to Messages Options -> Email Reconciliation -> Delete On: Mailbox & Handheld

Step 2. Configure Mail.app for IMAP Gmail

Add a new account and set Account Type: IMAP and fill in the rest of your gmail credentials.

Step 3. Enable IMAP in Gmail

Now, when you delete an email from your phone it will be removed from Gmail and Mail as well. (If you delete it from Gmail or Mail it will delete from the Blackberry but only after several hours when it reconciles with the server.)

Written January 28, 2009 and categorized in Uncategorized