Daniel Box - Blog

I always find myself adding random colored borders to elments while laying out pages, so I created a simple mixin to make it easier/cleaner. #nerdalert

When giving feedback:

Person A: "Right off the bat, [something negative]" Person B: "First off, [something positive]"

When taking on a task:

Person A: "The problem with that is..." Person B: "Sounds like a good challenge."

Here's a photoshop action to instantly center something vertically or horizontally to your stage.

Current hotkeys are Shft F6 for horizontal and Cmd Shft F6 for vertical.

Wired did a writeup on the Lifta. The commenters came out in droves.

What if the NCAA Tournament was decided by who had the best logo? Austin and I set out to find out. 

Big new features at myfav.es : Upload your own icon, new responsive layouts, thousands of new sites, + lots more.

I made a little freebie with @seagoat for KNI Labs: Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons 

I created an action that will extract a layer, layers, or layer set immediately into a new document. I use it about 10 times a day, so thought I'd share. Enjoy!

Currently the hotkey is Shift-F5, but you can re-map to anything you'd like.

What if the 2013 basketball tournament games were determined by who has the best logo? With the help of my buddies Austin and Jamie, I put together a bracket to see which school came out on top. Some of the results were quite unexpected:

Check out the full bracket here.

My buddy Jonathan and I created a monitor stand / desk organizer, (mainly because I wanted one.)

Lifta was designed with three goals in mind: lift your computer to the proper ergonomic height, offer a place to store peripherals, and keep your desk tidy.

I'm convinced chess was given to us by aliens:

"The knight can visit each square on a chess board exactly once."

Brent Peirce took the Instagram-style Photoshop Actions that I made and converted them to work with popular video-editing programs. So cool! Examples: 

How to: