Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in NYC, Chicago, Charleston, Burlington, SF, Portland, Boulder, Calgary, Phoenix, Singapore and Boston. Companies hiring include Smart Design, Zipcar, Addison, Microsoft, Electronic Ink, Motorola, e2, Everyday Health and Casabella. Post your job today. [JSC] […]

Do you say pop, soda or Coke? Mapping the generic names for soft drinks. (Via VSL.) [JL] […]

Sappi announces its 2010 Ideas That Matter grant recipients. [JL] […]

Twenty-five leading letterpress printers each created 50 limited-edition notebooks with Loop paper donated by Mohawk. They are being sold on a special storefront on Felt & Wire Shop. 100% of the proceeds benefit kids via School: By Design. [JL] […]

One of the most useful browser extensions for web development is coming to Chrome. Google is working on a Chrome version of its Page Speed add-on. Page Speed is an essential tool for testing sites in Firefox. It breaks down all the stuff on your page and shows you how long everything is taking to download, [...] […]

Mozilla has released a fifth beta for Firefox 4, adding hardware acceleration in Windows, a new audio API and support for a new security protocol. You can download Firefox 4 beta 5 from the Mozilla website, or, if you’re currently using beta 4, head to the Check for Updates menu item to update to beta [...] […]

If you’ve visited Google’s home page Tuesday, you’ve seen the bouncy ball demo. The Google logo is made of little colored balls that run away from your mouse and jump around furiously when you click on them. The balls will also jiggle from side-to-side if you move your browser window around. The company did it using [...] […]

If you’ve played around with optimizing your website for small screens, you know one of the big headaches is resizing images. You can set the viewport in your head tags to make sure your main content is the focus on mobile devices, but you can’t easily shrink images. On many mobile devices, rendering the images [...] […]