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Amazon now also has a Chrome extension that lets you send articles from the web to your Kindle so you can read them later. What I find interesting is that the article is always displayed in landscape orientation. I didn’t realize you could store that kind of info in the book format. I wonder what else you can put in there… While we’re on the subject of the Kindle: so far you can’t get your notes off the Kindle without opening or copying the .txt file via USB cable. I protest! ...

Bit This! Advertising, Design & Digital Culture → Bit This! is not an advertising agency, or a design studio, nor a digital agency or a branding consultancy. It is all this and much more. Bit This! is a new communications agency that was born from one idea: when we thought we knew all the answers, they changed all the questions. A really beautiful website — everything is very large and nicely colorful. I like it. ...

CSS3 Filters: Altering HTML and Images with just CSS → CSS3 Filters are a quite interesting offshoot from SVG, allowing you to modify HTML elements and images with blurs, brightness and a lot more. In this quick tutorial we’ll go over exactly how they’re going to work. Black-and-white and blur filters should definitely be added to the HTML5 standard. They would make it possible to create some really great effects. ...

♡ The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Maybe you’ve noticed that over the past few days I’ve repeatedly installed and reworked new themes. I was never really satisfied, but I really like the current one. Simple yet a bit playful. Admittedly, the design is borrowed — it’s based on the design from Svbtle — but it will surely continue to change over time. There’s also a great new feature for my readers: the “Kudos” feature. You can loosely translate “kudos” as “to praise.” In short, it’s an “I like this” feature. So go on, use it. ...