David gets his domain name back with lots of help from the web community and amazingly enough, the NY Times. David - 1, Bad Guy - 0.

Poor David goes on vacation for a month and comes back to find some nasty gremlin has taken over his domain name. He’s now using www.davidairey.co.uk now so update your bookmarks if you haven’t already. Also, he’s asking for help on spreading the word so others can update their links. It’s a shame to see something happen to such a nice guy.

He also reminds us to change our passwords frequently on email and elsewhere.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has rejected Taxi On the Dark Side’s poster as being “not suitable for all audiences.” However, posters for The Hills Have Eyes 2, Saw IV, Hostel Part II and The Eye seem to be suitable for children.

What’s offensive about this image? The detainee in the hood. Well, actually just the hood. An MPAA spokesman said: “We treat all films the same. Ads will be seen by all audiences, including children. If the advertising is not suitable for all audiences it will not be approved by the advertising administration.”

Seems kind of silly to me when we see worse on the evening news and I’ve seen worse movie posters (like those linked above) when going into the cinema. I’m glad about the backlash though because the poster is well-designed and seems to get the point across. Lastly, I’ve heard about a movie that I hadn’t heard of prior to this. What are your thoughts, if you have/had children would you find this offensive?

I often forget that Flickr exists. I know, it’s all over the place and I go and forget about it. I was checking out Flickr today and came across the user “factoryjoe.” He has a bunch of useful stuff in his account for the web designer/developer. You can find the following collections there; they are ‘Design Patterns, User Flows, Applications, Interfaces & Website Screenshots’.

It’s interesting to look at what others find important for their design process, at least I think so anyway. I often find little tips that help me that I can incorporate into my own design process. Do you know of any cool Flickr user collections that folks may be missing?

Recently I’ve been taking advantage of using Colour Lover’s download palette option for Adobe Photoshop. One of the things I found rather annoying about this task was having to move the download file into the Photoshop Color Swatches folder. After a bit of research, I came up with the solution of using ‘Folder Actions’ along with ‘Automator’. Basically what happens is once the file is downloaded into a specific folder, the folder action, which is always running, then moves that file to the ‘Color Swatches’ folder. I don’t have to do a damn thing! Yeah, for laziness and automation. I’m sure this isn’t as profound to others as it is to me but any seconds saved in my day, the better.

Since I was so taken with this, I decided to do a little pictorial tutorial of the process for all you Apple OS X Tiger holdouts. This is an image heavy post, so it may take a while to load.

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