Mar 29
Changes Ahoy!
So after a few months I have gotten tired of my old portfolio design. Over the next few weeks/months I will be redesigning the portfolio. I’ll be sure to get the word out when It’s finished!
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The Mac community is known for being full of extremely talented graphic designers. If you love looking at fantastic icons, or want to learn about the process, these are 5 guys you certainly want to follow on twitter, and read their blogs.
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{13bold}, a collaborative software effort between Matt Patenaude and Laurent Baumann already had one hit application with Bowtie, a skinnable iTunes controller, and now they are looking to sweeten the deal by breaking into yet another saturated market: Twitter Clients. Their new app, named “Bluebird” has one important feature that no other client has implemented (well) — XHTML/CSS Skinning. In this post I will be reviewing all of Bluebird’s features, and will give the world it’s first peek at this application.
Bluebird
Feb 24
Safari 4 Review
Apple released Safari 4 beta into the wild today (pun intended), with a new look, and new features it really does pack a punch. I’ll be looking over several of Safari 4’s new features.
Screenshot of Safari 4
For those of you who follow Sebastiaan de With’s Blog you may have noticed the subtle, but gorgeous “curved drop shadow” that he uses on all of the images on his blog. It is a very nice, elegant way to make the images on your website or blog pop. In this tutorial I will go over how to reproduce this effect in photoshop. The final result is pictured below:
Final Result Of Curved Shadow Tutorial
Jan 22
Hello World!
Welcome to DeBeasi.com. This blog first and foremost seeks to provide news, tutorials, and resources related to web development and graphic design. Future topics will cover everything from web design tutorials, to interesting photoshop techniques, to news about the industry. I hope to provide my visitors with resources to help enhance your skills as a developer or designer, and give you tools to become the next superstar of the web.
Secondly this blog will also serve as my professional portfolio. As you may, or may not know, I am a freelance Web Developer. In the coming weeks and months I will be developing a new section of the site to showcase my previous work, and my current projects. I am very passionate about the work I do, and I’m always looking to learn more about anything I can related to the field. As such, I am always starting up new projects and coming up with ideas.
While most of the topics will pertain to Web Development and Graphic Design, I will occasionally touch on topics related to technology in general, and often times amazing applications for Mac OS X. I will admit it, I am quite biased. I love my mac, and nothing will ever change that.
Lastly, I would like to thank you, the visitor for coming to my blog! Nothing makes me happier than to see my Google Analytics (or mint stats) climbing. Also please feel free to comment, ask questions, suggest changes, hell even point out if I’m wrong (I’ve been told it may happen at some time in my life :P)
Thank you for visiting, and I hope to see you again soon!
Sincerely,
Brendan DeBeasi
