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Donate $5, Enter to Win a Colosseo 'Martian' Edition

Donate $5, Enter to Win a Colosseo 'Martian' Edition:

Yesterday's Authentic Jobs / charity: water campaign got off to a good start, financially speaking. Not as strong of a start in number of contributions, though. I'm confident that, as an industry of talented, generous individuals, we can make some incredible stuff happen for those who lack clean, safe drinking water. Especially when drilling a well isn't that easy.

I'm willing to pitch in to make it a little easier for you to donate...

PaintbrushJS Playground

PaintbrushJS Playground:

I've linked this up before, but it's worth relinking as Dave Shea has updated the demo page. Choose from several filters, adjust the settings, and see it all in action.

As a reminder, PaintbrushJS is "a lightweight browser-based image processing library built with Javascript and canvas." Meaning, you can apply filters such as gaussian blur and grayscale to images on the fly. For example, for the photo hovers on a site such as dConstruct 2010, you'd need only one image ...

Authentic Jobs: Celebrating 5 Years

This September marks the five-year anniversary of Authentic Jobs. Can you believe it? I can't. What was once a sidebar on my site has grown into a valuable, standalone resource for web and creative professionals.

We're kicking off the celebration in three parts, the first of which goes live today at authenticjobs.com/five:

Focused on giving back, we're asking you to help us celebrate by donating just $20 (or any amount) to charity: water, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing clean...

Changing the Default Audio Quality for Bluetooth Headphones on a Mac

Changing the Default Audio Quality for Bluetooth Headphones on a Mac:

So, I grew tired of dealing with wires when listening to music at my desk and purchased these Sony bluetooth headphones. It turns out, however, that OS X defaults to low-quality audio for bluetooth headsets and headphones. But that's simply a default, and it can be changed.

To increase the quality, it's as easy as entering this in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent "Apple Bitpool Min (editable)" 50

or

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Twitter for iPad

Twitter for iPad:

Finally, an iPad Twitter app I can use without cursing the UI. If it detects a reply, it will show the conversation from the individuals included (screenshot). If it detects a URL, it displays the web page (screenshot).

Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery

Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery:

Ben Bodien, who also masterminds a lot of the jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3 material for Authentic Jobs, explains what it took to make Tim Van Damme's audio player design for The Box a reality.

Quipsologies Redesign

Quipsologies Redesign:

This is gorgeous and original. Fonts are rendered with Typekit, featuring Coquette, Skolar, and P22 Underground. (Armin, a Twitter account would let me credit you guys for all the linkage I lift from your site.)

/via @jasonsantamaria

Less Framework

Less Framework:

A CSS framework for cross-device layouts, built on the principles in Ethan Marcotte's "Responsive Web Design". I'm not a huge fan of frameworks, but they can come in handy at times. (See, however, my remarks regarding using media queries for mobile experiences.)

Resist Today $10 Summer Sale

Resist Today $10 Summer Sale:

Almost all items priced at $10—tees, wallets, pillows.

Redrock Nano DSLR Rigs

Redrock Nano DSLR Rigs:

Rigs such as these provide multiple touch points to improve stability when shooting. For the most part, these rigs have been out of reach for me, financially speaking. But Redrock's Nano series of DSLR rigs are compact and affordable, and my budget may be able to spring for one finally.