design

jQuery FAQ: How do you create a textarea using jQuery? Also, how do I insert content (text or HTML) into a textarea with jQuery?

I don't know if this will make any sense without showing my HTML, but I just used the following jQuery code to (a) get contents from a specific div tag, (b) add a textarea just before that div, (c) put the HTML contents into the new textarea, then (d) remove the original div. So, in essence, I created a new textarea with jQuery and inserted HTML into that textarea, but I got the HTML from my original div.

Dieter Rams Ten Design Principles: Yesterday I wrote about Jonathan Ive design interview quotes, and if you're familiar with industrial design and Apple design, you know you can't mention Jonathan Ive without also mentioning Dieter Rams, a world famous designer for Braun.

Twitter iPhone App 'trending' FAQ: Help, how do I stop that insanely annoying trending bar in the latest Twitter iPhone app?

If you use the Twitter iPhone app, and find the new "Trending" bar to be insanely annoying, you can't seem to get rid of it, but you can at least slow it down a little bit.

Apple minimalist design examples: Over the weekend I finally got around to upgrading my iPhone 3G to the new iPhone operating system -- iOS 4, specifically iOS 4.01. I expected the iOS 4 to be slower than the iPhone 3.x operating system I was running, but to my pleasant surprise, it actually seems faster.

Gimp circle FAQ: How do I draw a circle in Gimp?

I just used Gimp to create several circle images in my iPhone Safari browser privacy and security tutorial, and here's a short tutorial on how I created them. I normally use hollow circle images to highlight something in the original image, I'll demonstrate that here, but I'll also show how to create solid circles in Gimp, which are even easier to create.