• Simon Collison | Colly | The Celebrated Miscellany – Fresh new take on a portfolio site. Grid based design with O'Reilly based sketch animal characters representing different social network profiles for Simon Collison.
• Larva Labs – Flip Clock – Flip Clock is a stylish flip style clock for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Bring it on a trip instead of a separate clock, or stand it up beside your bed or on your desk at work. It provides a stylish, readable clock without taking up all the space a real clock would.
• ORIGIN PCs – Custom Built Gaming Desktops and Laptops – ORIGIN delivers the best gaming experience period, but what does that mean? It means the best parts and technology the computer gaming industry has to offer. It means world class support from day one and ORIGIN's support never ends. It means having a team of people who understand the art of elite system building and maintenance, standing by to assist you when you need it. It means never having to feel you made the wrong choice.
• ralph karam – selected works – Dripping wet illustrations full of color and typography. They're all so beautiful you just want to lick the page.
• Billy Tamplin – Simple design with an expert use of textures and subtle shadows. I love his unique take on "Achievements" which I'll probably steal and incorporate in a site redesign sometime soon. Remember Billy, stealing is flattery at its best!

• Project SIKULI – Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without internal API's support. You can programmatically control a web page, a desktop application running on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, or even an iphone application running in an emulator.
• This is Uncommon – Uncommon is the first company to create truly customizable mobile phone cases, bringing together exceptional products, talented artists, and self-expression. Our vision is to create a brand that supports artists and exposes the public to their artwork. We will continue creating more collections of premium blank canvas products and partnering with the world’s greatest artists and designers, inspiring millions of people.
• eCommerce Gallery – Best eCommerce Website Designs – There are plenty of amazing website galleries out there for content sites but almost nothing for the world of eCommerce, and from the conversion to the calls to action—it is a very different world.

  eCommerce Gallery is a unique website gallery that only features well designed and developed eCommerce websites. We’re looking for websites that are geared for conversions, optimized for search, and preferably use web standards with a tableless design.

  Originally created by Robert Spangler, the eCommerce Gallery is now owned and operated by James Paden (twitter). James is an Indianapolis based e-commerce specialist with 10+ years web design and development experience. He also runs the Xemion Design Firm Directory and several niche e-commerce websites.

• 45 Cash Munny Designs – FrancescoMugnai.com - – Here are 45 of the coolest Munny’s I could find. I’m sure there are more but I have to tend to other things like, eating and sleeping. Enjoy!
• 70 Free High Quality PSD File Design Resources | Creative Nerds – A collection of 70 high quality PSD files including a range of templates, icons, mobiles, packaging cases, and a ton of other useful design resources. An essential resource for any Photoshop user or designer worth bookmarking for future reference.
• Workout Routines – Fitness Workouts To Get You In Shape! – Have you been looking for a database of great workout routines to help you lose weight and get into amazing shape? Well, you found the right place because we offer hundreds of different workout routines to help everyone from workout beginners to advanced individuals! Search from our extensive list below and we are sure you will find a workout routine that's just right for you!

• CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press – # Support all browsers with perfect fidelity – not realistic for most budgets, requires many elaborate workarounds, hacks, etc., also difficult to maintain, upgrade, and extend.
  # Support all browsers to some degree – focus first on the latest and greatest browsers, and then go back and make sure that older browsers look and work reasonably well.
  # Support newer browsers, forget about the older stuff – make your sites look pixel-perfect on the newest versions of modern browsers and don’t worry about anything else.
• space150 – Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards – Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards

  Every web developer faces the problem sooner or later. The client – or the designer – wants to use interactive animation, video or sound to communicate their ideas. Flash is your best option.

  However, Flash is not an open web standard like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Because of its popularity, Flash is really a “de facto” standard, widely available to many users, but not all.

  Should you build two separate sites? One in Flash and one with web-standard HTML? This can be very time consuming. It’s also very hard to keep the content synchronized. Now you have two versions of the content, which can be a problem for search engines.

  Many developers build a “hybrid” site: mainly HTML, with some Flash embedded in the page. This works well for video from sites like YouTube and Vimeo.

  But what if you want a Flash menu for navigation? Even if 89.1% of your users have Flash, there are still 10.9% who don’t. They won’t be able to browse your site.

• 10 PHP functions you (probably) never use – When scripting in PHP, we often restrict ourselves to a limited number of API functions: the common ones, like print(), header(), define(), isset(), htmlspecialchars(), etc. If some needed functionality doesn’t exist, we often write it making use of these basic components which we have in mind. The PHP API actually offers a lot of functionality, some useless and some useful; often seldom used. I have been looking through the available functions and was interested to find some really cool functions that I should have known about. Here, I share my findings.
• 100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds | Web Design Ledger – Seamless patterns are a great way to add interest and detail to a web design background. In this post we’ve rounded up over one hundred seamless patterns. You’ll find a wide variety of styles such as vintage, florals, and stripes. All of these are of very high quality so you can use them as is or use them as a foundation for your own background.
• Getting Links from the Top 50 Domains – The good folks over at SEOMoz have provided us with a list of the Top 500 Linked Domains according to the Linkscape index. I thought it would be interesting to start churning through the list and finding out how search marketers, spammers, etc. are finding ways to get their links on each of these incredible domains. Some of them are incredibly sneaky and blackhat (check out the Flickr and AOL links, for example).

The problem with Flash is that in its current state it requires a site to double the code/content (HTML + XML) in order to serve appropriate content to all viewers. Armando asked how Flash works with Screen Readers and Search engines and the answer was the same: [We have API calls available for those technologies, it’s up to them to use them]. This tells me the Flash team doesn’t understand the problem nor are they willing to be a part of the solution, only shift the blame if said site doesn’t perform the way it’s supposed to.

What is Flash supposed to do?  Flash needs to be able to sit on top of a functional (consumable by all media, data driven, visual or auditorial) metadata content layer: HTML.  Why you ask?  It’s the only method of data delivery that is consumable by all things “web.”  Having the content in a central location gives two massive benefits that I have yet to see the Flash community answer with any semblance of assurance: How do you (the consumer) determine which content is more important Flash+XML or HTML?  Search engines (the single largest internet consumers) and if you have a screen reader would read BOTH and divide the value of the data between both sources.  Search rankings suffer as the value associated with a site is divided equally between the two sources of information and screen readers end up having to dive into and duplicate content to the listener.  Neither is an answer to the problem and in my opinion creates more problems than we had before.  We’ve already see Flash/HTML site solutions drop in SERPs due to the Link Juice be divided between the two links (one flash, the other html).  Rand Fishkin pointed this out in both the new book and his article referenced by Armando.

Flash should act as a substitute for CSS/Javascript and happily sit above the HTML. What Armando should have asked Justin is “Why is this so hard to achieve and what is Flash (Adobe) doing to help internet consumers simplify their data consumption?” And the answer is Flash is trying to create its own “browser”: Air. Why? Another good question for Armando but I believe they see the writing on the wall: Flash is a dying solution to rich multimedia on the web. They’re focusing their efforts on creating a new delivery method. Maybe the right move? Maybe not, only time will tell. Personally I’d like to see them embrace their role as a substitute for CSS/Javascript and push rich web multimedia by providing lightweight fast answers for questions CSS/Javascript can’t answer across all browsers. But what do I know…

I currently have one Air app (Tweetdeck) installed on my computer and it takes up almost as much memory as my browser does with 20 tabs open. Yes, that’s around 250mb of RAM to get… 140 characters of text. Delivery method outlook? Not great.

• SimpleCart(js), a Free WP E-commerce & Thematic Child Theme by Chris Wallace’s Blog – SimpleCart(js) is a simple, attractive, and flexible WordPress theme that taps into the power of both Thematic and WP E-commerce. Features include AJAX cart functionality, a grid layout for products, and a flexible color scheme, easy to swap out images and completely customize the theme to your needs.
• Tools | Konigi – Templates for web designers. Included are: Graph Paper, Illustrator Templates for Blueprint CSS Comps, OmniGraffle UX Template, OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils, Photoshop Template for Blueprint CSS Comps, Schedule and Cost Summary Calculator
• Shell Editor | jsFiddle | to test your JavaScript code – jsFiddle is a shell editor that eases writing JavaScript code by creating a custom environment based on popular JS frameworks.

  It presents an interface which is divided into 4 pieces:

  * HTML editor
  * CSS editor
  * JavaScript editor
  * and the output

  You can select the framework & the version of your choice (MooTools, jQuery, Dojo, Prototype, YUI, Glow,Vanilla). Also, if there is, you can add a complimentary framework like jQuery UI or MooTools More.

• The Best Free Textures of 2009 – Texturezine – 2009 ends now. I collect Best textures of 2009 for you. Here is The Best of 2009!
• Curiosity | From Flat to Flight – Design involving hand drawn flairs that remind me of the Circus or Coney Island. Punch the ticket and bask in this beautiful design.

• How to Activate GodMode in Windows 7 – Tom’s Hardware – Windows 7 users are all abuzz about the OS and its GodMode. If you haven't heard of it, GodMode is a feature that was revealed by CNet's Microsoft Correspondent, Ina Fried. GodMode is a folder that brings together a long list of customization settings allowing you to change all your settings from one place. Neat huh? It's very easy to enable and damn useful if you tweak things around a lot.
• Introducing MooTools Cache – MooTools Cache is a new proof of concept plugin that I’ve created so that developers may easily “cache” values. Cache allows you to set, get, and refresh values. Cache also features a system of reading and writing from Cookies so that the cache remains persistent throughout different pages of your website.
• What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday? – TeuxDeux is a simple, designy, browser-based to-do app and the first collaboration between studio-mates swissmiss and Fictive Kin .

  The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app based on Tina’s personal ideal work-flow.
  Features include:

  * – week overview
  * – check off done tasks
  * – delete tasks
  * – move tasks
  * – someday bucket

  Now we want to share it with all you so try it and let us know what you think. feedback@teuxdeux.com

• ishida >> utilities: Unicode code converter – Tool for converting UTF into unicode in multiple different formats: Unicode U+hex notation, Percent encoding for URIs, HTML/XML, Hexadecimal NCRs, Decimal NCRs, Hexadecimal code points, Decimal code points, UTF-8 code units, UTF-16 code units, JavaScript escapes, CSS escapes
• edspencer’s jaml at master – GitHub – Element creation script for Mootools using JAML as the medium – A new take on the Ruby Haml library.
• geekchix.org – Ivana Jurčić – Lilit » Blog Archive » A Collection of Printable Sketch Templates and Sketch Books for Wireframing – Below you will find more than 20 resources that you can use in sketching phase of application development. If you have some additional resources to share, please leave a comment so I can add them to the list.

• 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…

• 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.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

• 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.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

• 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.