Photo of the Week: Singing Dickcissel

Brown and gray bird with yellow breast and rusty shoulders perched on a fence post.

The black V on the throat against the yellow breast stood out for me when I saw the sparrow-sized bird singing away on the fence.

The male Dickcissel with the rust-colored shoulders always makes me smile when I see it in summer, because I typically only find it when I hear it singing.

Dickcissels are one of Michigan’s grassland birds, along with Savannah Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, Eastern Meadowlarks, and Bobolinks. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Singing Dickcissel

July 2, 2021 Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll discover why cross-cultural design matters, find out why designers should minimize movement on web pages, learn how to discover hover-capable devices with CSS, and more. Continue reading July 2, 2021 Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

ExtractTable: Convert Tabular Data From Images

Home website page of ExtractTable highlighting features and drag-and drop feature to extract table content.

Longtime readers of this blog know I love sharing helpful tools and technology tips.

When my friend Amy Carney told me she successfully used an online tool I suggested, ExtractTable, I was thrilled!

ExtractTable is an online tool that extracts tabular data from images.

It saves hours of time for designers and developers who receive PDFs/images and need to extract table content, but have no access to the original source of the content. Continue reading ExtractTable: Convert Tabular Data From Images