Jesse Bilsten

What caught my attention in December:

• CyberPower Inc. – UNLEASH THE POWER – Create the Custom Gaming PC and Laptop Computer of your dreams – Great website for custom water cooled PC solutions.
• showRSS — all your tv shows, one feed, their torrent – The site that seems to pick up where EZTV left off. Allows you to subscribe to tv shows online and collates them into one RSS feed.
• Welcome to Boxee! – Boxee is the best way to enjoy entertainment from the Internet and computer on your TV.
• #eCSStender.org { content: "Homepage"; } – Take control of your CSS

  Say goodbye to the browser-specific properties and hacks cluttering your files and say hello to lean, mean CSS. With eCSStender, when you write the rules, browsers pay attention.

• All commands | commandlinefu.com – commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.

  Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

• Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009 – DIY – Lifehacker – We love DIY projects here at Lifehacker. Whether we're building computers, backyard projects, or turning office supplies into artillery, we're always tinkering. Today we're taking a peek at the most popular DIY projects of 2009.
• WPA CRACKER – WPA Cracker is a cloud cracking service for penetration testers and network auditors who need to check the security of WPA-PSK protected wireless networks.

  WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes, for only $17.

• Default Password List – Default password list for all routers sorted by company.
• Aircrack-ng – Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools.
• 4 Out of 5 Viewers Leave If a Stream Buffers Once – Usability study about users who will leave a website if the video or multimedia buffers even once.
• Morphix Design Studio – Identity, Pictograms & Webdesign – Great site design and unique scrolling style navigation. Traditional sky background at the top for the portfolio, then horizon line for the home page and underground as the contact.
• John Resig – DOM DocumentFragments – Increase the performance of your JavaScript applications by using documentFragments instead of constantly accessing the DOM.
• Drips and Spray Paint Pack – 40 Brushes + 40 Textures « Media Militia – This pack is filled with awesome paint splatters, drips, sprays, and more! You have two high resolution options to download them as: 2500px Photoshop Brushes or 3000px PNG images with transparent backgrounds. As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!
• Browser Size – Shows browse width's laid over the design of the website so you can see what is visible and what isn't at certain resolutions on a website.
• The Diverse Solutions Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing dsIDXpress our new WordPress Plugin [Beta] – WORDPRESS PLUGIN

  Built to run on top of the best blogging platforms out there. One that, if you’re not already using, we know you’ll love.
  NO IFRAMES

  All of the content is placed on the blog from a web service. The content is carefully constructed to be fully compliant with all current and future MLS rules since the web service controls the HTML.

• Behance Outfitter :: Products :: Dot Grid Book – UX book with gray dots in a grid fashion to make mocking up interfaces and the likes fast and easy. Each page can be torn out of the book cleanly and the cover is a nice semi-hard suede.
• Don’t Let Ads Kill Your Site – I understand the need to have advertising on a site so this isn’t a blast against sites that make top dollar with advertising. This is a plea asking them to take a step back and look at their sites to see if advertising has become the dominant content on their site. Have you ever tried to read an issue of GQ? It’s impossible because every other page is an ad. Some sites can get away with this and there is a good chance that yours isn’t one of them.
• 100 Vim commands every programmer should know – Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by topic, which will make your coder life better.
• Interesting Letterhead Designs | Letterheady – letterheady
  –adjective
  1. overcome by a strong emotion due to a letterhead design.

  Much like its sibling, Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. However, here at Letterheady we don't care about the letter's content. Just its design.

  Click here to submit any letterheads you feel are worthy of exposure. Alternatively, email me the details.

• Rockler Bench Cookies: Lift, Grip and Protect! – Rockler Woodworking Tools – Instead of clamping down your projects, just use these little hockey puck's to hold it in place.
• MooTools Quick Coding: Expand Abbreviation – Expand Abbreviation, allows the developer to create elements using ZEN-Coding methodology. Instead of coding numerous new Element blocks, Expand Abbreviation generates elements for you based on a string syntax.
• Instant Eyedropper: Identify HTML-color code from any pixel of the screen with single-click and auto paste it to the clipboard – Instant Eyedropper is a free software tool for webmasters that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click.
• Course Proposal – About Us – Continuing Education & University Outreach – Cal Poly – Thinking of teaching a web design class…

What caught my attention on the web in November 2009:

• WORDOID – Creative Naming Service – Why?

  Naming is not easy. Coming up with a catchy name for a product, company or domain can be a real challenge. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack: the right name should sound good, must not be already used by someone else, should have the potential to become a brand, and preferably with as little Google search results as possible.
  How?

  Wordoid.com is a webapp that strives to help you invent a good name. It makes up new words. Automagically. It knows how to create words in English or Spanish. It even knows how to create words in an imaginary language, constructed by blending two or more real languages together.
  It is simple to use

  Just choose one or more languages, select the preferred quality level, type in a fragment you would like the wordoids to contain, and press Create.

• Limited edition design and typography products for refined tastes – Ligature, Loop & Stem – # Typographic terminology and letterform characteristics.
  # Creators and curators of fine typography-related products.
• Ciia2D PORTFOLIO | CHARACTER DESIGN | ILLUSTRATION | ANIMATION – Illustration artist that focuses on fashion, design and characters. Unique and incredibly beautiful.
• Fantasy Football Today – Find out which players have the
  best matchups the rest of the season with our Fantasy Strength of Schedule Tool! Sort by position viewing Opponent's FF Points Allowed vs. the NFL Average.