Adobe BrowserLab Great Tool for Web Designers

Are you sick of not being able to see how your website renders in certain browsers?  Wish that you could compare multiple browsers on one screen without having to snap screenshots?  Maybe you can't even run a certain browser on your machine because of the OS you're using.  Look no further for a tool that will help you, as a web designer, identify differences between different browsers and browser versions.  Adobe's BrowserLab is a web-based tool that is free and allows you to compare your website in various modes (1-up, side-by-side, four-up, etc.)  It allows you to stack a couple shots of your site on top of one another to detect differences using an opacity/transparency slider.  It also allows you to zoom in on specific regions of the site to see differences in how fonts are rendered and to satisfy clients that require pixel-perfect designs and layouts.  The only downside that I've found using this tool so far is that you can't interact within your site once a page is loaded in the tool.  It's really for loading up a specific URL and then sticking with it for the sake of comparison.

Check it out now at browserlab.adobe.com or watch the video below:

Nicest Car on the Road

Love the 2010 Buick LaCrosse and I'm less than 70 years old. You have to check this car out. The interior and exterior are both perfect. Buick's taken some great leaps in changing their brand image. The only qualm I have with this car is that the mileage is terrible. 17 MPG city. Who cares what highway is at that point. I'm keeping my fingers crossed or a 30+ MPG hybrid in 2011.

See the 2010 Buick LaCrosse here.

Tuthill Earns Information Week 500 Recognition

That's right, the place I work, Tuthill Corporation, has been listed on the Information Week 500 list for 2009. We've been doing some great things at Tuthill. Recreating everything we do from the edge of possibility. Stretching limited resources in a lousy economy to the edge of what they're capable of doing in a short period of time and being very successful at it. Since March we've created a brand new customer self-service portal, a supplier portal, a customer service toolbox that both the customer service reps and the salespeople will utilize, and have implemented EDI.

Check out the list here.

My Cousin John

My cousin John is a Captain in the 101st Airborne. He is currently away at war in Iraq and an article was written about him in the Sun Times. You can view it at: http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1086301,080308aainuniform.article.

John's a great guy and I got to catch up with him a little bit when he was home a few months ago. His stories were all amazing and he's very confident that we're doing good things in Iraq and feels like it'd be a shame to pull out now because we've come so far. I'm very proud of my cousin and hope that he returns safely.