Archive for July, 2009

All Teched Up

Posted: July 28, 2009 in All Teched UP!, Bits and Bobs, General

All teched up

The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins CSS Smashing Mag
55 Fresh Examples Of Corporate Website Designs Inspiration inst
10 Useful code snippets for web developers
MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up Developer’s Toolbo
Date Display Technique with Sprites CSS-Tricks
7 Secrets to Tweeting Your Corporate Culture
How to Buy a Mattress * Get Rich Slowly
15 PHP regular expressions for web developers
E-Commerce Web Design Toolbox
22 Free Fonts To Achieve That Hand Drawn Effect Web Design Tutori
E-Commerce Icons Collection
25+ Create Amazing Image Effects with Some of the Best jQuery Plugi
Why People Use Twitter – eMarketer
Text Blocks Over Image CSS-Tricks
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Add to Cart Button Showcase Vandelay Design Blog
Reinventing a Drop Down with CSS and jQuery
Hack Day tools for non-developers
Animated Navigation w/ jQuery & CSS jQuery Navigation jQuer
MadMenYourself.com – MadMen Premieres August 16 only on AMC
YouTube – William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin Farewell Speech
Creative Review – The best film titles ever made
UK Government Writes Twitter Guide…in 20 Pages
Ramen Profitable
The Nichepaper Manifesto – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org
iLearn Technology Blog Archive 20 iTunes Feeds for the 2.0 Te
Twitter is for old people, work experience whiz-kid tells bankers -
Song Downloads
Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola Logo Evolution
Template Twitter Strategy for Government Departments

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Chicago Realty Group Sues Woman For $50,000 Over A Tweet
Google Maps Street View capture… from a bike
How Google Chrome for Mac appears to launch so fast
The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup
Read This If You Hate Meetings
There is no WiFi allergy: newspapers misreport PR as science
Infinity Is Not a Number – It’s a Free Man
Ask HN: What to do when your company misses payroll?
Richard Feinman explains Confusion – a good definition of “hacker”?

All Teched Up

Posted: July 26, 2009 in All Teched UP!, Bits and Bobs, General

All teched up

35 High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs Fonts instantShift
20 beautiful free @font-face fonts – FrancescoMugnai.com
Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which? Noupe
160+ Mega Web Design Tutorial Rounduptripwire magazine
Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics – Dangerous Knowledge
PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques How-To Smashing
Online image converter for free – Supports BMP, DIP, JPG, EPS, PCX,
Get Creative With Your Domain Name How-To Smashing Magazine
Foursquare: Why It May Be the Next Twitter
Why markets cant cure healthcare – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.c
Philltopia 15 life lessons learned from SimCity
Top 5 Funniest Fake Facebook Pages
Online Bingo-Lovers
BitTorrent Hydra: Anonymous Hidden Tracker Via Tor TorrentFreak
Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets
Why Comments Matter
20-ways-to-waste-your-money.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo!

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All Teched Up

Posted: July 22, 2009 in 1, All Teched UP!, Bits and Bobs, General

All teched up

China and “our standard of living”
Bump (YC S09) is Hiring Java / Android / Mobile Developer
The Calculus Trap
Death spiral
Build Your Next Web Application with Erlang (pdf)
Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers
Cuil Tries to Rise Again
My Engineyard Contest Odyssey
How breadpig made $30K (for charity) in 2008 selling magnets in our spare time
Winning team’s approach to EY’s SHA-1 contest (Fast GPU cluster, not the cloud)
The Collapse of Harvard’s $36.9 Billion Endowment
On the apparent Apple suicide
Ideas Ubuntu should steal from Windows 7
4 and 8 year old sisters impress judges in programming contest
Finding Local Twitter Trends with Perl
Young German architects are designing structures made out of living trees
How Ning Plans To Justify Its $750 Million Valuation
Canvas Demos: demos, games, tools and tutorials for the HTML canvas element
Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million
Hacking CSRF Tokens using CSS History Hack
Graphs, Permutations, Characters, and Logspace
Startup schools: a guide to U.S. venture incubators

And there’s more…………

Build Your Next Web Application with Erlang (pdf)

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

When Snow White met Steve Jobs

Pictures from Book of Joe

A cool image

Posted: July 18, 2009 in All Teched UP!, Bits and Bobs, General

So I wished I had this picture when I was doing my CompTIA A+

Computer_hardware

Here is the link to a much larger version>HERE

All I can say is that if you need to know your ports and connectors look no futher.

All teched up

You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft
Five Myths about Financing Start-ups that Hurt Entrepreneurs
Why chips in passports and ID cards are a stupid idea
Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
Trapped in python package; send food.
In future we will all work for Google: L.A. govmt – Google cloud?
Why I won’t be at my high school reunion
When I died
Creating the Illusion of Accomplishment
Why Do You Love Programming?
Ignore That Scary MSNbot, It’s Just The Friendly BingBot – Unless It Attacks
Dark Flash Photography – UV/IR Flash Instead of Visible Light
CAPTCHAs’ Effect on Conversion Rates
Memcached 1.4.0 released
Software Engineering: An idea whose time has come and gone?
Renraku OS: Initial Release
Serious doubts about the App Store
Amazon is not the enemy
How to recover a combination to a lost Master combination pad lock
The Calorie delusion: why food labels are wrong
Ask HN: How do you see the future of computing ?
Firefox 3.5.1 Released, fixes Windows load time issue
Ask PG: Is voting on HN anonymous?
Clever PNG Optimization Techniques
The Hacker’s Diet

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15 Really Useful Web-based HTML Editors
5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions – Nettuts+
Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design Inspiration Smashing Ma
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6 Promising And Open Source Social Networking Softwares To Create Y
Developer Color Picker
10 Free High Res Coffee Stains Textures
Techy Tips for not so techy teachers
click2try. A community site where it’s easy to try Open Source
The Art of the Landing Page Seven Tips for Increasing Conversio
Find web visitors location automatically with javascript and Goo
eBooks Gratis – Buscamos por ti libros libres y legales, y la forma
Twibbon.com – Start Something!
A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools Tech7.Net
8 Common Graphic Design Myths Revealed Creative Opera Design Blog

All teched up

The Game Crafter- CafePress for Boardgames
Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
Nmap 5.00 Released – biggest release since 1997
Magic Wars (YC W09) Turns Your iPhone Into A Virtual Wand
Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems
Simplenote
Why I’m Quitting Social Media
Scalable Web Architectures and Application State
Java Hack: Double Brace Initialization
iPhone app monitors speed traps
What went wrong with economics
TechCrunch: Skating on Thin Ice
Woobius – a taste of magic
The Big Mac index: Value meal
Nearest Subway App Overlays Subway Directions On the Real World
Robots for Newspapers
Hofstadterian Loops
HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5
Palm Blog: Mojo SDK available to all
Who Needs Domain Experts
Prototype Based Programming Languages
Ask HN: review my app: Search engine: ruby/rails, javascript, CSS,

All Teched Up

A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools Developer’s Too
26 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and
50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy
Stack Overflow Architecture High Scalability
72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons – Icons – Geek Sucks
115 Amazing Dual Screen Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop Showc
27 Stunning Examples of Header Design Inspiration – Inspect Element
10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills Web Design
Twitters Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be The Pulse Of The
Online File Storage with PHP – Nettuts+
wkhtmltopdf – Google Code
Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition
3.ly – Threely – The Shortest URL Shortener in the World!
Teaching with Technology / Index
How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans
Create a Twitter-Like Load More Widget – Nettuts+
10 things you should cover in your social networking policy 10 Th
We Choose the Moon: Command Service Module Ignites
IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On
The Game Crafter – Your game REALIZED – Home
Fair Use Evaluator
Encrypt Your Web.config, Please Yet Another WebDev Blog
How to Recharge the Air Conditioner in a Car – wikiHow
Software Updates: Courgette (Chromium Developer Documentation)
NASA – NASA High Definition Video: Partially Restored Apollo 11 Vid
Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition – DIY Creations – Lifeh
A Good Appetite: Oatmeal Stout and Heath Bar Ice Cream
Twitter for Business FAQ
Autism as Academic Paradigm – ChronicleReview.com

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SweetFM Brings LastFM to Your Desktop, Saves Songs to iTunes
Dead-Simple DIY Camera Clamp Mount
Quick Add to Google Calendar with a Hotkey
Lifehacker Reader’s Favorite Search Engines
The Crafter’s Attic
eBay Drops Listing Fees for Five Items Every Month
Save Firefox Bookmark Searches to Create Dynamic Folders
Eliminate Dirty Looks With DIY Deodorant
Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day
ScheduleOnce Finds Common Meeting Times Inside Google Calendar

Google Reader Watcher Adds RSS Notifications to Firefox

In The Tech News

Posted: July 16, 2009 in 1

MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors
Calif tax officials: Legal pot would rake in $1.4B
Modrails outperforms Mongrel
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small
Erlang dev offers bounty to improve his networking code
A Calculus Analogy: Integrals as Multiplication
How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1
Tim Ferriss’ New Book: Become a Superhuman
Google’s Chiller-Less Data Center
Apollo 11 in Pictures
Company fined $300,000 for posting fake reviews online
Announcing: The Zed Shaw Celebutante License
Laptop security while crossing borders
650 Million Years in 1.2 Minutes (tectonic drift timelapse)
Is BSD The New GPL?
“There is no known cure for Neurotypical Syndrome.”
SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around
Apple breaks up Palm Pre, iTunes lovefest
Command and Conquer 4 requires always-on internet
The Web Curriculum
Tipjoy: are they still around?
Review my software: Keyspace consistently replicated key-value store
Why is There Peace?
PHP Performance Tips from Stanislav Malyshev
PayPal shuts down Hackers For Charity
Startup to IPO: Part 2: Obstacles
Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing

All teched up

Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options
21 Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free…But Are! Web Design Blog b
Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices How-To Smash
We Choose the Moon: Pre-launch
45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns Creative Nerds
15+ techniques and tools for cross browser CSS coding
30 Light and Sleek Web Designs for Inspiration
How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City Busin
12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress
Screen Capture Tools: 40+ Free Tools and Techniques Tools
How to Photograph a Sunset: 6 steps (with pictures) – wikiHow
Create a Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal Sliding Content Website
40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers Webd
Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
Carsonified How to Design a Portfolio Site
Spicy, Citrusy Black Beans Recipe Simply Recipes
Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert
Fluent: The Razorfish Social Influence Marketing Report Fluent: The
MITs Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 22 and 23: Cache Obliv
Rollip – Create Polaroids from your photos!
Rapidshare Search Engine – Rapidshare123.com
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes Wired Science Wired
The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO
Create a Content Rich Tooltip with JSON and jQuery Web Resources
boedesign ottawa based web dabbler Blog Archive Gritter f
HOW TO: Manage Social Media Goals and Expectations
36 Color Gradient Sets For Photoshop and Resource Sites: Part 1 G
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Best Examples of Watercolor in Web Design Web Design Ledger

In The Tech News

Built to Fail: What Google, IDEO, and 37signals have in common
If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support
The Principles of Product Development Flow
When programmers build websites
Unfinished TV Web App Looking for New Owner
Meet Jim Bishop – The Man Who Built His Own Castle (video)
Let’s not get carried away about Twitter’s role in Iran’s demonstrations.
The Press is Our Best Product
Blue and Green color illusion
Social Skydiving Days 18-20: Winners are Made of Fail
Extending Tokyo Cabinet DB with Lua
Profanity Helps One Tolerate Physical Pain Better
Open source in Genomics: Sequencing a Genome a Week
Side business is growing – when do you quit your day job?
Ford to use lasers instead of spark plugs to ignite and burn fuel
Unlimited Web to PDF Converter for Free
News Publishers Call On Europe To Support Them Against Aggregators
The unstoppable Google
60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7
Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert
Founder of DreamIt Ventures – Steven Welch – Running For Congress
Night owls have more mental stamina than those who awaken at the crack of dawn
Keep losing freelance work

Gaming Bits & Bobs

AVGN: You Know What’s Bullshit – episode 13
IGN: Presented By:
IGN: Game Scoop! Podcast, Episode 126
Xplay: Guitar Hero Smash Hits Review
Xplay: Hot Topic Discussion: What’s Next for Guitar Hero?
Zero Punctuation: Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Xplay: Best Nude Scenes in Video Games
AVGN: Top 10 Dumbest Indiana Jones Moments
Zero Punctuation: The Sims 3

In The Tech News

Posted: July 12, 2009 in Bits and Bobs, In The News

Ruby on Rails default templates now comes with HTML5 doctype
Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture
Armed Bear Common Lisp actively developed
Swoopo: The crack cocaine of auction sites
Draw a math symbol and get the corresponding LaTeX code
In the 1950s, one could buy a miniature electron microscope.
Test your website’s loading speed through multiple locations
Why Diversification Results In Mediocrity
How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be surprised.
Poll: Bay area startup founders/C*Os/early employees: how much do you work?
Alan Turing: Codebreaker and AI Pioneer – Video Lecture by B. Jack Copeland