The Useful Thread
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- whatthefunk8
Great collection of Google UX playbooks with a ton of design examples for conversion, best practices, and usability for mobile web.
Retail & E-Commerce - https://services.google.com/fh/f…
Lead Gen - https://services.google.com/fh/f…
Travel - http://services.google.com/fh/fi…
Finance - http://services.google.com/fh/fi…
Real Estate - https://services.google.com/fh/f…
News & Content - http://services.google.com/fh/fi…
- grafician6
Vintage Design Inspiration (in progress)
Calling cards: (Victorian-ish)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ae…Record Labels (Misc.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rk…60s Record sleeves (60s)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30…Factory Sleeves
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kh…70s Concert Tickets:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kh…Vintage Type
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ae…Punk Flyers: (80s/90s ish)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/36…“Bands on Paper” (More scanned flyers)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/el…Vintage Childrens’ books:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37…Matchbooks (50s/60s Eastern Europe)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/li…Peculiar Manicule (Psychedelia/Mod Design):
https://www.peculiarmanicule.com…Vintage Coupons:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ro…Borders:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/18…“Sliders, Spinners, Wheels”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ae…2nd Spanish Republic
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ha…More Paper Ephemera:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79…Vintage Menus:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/me…Fiorucci:
https://www.itsnicethat.com/arti…50s Stuff
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ba…Coronet Records
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ba…American Art Posters:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bo…Travel Posters:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bo…“Folk Typography”
https://flickr.com/groups/folkty…Vintage Packaging:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jo…British Library Vintage Illustrated Type
https://www.flickr.com/photos/br…More Vintage Matchbooks:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ma…Vintage Postage Stamps:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mi…- A treasure trove
:-)PhanLo - Credit where credit is due... ;)
https://twitter.com/…Centigrade - Ah you did... my bad! It's right at the bottom of your post. Fair play.Centigrade
- great links, thanks!utopian
- Nice one, thank youGardener
- Yup, great find, hope it's usefulgrafician
- A treasure trove
- imbecile6
- I have the extension but never use it...nbq
- site can't be reached...lvl_13
- http://www.joinhoney…imbecile
- Used it yesterday to renew a hosting account on Godaddy, it saved me $44Maaku
- https://www.sciencea…Gnash
- yeah I've save with honey. also wikibuydbloc
- Bluejam7
"Andrei Kashcha’s City Roads tool will draw you a map of just the roads in any city around the world."
- That link didn't work for me, but this does:
https://anvaka.githu…Nairn - Oh were was this just before Christmas as I wasted hours making a map of my partner's home-town to laser-cut?!Nairn
- cool. some cities look better than others.dbloc
- Noice!!! And you can export as vector too! Phwoar!sab
- Oh wowmonospaced
- sab - source data is OpenStreetMap, which allows export of datasets in SVG format - including non-road data such as rivers, or differing land types, etcNairn
- That link didn't work for me, but this does:
- robotron3k2
AI created people who look real, refresh for new person who does not exist... Creepy af
- thispersondoesnotexi...robotron3k
- Damn! https://thispersondo…robotron3k
- We'll that's a fail, here is the article https://www.dailydot…robotron3k
- It's not AI though is itset
- the background is a giveaway, does only faces, creepy thoughdrgs
- https://www.qbn.com/…Krassy
- This should compliment all of your fake posts.utopian
- Nairn posted thisfadein11
- How is this useful?scruffics
- Instantly starts creating Facebook accountsautoflavour
- Is this technically a solution for pedophiles?Ianbolton
- shapesalad5
https://medium.com/age-of-awaren…
Use Crome to get a high res screen grab of a website.
- *Chromeshapesalad
- Nice thanks, i have to strike out screenshots from my arguments against chrome, we still have that memory eating thing! :Dsted
- You can take screenshots of separate div's, just right click on them in the codedrgs
- If you use macOS Paparazzi does this really well (with batching), even better is the layered PSD you can get with Flying Meat's Acorn.evilpeacock
- This works best for us for full size screenshots.
https://chrome.googl…dbloc
- utopian4
Fontshare is a free fonts service. There are some really nice font families here.
- ok_not_ok0
- yup that's the proper way
http://1.bp.blogspot…sted - didn't someone here get the squatty potty? how's that workin' out?scarabin
- howard stern loves itcbass99
- i've got a squatty potty (plastic one)
the trick to pooping is to relax completely and give it time. somehow more comes out of our bodydrgs - the slavs must be pissed they didn't patent the moveGnash
- lol Gnash!_niko
- http://i.imgur.com/Z…fisheye
- http://cf.girlsaskgu…dbloc
- ^ whities are doing it all wrong.dbloc
- my dream is to a build a room dedicated to pooping. it will have plants and livings birds. hidden in bushes it will have asian style squatting toiletdrgs
- quite a dreamdbloc
- Drake walking into a thread...utopian
- i don't mind the position, but i need a bar or something to hold on to. for balance and pain alleviation.bezoar
- https://www.youtube.…drgs
- https://www.youtube.…Gnash
- Anorectal Angle
http://i53.tinypic.c…set
- yup that's the proper way
- vvvv5
- illegal i guessBennn
- totally legal, you have to 'ok' the
"Please only download font files for which you have the rights." before you dl.uan - naughtyGnash
- No Francker :(face_melter
- Can't imagine this going well.bklyndroobeki
- they don't host any of the files, so they're safe from legal action the same way thepiratebay isscarabin
- dbloc1
- once you're that close...Gnash
- it's a trap!dbloc
- i dont trust this, cuz internetBrokenHD
- how are you going to get so close to a snake to see its underbelly? Wake up under it?dorkKn1ght
- dumb and false. venom has nothing to do w/ eye shape http://animals.mom.m…sarahfailin
- Ow! OW!! Why does this snake keep biting me while I check if it's poisonous.ETM
- cute lil snekscarabin
- poisonous one looks evil. non-poisonous one looks dumb. easy.Bennn
- Or you could just, you know, recognize species. This is mostly true for the states, because all venomous species are pit vipers, with the exception of the..garbage
- ..coral snake.garbage
- Poisonous snakes appear to be mad.bklyndroobeki
- utopian9
Pulled over while connected: Siri can quietly video record the police.
Just say, "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over."
One of the latest apps to hit the iOS 12 mobile highway is Shortcuts. With it, users can plot out a series of actions and trigger them by signaling the voice-assistant. One savvy user created an add-on called Police that can give drivers added security during traffic stops.
- Beeswax3
I remember someone suggesting an alternative to Google analytics.
But I don't remember what that was. Something starts with M...?- Matomo?
https://matomo.org/grafician - yes! thnxBeeswax
- https://matomo.org/f…pablo28
- I’m surprised this hasn’t taken off more BUT I’ve also yet to use it! Lolz.ideaist
- grafician deliverspalimpsest
- Remember there was a site that offered decent analytics in early 2000s. Everyone in the flash/design scene jumped on it.microkorg
- Going to annoy me trying to remember what it was called.microkorg
- Matomo?
- MrT3
Not world-changing but in AI and PS CC Prefs > General switch to:
'Use legacy "File New" interface'
Dunno about you but waiting for the new interface to come up, only to present me with less useful options is facking annoying.
- holy crap thanks :)sted
- thanks!uan
- cheers!fadein11
- Heh, I stumbled across this a while back and thought I found gold.fyoucher1
- I upgraed from cc2014 to see what you mean. WHY did I upgrade from 2014? What an ugly fucking mess 2017 is! UGHFT.detritus
- oh ffs, it deleted all my templates?!
fucking hell, i hate Adobe.detritus - Wow. How fucking slow is this? It took 4x as long to open a file. fucking reverse.detritus
- ...aaaand, it's crashed. WTF have I done?detritus
- thanks man! that always annoyed mehelloeatbreathedrive
- Thanks!!!desmo
- PhanLo6
- Thanks this is useful!slappy
- *winkmonospaced
- Been using Monospacer for a bit but this looks groovier. Cheers!MrT