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Jeremy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:05:12 +0000

Fakeblog » WordPress Themes

WordPress theme

Tags: wp, wordpress, themes, typography, minimal

Upstart Blogger | WordPress themes and other goodies

These themes may be updated fairly frequently and you should always be using the most recent version for best results. To be notified of updates, subscribe to the Upstart Blogger feed. For support, please post your questions in the Forums. Please be sure to read the Upstart Blogger WordPress Themes …

Tags: wp, wordpress, themes, magazine, minimal, typography

Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Front-end Performance: Doing More With Less

In a recent talk on ajax performance, Douglas Crockford explained the practice of “streamlining” code as including algorithm replacement, work avoidance and code removal.Applying this to page load time and performance, browser “work” can be avoided by reducing the number of HTTP requests made. In the most common case this can mean eliminating images entirely from a design, or reducing multiple image references to a single sprite image where possible. Shaving off image requests is a wonderful way to incrementally improve both perceived and measured performance.The use of sprites alone is not a new technique, but the approach taken in this case involves a low-cost, low-risk update to a common component based on legacy code, reduces the number of HTTP requests and simultaneously improves the UI – all good things![more...]

Tags: code, html, css, sprites, flickr, legacy, ajax, performance, retrofitting

Second To None, Childtheme per Thematic | Altamente Decorativo

Aumenta la bellezza del protocollo di trasferimento dell’ipertesto.

Tags: wp, wordpress, thematic, child theme

fizy / videomusic.

easy way to find songs and music videos.

Tags: music, twitter, videos, sharing, minimal

WordPress › Blog » WordPress.tv

On WordPress.tv, you’ll find tutorials for both WordPress self-installs and WordPress.com to help you get blogging fast and hassle-free. We’ve kicked things off with the basics — now you can shape what comes next. Just drop us a line and let us know what you’d like to see added.

Tags: wp, wordpress, tutorials

unstructure

Unstructure is an open discussion platform for business professionals, bloggers and contemporary thought leaders to discuss and debate action ideas that would aid the evolution of business.

Tags: wp, wordpress, ideas, business, evolution, bloggers, thought leaders

WordPress › Support » Is there a Dummy Text SQL import available?

Is there a Dummy Text SQL import available? (4 posts)

Tags: wp, wordpress, mysql, lorem

Generating One-Time URLs with PHP | O’Reilly Media

Imagine that you’re selling a digital product online. Maybe you’ve written an article or a book and want to sell it on your site as a PDF. There are many ways one could do this, but one of the more convenient is to provide the user with a unique URL that only will work a limited number of times. This URL could, for example, be presented to the user (your client) on the last page of an orderflow, after payment has been made. We will look at code to generate a unique URL that will work a single time.Creating the URLThe script generate_url.php will generate our URLs. It uses PHP’s md5() and uniqid() functions to create a unique, long and complicated token which will act as the key to the file to protect. Tokens are 32 random characters long, so to figure this out by mental arithmetic would be impossible. The listing below shows you the implementation of generate_url.php.

Tags: php, onlamp, mamp, md5, unique, urls, random, one-use

CodeProject: A New Generation of URL Rewriters ?. Free source code and programming help

A URL Rewriter/ Redirector which utilizes new and advanced IIS7 Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline feature; Author: Philip Lippard; Section: ASP.NET; Chapter: Web Development

Tags: url, rewriter, asp.net, iis, html, classic asp, php, http

PHP kitchen, the personal blog of Demian Turner

PHP kitchen is the personal blog of Demian Turner with comments and views on PHP, OOP, web technologies, frameworks and software design.

Tags: php

Apple Developer Connection: PHP the Easy Way: Enabling PHP and SQLite on Mac OS X Leopard

PHP, the popular web scripting language, has long run on Mac OS X, but in Mac OS X Leopard it is included right out of the box. It adds improved object-oriented programming support, better error handling, and several features for web services and Ajax, such as XML, SOAP, and JSON support. In addition, PHP now supports use of the SQLite database, which is an entirely self-contained, server-less database that supports advanced SQL functions such as transactions.In this article, we’ll learn how to configure PHP on Leopard, creating a script to help us through this process. We’ll then see how to integrate SQLite into a PHP application and build a sample script that queries the SQLite database.

Tags: mac, os x, leopard, php, lamp, sqlite

Zoho, Evernote, reach out to disenfranchised Google Notebookers – Download Squad

Tags: google notebook, export, import, alternatives

The Mindjet Blog » Ways To Use MindManager to Increase Productivity

The official blog of the Mindjet Corporation, the makers of MindManager® productivity software. Conversations about information visualization, business information mapping, and the future of collaboration.

Tags: mind mapping, productivity, development, project management, information management, collaboration, improve meeting effectiveness

Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground – ReadWriteWeb

Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google’s Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google’s interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an …

Tags: google, ajax, tools, api

Post to WordPress by Email | Es Developed – Fresh Website and Graphic Design

Follow this tutorial and learn how to post text, images and video to your WordPress blog, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and more by email with Posterous.

Tags: wordpress, posterous, tutorial, good site, design, blog

Google Image Result for http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/images/screenshots/led-icons.jpg

status icon pack — 24-bit PNG

Tags: icons

Modern Life – News

Tags: design, cartoons, icons

Graphic and web design from West Yorkshire, UK | 0113 815 1150

Goburo is a graphic design and web development company situated near Bradford and Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK.

Tags: graphic design, web development, uk, great site

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Jeremy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:05:58 +0000

SpaceCollective

Top 25 Design Company Web Designs of 2008

Tags: web design

History of the Internet – Motiongraphics Documentary – lonja – Melih Bilgil – Motion Design

“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet.The history is told with help of the PICOL icons, which are also a part of my diploma. The icons are soon available for free on picol.orgSee the whole diploma >>

Tags: history, internet, arpanet, tcpip, file sharing

jitterbug: music for hip kids

welcome to jitterbug! discovergreat independent music for kids.we hand pick the good stuff…you won’t find Barney here.your child will laugh, bounceand dance (ours do)!

Tags: music, kids, fun, laught, dance, sing, hip kids

Web Development Project Estimator

A simple project estimating tool for web designers and site developers.

Tags: web design, web development, tools, estimator, quotes, jobs, gigs, via @ccashdollar

WP Plugins | Instinct Entertainment

WordPress plugins by http://instinct.co.nz/Wiki, eCommerce, Facebook Status, Campaign Monitor, etc…

Tags: wordpress, plugins, wiki, ecommerce, facebook, campaign monitor, wp

Extreme Markover | Web Edition

Markover a site for a non-profit. Showcase your talent and gain industry recognition!Greetings from the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the Extreme Markover Committee.WOW is a non-profit professional association who is teaming up with Web Design World and Web Directions North to benefit two local non-profit organizations by offering Web professional advice and a website makeover with the best practices of the day.

Tags: web design, web development, standards, showcase, non-profit

Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Redesigning with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA

Bruce Lawson’s blog, focussing on web accessibility, web standards, travellers tales, and music

Tags: html5, xhtml, css, wordpress, markover

Amazon.com: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies): Bill Buxton: Books

Tags: ux, book, uxbookclub

ExtremeMarkover.org Blog

ExtremeMarkover.org BlogShowcase your Skills and Support the Community

Tags: web design, web development, contest, non-profit

Dave Metcalf » 160over90

Tags: web development, actionscript, local

PET design : Because usability is no longer enough. Presented by Human Factors International

Submit a site. Get it rated.

Tags: hfi, usability, ux, design, persuasive design

Executive Director Spencer Gerrol demonstrates the power of PET design – HFI Connect

Executive Director Spencer Gerrol demonstrates the power of PET design.

Tags: pet, usability, ux, design, web design

Drexel Online University offering Online College Degrees

A pioneer among online colleges, Drexel has offered online degree programs since 1996. Drexel Online, a subsidiary of Drexel University, is an online university with degrees online, including online Master’s

Tags: education, online, degree

Home | OpenCalais

Calais: Connect. Everything.We want to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph – we call our piece of it Calais.Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

Tags: data, semantic, cms, mashup

diamonddave

Tags: soundboard, van halen, diamond dave, kitsch

Loosen Up Naturally

Massage Therapist in Phoenixville, PARecommened by @chuise

Tags: health, wellness, massage therapy, carpal tunnel, ct

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Web Hosting

We Host Web SitesFor as little as $0.25, you can move your websites to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting. See the proof for yourself.We Have What You NeedOur service includes all your favorite features! * PHP 5 by default (PHP 4 still hanging on) * CGI support (12 Languages) * Powerful MySQL 5.0 support * Full access: ssh, SFTP, FTP * Custom control panel * Fast, friendly, expert supportWe Care About Our MembersSure, we could offer big bundles for flat monthly fees, but that type of plan actually makes more profit when your site does poorly. Since our price is based solely on your actual usage, we only profit when your site does well. That means our success depends entirely on your success! Try us and see what a difference that makes.

Tags: web hosting, nfsn, usage, freelance

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Jeremy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:03:09 +0000

Seth’s Blog: 10,000 hours

It’s not surprising that Malcolm Gladwell’s new book has made a splash. All his thought-provoking writing does and deserves to. The argument of Outliers: Where you’re born and when you’re born have an enormous amount to do with whether or…

Tags: the dip, inspirational, motivational, niche, gladwell, malcolm

Parks and Recreation: Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions Abstract: Parks F.A.Q.

Tags: hiking, camping, chesco, biking, outdoors, recreation

Parks and Recreation: Struble Trail

Struble Trail Abstract: STRUBLE TRAIL Shryock Property Agreement The Struble Trail is a work in progress. When the trail is completed, it will travel through Lyndell, Cornog and Glenmoore, passing near Springton Manor Farm and Struble Lake before ending near Honey Brook Borough, for a total length of sixteen (16) miles. Named for the late County Commissioner (1976-1980) and longtime Executive Director of the Brandywine Valley Association, teacher and conservationist Robert G. …

Tags: hiking, trails, chesco, struble, downingtown

GridPhilly Magazine

Tags: publication, philly, philadelphia, refresh, sustainable living

Brilliant water-based eyeglasses for the masses: No optician required – Core77

Industrial Design content and community site – articles, discussions, interviews and resources.

Tags: glasses, brilliant, design, product, game-changer

How To Draw A Mac Internet Globe Icon — Flyosity: Mac

Apple’s paradigm for indicating network connectivity is nicely-detailed globe icon with crisscrossing wires across it — you can see it in the System Preferences for Network settings. Wolfgang recently rejuvenated this UI analogy in his work on LittleSnapper’s interface. I… – Mac and iPhone interface design.

Tags: tutorials, photoshop, icons, globe, mac, spheric realism

Unhealthy Responses to Stress – Bad Habits and Unhealthy Coping

If you tend to deal with bad habits and unhealthy responses, you are compounding the negative impacts of stress on your health by exacerbating the stress levels and creating new problems in your life and health. The following are five of the most common unhealthy coping responses to stress, along with some of the negative effects of each, and ideas on how to curb or change the bad habit itself or lessen its impact.

Tags: stress, responses, bad habits

PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS

Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Tags: tutorials, cms, php, mysql

TechIT.com | Find Tech Jobs, Tech People

Connect on TechIT.com. Find jobs, find people, and find help in the tech community

Tags: jobs, tech

We’re open sourcing our iPhone time tracking app for MacWorld

Today, we’re open sourcing our iPhone time tracking app.It’s been hard to build iPhone applications. If you don’t know Objective-C, and you don’t know the iPhone SDK, there is a steep learning curve. I’ve talked to a lot of FreshBooks customers over the past year that want to build iPhone applications, and many of them have gotten stuck because few companies have shared their code.That kind of sucks.We decided to give something back to our customers by sharing what we’ve learnt. We want to support our customers that want to make the leap to becoming iPhone developers.A solid thank you to FreshBooks customer and awesome iPhone developer Dave Grijalva whom we hired to build the iPhone application for us.

Tags: iphone, app, open sourcing, iphone sdk, objective-c, freshbooks

Web Design Trends: Call To Action Buttons – Freelance Web Design Belfast Northern Ireland Lee Munroe’s Blog

Professional and innovative freelance web designer based in Belfast Northern Ireland. I specialise in creative standards compliant web design and I blog about web design – Web Design Trends: Call To Action Buttons

Tags: web design, buttons, trends, bananas, seth godin, colour, color, persuasion

23 Enigma – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

36 Must Have Backgrounds and Patterns Resources for all Designers : Speckyboy – Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources

Top 36 Cool Backgrounds and Patterns Resources for all DesignersSearching for that perfect background for your design can be pretty difficult, from these resources you can browse through 1000s upon 1000s of backgrounds and patterns. Hopefully this will make your search that little bit easier, mind you with this number of resources it may make it harder. Happy browseing!!!

Tags: web design, backgrounds, patterns, tools, @designmeme

twistori MacWorld San Francisco 2009

Tags: macworld, iphone, apple, leopard, keynote, steve jobs, slash7, ajax, twitter

twistori

this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs. get the mac os x screensaver.

Tags: awesomeness, ajax, css, twitter stream, wefeelfine.org

Report: Intranets Increased Collaboration Support in 2008 – ReadWriteWeb

Every year old-school web design guru Jakob Nielsen releases a survey of the world’s top Intranets. This year’s report has some interesting comments on the use of ‘web …

Tags: intranet, sharepoint

10 of the Best WordPress 2.7 Compatible Themes

WordPress 2.7 overhauled your blog’s admin area, so isn’t it time you overhauled the front end as well? Here are 10 of the best WordPress 2.7 compatible themes.

Tags: wordpress 2.7, themes

Blogging Therapy: Finding your voice

Tags: blogging, writing, therapy

iPhone Apps for Creatives | Accidental Creative

Thus far I’ve managed to avoid writing this post, but because I get frequent requests from artists and creative-folk wanting to know how I use my iPhone,

Tags: gtd, iphone, productivity, mac, app, ideas

frenchnumberpractice1thru10.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Working on counting en Francais avec my family.

Tags: foreign language, french, education, early childhood

TwtApps Offers Beautiful Simplicity: Twtcard, Twtpoll, and Twtvite

Twtapps has 3 new offerings that let you send a greeting card, conduct a quick poll, or manage a meetup via Twitter.

Tags: twitter, twtapps, apps, polling, events, greeting card, meetup

My TweetBacks WordPress Plugin | Dan Zarrella

I’ve just put together a WordPress Plugin that take advantage of the new features I built into TweetBacks. This is still beta stuff and you should expect

Tags: wordpress, plugin, twitter, tweetbacks, retweets, authority, influence, seo

All the Logo Design Inspirational Resources You Will Ever Need! | The Design Cubicle

33 logo design inspirational websites, galleries and resources about logos to fulfill your every logo desire and addiction

Tags: logo, design, tools

Griffin Technology: Clarifi

Griffin Technology designs and manufactures solutions, accessories, and cases for iPhone 3G, iPhone, iPod, Mac/PC, and more.

Tags: iphone, gtd, case, photography

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Jeremy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:04:46 +0000

Audio Two – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Audio Two were the Brooklyn, New York hip hop duo of emcee Kirk “Milk Dee” Robinson and DJ Nat “Gizmo” Robinson, most famous for their first hit, the classic “Top Billin’”. They are also the older brothers of female hip-hop star MC Lyte.

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C.C. Chapman – Boston Based Media Maven

C.C. Chapman – Boston Based Media MavenOn my latest episode of Managing the Gray I made the statement that “the honeymoon is over for social media.”Honeymoon IslandI said it as an off hand comment that came to mind, but the more I think about it the more I firmly believe what I said. I don’t mean that social media is dead, dying or in any way going away. In fact I think it is going become more integrated, important and part of every successful company going forward.

Tags: social media, realization, honesty, intimacy, client relations, reality

Opentape / Download

use this or you will wilt… and noone wants that.

Tags: music, php, open source, mixtape, mp3, ajax, jwplayer

4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1

Tags: html, hex, 4096, tool, color wheel

Develop a Twitter Landing Page

Tags: twitter, blog, landing page

Seth’s Blog: Happy new year

I don’t like New Year’s. Faux merriment, excessive drinking, ridiculous resolutions and general malaise. Not to mention Dick Clark. There’s one great opportunity, though… Brand new expectations are set, expectations just waiting to be shattered. Like an empty Moleskine notebook,…

Tags: inspirational, leadership, call to action

mobvis – summary

The MOBVIS project identifies the key issue for the realisation of smart mobile vision services to be the application of context to solve otherwise intractable vision tasks. In order to achieve this challenging goal, MOBVIS claims that three components, (1) multi-modal context awareness, (2) vision based object recognition, and (3) intelligent map technology, should be combined for the first time into a completely innovative system – the attentive interface.

Tags: mapping, irl, iphone, mobile, camera, social

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Jeremy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:03:45 +0000

Typography

Typography news and headlines from around the web.

Tags: typography

60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine

Typography is more than being legible and looking good. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve two important objectives: a) to create an appropriate atmosphere and enable users to develop trust toward the site

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Seth’s Blog: What is viral marketing?

Viral marketing is an idea that spreads–and an idea that while it is spreading actually helps market your business or cause. Two kinds of viral marketing: The original classic sort in which the marketing is the product and which a…

Tags: blog, viral marketing, obama, shepard fairey, youtube, hotmail

Jeffrey Zeldman: Presentations from Gain 2008: Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conference 2008: Events: AIGA

web design, empathy, user experience, information architecture, usability, website design

Tags: aiga, zeldman, speaking, video, web design

A Closer Look At the Blueprint CSS Framework – NETTUTS

Tags: css, web design, framework

New PSd for Download..

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Free online portfolios to showcase your work // SHOWN’D

SHOWN’D has free online portfolios which allow artists including photographers, painters, architects, and graphic designers to showcase their work and find jobs.

Tags: portfolios, jobs, design, tools, services

Hulu – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Day Man

Video description: Charlie comes up with his new song ‘Day Man’.

Tags: comedy, tv, always sunny, dayman, aaa-aaa-aaugh, @hotdogsladies

A New Ride: The Britax Frontier : Hogue Chronicle

Tags: carseat, britax, instructions, review, frontier

Everything You know About Css is Wrong

Tags: css, sitepoint

My CSS Menu – Menu Generator – horizontal menu, vertical menu

Use our Menu Generator tools for free and create your own menu.

Tags: css, tools

PROBLOGGER.NET: How to Restart a Dead or Dormant Blog

Got an old dead blog that you want to restart? In this guest post David Peralty of College Crunch shares some tips on how to get it going again!

Over the course of time, you might have left one of your blogs, or maybe your only blog to die off. You stopped posting, thought you would come back to it and never did. Days, weeks, months and maybe even years have since passed with no new content added to the site. It still gets a little bit of traffic, one or two visitors here or there, and might even have a few RSS subscribers.

Tags: blogging, refresh, restart, howto

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Jeremy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:04:03 +0000

Bombich.com: Leveraging Active Directory on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server

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.

Tags: osx, mac, active, directory, windows, network

Special Report: Active Directory Issues with Mac OS X Leopard

Solutions for integrating Macintosh and Windows

Tags: mac, windows, os, x, active, directory

Herman Miller

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.

Tags: hereman, miller, design

Core77/BusinessWeek Design Firm Directory

Tags: design

Herman Miller 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.

Tags: chair

24 ways: Making Modular Layout Systems

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.

Tags: design, css, templates, development, web, badass

wilson miner | Typesites

A critical look at sites featuring interesting typography.

A Young Mad Scientist’s First Alphabet Blocks | Xylocopa

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.

Tags: toys, gifts, kids

gridr buildrrr

Tags: design, grid, web, tool, builder

Seth’s Blog: The power of smart copywriting

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…

Tags: seth, godin, copywriting, wisdom

Seth Godin!

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

Twitter for Dummies | Jen’s Genuine Life

An introductory guide to understanding and using Twitter.

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A List Apart: Issue 274

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.

Tags: web, design, conent, strategy

YouTube – Collaborative Spreadsheet Art

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…

Tags: google, video, docs, spreadsheet, collaborative, tools, cloud

Doodle: Easy Scheduling

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.

Tags: polls, scheduling, open, source, tools, events, voting

A Charlie Brown Ad Agency [VIDEO]

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

Tags: humor, holidays, advertising, peanuts, video

Sock and Awe!

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

Tags: politcal, humor, w

StickyScreen — jackcheng.com

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.

Tags: sticky screen, stickyscreen, undistraction, note to self, stickies, sticky note, browser homepage, productivity

UID: Lesson 06 -Wireframes

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

Tags: wireframes, white paper, tutorial, web, design

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

Tags: web, design, css, designer, badass, blogging, templatica, interview

Cowboy Junkies | Anniversary Song lyrics

Anniversary Song lyrics by Cowboy Junkies

Tags: lyrics, anniversary, love, blipped, song

Action Method Online :: Home

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

Tags: action method, creative, behance, action products, productivity, gtd

Top 29 Free UX Tools and Extensions | UX Booth

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.

Tags: accessibility, browser, color, colorblind, extensions, plugins, tools, ux, blog, roundups

Living With Music: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun – Paper Cuts Blog – NYTimes.com

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.

Tags: books, book reviews, publishing, criticism, critic, authors, writers, literature, novels, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, prose, literary, writing

WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin | jcksn

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

Tags: noel jackson, noel, jackson, creative, designer, web, html, css, xhtml, javascript, passionate design, communication, thoughts, art, graphic design, peace, love, web standards, php, wordpress, automattic

MONOTONE – WP Theme

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.

Tags: wordpress, theme, dynamic, photo blogging, simple, color

Astheria

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

Tags: web, design, typography

YouTube – GI JOE Parody Video Collection Part 1

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

Tags: humor, gi joe

Amazon WishList Blog Badge Builder

Seth’s Blog: Best free subscription of the week

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

Hanukkah Theme

Hanukkah Theme!

Tags: holidays, hanukkah, curriculum

Social Capital Value Add

Tags: social, media, social capital, value, twitter, change management

Hanukkah storytime for preschoolers

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Transfer Videos From Qik To 12seconds | Kevin Thompson

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

Tags: 12seconds, qik, video, iphone, social media

Qik | View Qik videos from the notifications you receive on your iPhone by bhaskar

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

Tags: qik, iphone, video, twitter

Figure 1

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

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Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web – International Herald Tribune

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.”

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Kevin M Jackson | Design Development

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

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E.Factor : Building Your Business

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

Tags: entrepreneurs, business, mind challenge, quiz, test

15 Incredible WordPress Theme Customizations | Freelance Folder

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,

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BB Free Font: Conglomerfont | BittBox

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

Tags: design, web, wordpress, fonts, high quality design freebies, tutorials, vectors, free high resolution photoshop brushes, free high resolution textures

WordPress Code Innovation Wizards – BraveNewCode Inc.

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.

Tags: wordpress, developer, coding, badass

Top 25 Ways to Tell if Your Social Media Expert Is a Carpetbagger » The Buzz Bin

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

Seth’s Blog: Confusing activity with action

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…

Tags: marketing, seth godin

Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML – NETTUTS

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.

Tags: nettuts, amazon, widget, html, css, ajax, jquery, xml, tutorial

Festivus | The website for the rest of us

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monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget

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Dell : Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS Silver 8 MP 3X Zoom Digital Camera with 4 GB SDHC Memory Card – MSRP $219.99 : Digital Cameras

Shop Dell for digital cameras, camcorders and accessories including SLR lenses, and camera bags from top manufacturers.

Tags: camera

DD_belatedPNG: better PNG background-image support in IE6

Tags: web, design, development, css, ie6, png, alpha-translucent

MOO.com | We love to print

Journalists Are a Chatty Bunch, as CNN Finds Out on Twitter – NYTimes.com

At a meeting last week, one journalist shared the framework of CNN’s plans for a news wire service in real time on the social messaging Web site Twitter.

Tags: twitter

rex // Coda Plugin: Html Word Counter // Alex Holt, Interactive Designer, Web Developer, Concept Creator

Graphic and web design portfolio and blog by Australian freelance graphic designer Alex Holt – Working from Barcelona, Spain.

Tags: web, design, graphic, twitter, monitter, django, badass, awesomeness

Twenty Typefaces of 2008 | FontShop News | December 2008

Tags: fonts

A List Apart: Articles: Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA

Tags: web, design, ia, information, architecture, usability

ZK – Direct RIA

ZK is the leading open source Ajax and mobile framework designed to maximize enterprises operation efficiency and minimize the development cost.

Tags: ajax, java, open, source, enterprise

ZK Studio

ZK Studio, an integrated development environment, provides intuitive tools that span the entire application development lifecycle, including UI design, prototyping, development, and deployment tools for developing Ajax applications.

Unspoken Mentorship: Intentional and unobtrusive coaching for new generations of

Secret Mentorship, by Chris Bartlett, formerly published in the White Crane Journal. Crane Journal Secret White Chris Bartlett Mentorship

Typechart – Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.

Tags: web, type, css

Dreidel Game

Dreidel, the Hanukkah game

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Amirouche

Creative Portfolios, Projects, and Collaborations. A new platform for the creative professional community.

Tags: creative, web, professionals, community, awesomeness

Users – Twones

Twones is a music service and a new way to store, organize, find

Tags: music, web, share, social, media, service

XHTML CSS Tips, Tricks and Techniques » Blog Archive » Evaluating 83 PSD to HTML Vendors

The Shorty Awards – The best producers of short content on Twitter in 2008

The Shorty Awards honors the best producers of short content on Twitter

Tags: twitter, awards

20 Great WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins

WordPress 2.7 has finally hit, and the first thought on most people’s minds might be, Will my favorite plugin work with it? What follows is a list of over 20

Tags: wordpress, 2.7, extend, plugins

Blip n Beer

All cities. One vibe.The simultaneous blipper party.

Tags: blip.fm, twitter, music, social, media, beercampphilly

The Shorty Awards – The best producers of short content on Twitter in 2008

if you think the Thematic Framework for WP is the hotness then nominate @iandstewart for a Shorty Award http://shortyawards.com/

Tags: shorty, awards, twitter, short, content, social, media, thematic, iandstewart, themeshaper.com

Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework

This is more than just a WordPress theme: Thematic is a highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins and more. The coding, functionality and support rivals the best in “premium” themes. With one, important, difference—Thematic is completely free and open source.All told, it’s pretty darn [...]

Tags: wordpress, thematic, framework, theme

Rosenfeld Media – Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy (with Indi Young)

You’ve researched your customers, aligned your product offerings with their behavior, and successfully used this mental model to guide your design. But as time passes, you see products, staff, and even whole business units come and go. How do you manage your design so it stays in sync with your organization? This Future Practice Webinar, led by author Indi Young (bio), will introduce mental models, describe how they benefit tactical design projects, and then show how you can use them to manage strategic change. (For a preview of what Indi will cover, read this interview.)

Tags: rosenfeld, media, indi, young, mental, models, tactics, strategy, webinar

Billy Jonas

Time on your side — jackcheng.com

We all have nagging to-dos—the ones we put off for weeks or months (or even years). When we finally get around to taking action, we realize that we spent more time dreading them or worrying about them than it actually took to do them.For the past couple months, I’ve been attaching a time estimate to the end of each item on my to-do list. This simple trick has completely changed how I deal with the things on my plate, especially the tasks I’d normally keep putting off. I call it time-tagging:

Tags: time, tagging, productivity

Sandy — your free personal email assistant

Hi! I’m Sandy, your free personal email assistant. I’ll remember the details so you can focus on what’s important.

Pixel Ignition | Mac Stuff and Whatnot

Tags: mac, stuff, whatnot

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Lussumo – Free, Open-Source Software for the Web

At Lussumo we make ground-breaking, intuitive, standards-compliant, free, open-source software for the web. Check out Vanilla, our free forum package.

In the Studio: Wilco, Band of Horses, Liz Phair : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

Up to the minute breaking news from the world of music, from the editors of Rolling Stone.

Refresh Philly

25 Tutorials for Advanced Freelance Web Designers | Freelance Folder

In the world of web design, a good tutorial can literally be a godsend. But it’s often hard to find a suitable tut, and sometimes it seems like we’re just stuck

The Crunchies 2008 » Nominations

2008 November | Startup Comix

Veer: Ideas: A new screensaver, from Veer by Anders J. Svensson

Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart

Big Cartel has made it easy for thousands of bands, labels, clothing designers, artists, crafters, and independent businesses to make beautiful stores to sell their stuff online.

Blip.fm | Global Music Radar | Page 1 of 1978

Instant blip updates from the entire community. Listen to free streaming music from a global community of internet DJs.

Simple Goods – CSS

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Redesign, Update 2 | Alert My Banjos

6:57pm… (wow, writing these posts really slows down this process) I needed a simple, looks-nice-out-of-the-box template to use while I begin designing

Amazon.com: The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas: MP3 Downloads: The Muppets

Amazon.com: The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas: MP3 Downloads: The Muppets by The Muppets

Amazon.com: The Little House: Virginia Lee Burton: Books

The Little House – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

YOUR click here! | global citizen experiment

Global Citizen here…. Wanted to take a moment and ask you to cast your vote for 2 organizations that I think are awesome! Empressr:

TechWag » Social Media Case Study Comcast

WordPress › Support » The annoying “Warning: Attempt to assign property of non-object” error again

FreshBooks P. recommends Peapod Studios on GigPark

GigPark is a place to find services with the help of your friends.

PeapodStudios 2008

Toronto based Web Design and Branding Studio

Facebook | GeeksWhoGive Philabundance Food Drive / Tweetup

Help contribute to a great cause, Philabundance! Come to our Tweetup at National Mechanics on Tuesday December 9th.Please bring a minimum of 5 non-perishable food items. Make sure the food items are packaged in boxes, cans or plastic bottles, and do not have to be refrigerated.National Mechanics will have great drink specials for all food donors. Whether you’re an avid twitter user, or have no idea what that means, we can all come out for a great cause, good fun, and maybe a few surprises!Stick around for TechKaraoke at 9pm!Follow http://twitter.com/geekswhogive for updates and info!

The HARVEST Blog

Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers

what next? unstick.me helps you find that thing you need to get going again.

Unstick Me – Here to help you find the answer that helps you get going again.

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The Vatican comes round to the Beatles | Music | guardian.co.uk

Catholics no longer need to hide their love away, as newspaper ‘forgives’ John Lennon for his ‘bigger than Jesus’ comments

Bloblive – Ideas need you!

Electronic Sandbox

McGillin’s Olde Ale House

McGillin’s Olde Ale House opened in 1860, making it the oldest continuously operating tavern in Philadelphia. McGillin’s is known for its welcoming atmosphere, good food at a reasonable price, comradery and large selection of local and regional beers on tap.>

Evaluating projects on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

I printed a sheet with several of the same model and started evaluating each of my current projects against it. It’s an interesting exercise to go through. I put the template up on my site if you want to use it (warning: Word *.doc file!).

kashklash:: exchanging the future

Moving Pictures: attaining underground momentum with Bill Brand’s Masstransiscope « the filmlinc blog

Refreshing Cities: design, technology, usability, and standards

Refreshing Cities: making the web a better place to work and play.

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BlueTripCSS Framework – Blueprint meets Tripoli | Capsize Designs

CSS Frameworks have been a hot topic the past few months. Although they’ve been getting a lot of heat from semantic freaks and minimalists (for adding

Chris Morrell » Web Design, Graphic Design and Marketing

Chris Morrell is a Philadelphia web designer and developer who focuses on PHP development and usable design. He is also the Director of IT for the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors.

MoveOn.org Political Action: Free Obama stickers by Shepard Fairey

MoveOn is giving away stickers designed by Shepard Fairey this week to celebrate Barack Obama’s victory. Free. Even the shipping’s free. I already got mine. Do you have yours?

SandPress 0.71 WordPress Theme Update

Philadelphia New Media Calendars, Blogs, Mailing Lists – Philly New Media Hub

Unconferences? – (37signals)

tagsmith.org – the cyberworks of Matthew G. Knell – » Blog Archive » Protecting the brand that matters most: your own

Listing all ideas – Ideablob: where ideas grow

DISQUS | Login or Sign Up

Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.

Blog Design That Works

In this post we take a look at four excellent, and popular, designs, from simple to complex, that can help inform your next blog design. The sites we’re going to look at are Lifehacker, PSD Tuts, Smashing Magazine and Canada’s National Post.We’ll look at the general layout in great detail, via a wireframe of the main [...]

jeffdomke.com » Blog Archive » ObamaBats

A collection of 24 high-quality dingbats featuring Barack Obama and various design elements! This collection is completely free for download, upload, distribution, use and modification. Use these dingbats to start creating your own Obama paraphernalia today!

“Good evening, Good night” in many languages

At this site you can learn how to say good evening and good night in more than 150 languages from around the world. My goal is to include every language, so that people will be able to say at least a few words to anyone they meet, anywhere in the world.

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