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Posted by richz at 2:58 PM

Vecteezy

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.

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Posted by richz at 9:15 AM

A Nice Autosuggest Package

Yeh, 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:16 AM

Pimp Out Your Netvibes

The 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.

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Posted by richz at 8:55 AM

Real-Time Language Translator Via Ajax

This is kinda, sorta, kinda neat: Ajaxtrans is a real-time translator that will port your text to a bunch of languages as you type.

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Posted by richz at 9:12 AM

Directory Of Free Online Books

2020ok.com is a directory of free online books and eBooks. Groovy.

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Posted by richz at 9:39 AM

Adobe CS3 Video Workshop

If 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.

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Posted by richz at 3:37 AM

Google Desktop Lands On The Mac

Google 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.

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Posted by richz at 2:21 AM

Umm...Wow.

I don't usually point to stuff like this on basement.org but...wow. (Via the relentlessly great Waxy's Links.)

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Posted by richz at 9:30 AM

A Preview Of Flash CS3

Flash 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.

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Posted by richz at 7:43 PM

NY Times : Double-Click Insanity

Here'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.

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Original Signal Releases Frontpage

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.

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Posted by richz at 9:38 AM

Yahoo! Widgets Goes To Version 4

The Yahoo! Widget Blog reports that Yahoo! Widgets Goes To Version 4. A major new feature is the Widget Dock. Widges everywhere!

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Posted by richz at 10:44 AM

Free Vector Goodness

Somebody 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:58 AM

swfIR

In 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.

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Posted by richz at 11:47 AM

Netvibes Tweaks It Up

Your favorite portal and mine, Netvibes, has churned out a handful of features and enhancements. Netvibes continues to impress.

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Posted by richz at 9:33 AM

Opensearchfox

Ok, 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.

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Posted by richz at 12:54 PM

83 Nice Wordpress Themes

I'm convinced the guy behind Smashing Magazine has no job. Yet another massive list: 83 quality Wordpress themes.

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Add Opensearch To Your Site In Five Minutes

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.

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Posted by richz at 9:42 AM

Imified

Imified 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).

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Posted by richz at 2:24 PM

Tutorials 2.0

All kinds of cool Photoshop, Illustrator and 3D tutorials at Tutorials 2.0. Go ahead - make some shiny, glossy icons. You know you want to.

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Posted by richz at 2:25 PM

Brusheezy

I 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).

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Posted by richz at 2:46 PM

iConcertCal

I 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.

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Posted by richz at 10:08 AM

The Art Of Baz Pringle

Groovy/cool illustration art from Baz Pringle (an equally groovy/cool name!).

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Posted by richz at 2:40 PM

Design-feed.net

No, 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.

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Posted by richz at 5:48 PM

Yahoo! Go Onesearch

Putting 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).

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Posted by richz at 3:12 PM

Drop Dead Gorgeous Photos

Photographer 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.

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Posted by richz at 10:52 AM

New Firebug Rocks

If you're any sort of web developer - CSS, Ajax, Javascript, XHTML - you need Firebug. The new version renders itself indisposable.

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Posted by richz at 1:36 PM

Nose Hair-Plucking E-Card

Want to send a nose hair-plucking e-Card? It's hard to really explain. Just click on the link.

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Posted by richz at 9:40 AM

Youki

Want 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:47 AM

Video Art For iPods : ArtPod

This is kinda weird and sorta cool. ArtPod has little video shorts for the iPod. They're these neat little ambient movies for your iPod.

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Posted by richz at 4:49 PM

Hevetica...The Documentary

Yeh. 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?

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Posted by richz at 9:04 AM

Google Desktop Now See-Thru

The latest version of Google Desktop is now see-thru. Kinky.

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Posted by richz at 9:25 AM

Lab Pixies

Lab Pixies : cute little gadgets that can be added to your personal Google or Windows Live page (some work with Netvibes as ewll).

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Posted by richz at 1:30 PM

It's The Vowels Stupid

Wondering 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.

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Posted by richz at 10:24 AM

Lichtenstein & Dissections

A 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.

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Posted by richz at 10:24 AM

Icebrrg

We'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).

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Posted by richz at 9:56 AM

Paint.Net

Paint.net is a free, semi-worthy Photoshop-like graphics editing tool for Windows. Looks pretty ok.

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Posted by richz at 12:34 PM

Digg For Developers : Dzone

I'm digging dzone. Fresh links for developers with Digg-style voting.

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Posted by richz at 9:21 AM

Index : Design To Improve Life

Index : Design To Improve Life. Awesome.

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Posted by richz at 9:20 AM

Color Palette Generator

I'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.

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Slick Inline Commenting Plugin For Wordpress

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.

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Posted by richz at 9:54 AM

Designcharts

Designcharts 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.

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Posted by richz at 8:41 AM

Sizeasy - Because Size (*cough*) Matters

Say 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).

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Posted by richz at 8:51 AM

Six Tips For Searching Privacy

Wanna avoid those gosh-darned laser-guided missiles? The friendly folks at the EFF provide six excellent tips for searching privacy.

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Posted by richz at 11:10 AM

Neave.tv

Paul 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).

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Posted by richz at 11:10 AM

Mmmm....Free Stuff

Man, 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.

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Posted by richz at 8:25 AM

Adobe's Tasty Links

Adobe (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.

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Posted by richz at 11:49 AM

How To Create Groovy Vector Art

How To Create Groovy Vector Art. 'Nuff said.

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Posted by richz at 5:32 PM

Google Search AJAX Widget

I 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.

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Posted by richz at 2:09 PM

Classic Software Splash Images

Take a geeky trip down memory lane with this cool collection of splash screens from various popular software packages. Kind of fun.

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Posted by richz at 8:29 AM

Netvibes Adds Meebo Support

Via Meebo integration, now you can hit all the major instant messaging clients in one of your Netvibes tabs. Very sweet.

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Posted by richz at 8:59 AM

Logopond

File this bad boy under "inspiration" (or something). Logopond displays...logos (submitted ones that is). Neat-o.

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Posted by richz at 10:02 AM

10 Things Yahoo Is Doing WIth It's YUI Library

The 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."

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Posted by richz at 9:04 AM

Passionate Users : Does The US Suck At Design?

The constantly thoughtful and inspiring Creating Passionate Users considers whether the U.S. sucks at design.

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Posted by richz at 9:50 AM

CSS Mania : CSS World 2006 Winners

CSS Mania : CSS World 2006 Winners

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Posted by richz at 1:40 PM

Javascript Tabifier

A nice, simple (really simple) implementation of tabs via Javascript and CSS.

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Posted by richz at 1:52 PM

Arc90 Blog : 10 Reasons We Love Flex

I 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.

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Posted by richz at 11:55 AM

Functioning Form : OSX vs. Vista Development

The 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:05 AM

Sweetie : A Free Icon Set

Sweetie is a free and very nice icon set. Go get it.

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Posted by richz at 9:31 AM

Digg For Designers : PixelGroovy

Digg For Designers : PixelGroovy.

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Design Observer : The Power of Context

Based on the 25 comments, I guess I'm a bit late to this. Nevertheless, Design Observer talks about The Power of Context.

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Posted by richz at 9:16 AM

Cool Flash Physics Demos

Levitated.net has an oh-so-sweet collection of Flash physics demos (via Passionate Users).

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Posted by richz at 9:59 AM

Open source Templates

I'm not sure if this old news or not, but it's new to me. Free, nicely designed CSS/XHTML layouts under Creative Commons.

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Posted by richz at 12:28 PM

The JavaScript Library World Cup

A good summary of the major Javascript frameworks : The JavaScript Library World Cup.

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Posted by richz at 2:26 PM

Arc90 On Design

I've always considered myself a "designer." But what kind? At blog.arc90, I give some thoughts on what we mean by "design."

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Posted by richz at 9:49 PM

Neat CSS/Markup Renderer

Here's a nice implementation of a CSS/XHTML renderer. Ideal for trying out an idea before applying it to your own code.

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Posted by richz at 1:36 PM

Google Firefox Browser Sync

Google 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:13 AM

Massive List of Photoshop Stuff

Plugins. Filters. Brushes. Actions. You name it. Here's a massive list of Photoshop add-ons.

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Posted by richz at 10:19 AM

The ROI of Interaction Design

Arc90'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.

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Posted by richz at 10:17 AM

The Best Stuff In The World

A 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.

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Posted by richz at 4:29 PM

Netvibes Adds Digg & eBay Support

Your favorite portal page and mine, Netvibes, has added Digg and eBay support. The Netvibes blog has all the details here and here.

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Posted by richz at 3:18 PM

Slashdot Redesigns With CSS

Slashdot just announced their winner for the CSS redesign contest. It looks nice. Mmmm...gradients.

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Simple Bug Tracking : 16 Bugs

16 Bugs is a dead simple, web-based, AJAXified bug tracking tool. You can have one project for free, then tiered pricing after that.

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Posted by richz at 9:52 AM

IBM DeveloperWorks : Devise Web 2.0 Apps With PHP & DHTML

IBM DeveloperWorks : Devise Web 2.0 Apps With PHP & DHTML. Looks like the first of a series. IBM's articles are usually pretty thorough.

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Posted by richz at 1:53 PM

Getty Images : 10 Ways

Getty 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.

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Posted by richz at 2:13 PM

Dealmyday.com

Dealmyday.com is a sort of Digg for online deals. I'm liking it. It looks fairly new based on the activity.

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Dynamic Drive CSS Library

Not sure if this has already made the rounds, but the Dynamic Drive CSS Library is a nicely put together set of CSS tweaks.

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Cool Text

Cool Text is a web-based image generator. Many text styles and each with many options. Just ignore all the annoying ads.

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Posted by richz at 10:36 AM

Nice Listing of Ajax & Javascript Resources

A 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).

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Posted by richz at 10:05 AM

iPod Directions

Here'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.

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Adobe's Spry Ajax Framework

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.

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Posted by richz at 2:28 PM

Google News + Suggest

Google'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.

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More Yahoo! UI Library Components

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.

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Posted by richz at 8:56 AM

Flickr + del.icio.us = Groovy Thumbnails

Tag a Flickr image page in del.icio.us and you'll get a thumbnail of that image. Yes. Groovy.

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Posted by richz at 2:18 PM

Mobile RSS Reader : LiteFeeds

I 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:47 AM

Bokardo : 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail

Bokardo : 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail.

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Posted by richz at 6:03 PM

Free Pixel-Based Icons

Websiteicons.com has a nice collection of free pixel-based icons. There are other icons as wel for a fee ($48/year).

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A Visual Analysis of Search Engine Bots

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.

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Semplice Pixelfonts

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.

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Posted by richz at 10:10 AM

Protolize : Essential Web Tools In One Place

Protolize : Essential Web Tools In One Place. Man, can't get enough of those gosh-darn lists.

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Windows Live Shopping

More Live tastiness. Windows Live Shopping debuts. Interestingly, no Firefox support yet.

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Posted by richz at 10:34 AM

Netvibes Keeps Churning

Anyone 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:59 AM

Test Accessibility With Graybit

"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."

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Slew Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Mmmm...vectors. I'm a big fan of Illustrator. N-Design has a nice collection of Illustrator tutorials.

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Posted by richz at 3:06 PM

Javascript Charting An dPlotting With PlotKit

"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."

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LockNote

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.

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Yahoo! Babel Fish

One of the oldest translation services around - Babel Fish - has found a new home at Yahoo! The Yahoo! Search Blog has all the details.

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Posted by richz at 12:33 PM

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Now Available

Microsoft has released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.

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Posted by richz at 10:17 AM

AJAX Slideshow with Ken Burns Effect

AJAX 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.

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Posted by richz at 10:12 AM

Movable Type Style Generator

Why do all the grunt work when you can generate? The Movable Type Style Generator is a nice wizard-style template builder.

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Yahoo! MapMaker for Excel

Yahoo! MapMaker for Excel. 'Nuff said.

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Posted by richz at 1:58 PM

Solution Watch : 50 Ways To Take Notes

Solution Watch (solid blog by the way) has a good summary of apps that aid note-taking.

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Posted by richz at 9:49 AM

Zixxo : RSS-Powered Coupons

We'll let the goofy name slide...for now. Zixxo delivers local coupons via RSS. Another great use for RSS. Death to weekly sales flyers.

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Posted by richz at 9:32 AM

Roundup of 50 Ajax Frameworks

We all owe Max Kiesler a drink. He rounds up 50 (yes 50) Ajax frameworks.

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Posted by richz at 9:56 AM

View Source Chart Firefox Extension

The View Source Chart Firefox extension displays source code in a nice color-coded layout for better readability.

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Posted by richz at 12:07 PM

Nihilist Job Résumé

McSweeney's : Nihilist Job Résumé. Hilarious.

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Posted by richz at 8:52 AM

Netvibes Previewing Tabbed Multi-Pages

I'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.

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Posted by richz at 9:45 AM

AjaxAMP

I 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.

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Posted by richz at 8:55 AM

Lightbox JS 2.0

Lightbox, very nice AJAX/Javascript slide show generator, just went 2.0. It's now got "fancy pants transitions."

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Posted by richz at 8:24 AM

A Complete Guide To Web Analytics Solutions

Conversationstarter.com : A Complete Guide To Web Analytics Solutions.

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Posted by richz at 8:09 AM

Yahoo! Toolbar Refreshed

The Yahoo! Toolbar has been refreshed for both IE & Firefox. The IE version has it's own flavor of tabbed browsing.

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Posted by richz at 7:12 PM

CNN.com Redesigns

CNN.com finally gets a redesign. A bit more interactive. A lot more CSS. And from the looks of it, designed against 1024x768 and up.

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Posted by richz at 3:34 PM

Nifty Corners Cube

Yeh, 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.

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RSS for FTP Servers

As tasty as combining chocolate and peanut butter. Deliver out your ftp server's contents via RSS. Be warned, somewhat technical.

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Posted by richz at 8:54 AM

Factor CSS

Factor CSS takes in a CSS and spits out a new CSS with "rulesets split, combined, and reordered to "factor out" common declarations." Mmmm...refactoring.

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Netvibes Adds 1GB of Storage

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.

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Posted by richz at 2:08 PM

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview Released

Microsoft released a new version of IE7 today. The IE7 blog has the details.

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CSS Tweak

CSS Tweak is a web-based CSS tweaker. Haven't tried it yet. Looks promising.

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Mini OPML/RSS Browser : Grazr

We'll let the missing 'e' slide on this one. Grazr is a mini web-based widget that browses OPML & RSS feeds.

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Posted by richz at 8:44 AM

Gabbly : Add Chat To Any Page

Add a chat box to any URL with Gabbly. Here it is for basement.org's home page. Pretty nice implementation.

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Build Your Own Portal

DHTMLGoodies has both PHP & Javascript code for building those neat, draggable RSS boxes you see on sites like live.com an Netvibes (demo).

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Posted by richz at 8:49 AM

25 Best Freeware Fonts

25 Best Freeware Fonts (via the mighty Kottke).

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Posted by richz at 9:25 AM

Netvibes Adds iCal Support

Netvibes Adds iCal Support. Groovy.

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Posted by richz at 8:56 AM

Nice List Of Free Downloadable Games

It ain't all about work and such. Gnome's Lair has a nice list of free games.

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Posted by richz at 8:59 AM

Harvest : Simple Web Based Timesheets

Harvest is a simple web-based timesheet program. Trial available but it's not free (though reasonably priced).

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Posted by richz at 9:47 AM

NY Times On RSS & eCommerce

Good article on how RSS is helping retailers reach customers.

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Package Tracking With Google Maps

Because we need to visually see where our consumable goods are on a map. Package tracking with Google Maps.

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The Problem With "Global Warming"

Seth Godin :The Problem With "Global Warming."

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List of Ajax Slideshows

Max Kiesler (cool site by the way) put up an exhaustive list of AJAX slideshows.

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Posted by richz at 9:55 AM

Layout Gala : 40 Canned CSS Layouts

Layout Gala : 40 Canned CSS Layouts. Mmmm. So del.icio.us-able.

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Posted by richz at 10:08 AM

Open Source XHTML Designs Repository

Oswd.org has nearly 1500 (yes, 1500) CSS/xHTML designs that are shared for free. Have at it.

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Posted by richz at 8:20 AM

FeedBlendr

FeedBlendr 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).

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Posted by richz at 5:02 PM

Look Up Movie Showtimes Quick With MSN

Pretty 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.

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Posted by richz at 3:18 PM

Malcolm Gladwell Is Blogging.

Malcolm Gladwell Is blogging.

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Posted by richz at 3:56 PM

Slick Online Form Builder : Wufoo

No, not waffles. Wufoo lets you build on line forms. A very slick interface that nicely marries Flash and DHTML.

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Posted by richz at 5:00 PM

Web-Based Spreadsheet : iRows

Web-Based Spreadsheet : iRows.

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There Goes Breakfast

There goes breakfast.

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Cheat Sheets Everywhere

A couple of really useful cheat sheets for Actionscript and the Javascript Prototype framework.

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Posted by richz at 9:41 AM

Jotform : Simple Web Form Builder

Jotform is a neat little form builder with drag & drop support. Nice.

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Posted by richz at 4:58 PM

Times Online : Are You Experienced?

Times Online : Are You Experienced?

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Posted by richz at 9:19 AM

Scriptio : A Javascript-based Presentation Framework

"Scriptio is an open source framework for presenting animations and educational content in a rich online experience." The framework is written in Javascript/AJAX.

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Posted by richz at 8:57 AM

25 Free Grunge Fonts

Tasty. 25 Free Grunge Fonts.

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Carbonmade

Create your own design portfolio online with Carbonmade.

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Posted by richz at 3:36 PM

ZenGarage

"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."

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Posted by richz at 8:57 AM

Slideshow Meets AJAX : AJAX-S

In 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.

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Posted by richz at 1:25 PM

Business Week : A Flashy New Adobe

Business Week published an insightful article on the Adobe / Macromedia merger and the rationale behind it.

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Posted by richz at 8:54 AM

IE Developer Toolbar Beta 2

IE Blog reports that the IE Developer Toolbar goes to Beta 2.

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Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Updated

Yahoo!’s My Web 2.0 get’s an update. The Yahoo! Search Blog has the details

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Posted by richz at 9:25 AM

bgMaker : Nice Background Tile Maker

bgMaker is a nice, interactive tool to create your own tiled backgrounds for your web pages (a typically annoying task). Very nice implementation.

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Opera 9 Preview Released

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.

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Posted by richz at 10:13 AM

Design Inspiration : Cigarette Packs(?)

I'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.

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Posted by richz at 10:12 AM

JSMin : Shrink That Javascript

JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files.

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Posted by richz at 8:28 AM

Particle Tree : Lightbox Gone Wild

Particle Tree : Lightbox Gone Wild. Tackling modality. Nice.

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Posted by richz at 8:44 AM

FeedButler

A Digg-style link voting site that suggests headlines from contributing feeds. Pretty nice design too. FeedButler.

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Nice List of (Mostly) Free Icon Sites

I can't kick the icon addiction. Here's a nice list of icon library links. It's in French, but still useful.

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Posted by richz at 10:15 AM

Scalable Logos Via Flash

Really 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:04 AM

A List Apart : In Search Of The Holy Grail

A List Apart seeks out the Holy Grail (in CSS design that is - the three column layout, revisited).

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Posted by richz at 11:01 AM

The TechCrunch Index

An index of all TechCrunch profiles. Also available in OPML.

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Posted by richz at 9:23 AM

Free PDF Graph Paper Downloads

For all you designers out there, free blank PDF graph/grid/lined paper downloads.

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Posted by richz at 10:07 AM

Ask Jeeves Amps Up Image Search

Ask Jeeves boosted the capabilities of their image search. I play around a bit and it's pretty cool. Details here.

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Posted by richz at 8:08 AM

ScienceBlogs

ScienceBlogs is a nice little network of science blogs covering topics from anthropology to politics. My favorite is the cognitive science category. Check it out.

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Posted by richz at 7:29 PM

Wizlite : Collaborative Highlighting

Wizlite : Collaborative Highlighting. Pretty neat.

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Posted by richz at 8:02 AM

Google Video Store Open For Business

As announced at CES, Google Video now allows the purchase of videos. Some details here.

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Posted by richz at 11:36 AM

Slickr : Very Cool Flickr Screen Saver

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...

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Posted by richz at 9:56 PM

Typographica: Favorite Fonts of '05

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.

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Posted by richz at 9:35 AM

Free Symbol Icons

AIGA has a set of pedestrian symbol icons freely available in both EPS & GIF formats.

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Posted by richz at 11:51 AM

FACE: Animated CSS

FACE is a framework for animating elements through CSS and Javascript. Really wild stuff.

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Posted by richz at 11:51 AM

ClearType Tuner

Microsoft ClearType Tuner. Requires Internet Explorer & Windows XP.

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Posted by richz at 9:45 AM

Best of Web 2.0 In 2005

Here's an excellent breakdown of Web 2.0 apps released the past year. I agree with all his "winner" selections.

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Posted by richz at 11:19 AM

Sitepoint.com : The Anatomy of Web Fonts

Sitepoint.com : The Anatomy of Web Fonts.

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Kwmap.net : Keyword Visualized Search

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.

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Posted by richz at 10:51 AM

Looklater

Looklater looks intriguing - essentially del.icio.us with the ability to make bookmarks private. Their blog has more.

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Posted by richz at 5:35 PM

CSS For Bar Graphs

Apples To Oranges : CSS For Bar Graphs

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Neat, Free, Tiny Icons

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.

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Posted by richz at 4:01 PM

Nice Data Visualization Gallery

VisualComplexity.com : Data Visualization Gallery

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Handful of Free Vector Icons

I'm all about vector these days. Here's a nice gallery of free vector icons and GUI interface elements.

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Posted by richz at 1:53 PM

XUL Periodic Table

So 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.

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Posted by richz at 2:36 PM

Photoshop Tutorials On Google Video

Here'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).

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Posted by richz at 10:42 AM

Quick Tutorial : Groovy Badges in Photoshop

Bartelme Design has a neat two part tutorial on creating badges (you know, those glossy looking stickers) in Photoshop. Great looking blog too.

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Posted by richz at 12:02 PM

Programmable Web : Most Popular Mashups

I 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).

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Posted by richz at 4:07 PM

Giftbox

Now 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.

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Posted by richz at 11:30 AM

Javascript Syntax Highlighter

A really slick Javascript syntax highlighter that takes your textarea code and makes it all perty. Supports a bunch of languages.

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RSS MAD

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.

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Posted by richz at 12:24 PM

Script.aculo.us Updated

One of the tastiest Javascript libraries around - Script.aculo.us - has recently been updated to version 1.5 rc5.

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Posted by richz at 9:36 AM

Flickr Color Pickr

Krazy Dad's Flicr Color Pickr is an insanely cool Flash app that grabs Flickr photos that correspond to a selected color.

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Posted by richz at 12:23 PM

del.icio.us / search

The del.icio.us blog lays out it's new search capability.

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Windows Live Now Supports Firefox

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.

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Vectors For Flash

Vectors For Flash is an excellent set of tutorials that teach fundamental vector math and how to apply it to Flash Actionscript.

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Posted by richz at 9:49 AM

IE Developer Toolbar Refreshed

The 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.

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Posted by richz at 12:41 AM

Introducing...Google.org

Google Blog provides some insight on Google.org, its non-profit arm.

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Posted by richz at 8:59 AM

Yahoo! Podcasts Debuts

Yahoo! pulls no punches with its answer to podcasting. Yahoo! Podcasts Beta debuts today.

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Posted by richz at 6:54 PM

Particle Tree's Treehouse Magazine

Particle 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.

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iPod + Yahoo Directions = iWay

I don’t own an iPod but a lot of people do. iPod + Yahoo Directions = iWay.

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News.com's Blog 100

News.com lists out the top 100 blogs at Blog 100.

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Posted by richz at 10:27 AM

New York City Traffic Cams + Google Maps

Great mash-up:  NYsee, Google Maps overlayed with real-time New York City traffic information.

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Posted by richz at 9:29 AM

Long Overdue CSS Linkage

I 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.

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A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging

A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging is an interesting read on cognitive load and tagging by Rashmi Sinha.

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JS Eclipse: Javascript IDE for Eclipse

JS Eclipse is a new freeware plugin for Eclipse.

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Posted by richz at 10:45 AM

WSJ : Battling Google, Microsoft Changs How It Builds Software

The Wall Street Journal has an insightful article on how Microsoft is changing the way it builds software.

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Posted by richz at 10:16 AM

Free, Teeny Icons

WebsiteIcons.com hosts a collection of free, monochramatic icons. Not bad.

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Posted by richz at 10:56 AM

Google Firefox Toolbar Released

Google’s Firefox Toolbar has come out of beta with some new features.

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Posted by richz at 4:46 PM

Proggy Fonts : Fonts For Programmers

Proggy Fonts : free, neat bitmap fonts for programming (or whatever). 

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Posted by richz at 8:42 AM

Top 10 Ajax Applications (Part 2)

Top 10 Ajax Applications (Part 2)

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Posted by richz at 9:20 AM

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta. Very useful. Also, don’t miss the excellent Web Developer Firefox Extension.

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Posted by richz at 1:11 PM

Yahoo! Instant Search Debuts

Yahoo! has released Instant Search. It’s a neat as-you-type popup that is wired to Yahoo!’s shortcuts.

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New RSS/Portal: Netvibes

A new (and I might add, very slick) personal RSS/web portal: Netvibes. Where did these guys come from?

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Posted by richz at 8:51 PM

Truth Follows Fiction

Wildly 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.

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IE 7 Beta 2 Features Previewed

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.

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Google Blog Search

Google introduces Blog Search.

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Top 10 Ajax Applications

Top 10 Ajax Applications – with honorable mentions.

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Posted by richz at 8:29 AM

Hurrican Katrina Google Maps View

Google Maps has added an overlay of recent satellite imagery of the New Orleans area hit by Hurricane Katrina.

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Posted by richz at 9:08 AM

Yahoo! Weather Via RSS

Yahoo continues to lead the pack in RSS. Yahoo Weather feeds are now available.

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Posted by richz at 8:25 PM

Free System Tray Tool

If 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:31 PM

NY Times: Google Anything, so Long as It's Not Google

The New York Times chimes in on Google’s ridiculous gag order against CNet. It’s about time the press called them on this one.

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Posted by richz at 6:54 PM

Mark Hapner on AJAX, SOA and Security

Techtarget.com : Mark Hapner (lead architect of the J2EE platform) on AJAX, SOA and Security.

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A9 Street Views + Google Maps

Pretty darn cool: Via Greasemokey, enhance Google Maps with A9’s street views.

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Mozilla Wiki: AJAX

Mozilla Wiki: AJAX

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Posted by richz at 3:54 PM

Scott Rosenberg: Google's Windows-Only World

Over at blogs.salon, Scott Rosenberg talks about the Google-Microsoft chess match.

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Google Talk Now Available

All the talk about Google Talk was for real. It is now available.

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Posted by richz at 11:51 PM

Flickr Toys

Neat little toys for you Flickr freaks out there.

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Posted by richz at 11:19 AM

Got intimate itching problems? Get an O'Reilly book

Got intimate itching problems? Get an O'Reilly book. Hilarious.

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Scott Isaacs On The Challenges Of AJAX

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.

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Posted by richz at 5:43 PM

RSS 3 Draft Released (Lite Version)

Well, 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.

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Amazing Collection Of Design Resources

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.

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Hidden Windows Apps

Hidden Windows Apps

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Posted by richz at 1:54 PM

Excellent Notepad Replacement

It’s free and it’s tiny. Notepad2 is a full-featured replacement for Windows’ Notepad.

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Yahoo! Beefs Up Yahoo! Local

Yahoo! Local has a host of new features. Yahoo!’s Search Blog has all the details.

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Posted by richz at 8:28 PM

Experimets Wiith Style Sheets: CSS Play

Nice sandbox of some unique tricks in CSS: CSS Play

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Get Up And Move

Get Up And Move

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MSN/Google Maps + Flash = Flashearth

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.

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Posted by richz at 8:48 PM

Yahoo Adds Photos To News RSS Feeds

As 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.

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Posted by richz at 10:03 AM

Excellent gallery of quality CSS sites

An excellent gallery of quality CSS sites.

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Posted by richz at 6:50 PM

Nice listing of monospaced fonts for coding.

Nice listing of monospaced fonts for coding.

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Posted by richz at 5:47 PM

Brilliant Button Maker

Check 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).

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Very Cool Flash-based Flickr Tag Browser

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.

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Neat Flash Movie On Symbolism in Colors

Color in Motion is a neat little Flash movie that colorfully illustrates what different colors symbolize.

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Posted by richz at 12:20 PM

Simeonov on the "Next Programming Models"

Macromedia’s Sim Simeonov talks about programming models in the context of RIA’s and composite applications.

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Posted by richz at 11:06 AM

Authentic Boredom: Mobile Web Design

Cameron Moll’s Authentic Boredom has just kicked off a four-part series on mobile web design.

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Posted by richz at 3:14 PM

Yahoo! Shopping API Announced

Yahoo! 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.

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Posted by richz at 3:57 PM

Programming Cheat Sheets

For all you lazy bastards out there, nice little programming cheat sheets for Javascript, MySQL, CSS, PHP, and some others.

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Posted by richz at 2:39 PM

IBM: how to write cross-browser HTML

IBM has put out a pretty comprehensive article on how to properly code across Internet Explorer and Mozilla. Pretty useful.

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Posted by richz at 3:07 PM

Foxylicious

A natural marriage:  Firefox + delicious = foxylicious.

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Posted by richz at 5:10 PM

Google Maps Introduces Hybrid View

Google keeps on truckin’ (or something). They’ve created a third “hybrid” view that marks up the satellite images with map information. Very cool.

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Posted by richz at 6:26 PM

Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox Released

Get’em while they’re hot.

Or maybe you prefer Google’s.

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Posted by richz at 12:54 AM

Dynamic Ajax Tables

The tasty Ajax stuff just keeps on comin’. Here’s a nice implementation of editable table cells via Ajax.

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Architecting CSS

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.

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Posted by richz at 10:16 AM

Inform IT Article On The "New Internet"

Here :  Wikis, Weblogs and RSS: What Does the New Internet Mean for Business?

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Posted by richz at 2:41 PM

Flash Player 8 Beta Is Out

Macromedia 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.

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Posted by richz at 9:51 AM

Google Toolbar for Firefox Released

Google 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.

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Posted by richz at 1:47 PM

Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks

For the dorky tinkerer in all of us, a solid collection of  Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks.

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Posted by richz at 4:34 PM

populicio.us

Drawing 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.

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Posted by richz at 7:06 PM

300 Free Fonts

For 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.

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Posted by richz at 3:52 PM

Best Free Software

For all you cheap bastards out there, here's a neat little listing of the best freeware on the Internet. Go nuts.

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Financial Times & Economist RSS Feeds

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.

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Posted by richz at 7:12 PM

Google Toolbar Version 3 Beta

The freaks at Google are at again with the third version of their toolbar for Internet Explorer.

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