Great collection of some stone/brick walkways to use in your projects. Click here to download the zip file and use as you wish. Texture are 2592px by 1944px.

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Earlier today, a designer, blogger, web standards “king” Jeffrey Zeldman wrote an article called “IE9 Preview” in which he outlines his initial thoughts about IE9, Webkit and overall tone of the IE team.

Zeldman applauses Microsoft’s efforts in it’s improving web standard support into IE such as CSS3, HTML5, SVG and more. On this point I agree with Zeldman that standards support is much desired and sought after by web designers building sites for all the various browsers. On the other hand I disagree with his comments about suggesting that Microsoft should simply switch to webkit so that all/most browsers are running the same engine.

Throughout his article he talks about the issues and drawbacks of the dominance that IE once had and for the moment still maintains (though steadily declining). So then why, at the end of his blog post does he suggest IE should switch to Webkit? It makes no sense to complain about the control of IE as a bad thing then on the flip side praise the idea of total control of another simply because it’s “better”. In my opinion this will lead us down the same path we are trying to get out of with IE6.

Competition is good, always has been and always will be, as someone so embedded in the tech industry as Zeldman is, this seems to have slipped his mind.

Microsoft’s Tone

The primary reason for Zeldman’s blog post was to criticize Microsoft over their tone of announcements. Frankly, the web experiences which Microsoft showed today (in relation to their competitors) is valid reasoning for being excited and even cocky about what they have managed to do. The fact that they were able to play TWO HD videos with minimal CPU usage, using HTML5 on a netbook is pretty impressive. I don’t know of a single company that doesn’t try to show that their product is better than their competitors product, advertising IS being cocky/bragging by nature. Why is he calling Microsoft out but no one else?

If he thinks Microsoft is bad, he should learn about a company called Apple. Do a Youtube search for Mac vs PC and tell me who is cocky, arrogant and bragging. Where are his posts about the misleading advertising in all of Apple’s Mac vs. PC ads? How about Zeldman himself, on his About page he clearly promotes the fact the Business Week calls him the “King of Web Standards”, he doesn’t seem to mind “bragging” and pushing the fact that he is the “KING” in our faces, so why can’t Microsoft brag about what they have developed?

Almost everything Microsoft showed in IE9 today was better than what their competitors are doing for the supposed “Standards”  (which aren’t even standards yet) within other browsers, yet Zeldman bashes Microsoft over it.

People seem to forget that Microsoft can’t just change something overnight, when they change something as big as IE is, then there is lots of potential for lots of things to break and that is bad for everyone. IE9 so far is clearly headed in the right direction, support the fact that Microsoft is working to do things right.

I have collected 10 of my favorite rusty metal textures that shot and use within some of my work, thought you might like to use them as well. Click Here to download the zip file and use as you wish! Most textures are 2592px by 1944px.

There are many more textures located over on our site TextureArchive.com.

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Recently I ordered some business cards for my new service: http://homeimprovement.krazier.com and debated on whether I should go matte or glossy for the finish. I’ve never really cared for glossy except on postcards, glossy on business cards has always seemed “cheap” to me for some reason.

I’m trying to think back to all the cards I have purchased for myself and can’t think of a time where I chose to go with glossy, however this time was different. Yesterday I got my cards in the mail and have to say that they look really nice and I’m glad I decided to try something new.

What is your preference? Do you prefer Glossy or Matte on your business cards?