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leanon LiveReload: Reflect CSS Changes Instantly, with No Browser Reload

Look cool, let me know when there's a PC version.

leanon Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

http://db.tt/Wo3AIAs

Thanks

leanon 11-year-old founder, already successful on Kickstarter

genius

lean on 11-year-old founder, already successful on Kickstarter

http://www.amazon.com/Ruler-Pencil-36-Each-A5223/dp/B003N30Q...

lean on Does the Google Bot index css hidden divs? yes.

Was there ever and doubt that it did? How could we excuse hiding/showing "tabs", for example, if it didn't?

lean on Introducing Amazon Silk

Agreed, at first I just chalked it up to this be a "rogue" blog by some members of the team, but this page is the only "official" page I can find on the product. The favicon is even Wordpress...
Edit: this is a more branded description: [Amazon Help](http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html//ref=amb...). No video though.

lean on Don't make my eyes bleed: a rant about business plans by Neil Davidson

Don't Make Me Download a PDF: a rant about rants

lean on Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typography

I'm working on a fine-grained typography control JS library myself, very interesting work.
Designers/front-ends, what things would you like to control about your type now, that you can't yet?

lean on Show HN: Kerning.js — Take control of your web typography

In this way "kerning.js" doesn't seem to be the most descriptive name for this project. Everything but the first example is not related to kerning, just typography. My first thought, when I read the title of this post, was "but we already have kernjs..."

lean on 5 deal-breaking flaws in Windows 8

>1. Multi-tasking
If you have a keyboard attached, it's still just as easy. If you don't, you're a tablet, and you don't need it.
>2. You can’t close apps
So...like Android, OSX Lion, UNIX, etc? Why do I need to close apps?
>3. Goodbye Start menu
Thank zeus. The only reason I even glance at the Start Menu is because that's where the search bar is. Remember navigating through huge directory trees to launch an app in Win95? You want that back?
>4. It’s very hard to reboot and shut down
So what? I do that, maybe, once a week?
>5. The beautiful Start menu search is dead
What?! The (working) search bar was the single greatest improvement to the Win UI in ages. I really hope this is just an alpha thing...

lean on Kendo UI - a framework for modern HTML UI

Seems like an obvious FAQ would be, "How does this compare to jQuery UI?".

lean on Google buys Zagat

Zagat still exists? Isn't it a bunch of old reviews written by a handful of writers?

lean on Chrome's Most Important Feature

So why hasn't Firefox implemented this yet? They've already said they are moving away from version numbers, but I still get the "You need to update, do you want to?" and "You've updated, now stop what you're doing and restart".
Chrome has eliminated both of these dialogs (that used to be browser standards), and the FF dev team is usually responsive enough to adopt new, good ideas quickly. So what gives?

lean on Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8

Huh, column view is one of the things I missed most from Finder. I loved how you could click and hold a file, and navigate through a directory tree just by hovering over each folder in the path.

lean on Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8

For your second issue, couldn't use just use a symlink from the Music folder to the external drive?

lean on [dead]

What, you don't know?

lean on Windows 8: Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete

So, almost as good as Teracopy?

lean on Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge

Interesting. Any data on how many more users signed up for Hulu+ in the same period?

lean on TouchPad 16GB on Sale for $99

Sold out :( (45mins after your comment)

lean on The Shapes of CSS

It totally clicked when I saw your example, thanks!

lean on Twitter Bootstrap

I think Josef Müller-Brockmann predates those two by just a bit :)

lean on Data Without Borders logo contest

>NGO's and non-profits I'm assuming that 'data without borders' is not a commercial enterprise
Not-for-profit doesn't mean no-profit, doesn't mean no-income, doesn't mean no-expenses. You can get a crappy logo for $500, I doubt that's beyond their operating budget.
>but from a human/charity perspective it seems rather harsh to consider this an 'insult'..
Spec work is spec work, it will always be insulting. "But the guys doing the insulting are really nice!" is not an excuse.

lean on Oh, Adobe... read the copy, then view the source.

OOCSS says to never specify elements in the CSS, right? :)

lean on Chrome extension "Awesome Screenshot" messes with Google search results

> Because when I search some shopping items in google, I always want to check them in amazon at the same time.
Seriously? You expect us to believe you maliciously hijacked user's search results and put in your own affiliate links just because you thought it would be "nice"??
>In the spirit of transparency
AKA "Now that we got caught acting against the spirit of transparency..."
>we should disclose that this feature does bring small amount of revenue to us
Yeah, no shit; but someone else already "disclosed" that.
>Since so many users don't like it, we already updated a new version(3.2.1) to remove this feature.
So what? You've demonstrated a lack of respect for the user's trust and privacy. Why should we trust a liar?

lean on Data Without Borders logo contest

How patronizing. This is a great way to alienate all but the worst designers. No professional would ever validate such an insult with a response.
"Plumbing contest!! Fix our leaky sink! Do all the work upfront, IF we like it, you'll get a gift card worth 10% of the price!"

lean on Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

Also a good lesson to back up your site.

lean on The quick website launch checklist

Similar: http://lite.launchlist.net/

lean on Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad

Mobiquity's reply: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/10/the-vast-starbucks-conspira...
"Mobiquity has no professional affiliation with Starbucks."

lean on AeroFS - File Sync Without Servers

So, it's Dropbox, but the Cloud part is optional?

lean on The Shapes of CSS

Can someone explain the triangles?
I see what their doing, but why does it make the triangle shape? Shouldn't it just render as a square with different sized rectangular borders?