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Up until last Wednesday, I was a proud owner of a T-Mobile Sidekick. As many of you know, the Sidekicks support their own email system at tmail.com, which I found pretty useful for push email notifications regardless of my current location. I even decided to hook this email up to my MySpace account, which I barely even use anymore. Now that I own a G1, and my tmail account was removed, I can’t delete my MySpace account. Which, by the way, is something I really want to do.

Thanks T-Mobile!

As you may have noticed, I applied a new theme to the blog tonight. It’s got some new colors similar to my Twitter profile, a new header design, and some nifty Javascript I talked about yesterday, called Cufon. It’s kind of experimental at this point, so let me know if you run into any bugs with it.

Also, I setup a minimal design on Straw and Berry, where my portfolio used to be. It resembles a business card and is intended as a small info-base on who I am, what sites I operate, and how to get in touch with me. Also using Cufon.

Until next time –

Just yesterday I discovered a sweet tool available to the public called Cufon. It’s based at cufon.shoqolate.com and allows you to embed font families into your websites with Javascript, so you can display custom fonts anywhere on the site. It encodes each block of text into a base64 image, and has support for gradients and almost every CSS style you can think of.

I’m using Cufon on Straw and Berry, a small business card-esque site right now, and theres more examples and instructions on how to use it on their website. Give it a shot if you want to use custom fonts without creating seperate images one-by-one in Photoshop.

With the recent increase in traffic on TutorialFeed.com, I was lagging on approving / denying tutorials and there began to be quite a buildup. I thought over some ways to remind myself when more content needed to be moderated, and landed on a great idea – have the website text message me. It didn’t take much to figure out, and now every couple hours I’ll receive a new text message when there’s stuff awaiting my graceful touch (:P).

If you’re curious about how this works, this is the tutorial for you.

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