I don’t know why I love vectors oh so very much, but I do. “Vecteezy is an index of Free Vectors available for download by some of the best designers around the world.” Have at it.
Posted by richz at 9:15 AMYeh, I know there are about 500 Ajax autosuggest implementations out there, but this one over at Brand Spanking New is nicely packaged, documented and it looks darn cool.
Posted by richz at 9:16 AMThe kids at Netvibes can't rest up for a minute. They've extended Netvibes to allow you to customize it in all sorts of ways. A bunch of pre-packaged themes are also available.
Posted by richz at 8:55 AMThis is kinda, sorta, kinda neat: Ajaxtrans is a real-time translator that will port your text to a bunch of languages as you type.
Posted by richz at 9:12 AM2020ok.com is a directory of free online books and eBooks. Groovy.
Posted by richz at 9:39 AMIf you've locked into the CS3 madness, you'll probably enjoy the pretty large collection of videos that walk through the new features across the products. Pretty nice interface too.
Posted by richz at 3:37 AMGoogle Desktop is now available for Mac. I'm not sure about its value with Spotlight already in place, but nonetheless, it's here. TUAW has a nice review.
Posted by richz at 2:21 AMI don't usually point to stuff like this on basement.org but...wow. (Via the relentlessly great Waxy's Links.)
Posted by richz at 9:30 AMFlash Magazine has a nice preview (with some racy screenshots) of Flash CS3. It's looking like a pretty significant, highly-integrated (think Photoshop and Illustrator integrated) release.
Posted by richz at 7:43 PMHere's a wacky little feature I never knew existed on NYTimes.com. If you're in any article (like this one), and double-click on any term, it'll bring up a dictionary or encylopedia view of that word. Pretty cool. It works in both web view and printer-friendly view.
Original Signal, that neat little pre-canned portal that aggregates a bunch of sites like Digg, Techcrunch, and such, has put out Frontpage - a summary of the hottest articles out there on any given day. It feels a lot like Techmeme.
Posted by richz at 9:38 AMThe Yahoo! Widget Blog reports that Yahoo! Widgets Goes To Version 4. A major new feature is the Widget Dock. Widges everywhere!
Posted by richz at 10:44 AMSomebody send whoevers behind Bittbox a cheese basket. There's a great set of vector assets that are pretty high quality that he's sharing. I'm liking the Free Vector Web Page Elements parts one, two and three.
Posted by richz at 9:58 AMIn the spirit of sIFR, swfIR is a flash/javascript concoction that replaces images with Flash-driven equivalents. This allows you to do some fancy tricks like dynamic resizing and image effects. Pretty cool...though the initial flipping to the Flash version of the image is a bit annoying.
Posted by richz at 11:47 AMYour favorite portal and mine, Netvibes, has churned out a handful of features and enhancements. Netvibes continues to impress.
Posted by richz at 9:33 AMOk, this guy is damn cool. Opensearchfox is a Firefox extension that allows you to easily add new search engines to that handy little search box in Firefox. Simply right-click on any search box in any website and you're done.
Posted by richz at 12:54 PMI'm convinced the guy behind Smashing Magazine has no job. Yet another massive list: 83 quality Wordpress themes.
Add Opensearch (that in-line search box in Firefox and Explorer that lets you easily search Google, Amazon, etc.) for your site in five minutes.
Posted by richz at 9:42 AMImified is a new service that allows you to manage various web accounts like Backpack, and Google Calendar through your instant messaging client (MSN, Yahoo, Google Chat & AOL are supported).
Posted by richz at 2:24 PMAll kinds of cool Photoshop, Illustrator and 3D tutorials at Tutorials 2.0. Go ahead - make some shiny, glossy icons. You know you want to.
Posted by richz at 2:25 PMI know what I ain't good at: creating Photoshop brushes. That don't mean I don't love'em though. Brusheezy is a repository of free brushes that real artists contribute to (mostly).
Posted by richz at 2:46 PMI may be late to the party on this one, but iConcertCal is damn sweet. It probes your iTunes library, pulls out the artists and sends them off to Pollstar to see who's on tour. Then it plots them on a calendar. You heard me right.
Posted by richz at 10:08 AMGroovy/cool illustration art from Baz Pringle (an equally groovy/cool name!).
Posted by richz at 2:40 PMNo, I'm not plugging Design-feed.net because basement.org is one of the contributing sites. I'm plugging it because it's a nice collection of design sites all rolled into one. I swear.
Posted by richz at 5:48 PMPutting aside an oddly confusing name, Yahoo!'s new mobile service nicely unifies your typical mobile web services into a nice streamlined interface. Looks neat if your phone supports it (my Treo 650 doesn't).
Posted by richz at 3:12 PMPhotographer Daniel Edburg breathes new life (or, um...death) into famous scenes with this series of photos. It's hard to really explain. Just click thru.
Posted by richz at 10:52 AMIf you're any sort of web developer - CSS, Ajax, Javascript, XHTML - you need Firebug. The new version renders itself indisposable.
Posted by richz at 1:36 PMWant to send a nose hair-plucking e-Card? It's hard to really explain. Just click on the link.
Posted by richz at 9:40 AMWant another example of why Ajax doesn't creatively scale? Check out Youki. It's a service that allows you to display your galleries of photos in a booklet-style interface. It's Flash-based and it's pretty darn awesome.
Posted by richz at 9:47 AMThis is kinda weird and sorta cool. ArtPod has little video shorts for the iPod. They're these neat little ambient movies for your iPod.
Posted by richz at 4:49 PMYeh. You read it right. "Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture." Yeh. I'd watch it. So what?
Posted by richz at 9:04 AMThe latest version of Google Desktop is now see-thru. Kinky.
Posted by richz at 9:25 AMLab Pixies : cute little gadgets that can be added to your personal Google or Windows Live page (some work with Netvibes as ewll).
Posted by richz at 1:30 PMWondering why Web 2.0 startups keep dropping vowels from their names? Forbes says it's because all properly spelled URL's are sold out or really expensive. Interesting.
Posted by richz at 10:24 AMA nice bit of Photoshop love. A groovy series of Photoshop-manipulated images of dissections. Very realistic looking stuff. Also, a tutorial to make your photos look like Roy Lichtenstein's pop art with Photoshop. Both links are swiped off the mighty BoingBoing.net.
Posted by richz at 10:24 AMWe'll put aside that Icebrrg continues Web 2.0's all out assault on proper spelling and boycott of vowels and simply enjoy it for what it's worth: a form builder, simple data storage thingy (a la Wufoo).
Posted by richz at 9:56 AMPaint.net is a free, semi-worthy Photoshop-like graphics editing tool for Windows. Looks pretty ok.
Posted by richz at 12:34 PMI'm digging dzone. Fresh links for developers with Digg-style voting.
Posted by richz at 9:21 AMIndex : Design To Improve Life. Awesome.
Posted by richz at 9:20 AMI've thought about this and wanted to build this (no really) but couldn't find the frickin' time. Anway, somebody else did it nice. Upload a picture and it spits out a color palette. This is good. Real good.
Jack Slocum (yes, his coding skills are as badass as his name) has put out a really impressive commenting system for Wordpress. Built atop the Yahoo UI library, it's a different take on comments. Rather than just dumping them all on the bottom of a blog post, he meshes them into the reading experience. Nice.
Posted by richz at 9:54 AMDesigncharts is sort of like a Billboard Top 10 of (mostly Flash-driven) web sites. I'm not sure how the rankings are gathered, but the top 10 seems credible.
Posted by richz at 8:41 AMSay it with me..."Sizeasy" (yeh, I have no idea how to pronounce it either). Sizeasy is a neat little tool that compares the size of...umm...anything to common objects like a deck of cards or a piece of paper. Kind of cool (kind of).
Posted by richz at 8:51 AMWanna avoid those gosh-darned laser-guided missiles? The friendly folks at the EFF provide six excellent tips for searching privacy.
Posted by richz at 11:10 AMPaul Neave, a Flash wizard by any measure, has completely outdone himself with Neave.tv. A truly immersive video viewing experience. It's amazing what you can pull off with Flash if you're willing to look beyond the paradigm of web pages and hyperlinks. The transitions are just awesome. (Found via Waxy's Links).
Posted by richz at 11:10 AMMan, I love free stuff so very much. And in this case, "stuff" means software - a lesser known list of some useful freeware apps. Have at it.
Posted by richz at 8:25 AMAdobe (yes - Adobe - the entire company) has a delicious acocunt and they've decided to share it with us all. All sorts of great links on PDF, Flex, Photoshop (tons of Photoshop) and others. Very nice. Other corporate behemoths should take notice. This is smart.
Posted by richz at 11:49 AMHow To Create Groovy Vector Art. 'Nuff said.
Posted by richz at 5:32 PMI must've somehow missed this one. Google's put out an AJAX search widget for their search. Pretty cool. Not sure I like the different category listing though.
Posted by richz at 2:09 PMTake a geeky trip down memory lane with this cool collection of splash screens from various popular software packages. Kind of fun.
Posted by richz at 8:29 AMVia Meebo integration, now you can hit all the major instant messaging clients in one of your Netvibes tabs. Very sweet.
Posted by richz at 8:59 AMFile this bad boy under "inspiration" (or something). Logopond displays...logos (submitted ones that is). Neat-o.
Posted by richz at 10:02 AMThe Yahoo Interface Blog struts its stuff by showing the many ways Yahoo! is taking advantage of its freely available user interface libraries. As they say on Sportscenter: "useful."
Posted by richz at 9:04 AMThe constantly thoughtful and inspiring Creating Passionate Users considers whether the U.S. sucks at design.
Posted by richz at 9:50 AMCSS Mania : CSS World 2006 Winners
Posted by richz at 1:40 PMA nice, simple (really simple) implementation of tabs via Javascript and CSS.
Posted by richz at 1:52 PMI just wrote up some reasons we're loving Adobe's Flex technology here at Arc90. A worthwhile read for anyone interested in AJAX or rich internet apps.
Posted by richz at 11:55 AMThe excellent UI/UX blog, Functioning Form has a great entry on the behind-the-scenes thinking and motivations behind the development of OSX and Longhorn (Vista). Well worth reading.
Posted by richz at 9:05 AMSweetie is a free and very nice icon set. Go get it.
Posted by richz at 9:31 AMDigg For Designers : PixelGroovy.
Based on the 25 comments, I guess I'm a bit late to this. Nevertheless, Design Observer talks about The Power of Context.
Posted by richz at 9:16 AMLevitated.net has an oh-so-sweet collection of Flash physics demos (via Passionate Users).
Posted by richz at 9:59 AMI'm not sure if this old news or not, but it's new to me. Free, nicely designed CSS/XHTML layouts under Creative Commons.
Posted by richz at 12:28 PMA good summary of the major Javascript frameworks : The JavaScript Library World Cup.
Posted by richz at 2:26 PMI've always considered myself a "designer." But what kind? At blog.arc90, I give some thoughts on what we mean by "design."
Posted by richz at 9:49 PMHere's a nice implementation of a CSS/XHTML renderer. Ideal for trying out an idea before applying it to your own code.
Posted by richz at 1:36 PMGoogle has released a Firefox extension that maintains your Firefox settings across computers. Pretty useful. Just keep in mind it requires a Google account and syncs your saved passwords as well.
Posted by richz at 9:13 AMPlugins. Filters. Brushes. Actions. You name it. Here's a massive list of Photoshop add-ons.
Posted by richz at 10:19 AMArc90's Chris LoSacco discusses on the real, tangible returns of investing in interface design. Few things frustrate me more than key decision-makers not getting the value of good, thoughtful interface design. The post highlights some excellent points on the often-overlooked value of interaction design.
Posted by richz at 10:17 AMA nicely designed, social Web 2.0 thingamajig: The Best Stuff In The World let's you find and vote on...umm...stuff. It's sort of like a Digg for everything else.
Posted by richz at 4:29 PMYour favorite portal page and mine, Netvibes, has added Digg and eBay support. The Netvibes blog has all the details here and here.
Posted by richz at 3:18 PMSlashdot just announced their winner for the CSS redesign contest. It looks nice. Mmmm...gradients.
16 Bugs is a dead simple, web-based, AJAXified bug tracking tool. You can have one project for free, then tiered pricing after that.
Posted by richz at 9:52 AMIBM DeveloperWorks : Devise Web 2.0 Apps With PHP & DHTML. Looks like the first of a series. IBM's articles are usually pretty thorough.
Posted by richz at 1:53 PMGetty Images has put out a seriously impressive collection of interactive Flash and Shockwave applications called 10 Ways. The demos are designed to provoke us to think about the different aspects of photography: light, information, memory, space, response, emotion, color, truth, time, and transformation. Pretty inspiring. It really shows how powerful Flash is in the right hands.
Posted by richz at 2:13 PMDealmyday.com is a sort of Digg for online deals. I'm liking it. It looks fairly new based on the activity.
Not sure if this has already made the rounds, but the Dynamic Drive CSS Library is a nicely put together set of CSS tweaks.
Cool Text is a web-based image generator. Many text styles and each with many options. Just ignore all the annoying ads.
Posted by richz at 10:36 AMA nicely categorized, fairly comprehensive listing of Ajax and Javascript resources can be found at Solutoire.com. In other news, Google has released an Ajax framework based on Java (Slashdot has more).
Posted by richz at 10:05 AMHere's a neat little mashup. Sync up Yahoo! Local directions with your ipod so you can take your directions to go. I don't own an iPod (but by God I may cave in soon) but it looks pretty neat.
The lunatics at Adobe have put out a nice little Ajax framework called Spry. Yeh I know, there are many frameworks out there (just ask Max Kiesler), but this one's leveraging pure XML and Xpath. It looks pretty elegant.
Posted by richz at 2:28 PMGoogle's showing the world that "yeh we can go mash ourselves into...ourselves" (or something). There's a flavor of Google News available that has that tasty Google Suggest autocomplete flavor. Pretty neat.
The Yahoo! UI team is obviously taking no prisoners. They've put out a slew of components that bring the desktop feel to web applications. There are some really useful, well-documented things here.
Posted by richz at 8:56 AMTag a Flickr image page in del.icio.us and you'll get a thumbnail of that image. Yes. Groovy.
Posted by richz at 2:18 PMI have no clue if this is any good but I figured I'd point to it anyway. Litefeeds is a mobile RSS feed reader for Nokia, Palm, PocketOS and other devices.
Posted by richz at 9:47 AMBokardo : 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail.
Posted by richz at 6:03 PMWebsiteicons.com has a nice collection of free pixel-based icons. There are other icons as wel for a fee ($48/year).
Drunk Men Work Here (heh) has an impressive analysis of how the bots of the big three search engines troll around the Internet. Some really nice data visualization here (in both images and Flash animation). Found via the relentlessly cool Information Aesthetics blog.
Semplice Pixelfonts is a nice collection of ultra-stealthy pixelated fonts. The site is not in English but the fonts seem of high quality and free.
Posted by richz at 10:10 AMProtolize : Essential Web Tools In One Place. Man, can't get enough of those gosh-darn lists.
More Live tastiness. Windows Live Shopping debuts. Interestingly, no Firefox support yet.
Posted by richz at 10:34 AMAnyone who follows basement.org knows I'm a giddy cheerleader for Netvibes. Perusing their blog today, I notice they've made a bunch of upgrades and enhancements.
Posted by richz at 9:59 AM"GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast."
Mmmm...vectors. I'm a big fan of Illustrator. N-Design has a nice collection of Illustrator tutorials.
Posted by richz at 3:06 PM"PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support."
LockNote is a nice and simple (and free) Wiindows Notepad replacement that adds strong password protection support. The twist: it doesn't require itself to view files. They get saved as exe's that aren't much larger than regular text files.
One of the oldest translation services around - Babel Fish - has found a new home at Yahoo! The Yahoo! Search Blog has all the details.
Posted by richz at 12:33 PMMicrosoft has released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.
Posted by richz at 10:17 AMAJAX is obviously no longer fringe. The white-collar freaks at IBM have put out an exhaustively detailed (and fairly technical) tutorial for building an AJAX/XML-powered slideshow replete with the Ken Burns effect.
Posted by richz at 10:12 AMWhy do all the grunt work when you can generate? The Movable Type Style Generator is a nice wizard-style template builder.
Yahoo! MapMaker for Excel. 'Nuff said.
Posted by richz at 1:58 PMSolution Watch (solid blog by the way) has a good summary of apps that aid note-taking.
Posted by richz at 9:49 AMWe'll let the goofy name slide...for now. Zixxo delivers local coupons via RSS. Another great use for RSS. Death to weekly sales flyers.
Posted by richz at 9:32 AMWe all owe Max Kiesler a drink. He rounds up 50 (yes 50) Ajax frameworks.
Posted by richz at 9:56 AMThe View Source Chart Firefox extension displays source code in a nice color-coded layout for better readability.
Posted by richz at 12:07 PMMcSweeney's : Nihilist Job Résumé. Hilarious.
Posted by richz at 8:52 AMI'm not sure how I stumbled on this (a link somewhere I think). Preview.netvibes.com is publicly viewable. It's a version of Netvibes that has tabbed pages so you can really go nuts. Hopefully the Netvibes team won't hate me for pointing this out.
Posted by richz at 9:45 AMI think I blogged about htis before, but this got a whole lot sweeter. Ajaxamp 3.0 is a Ajax web interface to Winamp with audio streaming. Dang that's cool.
Posted by richz at 8:55 AMLightbox, very nice AJAX/Javascript slide show generator, just went 2.0. It's now got "fancy pants transitions."
Posted by richz at 8:24 AMConversationstarter.com : A Complete Guide To Web Analytics Solutions.
Posted by richz at 8:09 AMThe Yahoo! Toolbar has been refreshed for both IE & Firefox. The IE version has it's own flavor of tabbed browsing.
Posted by richz at 7:12 PMCNN.com finally gets a redesign. A bit more interactive. A lot more CSS. And from the looks of it, designed against 1024x768 and up.
Posted by richz at 3:34 PMYeh, yeh. We all know we love rounded corners, but creating them is still painful these days. Nifty Corners Cube is a solid, scripted implementation that has all sorts of capabilities. Very handy.
As tasty as combining chocolate and peanut butter. Deliver out your ftp server's contents via RSS. Be warned, somewhat technical.
Posted by richz at 8:54 AMFactor CSS takes in a CSS and spits out a new CSS with "rulesets split, combined, and reordered to "factor out" common declarations." Mmmm...refactoring.
Netvibes, through an integration of Box.net, now let's you access 1GB of storage on your desktop. If you throw MP3's up there, it'll just play'em. Sweet.
Posted by richz at 2:08 PMMicrosoft released a new version of IE7 today. The IE7 blog has the details.
CSS Tweak is a web-based CSS tweaker. Haven't tried it yet. Looks promising.
We'll let the missing 'e' slide on this one. Grazr is a mini web-based widget that browses OPML & RSS feeds.
Posted by richz at 8:44 AMAdd a chat box to any URL with Gabbly. Here it is for basement.org's home page. Pretty nice implementation.
DHTMLGoodies has both PHP & Javascript code for building those neat, draggable RSS boxes you see on sites like live.com an Netvibes (demo).
Posted by richz at 8:49 AM25 Best Freeware Fonts (via the mighty Kottke).
Posted by richz at 9:25 AMNetvibes Adds iCal Support. Groovy.
Posted by richz at 8:56 AMIt ain't all about work and such. Gnome's Lair has a nice list of free games.
Posted by richz at 8:59 AMHarvest is a simple web-based timesheet program. Trial available but it's not free (though reasonably priced).
Posted by richz at 9:47 AMGood article on how RSS is helping retailers reach customers.
Because we need to visually see where our consumable goods are on a map. Package tracking with Google Maps.
Seth Godin :The Problem With "Global Warming."
Max Kiesler (cool site by the way) put up an exhaustive list of AJAX slideshows.
Posted by richz at 9:55 AMLayout Gala : 40 Canned CSS Layouts. Mmmm. So del.icio.us-able.
Posted by richz at 10:08 AMOswd.org has nearly 1500 (yes, 1500) CSS/xHTML designs that are shared for free. Have at it.
Posted by richz at 8:20 AMFeedBlendr allows you to enter the URLs to any RDF, RSS or Atom (XML) feeds you'd like and blend them into a single feed. We won't hold the missing "e" against them. (Thanks for nothing Flickr).
Posted by richz at 5:02 PMPretty cool. Type in the name of a movie or a theater and it gives the movies playing and showtimes. MSN Search WebLog has the details. Groovy.
Posted by richz at 3:18 PMNo, not waffles. Wufoo lets you build on line forms. A very slick interface that nicely marries Flash and DHTML.
Posted by richz at 5:00 PMWeb-Based Spreadsheet : iRows.
A couple of really useful cheat sheets for Actionscript and the Javascript Prototype framework.
Posted by richz at 9:41 AMJotform is a neat little form builder with drag & drop support. Nice.
Posted by richz at 4:58 PMTimes Online : Are You Experienced?
Posted by richz at 9:19 AM"Scriptio is an open source framework for presenting animations and educational content in a rich online experience." The framework is written in Javascript/AJAX.
Posted by richz at 8:57 AMTasty. 25 Free Grunge Fonts.
Create your own design portfolio online with Carbonmade.
Posted by richz at 3:36 PM"ZenGarage is a showcase tool that may help you to develop and present different visual styles for a single set of templates. All by the power of CSS."
Posted by richz at 8:57 AMIn the spirit of Eric Meyer's S5, AJAX-S is an AJAX-powered slideshow renderer that pulls in an XML and presents it in slideshow form. A demo is available.
Posted by richz at 1:25 PMBusiness Week published an insightful article on the Adobe / Macromedia merger and the rationale behind it.
Posted by richz at 8:54 AMIE Blog reports that the IE Developer Toolbar goes to Beta 2.
Yahoo!’s My Web 2.0 get’s an update. The Yahoo! Search Blog has the details.
Posted by richz at 9:25 AMbgMaker is a nice, interactive tool to create your own tiled backgrounds for your web pages (a typically annoying task). Very nice implementation.
Opera joins the browser party with a preview of their own browser's next release : Opera 9. It features widgets, Bittorrent integration and more. Opera Labs a good summary.
Posted by richz at 10:13 AMI'm always looking for sources of design inspiration. So why not weird, old, foreign cigraette packaging? Desginboom has a post up thank links to hundreds of cigarette packs.
Posted by richz at 10:12 AMJSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files.
Posted by richz at 8:28 AMParticle Tree : Lightbox Gone Wild. Tackling modality. Nice.
Posted by richz at 8:44 AMA Digg-style link voting site that suggests headlines from contributing feeds. Pretty nice design too. FeedButler.
I can't kick the icon addiction. Here's a nice list of icon library links. It's in French, but still useful.
Posted by richz at 10:15 AMReally nice, simple trick. John Oxton throws down a logo via a static Flash image. If you zoom in/out (CTRL +/CTRL - in Firefox), the logo keeps it's sharpness and scales nicely.
Posted by richz at 9:04 AMA List Apart seeks out the Holy Grail (in CSS design that is - the three column layout, revisited).
Posted by richz at 11:01 AMAn index of all TechCrunch profiles. Also available in OPML.
Posted by richz at 9:23 AMFor all you designers out there, free blank PDF graph/grid/lined paper downloads.
Posted by richz at 10:07 AMAsk Jeeves boosted the capabilities of their image search. I play around a bit and it's pretty cool. Details here.
Posted by richz at 8:08 AMScienceBlogs is a nice little network of science blogs covering topics from anthropology to politics. My favorite is the cognitive science category. Check it out.
Posted by richz at 7:29 PMWizlite : Collaborative Highlighting. Pretty neat.
Posted by richz at 8:02 AMAs announced at CES, Google Video now allows the purchase of videos. Some details here.
Slickr is an OpenGL-based screensaver that does that cool zoom and pan thing to give your Flickr photos an oddly sentimental/dramatic vibe. I've seen something similar on Macs. Now all we need is a Windows version of that cool RSS screensaver for Mac...
I can get into typography now and again (though I admit I don't know much about it). Typographica dishes out the favorite fonts of 2005.
AIGA has a set of pedestrian symbol icons freely available in both EPS & GIF formats.
Posted by richz at 11:51 AMFACE is a framework for animating elements through CSS and Javascript. Really wild stuff.
Posted by richz at 11:51 AMMicrosoft ClearType Tuner. Requires Internet Explorer & Windows XP.
Posted by richz at 9:45 AMHere's an excellent breakdown of Web 2.0 apps released the past year. I agree with all his "winner" selections.
Posted by richz at 11:19 AMSitepoint.com : The Anatomy of Web Fonts.
Here's a trippy way to look at search resutls. Kwmap.com presents a visualized map of keywords you search against. It displays an intersection for words you searched for. Try it out.
Posted by richz at 10:51 AMLooklater looks intriguing - essentially del.icio.us with the ability to make bookmarks private. Their blog has more.
Posted by richz at 5:35 PMApples To Oranges : CSS For Bar Graphs
i have no idea who is behind www.FamFamFam.com (actually it's Mark James, a designer from the UK), but he's decided to share some high-quality free icon love. Check them out. Good stuff.
Posted by richz at 4:01 PMVisualComplexity.com : Data Visualization Gallery
I'm all about vector these days. Here's a nice gallery of free vector icons and GUI interface elements.
Posted by richz at 1:53 PMSo what can XUL (Mozilla's XML User Interface Language) do? Check out the XUL Periodic Table to find out. A great example/source code browser for the unfamiliar.
Posted by richz at 2:36 PMHere's a happy accident: a bunch of Photoshop tutorials ready for consumption on Google Video. Searching for terms like "training" and "tutorial" will bring up all kinds of video training materials for other apps as well. Yahoo has a ton as well (but lacks the in-line player of Google Video).
Posted by richz at 10:42 AMBartelme Design has a neat two part tutorial on creating badges (you know, those glossy looking stickers) in Photoshop. Great looking blog too.
Posted by richz at 12:02 PMI have nothing but deep hatred for the term "mashup." With that said, the ProgrammableWeb blog has a nice summary of the most popular mashups based on votes and visits (or something).
Posted by richz at 4:07 PMNow that the holiday season is upon us, here's a neat (and free) way to keep track of gifts. Giftbox is a web-based gift planner.
Posted by richz at 11:30 AMA really slick Javascript syntax highlighter that takes your textarea code and makes it all perty. Supports a bunch of languages.
RSS Mad is being touted as "the largest archive of RSS feeds on the internet." Not sure how true that is, but still worth lookiing at.
Posted by richz at 12:24 PMOne of the tastiest Javascript libraries around - Script.aculo.us - has recently been updated to version 1.5 rc5.
Posted by richz at 9:36 AMKrazy Dad's Flicr Color Pickr is an insanely cool Flash app that grabs Flickr photos that correspond to a selected color.
Posted by richz at 12:23 PMThe del.icio.us blog lays out it's new search capability.
Windows Live, the bastard child of Start.com, now supports Firefox. I'm gonna give this a crack as my browser homepage. We'll see how it goes.
Vectors For Flash is an excellent set of tutorials that teach fundamental vector math and how to apply it to Flash Actionscript.
Posted by richz at 9:49 AMThe IE team keeps on churning. They've refreshed the IE Developer Toolbar with a bunch of fixes and some new features. The release notes are here.
Posted by richz at 12:41 AMGoogle Blog provides some insight on Google.org, its non-profit arm.
Posted by richz at 8:59 AMYahoo! pulls no punches with its answer to podcasting. Yahoo! Podcasts Beta debuts today.
Posted by richz at 6:54 PMParticle Tree released Treehouse, an electronic magazine published in PDF. It’s very nicely designed. But I wonder, if there’s no print edition, why PDF? You can’t send links, bookmark, etc.
I don’t own an iPod but a lot of people do. iPod + Yahoo Directions = iWay.
News.com lists out the top 100 blogs at Blog 100.
Posted by richz at 10:27 AMGreat mash-up: NYsee, Google Maps overlayed with real-time New York City traffic information.
Posted by richz at 9:29 AMI haven’t shown CSS any love in a very long time. Sitepoint’s Trenton Moss lays out his top ten CSS tricks. WG has a nice post on Maintainable CSS.
A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging is an interesting read on cognitive load and tagging by Rashmi Sinha.
JS Eclipse is a new freeware plugin for Eclipse.
Posted by richz at 10:45 AMThe Wall Street Journal has an insightful article on how Microsoft is changing the way it builds software.
Posted by richz at 10:16 AMWebsiteIcons.com hosts a collection of free, monochramatic icons. Not bad.
Posted by richz at 10:56 AMGoogle’s Firefox Toolbar has come out of beta with some new features.
Posted by richz at 4:46 PMProggy Fonts : free, neat bitmap fonts for programming (or whatever).
Posted by richz at 8:42 AMTop 10 Ajax Applications (Part 2)
Posted by richz at 9:20 AMInternet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta. Very useful. Also, don’t miss the excellent Web Developer Firefox Extension.
Posted by richz at 1:11 PMYahoo! has released Instant Search. It’s a neat as-you-type popup that is wired to Yahoo!’s shortcuts.
A new (and I might add, very slick) personal RSS/web portal: Netvibes. Where did these guys come from?
Posted by richz at 8:51 PMWildly off-topic, but too ridiculous to ignore: Gillette has unveiled a razor with five (yes, five) blades. It is a very odd thing when truth follows fiction (especially when the fiction is a product of The Onion).
Via one of the best link roll’s out there: Waxy.org’s links.
The IEBlog lays out some of the new features we can expect with Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. It looks like the beta releases aren’t just bug fixes but a whole slew of new features. Thanks to Firefox for waking these guys up.
Google introduces Blog Search.
Top 10 Ajax Applications – with honorable mentions.
Posted by richz at 8:29 AMGoogle Maps has added an overlay of recent satellite imagery of the New Orleans area hit by Hurricane Katrina.
Posted by richz at 9:08 AMYahoo continues to lead the pack in RSS. Yahoo Weather feeds are now available.
Posted by richz at 8:25 PMIf you’re looking to save some oh-so precious taskbar space in Windows, this tiny (112k) utility will send anything to the system tray. It’s free, so go grab the little bastard.
Posted by richz at 9:31 PMThe New York Times chimes in on Google’s ridiculous gag order against CNet. It’s about time the press called them on this one.
Posted by richz at 6:54 PMTechtarget.com : Mark Hapner (lead architect of the J2EE platform) on AJAX, SOA and Security.
Pretty darn cool: Via Greasemokey, enhance Google Maps with A9’s street views.
Over at blogs.salon, Scott Rosenberg talks about the Google-Microsoft chess match.
All the talk about Google Talk was for real. It is now available.
Posted by richz at 11:51 PMNeat little toys for you Flickr freaks out there.
Posted by richz at 11:19 AMGot intimate itching problems? Get an O'Reilly book. Hilarious.
Scott Isaacs (one of the inventors of DHTML) talks about the problems (and possible for solutions) for web apps that utilize AJAX. The first two parts are here and here.
Posted by richz at 5:43 PMWell, now we don’t have to worry about finding some fun weekend reading. A draft of the RSS 3 specification (the “Lite” version) was posted today. John Avidan (the keeper of the spec) blogs about it.
Looking for free stock photos, vector art, fonts and other design resources? Blue Vertigo is an incredibly comprehensive listing. Use the horizontal scroll bar to see everything.
It’s free and it’s tiny. Notepad2 is a full-featured replacement for Windows’ Notepad.
Yahoo! Local has a host of new features. Yahoo!’s Search Blog has all the details.
Posted by richz at 8:28 PMNice sandbox of some unique tricks in CSS: CSS Play
Flashearth is an impressive example of tapping into Google or MSN Virtual Earth Data through a Flash interface. With its 99% penetration, you’ve gotta wonder why the big players don’t consider Flash to deliver these rich applications.
Posted by richz at 8:48 PMAs far as I’m concerned, Yahoo! is schooling everyone else on where you can take RSS. They’ve added a media module to their RSS news feeds that enriches their entries with photos and descriptions. Very nice.
Posted by richz at 10:03 AMAn excellent gallery of quality CSS sites.
Posted by richz at 6:50 PMNice listing of monospaced fonts for coding.
Posted by richz at 5:47 PMCheck out the nifty little Brilliant Button Maker. It creates those adorable little rectangular buttons we see on all the anal web standards blogs (and elsewhere of course).
Mad props (yes, I said “mad props”) to the kids at Airtight Interactive for their great little Flickr tag browser. It feels like paper. Nicely done.
Color in Motion is a neat little Flash movie that colorfully illustrates what different colors symbolize.
Posted by richz at 12:20 PMMacromedia’s Sim Simeonov talks about programming models in the context of RIA’s and composite applications.
Posted by richz at 11:06 AMCameron Moll’s Authentic Boredom has just kicked off a four-part series on mobile web design.
Posted by richz at 3:14 PMYahoo! just announced that they’ve made available their Shopping service via REST API. Very simple (from what I’ve seen so far). Neat-o stuff.
Posted by richz at 3:57 PMFor all you lazy bastards out there, nice little programming cheat sheets for Javascript, MySQL, CSS, PHP, and some others.
Posted by richz at 2:39 PMIBM has put out a pretty comprehensive article on how to properly code across Internet Explorer and Mozilla. Pretty useful.
Posted by richz at 3:07 PMA natural marriage: Firefox + delicious = foxylicious.
Posted by richz at 5:10 PMGoogle keeps on truckin’ (or something). They’ve created a third “hybrid” view that marks up the satellite images with map information. Very cool.
Posted by richz at 6:26 PMGet’em while they’re hot.
Or maybe you prefer Google’s.
Posted by richz at 12:54 AMThe tasty Ajax stuff just keeps on comin’. Here’s a nice implementation of editable table cells via Ajax.
Digital Web Magazine has a good article by Garret Dimon on architecting CSS. He explores the various methods of organizing styles in a CSS. A worthwhile read if you deal with CSS at all.
Posted by richz at 10:16 AMHere : Wikis, Weblogs and RSS: What Does the New Internet Mean for Business?
Posted by richz at 2:41 PMMacromedia has just released a beta version of their new Flash player. Without some fancy demos, it's sort of hard to see the difference. Nevertheless, here it is.
There’s a whole slew of improvements/features with this release. Colin Moock has a bunch of links to a movie demo that showcases it’s new capabilities.
Posted by richz at 9:51 AMGoogle has put out it’s fancy-shmancy toolbar for Firefox. While they were at it, they also released an integrated Google Suggest and a tool to send text messages to phones from the browser. All three extensions are here.
I think we’re going to see a lot more from Google for Firefox in the future.
Posted by richz at 1:47 PMFor the dorky tinkerer in all of us, a solid collection of Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks.
Posted by richz at 4:34 PMDrawing on the most popular (or delicious) del.icio.us links, Populicio.us provides the tastiest link treats from the last 24 or 48 hours.
If there’s an RSS feed to add to your roll, this is it.
The clock is ticking before someone snatches up the scrumptio.us domain name. Oh wait.
Posted by richz at 7:06 PMFor all you font freaks out there, the fine folks at www.goodfonts.org are giving away (yes, giving away) 300 royalty-free truetype fonts.
So what are you waiting for? Act now.
Posted by richz at 3:52 PMFor all you cheap bastards out there, here's a neat little listing of the best freeware on the Internet. Go nuts.
Two quality publications, the Financial Times and The Economist, have decided to hop on the RSS bandwagon. You can find links to their respective feeds here and here.
Good stuff.
Posted by richz at 7:12 PMThe freaks at Google are at again with the third version of their toolbar for Internet Explorer.