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August 2010
10The Orchid - New Mexico EP
06Little Big Planet 2
03Starflyer 59 - Changing of the Guard
July 2010
23White UFO
22Illustrator export artboards as png32
22CSS Filters Slides
15A new Ninja for Woo Themes!
15The start of Shelf!
14School of Seven Bells - 'Disconnect from Desire'
13Gail's Artisan Bakery Identity
08New Goodies!
08Beautiful new underground ads that dodge the obvious
07Using files for page templates in Textpattern
05iOS icon template for Illustrator CS5
04Dr Who in Springfield
June 2010
30Daniel's Monsters featured in Booth
30Recent Work: Shopify
29Drink Tea (for the Love of God!)
28Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide To
28Orbital's cover of the Dr Who theme, this time with Matt Smith!
27Villagers - "Ship of Promises"
23The Hitchhikers Guide to the Daleks
23Dr Who: The Big Bang predictions
22Finally, a fluid Hicksdesign
17LiveView for iPhone and iPad
16Comments
15CSS Filters
07What happens when the Pandorica opens?
May 2010
25Responsive Web Design
24Principles of Icon Design
10The National
05Illustrator CS5 is lovely, but Adobe still needs competitors
01Made for Machines, not by them
April 2010
14To Victory!
06Phantogram - A Mouthful of Diamonds
04Well that went well!
March 2010
31Helvetireader 2
22Fireworks alternatives on trial: Acorn, Drawit and Opacity
19New Tardis Interior in Series 5
16Why the big rush Mr Mandelson?
February 2010
17A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services
17Moving on
11Zootool
January 2010
26The Handbag has been raised!
22Guide to the Internet (2000)
20Designer, not a construction worker
19Why you can never work 'full time'
16Dream Report: Look at the Hygiene!
14My Evernote Workflow
14Add to Queue in Boxee
13The PS3 Hub
08Dream Report: Radiohead Puppet Show
06Dashnote
03Hicksdesign's Ramble through 2009
December 2009
30Loo Copywriting
17Opera 10.5 pre-alpha next week
14And Mary and Joseph had…
12Boxee Box
November 2009
25Netmag article on Icon Design
06Icons of the screen icon - Wired UK
03The Kraken Media Kit
October 2009
30Using Evernote as a Design Scrapbook
26Lettering - a set on Flickr
24How to be a Creative Sponge 2
22Hicks' Halloween Challenge
18Whitelines + Behance Dot Grid Book
17Marshall Alexander - Paper Engineer
17Holey Moley! Culture Vulture Interview
13Squared
06New Dr Who Logo
04Shaping the City
02Neil Poulton Speakers
01A big-assed post about Fireworks
September 2009
23League Gothic
20Widescreen hack for Yojimbo 2
18Daring Fireball: How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
16Opera Mini 5 beta
16Fluid style for SimpleNote
13Beatles Rock Band - Outro Trailer
08History by Typotheque
07Focus on Textpattern 4.2.0
04SVGWeb Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer
02PS3, now with iPlayer support
02Helvetical
01Yojimbo 2 upgrade
01Opera 10 is final!
August 2009
06My World
02Sitepoint Interview
July 2009
25Thoughts on the PS3 Media Centre (+ Apple TV)
09See Fernando
June 2009
29Icons for Interaction
16Unite
10Discovery
05Daniel's Daily Monster
May 2009
06The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
06Skute
01TELSTAR THE MOVIE
April 2009
30Little Big Planet Garden Theme
24Gameboy Timeline
16Swoon
March 2009
26Doctor Who Season 5
February 2009
15Playstation 3 Media Centre
09Boxee and Plex
01Designing for the Web
January 2009
23Western Digital TV Media Player Review
22How the Day Sounds
19Yorke
18Media Center decision
18Tony Hart
09Recent Work: FontExplorer Pro
05Dr Who in two inches
December 2008
31Popcorn Hour, WD TV or Apple TV?
30Dropbox & Leap sitting in a tree
22A Merry Christmas from Hicksdesign! (08)
12LittleSnapper
November 2008
29More Ideas!
29Doctor Who Christmas Radio Times Cover
26Here's Helvetireader
25Penguin H.G Wells
24The House of Books has no Windows
24Rissington not dead
19Evernote wishes
12Geek in the Park talk
11Opera users: Your UI feedback is wanted!
11First week at Opera
10Adding Books to Coda
October 2008
21Stars of the Lid Feature Film
09and now… Opera
06More Illustrator export scripts
04New Starflyer 59: DIAL M
September 2008
29Evernote
20Graphic Designer controlled by Computer
19Billings 3
17Illustrator: exporting layers to PNG
15Recent Work: MailChimp
14This Thing of Darkness
10Capability, not Popularity
03Initial thoughts on Google Chrome
02Google Chrome
July 2008
29The Dell Hybrid
18Listen with Delia
13Geneviève Gauckler on CBBC?
10Opera Web Standards Curriculum
June 2008
30The Stolen Earth Punditry
26Geek in the Park 08
24Expression Engine vs Textpattern
23Earth not at Risk (apparently)
19Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3
16Felons
15Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
05Graphics Editor or Text Editor?
05Helvetireader - a work in progress
May 2008
29Does this England Exist?
27On the playlist: Ladytron - Velocifero
25The Detective's Handbook
20Steven Moffat to become Who Executive Producer
16Installing Summerboard Themes
15On the playlist: M83 - Graveyard Girl
12Esso Maps
10The Poison Sky
04Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
April 2008
20From Design to Deployment
20Camino 1.6
09Urgent: I need Icon Designers!
02Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential
March 2008
31Mac Mini Media Centre
25Staff Photos
23History Flow
21Dr Who Season 4
15The Portable Funk Machine
04Page Borders
February 2008
28Recent Work: Silverback
27Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah
26Manners Road
25Fiddling
21There are no slackers in Britain to-day!
07Icon Design Explained (Quickly)
January 2008
31Come and hear me 'go on a bit' in 2008
25Presumably because you can fit more in?
21The wee flies in the iPhone soup
16gReader 1.4 - 'The my goodness I almost gave up on this one' release
16Custom webclip icon on the iPhone/iPod Touch
15My MacWorld Prediction
11Quickly add movies to Wii Transfer
11Railmobile
December 2007
20Scalehixtric
19My 2007 in Blogs, Music, Events and Apps!
13iTunes notifications over a network?
08Starting again from scratch #1
07Yojimbo 1.5 Widescreen
05gReader 1.31
05Return of MYOB
November 2007
20What colour is that?
18Harry Potter and the Order of Typography
16The Two Doctors
October 2007
31The New Banter
10Cover art for In Rainbows
04Fonts in your Face
September 2007
28gReader 1.3: "Straight outta beta" release
26Why I like working where I do #1
25Grid Layouts.com
15gReader theme in Safari 3
14The Rissington Podcast
10gReader 1.2: The "Yes, yes, yes, I know they added a search bar" release
08Yes, yes, yes I know the Google Reader theme is broken
August 2007
31How to install the gReader theme
27Tally Ho Chaps!
26A plea for a decent cuppa
25 Running a Successful Web Design Business
16Google Reader Theme 1.1
14Midlake - 'Roscoe'
13Change of Face
11Not changing something
July 2007
18Recent Work: Miro Identity
02Voyage of the Damned
June 2007
27Are these your cakes?
23Kestrel
17My first Icon Design Workshop
11Safari 3 thoughts
09Be a Creative Sponge
05Camino One Point Five
01Recent Work: Mahalo
01Recent Work: ReallyWorried.com
May 2007
29Google Reader and Bloglines themes - it's over to you.
26Ten
13Google Reader Theme 0.9
09Doctor Who Season 3 iCal
02Google Reader Theme Fixed Again
02Google Reader broken already
April 2007
28Google Reader Theme update
23Coda
17Google Reader Theme
13The National - 'Fake Empire'
12Oxford Geek Night 2
06You can say I love you with Helvetica (and Rest of the World shipping)
01Speaking Engagements in 2007
March 2007
30It's going to be a good year for music
23An end to Browser pimping?
22Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go"
17How to setup a Textpattern playlist
09The Adventures of Flat Hicks
08Horror Head
February 2007
06Truth Magazine tells the truth
01The Incredible Book Eating Boy
January 2007
22hReview in Textpattern
19Podspeakers Micropod and Dock review
17Yojimbo widescreen view hack
15Lists of 2006
11Five.
11The gadget I'm most excited about
09The only drawback with the iPhone
December 2006
20For Leigh
18Podspeakers
13Looking for an iPod speaker with...
10Cairo beats Safari?
08A Merry Christmas 2006
November 2006
30Vertical Centering with a Shiv Div
17Bloglines Skin 1.4.2
08Daytrotter
October 2006
31Cromarty and Forth, moderate or good
22Bloglines Skin 1.4.1
16The 'WE' in Hicksdesign
15Bloglines Skin 1.3
12PimpMySafari & PimpMyCamino future!
10OS X skin for Bloglines
09BBC Radio in MediaCentral
07For those about to (tie the) knot...
September 2006
24More Microformats Highlighting
14Highlight Microformats with CSS
13Design is just making things line up
05Endings
August 2006
16New Design Blogs
12I want to hear from Parallels users
07Very quick thoughts on Leopard
July 2006
27Pimped Safari Icon
10I need a support group
June 2006
30Logo redesign article in this month's .net
23Friday Question: Can you get Great Design on a budget?
22Life io at Supernova
20A Proposal for a Safari Microformats plugin
18Good Design vs Great Design
09New Business Cards are here!
08iCal schedule for @media
07Pelle Carlberg - "Go to hell, Miss Rydell"
01Waiting for Songbird to nest on OS X
May 2006
31Web Development with... Safari
24Cocoalicious Hack
15The National - Secret Meeting
14Firefox becomes a contender
08Omniweb theme 1.2
03Moving navigation solved
03Tiger Theme for Omniweb 5.5
01Naughty Inuits Provoke Surly Alligators
01Bloody Minded
April 2006
27Starflyer 59 - "Wake up Early"
26A quick guide to Omniweb 5.5 sp6
26New desktop wallpaper
25The Very Hush Hush - "Love, Like Love"
20I heart people who send me art
11Lavender Diamond - "Rise in the Springtime"
09Explaining the new logo
06The New Logo
05Terrible Nakedness
04Camino, Wordpress, and the liberation of pre-made templates
04Gregor Samsa "Three"
March 2006
30Hicksdesign's Found Sounds
30Wolf Parade
29Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
255 artists I didn't appreciate when I was growing up...
23Big ideas, and then ... no time
20SXSW 2006
04Origami
03What I'm doing at the moment
February 2006
15Browser Polygamy Movement
14Camino 1.0!
14What have you done Walkers?
10Lost
08Four
06A new home for Aronnax
04Mac Media Centre - iTunes Remotes
January 2006
31Happy old man
30A meme worth spreading: Just how long can you make your blog post title - is it like very long or is it like really really really really really really long like the long and winding road as sung about by Paul McCartney (he was one of the beatles you know)
26Grumpy old man
24Four Things
15Dream Commission
14Mac Media Centre part two - Software
13Mac Media Centre part one - hardware
02Tell me I haven't lost it...
December 2005
23Happy Christmas to you all!
17Come with me on a journey
13Time to redesign the logo methinks
02Textpattern Notes: New Tag goodness
November 2005
30Riffs, now for Safari too
26Keeping score
23There goes the "living off a powerbook" theory
22Segpub Christmas Cards
18Riffs: your social recommender
11The new beast
10Another use for Apple Care
08Flock & Hickr
October 2005
12Waiting for new powerbooks again
05Branding with Arial
04Textpattern Notes: Comments revisited
September 2005
27Dark alpha PNGs in Safari 2
26Center Parcs
13Spotlight indexing considered chuffing annoying
11Ideal OS X Text Editor?
0810 Mac Apps
04Do I blog for profit, backhanders or Scotch Eggs* ?
02Pimp My Mint
02MacUser 20/20 interview
August 2005
31Mighty Mouse
25Is 1024 OK?
21Browser Survey Results
16RSS Feed problems
14Now powered by Textpattern 4
13OS X Browser Survey 2005
09The office is closed on Fridays?
July 2005
22An explanation of colorblindness
20Gravatars will be OK!
14A list of typography things
12This is not, the greatest blog in the world, this is just a tribute
07Seven Seven
07Just to update you
June 2005
30Using things for other things
29Camino 0.9 alpha mini-review
24Friday Question: Useful Dashboard Widgets?
18Jeremy is right! Tiger underwhelms, except for...
15Th@t w@s @media
08@media is upon us
05Have you found Mace Windu's?
May 2005
31The Story of the Sex Pistols
25Textpattern Notes 6: Overriding Forms
19Getting Hicks done
16A Musical Baton
14Rufus Wainwright
12Looking for a MYOB replacement
02Tiger-r-r-r-r
April 2005
253D Box Model is now Creative Commons
18Tiger style for NetNewsWire
18The year of Wool
16Textpattern Notes 5 - Release Candidate 3
12Webby Awards 2005
11The Hicksdesign family album
09Basecamp Eureka
March 2005
31Safari tabs for Firefox updated
28Flag this photo as 'may offend'
22Pimp My Safari: As ready as it will ever be
20Where's Durstan?
18SXSW: Afterthoughts
18SXSW: People
18SXSW: Panels
18SXSW: Highlight
18SXSW: Trying to get my bags back
18SXSW: Travel
10Not just a 'off to SXSW' post
03What's in your menubar?
03FTP files from skEdit using Transmit 3
February 2005
27Josh has come to save our Aas.
25Oh, _that_ Hampton Inn...
18Omniweb wishlist II
172 OS X Questions updated
16What do you buy a cheese lover for Valentines Day?
09Skinning sites in Safari with PithHelmet
05Looking for desk/office space in Oxfordshire
January 2005
29Waiting for new Powerbooks
26Textile previews in Ecto and MarsEdit
26Return of the iPod
24Now the party's over, I'm so tired...
242005 Bloggie Awards
17What's goin' on
December 2004
24Has Santa moved to Rhode Island?
22It just remains for me to say
21Hicksdesign theme for Omniweb 5
16Spot the difference
14Lists of 2004
10Please refresh your browser
08Dr Comfy Chair (Or how I learned to stop worrying about originality)
07Firefox on ABC
06I shouldn't be allowed near computers
03Survey Results
November 2004
24Survey: What Text Editor do you use?
24Blinded by the Northern Lights
18Alternative Sage Toolbar Icon
18Survey: What app do you use for comps?
17Sidebar links with de.licio.us
16Firefox of the Day
11Ta-daa!!!
10Full Metal interface
08Optimized Firefox for G5's
05Red Channel
October 2004
28The ones that didn't quite make it
26The Redesign has landed
26John Peel 1939 - 2004
20Invasion of the Bandwidth Suckers
17Its not quite finished...
10Safari style tabs for Firefox OS X
08Design in Flight #2: Creating Interface Icons
06Help wanted: Creating a browser theme installer
06Textmate - first impressions
September 2004
29Sage on OS X
25Weekend Cheese Entertainment
22NetNewsWire 2
20Textpattern notes part 4
20Providing CSS for just Internet Explorer
1910 questions for me
17A quick note on adverts
16Go Firefox, Go!
09Some Omniweb 5 tricks you might not know
06the day has finally come
01Autumn Soundtrack
August 2004
31Bare Bones means Comic Sans
29Textpattern 2 months on
27Sometimes it just works
25Newsfire 0.1 beta
23Safari grinds to a halt - culprit found
18Redesigning is hard to do
17Forcing scrollbars (now even better)
16Geekend2
12New Safari Stand features
12Omniweb 5 wishlist
10Native (looking) Firefox OS X widgets
10Tweaking Firefox with CSS
05Firefox desktops updated
03CSS & XHTML Designer needed in Canterbury
02IE Whitespace Bug
July 2004
28Extending Safari 3: Stand
27Are web sites identical?
27Hold the Front Page
26The dreams are back too
25I'm back
08TTFN
07Do not return this to me as I do not want it back.
03RSS sidebar in Safari
01To Samantha
June 2004
26safari sidebar - beta screenshots (updated)
24Textpattern Notes Part 3
23Textpattern notes Part 2
22Textpattern notes Part 1
21Daily Check Ritual
20OS X Browsers news feed
18Shiira section up
15Its finally here.. (or is it?)
14Textpattern migration
12I fear the iChat
07Recycled CSS
May 2004
30Happy Birthday Erik!
30Shiira
203D CSS Box Model
15Move away from MovableType?
13playlist news feed
10the winner was
06a little browser quandary
April 2004
27Saftari
24Actionscript recommendations?
23Computer Arts Projects
20Thunderbird
18Amazon wishlists
15coming soon
15Page 23
09Norman vs Hicks
06I laugh at your spacer gifs
03spring clean, new home
March 2004
25Quicksilver for OS X
11Safari menu separators
07extending Safari 2: saft!
03web standards awards
01Adobe vs Greenwich Mean Time
February 2004
29orchard time
20Anatomy of an aeroplane
12SkinnyJ Interview
08branding firefox
05Edit CSS in Firefox
03New Browsers
January 2004
19yuk
19CSS Vault v2
15Digital Camera recommendations?
08Playing iPods via iTunes
03OmniWeb 5
02Link Dump
December 2003
30Live Comment Previews
23Happy Christmas!
18Extending Safari
16grow some garlic
11Darkest Night of the Year
11lists of 2003
03InDesign CS
01Flip Flop
November 2003
29yay or nay?
25Highlighting current page
25Highlighting current page with CSS
20ch..ch..changes
17Live from Dorset
14OS X web tools
12G5 and Panther
12Beware the CSS Hackers!
11Firebird for OS X
07IE 5 Mac notes
06multiple versions of IE
05testers wanted
04built for the future
October 2003
27Adobe Event Edinburgh
23comment spam
22php snippet
22List
17MT author comment notification
14accessible drop downs
14a cup of tea…
12new adfam websites
08skEdit
06zen garden #2
02I know what I said!
01In the dock
01gettin' all strict
September 2003
26Compliant style
26safari and 10.2.8
23skip navigation links
22flash and not-so-flash
20Mornington Crescent
20Happy and Poppy!
18No Camino till next year?
17quickies
13skip links update
10skip navigation solutions
08the entourage experience
04a links database with MT
03The Postal Service 'Give Up'
01vertical & horizontal centering 2
01Blazing Fruit
August 2003
25CSS rollovers 2 - this time its faster
14currently reading
11You've got to hide your styles away!
11Image-based rollovers with CSS
10Image rollovers with CSS
07That looks familiar…
05light & Day
July 2003
28updates to the camino theme
24Its all about butterflies
18hicksdesign is sexy!
18How to: vertical centering with CSS
15welcome the new kid
10camino lives!
10we have found a witch! can we burn her?!
03new camino metal theme!
June 2003
25“Everybody loves an asshole…”
25site design updated
12hail to the thief
12a warm fuzzy glow
02that bloke with the beard and wooly hat
May 2003
28dream job
27new safari buttons
22png petition
22Safari final in June?
22camino buttons
15am i wrong?
15Camino update
April 2003
28New iPods
25NetNewsWire
25it won’t shake the earth…
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