Last month my beloved Sony Tablet S suffered a “little” accident and the screen got broken.

I had it insured so I returned it to the shop.

There was a distinct possibility of the device being replaced other then repaired. That was fine by me with an exception:

- Will I loose all the apps I’d bought trough google play?

This was a legit concern since this was the first time it had happened to me, and my first thoughts where that probably apps are assigned to devices, and thus the apps i’d bought where assigned to the “broken tablet” and I could not re-install them in the “new device”!

At work I am the webmaster of a couple of hundred WordPress blogs from our clients. This allows me to get a lot of information about whats going out out there in terms of spam.

Lately there is a new comment spam technique that has greater chance of success then the previous ones i’ve seen so far:

Last week I’ve came across with a new ‘method for image replacement (e.g. on hyperlinks), wich I’ve tested successfully in my latest project, and thus I now recommend its usage…

So far the most common method, was to use the -9999px left-margin, but this had a few drawbacks, since it had to “draw” a huge 9999px box offscreen.
This new “recipe” is cleaner and dramatically improves performance when compared to the old -9999px method.

So this is the code to use:

.hide-text {
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

This method was discovered, apparently, by Scott Kellum, design director at Treesaver, and published in www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-new-image-replacement/ where you can read some more about it.

Create your Lomo style images with Adobe Photoshop

Lomo images have a typical look: vignetted, highly contrasted and “overlayed-like” colors, this look was caused by the characteristic C-41 as E-6 cross-processing.

In this tutorial we’re going to try to achieve the same results using Adobe Photoshop and a modern digital picture.

The following techniques are examples of shortcuts to getting the most out of Google Search and Voice Search. For the latest list of tips and tricks, visit the Google Help Center.