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Replace Default Field Values with Labels

Lots of times, it makes sense to pre-populate a form field with some text to guide the user. Usually you see this when space is limited, and the site tries to use the field’s value as a label. However, the field’s value isn’t the label— it’s the value. We see this often when a form has little real estate available to it, or sometimes when the designer doesn’t want to clutter up the interface with extra text. Read more…

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Apple’s (New) Game Plan

Much to my excitement, Apple released updated iMacs, Mac Minis, MacPros and a host of other items last Tuesday. I’d been looking forward to picking up a new iMac for a month or so, since keeping my media on an airdisk drive is really grating on me. At the time, I began looking at the high-end iMac (3.06gHz, 2GB DDR, 500GB HDD) and saw that it was upgradable to 4GB DDR/1TB for a few hundred bucks more. Deduct my company’s employee purchase plan discount and that became a pretty solid machine at a reasonable price. Read more…