We’ve been all about One Page Love since stumbling upon its existence, and now we’re proud to say that a site we designed is featured there!

The site is Camp Roseland, for the NYC-based media production company of the same name. We designed the one-page site to highlight multiple demo reels of their work in an uncluttered, no-nonsense style. And word ’round the office is that we’re going to be adding some new material to this site in the very near future.

Thanks One Page Love!

Seriously? Maybe in over 700 years…

This isn’t a review of Wall-e, if you want one, Google it. But this is to point out something I noticed today while enjoying one of the best animated films of ever. Wall-e is an old school robot on our very polluted Earth. He’s been around for a while and is still kicking because he is solar powered. Soooo, early on in the film we see him running out of juice. He stumbles outside to soak up the sun with his panels and when he is all charged up, we hear: the Mac OS startup sound.

If it is possible to go from loving to hating something in .02 seconds, it was this little audio “easter egg.” If you’re not familiar with the sound, check out this video (it’s the last one).  Who knows how many people will pick up on the cue (it clearly says something about the folks at Pixar) but seriously. I own a Mac, I’m on one all day at work, and I cringed the third (or fourth) time I heard the sound.

Other than that, I loved it. You will too, go check it out… Robot love is for everyone.

We take a lot of pride in the work that we do for clients. We spend a lot of time on beautiful design execution and standards based code especially for them. When we send our clients on their way of course we want to see them succeed!

We also feel a special connection to each of them. I certainly enjoyed seeing Garden Gate Delivery’s van, designed by Molly, parked the other day at the Ithaca Festival.

Today I got excited to see Ithaca Carshare on the front page of the Ithaca Journal today! Ithaca Carshare, after many years of hard work (largely from Jennifer Dotson), started operating yesterday. Participating in Ithaca Carshare’s convenient money-saving and carbon footprint-lessening transportation solution makes a lot of sense for so many people in Ithaca, especially those that live downtown but only need a car some of the time.

At AWP, we enjoyed developing materials for Ithaca Carshare, a company whose mission we believe in and is doing a great job in the Ithaca community. I am personally invested in the organization as well, as I first got involved with Ithaca Carshare when I was living with Dan Roth, one of the original organizers of the international car-sharing summit that took place at Ithaca College (January 2006). I later helped developed the first version of IthacaCarshare.org.

I am so happy to see this project come full circle and for all of the people who have worked so hard on making Ithaca Carshare succeed to see their dreams realized! Way to go!

I know most of us are liking Firefox 3’s new save password dialog box. Very slick. If you frequent sites on the internet where you have to login (Gmail, Pandora, Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo, Garden Gate Delivery, the Commons Cam, etc….) you aren’t going to want to enter your password every single time! Here are AWP we login into dozens of sites every day in order to access our site, our client sites, internal project pages, and our blog, of course.

The save password feature is nice for preserving my own brain capacity! But you might be wondering, what about when Molly asks me, hey what is the login for AWP’s WebTree so I can post some juicy details about the project I just finished? I go to the site, and of course I can login (because I choose Remember my password). But I can’t give the password to Molly, because it is hidden. Is Molly out of luck? No!

Firefox does store your passwords where you can see them. Although a bit cumbersome, just head to Security > Saved Passwords. (Note: This is also where you can delete passwords that you saved accidentally, which might happen if your cat walked across your keyboard without you knowing).

But here is an even better method. Download this great Firefox Add-On, Web Developer Toolbar from Chris Pederick. As the name suggests, this toolbar is great for Web Developers. I use this tool when developing websites to examine what they will look like in a smaller browser, determine rendered font size, disable cache, disable images or css, outline table cells and even edit html live.

However, I use Web Developer Toolbar most for its Show Password feature. Once you have this spiffy toolbar installed, simply visit the site with the hidden password and choose Show Passwords from the Form menu. Password revealed, just like that! Completely for free! Imagine what I can do with the time I saved looking up obscure passwords!

I don’t often rave about websites on our blog, but this one deserves some recognition (not that we carry too much internet-cred). I’ll commandshift3 this thing all day:

The site is by/for designer Steve Rura: http://www.letters-numbers.com

Layout/design-wise it relatively solid, but technically/conceptually this is spot on…The smooth scrolling vertically and horizontally was something I had planned on using for a previous client project but couldn’t, although the implementation here is perfect (and appropriate).

And the projects here are simply fantastic. Well done. Via: onepagelove.