The goal of this article is to provide an understanding of how directory services work in general, how directory services are implemented on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server, and how to configure a Mac OS X client to authenticate against various directory services.

Solutions for integrating Macintosh and Windows

Thoughtpile is an open invitation to share your best ideas with the world.

Submit your ideas to this week’s question and/or vote on someone else’s idea. At the end of the week, the idea with the most positive votes in the pile will receive Herman Miller’s new Embody chair.

Designed specifically for people who sit at computers, Embody makes you feel like you’re floating. It promotes health-positive sitting, creating harmony between you and your computer to help you focus on your work and think more clearly. In fact, it’s the first work chair that supports your body and your mind.

The advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

A critical look at sites featuring interesting typography.

At Xylocopa, we know that the key to a successful education is to begin learning at a young age. Like many of you, we are concerned about the state of science education in the public school system, especially in the lower grades. Specifically, we have noticed that there is absolutely no training in the K-6 grades that prepares students to become mad scientists. In this competitive 21st-century world, the need for mad scientists will only increase, but the lack of basic education in primary school leaves us concerned that there will be no future students capable of leading in this illustrious field.

Consider this riff from a professionaly printed freestanding sign in front of a Peet’s in San Jose: “Unlike Any Coffee You’ve Ever Tasted Before.” Wait. Why the capitals? “Unlike any coffee you’ve ever tasted before.” “Before” is redundant. “Unlike any…

WRITER of bestselling books about marketing. SPEAKER with a unique style and great reputation. ENTREPRENEUR with a track record.

An introductory guide to understanding and using Twitter.

December 16, 2008A website without a content strategy is like a speeding vehicle without a driver. Learn why content matters and how to do it right.

4 people worked together simultaneously on a single Google Docs spreadsheet. Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18 different col…

Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Doodle is simple, quick, free and requires no registration. Simply set up a poll, send a link to all participants, watch progress online, and finally choose the most suitable date.

A Charlie Brown Ad Agency: A Charlie Brown Ad Agency follows the Peanuts gang along the dramatic creation of the agency holiday party invitation…A Charlie Brown Ad Agency

Throw the shoe at George Bush – see how many times you can hit him!

I have a habit of putting sticky notes on the edge of my monitor. Usually these notes consist of mantras I come up with based on something I’ve learned or read recently. I have to change it up about once a week because if I get too used to seeing it, I start ignoring it.Meet StickyScreenMy new mini-project takes the note off the edge of your monitor and puts it smack dab in the middle. The idea is to set StickyScreen as your homepage so that your ‘note to self’ shows up whenever you open a new tab or browser window.

In this class, student will be introduced to the concept paper prototyping and one technique called designing WIREFRAMES.

Alen Grakalic: Giving Promotion Opportunity through Writing, Blogging, Coding

Anniversary Song lyrics by Cowboy Junkies

The success of any idea ultimately comes down to action. The Action Method is a discipline for everyday productivity.

If you’re not making use of some of the tools on this list, you ought to be asking yourself, Why not?. These tools and extensions will speed up your workflow, and help improve your users experience all at once.

Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the authors of “And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost.”Our book is the product of five years of obsessively collecting vinyl from across the country — a work of passion that took over our lives. Believe it or not, after tracking down thousands of lost albums and chasing down the performers who once recorded them (now mostly in their 80s and 90s), we still can’t quit the music. Below are some of our favorites that dominate our iPods. Consider it a Chanukah top 12.

I wrote a plugin (it’s in beta) available over here: WordPress › Art Direction. The tagline is “Per-post styles for new age art direction.”jcksn is the personal site of Noel Jackson, design, developer, automattician

Monotone is a simple yet dynamic theme for photo-blogging. The layout is clean and non-intrusive, but the way it handles images makes each entry unique (and requires no intervention to do so).You can now use it on self-hosted blogs too (download here).Monotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout.Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design.You can use the visual or the HTML editor in wordpress to input your image and supporting text.Enjoy Monotone, and please, let us know what you think!Monotone was a collaboration between eight6 and Automattic.

Astheria.com is a blog about design on the web. Not code, like most other web design blogs but real design.

The Fensler Film redubbed parody of GI JOE Public Service Announcements all 24 filled into 2 parts. Enjoy part 1.

Kevin Kelly is syndicating his classic book, the book that changed everything, over RSS. Free and mind-changing, at the same time….

Hanukkah Theme!

Personal blog, portfolio, and creative outlet of professional web developer Kevin Thompson

Qik is a mobile utility that enables anyone to share live video from their mobile phones with their friends, family and the entire world.

Figure-1 is the work of Ariel Aberg-Riger.

Log on to The New York Times’s Web site, and you’ll see it there. Just as you’ll spot it on the Web sites of London’s Frieze Art Fair, the architecture magazine Metropolis, the artist Damien Hirst, and on blog, after blog, after blog.All of these Web sites use the same typeface – Georgia. Typefaces slip in and out of fashion like every other area of design, but right now Georgia is the most fashionable one on the Internet. “A few designers have mentioned that there seems to be a ‘Georgia revival’ going on,” says Matthew Carter, the British-born, Boston-based designer who developed Georgia for Microsoft in 1996. “It seems a bit young to have died and been revived already.”

The personal website of Philadelphia-area designer and developer, Kevin M Jackson.

The E.Factor is a vibrant, global community for Entrepreneurs. E.Factor helps you build your business, find financing, network with likeminded entrepreneurs and get great deals

Given the quality of WordPress, it’s no surprise that it’s become the platform of choice for many web professionals. Due to its incredible popularity,

bittbox – Free high quality design freebies, tutorials, vectors, free high resolution Photoshop brushes, Free high resolution textures.

WordPress WizardryWe design and develop WordPress themes, plugins, custom installations and help our clients get the most out of WordPress as a Content Management and publishing tool. As an extensible, powerful but easy-to-use freely available platform, WordPress is always our first recommendation.

by Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston The bad economy has brought to bear one unwelcome change.  With a …

Thing is, most of the stuff you do online doesn’t cost money. In the old days, money added friction. Money made you choosy. Money ensured that you valued your marketing efforts appropriately, because if they didn’t work, they cost you…

It makes sense to forgo database tables and server-side code when you need to store a limited amount of non-sensitive data. Accessing this data can be a snap with jQuery because the library was built to traverse XML documents with ease. With some custom JavaScript and jQuery magic you can create some interesting widgets. A good way to demonstrate this functionality is by building a browsable Amazon.com books widget.