Think Vitamin » TVR http://thinkvitamin.com The Web Practitioner's Blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:07:53 +0000 en hourly 1 Episode #34: Amazon Fire and Responsive Roundtable http://thinkvitamin.com/tvr/episode-34-amazon-fire-and-responsive-roundtable/ http://thinkvitamin.com/tvr/episode-34-amazon-fire-and-responsive-roundtable/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:08:09 +0000 Keir Whitaker http://thinkvitamin.com/?p=16592 We are back after the “cable gate” affair and it’s a mixed bag of chat this week. Amazon Fire, Designing for devices, Mike’s fashion shoot and more all get discussed. We also highlight a great new tool called Live Reload.

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  • Sprite Cow - Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css
  • FlickrBomb – Great tool allowing you to use Flickr images in your wireframes
  • Font Combinations App – iPhone app allowing you to see combinations of fonts

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This episode is a 34 minutes long, as always we hope you enjoy it.

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There’s also a quick chat about Ryan’s work out regime, Mike’s love of Twitter and to my shame I do my “best” impression of Rocky.

This episode is a little longer at 40 minutes, we hope you enjoy it.

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We had fun recording it and thanks again to Brendan for taking time out to talk with us. A full transcript is available.

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Earlier this year whilst attending Future of Web Design London I recorded a few interviews.

First up is my chat with Dan Cederholm, designer, author and co-creator of one of the most popular design focused apps Dribbble. Thanks to Dan for taking the time to chat.

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