These are my links for January 2010:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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!
- 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!
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.
These are my links for October 29th through November 9th:
- Online font converter – V 0.3 Beta – Why did i create this page?
I often working together with ADs (mac-users) and they always want me to use there's font in my web pages. That's why i created a simple page that converts .dfont to .tff. Then i generate a sIFR swf width www.sifrgenerator.com and you got your own custom font in any page.
- Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools – Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we've built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We're happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud to make them available to the web development community.
- Jumpchart – Simple Website Planning and Wireframing – If you build websites for a living, you know that content organization and approval can be an overwhelming process. We've all tried flowcharts, and wireframes, html mocks… even paper. All of these suffer from crucial flaws… They're not interactive, and they carry no momentum into the build phase.
- Torchlight – Official Site – Torchlight is an action role-playing-game for the PC made by the creators of Diablo, Fate, and the never-released Mythos among other games. Set in the mining town of Torchlight, players will adventure to uncover the mysteries of the Ember mines. It offers a fully featured character leveling system, randomized dungeons, hordes of monsters, and gobs of great loot.
- Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer – Great For Win7 Upgrades – Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works
in the background 100% hands-free.
We install apps with default settings and
say "no" to browser toolbars and other junk.
All we do is install the latest versions of the apps
you choose. Not even Ninite is installed.
Want to see how it works? Read a step-by-step
walkthrough at How-To Geek or Simple Help.
When it was in private beta, Ninite was called Volery.
These are my links for October 28th from 13:22 to 17:19:
These are my links for October 9th through October 23rd:
These are my links for October 5th through October 8th:
- Becoming a Font Embedding Master – Snook.ca – I've spent a couple days worth now trying to figure out the best and most complete approach to font embedding using @font-face. It really is a dark art that must be mastered. It is by no means a straightforward process.
- How to Best a Master Lock – Master lock hack – Gizmodo – There are 64,000 potential combinations in a Master Lock. With a few easy steps, you can figure out the last number of any combination. From there, you'll crack the lock in 100 attempts or less.
- Titanium Mobile | Appcelerator – With Titanium, you get native access to device features like geo-location, local file system / database, photos, and touch / accelerometer controls. Your apps look great because they use native UI elements, styling, transitions, and they run great because we compile Titanium to native code for peak performance.
- This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind – Photosketch – Gizmodo – PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right. Seems unbelievable but—as the video shows—it works:
- Wireframes Magazine – Axure is quite the popular prototyping tool for which a ton of widgets and libraries have started emerging. These downloadable and reusable pattern libraries can often speed up the prototyping process. Here is a quick compilation of the latest I recently found:
These are my links for September 29th through October 5th:
- Fur Felt Hat – hard graft® – LIMITED EDITION / MADE TO ORDER
Each piece of headwear is handmade to order. Please allow 2-4 weeks for production. We will keep you updated on your order progress and shipping date.
- C–Inspector: Test your information architecture – C–Inspector is a web–based application that helps you to test the information architecture of your website.
- Knowledge Capsules | Detecting unused CSS selectors – Anyone working in large web projects in collaboration with many people at the same time will see the consecuences of many hands on style files. May selectors and classes come and go while developing and testing. After a while, you will easily see style files that become untouchable: you don't know which classes or selectors are being used or not. The same uncertainty creeps in when you maintain someone else's site.
- The Income Tax: Constitutional? – A janky website going over the argument against "graduated" taxes vs "income" tax.
- Carrer Blog: CSS Specificity – Cheat Sheet – Cheat sheet on CSS specificity. Easy to use calculation on what value is placed on what css string and element combination.
These are my links for September 21st through September 25th:
- Graffiti Artist: Mr Jago | Paintings – Expressionistic graffiti paintings on canvas (sometimes).
- The League of Moveable Type – We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
Like any revolution, we aim to make progress, and we need help. If you want to be a part of this free, open-source type movement, you should join us and contribute. If you have any questions about The League or the movement, get in touch.
- Robert Burden’s Battlecat « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – Beautiful painting of Battlecat from He-Man done in an almost medieval tapestry style.
- Carsonified » Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git – Describes how to use Git and the advantages to it being a distributed architecture and version control system.
- Heroku – Ruby on Rails development platform using GIT for version control
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.
