Jesse Bilsten

These are my links for September 19th through September 21st:

• Sunrise Design — a Creative Web Studio in Baltimore, Maryland – Beautiful, Handcrafted Websites

  The actual design of a website is one of the most important assets to an online presence. According to studies, the average person spends approximately 5 seconds deciding if they want to stay on a website or move on. That is why it is so important that we create meaningful experiences for each and every one of our clients.

• Shopify — Create Your Online Store – We take care of hosting, bandwidth, and security, so you can focus on your business.
• Happy Webbies are like Happy Bunnies, but for web nerds. Desktops and shirts for web designers. – "Famous" web personalities put onto t-shirts and wallpaper's with hilarious quotes that match up with their personalities and/or accomplishments.
• Fantasy Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Hockey news, projections, rankings, draft guide – Rotoworld.com – Resource for fantasy sports player information and stats. I use it primarily for injury reports and whether a player will start or not.
• Bulletproof @font-face syntax « Paul Irish – Article on the different ways to include a font using font-face. Seems like there is some issues with it from reading the comments. Not so bulletproof?
• Bonobos Polos – Better Fitting Polos to Match Any Pair of Pants – Like the company's nearly perfect-fitting pants, the new line of Bonobos Polos ($68) are not too baggy, but not too slim. Made from 62 ply, 100% Pima cotton for incredible softness and comfort, the polos are available in six staple shades, and feature uniquely finished, sport-length sleeves with piping, ribbed collars, and a small "B" logo along the button line in your choice of contrasting or matching colors.

These are my links for September 10th through September 16th:

• Art Primo: Order Graffiti Supplies spray paint caps, markers, belton molotow, on the run otr, tips-large selection of graffiti products wholesale prices – Art Graffiti store online for all your cap, pen, stencil, and/or paint needs.
• tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures – Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

  Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com. Our online photo editing tool is fun and requires no registration or signup.

• Carsonified » How to Debug in PHP – This article breaks down the fundamentals of debugging in PHP, helps you understand PHP’s error messages and introduces you to some useful tools to help make the process a little less painful.
• Filing a Damage Claim Against Caltrans – If you've ever had your car damaged by a pot hole, cracked windshield or otherwise from driving on a road that's messed up. Use this form to send them the bill and see if it'll get approved
• Want a Custom or Semi-Custom WordPress Based Real Estate Site and Don’t Know Where to Start? | GeekEstate Blog – Real Estate Technology News and Analysis for Real Estate Professionals – A breakdown of a few companies that do custom WordPress installs for Real Estate Agents/Brokers

These are my links for September 2nd through September 10th:

• A catch-all of preoccupations – Biggest Apple – Great blog about… well not sure. Typography? Printing? Illustration? Life across the pond? Maybe all of them, the design is gorgeous and the illustration is from BearSkinRug.
• We Love Icons: Mac, Windows and Linux PNG icons of the finest quality! – Beautiful icons for mac and PC. Not very well sorted but you can at least see 25 on a page. The design looks like it's set up for a phone as well, very narrow. It would be better served to browse icons if it made use of all the dead screen real estate it wasted…
• Carsonified » How to Create a Valid Non-Javascript Lightbox – Beautiful example of how to create a pure CSS/XHTML lightbox solution with valid markup.
• Ballpark: Online invoicing has never been easier. – Yet another invoicing web based software program. Looks clean and easy to use but not as feature rich as others.
• Browser Shooter – JavaScript Game – Puzzle Bobble javascript game written with jQuery and uses browsers as icons

These are my links for August 28th through September 2nd:

• Introducing: JSHTML – James Padolsey – For me, unobtrusive JavaScript is only almost perfect. There’s one thing that has never stopped sucking; adding content to a document! It’s something so simple yet can take ages to get right. Doing it the “right way”, using DOM methods like document.createElement() and node.appendChild(), can take a long time and takes up a lot of space (code-wise).
• Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5k – Charlie Miller, a security researcher who hacked a Macintosh in two minutes last year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his time today by breaking into another Macintosh in under 10 seconds.
• Tamil – Opera ad block filters – How to on blocking ad's in Opera with javascript, flash and a urlfilter.ini
• Online Security Training from the Creators of BackTrack – Join the Offensive Security online security training team on a non-stop heart-pounding ride of excitement as you crash through firewalls and exploit servers using the world's leading Penetration Distribution – BackTrack.
• Visual Economics – Financial Infographics & Articles – Unraveling the Complexities of Economic and Financial Data

These are my links for August 24th through August 27th:

• jQuery TOOLS – The missing UI library for the Web – jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user-interface components for today's websites. This single JavaScript file weighs only 5.8 Kb
• Carsonified » Top 10 UX Myths – let me entertain you with a list I compiled of my favorite ‘User Experience myths’. Then perhaps you, like many UX folks, will have some myths of your own to share
• Playgrounder – The Buyers Guide for Kids and Parents – Playgrounder is a web magazine helping parents and kids find the very best stuff. Our team digs up the best toys, games, gear, clothes, DVDs and more. New items are posted daily.
• Ramp Champ – Delight your Senses in this new twist on a classic boardwalk game. Experience the Wonders of the ocean depths. Gaze in Awe as strange alien creatures descend from the skies. Join Us on a journey through lush, sun-filled fields and dazzling carnival nights. Test your Skills as you amass vast quantities of tickets which can be redeemed for virtual baubles and trinkets.
• Marketing Rules and Principles for Freelancers | How-To | Smashing Magazine – Marketing and its in-your-face division Advertising are all about one thing. Building brand equity. If you take away only one concept from this article, please let it be this one! In this internet fueled economy, brand strength is everything! But brand and brand equity are often misunderstood concepts, the easiest way to think about brand equity is that it’s the sum total of feelings people get when they think about your business or service. And it’s important to remember that brand equity can be positive or negative.

These are my links for August 20th through August 24th:

• Curvy Pin-up by George Petty | Trend.Land -> Fashion Blog & Trend Magazine – Beautiful and inspiring pin-up illustrations by George Petty
• Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces – Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces.
• (Close to) Perfect Full Page Background Image | CSS-Tricks – We visited this concept of re-sizeable background images before… but reader Doug Shults sent me in a link that uses a really awesome technique that I think is better than any of the previous techniques.
• Your Rights Regarding Social Security Numbers – A list of rights associated with your social security number and whether you have to give it out or not.
• How To Use iPhone as Flash Drive To Carry Your Files – Apps for USB and Wireless Connections – Have you ever thought why you carry around USB Flash stick although you own an iPhone? If yes, you definitely need to read this article to learn how to turn you phone into portable external disc to carry files.

These are my links for August 19th from 09:42 to 12:46:

• 20 Insane Vintage And Grungy Typographic Poster Designs | Spyre Studios – I love typography! And good for us type lovers, it’s very difficult to design something without it. Posters are no exception. So I thought I’d go find some typographic posters that are both vintage and grungy looking. I hope you enjoy them. Please share your thoughts in the comment section!
• Freelance Web Design, Illustration, Animation & Graphic Designer : UK – If you require any Web Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Multimedia or Animation Services, then don't hesitate in contacting me.
• Tender Support — Support your product: Knowledge Base, Helpdesk, Forums – Tender Support organizes your customer care so you can focus on delivering the best service possible.
• Arkeg – Drink n Game – Drink, Game, Arkeg. Combines a class arcade cabinet with 69 classic games and room for a pony keg. Delicious!
• Fossil Analog Dial Watch | Uncrate –
• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework – PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.

  If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.

These are my links for August 11th through August 18th:

• Real Estate 2.0 | 1000Watt Consulting – A brilliant mind map of all the web 2.0 real estate companies and links to their applications or sites
• Office of Mobile Design :: A Jennifer Siegal Company – Green PreFab homes that look absolutely stunning!
• 5 Hacks You Can Explore With Your Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com – Wired article on some fun "hacks" you can do with your kids. Mental note to go back and learn how to pick locks. After all, who doesn't want to be like Houdini?
• Bespin » Code in the Cloud – Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology.
• Holster® | Nine nicer ways to tell the time – I love a good clock screensaver for my Mac, I really do. I’m a sucker for them and so, inspired by the excellent Drop Clock which is doing the rounds at the moment, I thought I’d gather together my favourite ways of telling the on-screen time here in one post. Most of these are available as screensavers for the Mac and PC…

These are my links for July 28th through August 6th:

• Shopp — plugin ecommerce for wordpress – Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.
• Napkee – make your mockups come alive – Napkee lets you to export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 at a click of a button.
• Text Rotation with CSS – Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements. Even better? We can make it work in Internet Explorer (back to version 5.5 even).
• 40 Free and Useful GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers | Icons – Icon summary with links to free icons.
• CSS Prism by Ryan Berg – Enter the URL of any CSS file to view and modify its color spectrum

These are my links for July 27th from 15:09 to 16:03:

• 15 Useful iPhone Hacks That Will Make Your Life Easier –
• Pixelmator – Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
• Carsonified » How to do A/B Testing in WordPress – Setting up an A/B testing environment using Google's Website Optimizer and WordPress
• Free Keyword Density Analyzer Tool – Use to find the keyword density of your website or your competitors. Not really in use anymore, but could be good to find new keywords that your competitors are using.
• Xona.com – Domain Hacks – Use for coming up with creative domain names using country codes as extensions.