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links for 2008-05-20

  • Got Astromech?
  • She is very sweet. Almost kind of shy. And she’s nervous. She’s never been on television before and she didn’t expect to be anytime soon. But what Crissy Thompson didn’t count on was that I would meet an acquaintance of hers, and that we would strike up a
  • When I was 12, I went down to my local video store and rented the VHS tape of The Hotel New Hampshire. In the film’s credits, I learned that the movie was based on the novel of the same name by John Irving. At that time, I kind of understood that there
  • The short version of this whole page for those who are too busy to read all of it: DON’T BOUNCE SPAM, THE FROM IS FORGED. You should only send non-delivery notifications to your own users, anything else that can’t be rejected during the SMTP transaction a
  • Here’s a quick roundup of some of the websites where you can find the music that you love for free. The market for these kind of websites is exploding so it’s definitely not a complete list but it should give you a good start.
  • Creating SEO-friendly content is by no means an easy task. Today’s Internet is chock-full of spectacular visuals, offering everything from streaming video to big, glossy-looking pictures. But take away all those special fonts and brightly-colored links
  • After a year and half of development, Google began offering online personal health records to the public on Monday. Skip to next paragraph Related Times Topics: Google Inc. The Internet search giant’s service, Google Health, at google.com/health, is the
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    links for 2008-05-19

  • Procrastination feeds on distractions. Most people find it uncomfortable just to sit and do nothing; you avoid work by doing something else. So one way to beat procrastination is to starve it of distractions. But that’s not as straightforward as it sounds
  • For this week’s contest you’ll have to use your lens like a straw and slurp up every last drop of your subject: water. Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best water photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranke
  • “Rock star physicist” Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project.
  • It’s no surprise to us that last month’s champion–Canon’s Digital IXUS 80 IS–is leader again. The last time we checked, a handful of ladies we knew were touting this shooter. From the same company, the IXUS 860 IS has retained its second place. Sony’s p
  • Two weeks ago my personal blog (StorageMojo) was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here’s how it works and tips on protecting yourself. “Don’t be evil” is a pretty low bar There’s been a lot of blog hacking
  • “Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels). The Gigapan is a robotic arm that takes multiple pictures of the same scene and blends
  • Cameras in mobile phones are well past being a low-grade gimmick. The quality of camera-phone images has increased significantly, and the sheer convenience makes cameras an indispensable feature in mobile phones today. Introduction Camera-phones, like mos
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    links for 2008-05-18

  • Chances are at one point or another, you’ve either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the the learning part. The internet is a glorious fount of freely available
  • Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular arch
  • You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type. Therefore, we started another round up of Blogger themes, this time focusing on fresh and modern designs, and came up with about 70 of them. Pl
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    links for 2008-05-17

  • AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. It was developed for my own use after an exhaustive search
  • With the Calais Auto Tagger plugin, you’ll never have to think of tags for your posts again. The plugin uses the Open Calais API to perform semantic analysis of your post text and suggest tags for you. The plugin adds a new “Get Tags” button to your post
  • Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We’re thrilled to be sharing patterns and code with the web design and development community, we hope it’s useful, and we look forward to your feedback. We’re excited to share a new set of stencils we’ve cr
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    links for 2008-05-16

  • There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, re
  • Free Credit Card Logos & Images
  • Someone has made this fantastic plugin that allows you to open and save PSD files using paint.net, this is great for anyone out there who wants to open PSD files but doesn’t have have photoshop. It preserves all layers so you can edit them at your will.
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    links for 2008-05-15

  • The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users (often referenced as lusers) — his colleagues, his bosses, and anyone who gets in his way.
  • The Bastard Operator From Hell The Complete WWW Edition.
  • Commercial games released as freeware are games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release. For games
  • Tracy Bonham “Mother Mother” with audio synched
  • According to John Williams in his interview to the Star Wars Insider, the inspiration for the theme of Duel of the Fates was an old Celtic poem called ‘CAD GODDEU – The Battle of the Trees’. From the nine words used in the Sanskrit version it is evide
  • The BOFH-style excuse generator brought to you by Jeff Ballard.
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  • There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money, and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your
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    links for 2008-05-14

  • Creating a new website is exciting. However, it can be a draining experience: it takes a long time, is often very expensive to hire or purchase a design, and often results in lower quality than we would like. Thankfully, there’s a shortcut: Free CSS Tem
  • The purpose of this post is to show the reader the tools that I use (recognize!). There are many different jobs out there that require really hard and difficult tools to learn; I am happy that my job is
  • Creating and maintaining a site has never been easier. Graffiti CMS allows you to quickly publish and maintain dynamic content Web sites with little or no knowledge of Web programming.
  • Google is holding its third Campfire One event tonight, this time to discuss the details of Friend Connect with developers. Friend Connect is a new data portability initiative for spreading social connections around the web. It’s the third of such an
  • Sad Trombone
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    links for 2008-05-13

  • Lacking in computer knowledge? Here are 40 computer technology courses that can be taken for free online.
  • When rolled into the page life cycle of an ASP.NET WebForm, that red bar is one of your application’s greatest enemies. No matter how well you optimize the rest of the page, even one slow task can become the sole factor determining a user’s perception
  • FreePSD.com is proud to bring you a huge selection of FREE PSD Templates. Our templates are designed with developers in mind, we do not include html or any other code with our templates, you recieve a fully customizable PSD file in each download. With thi
  • Author: zephyrphoto Added: 2008-04-02 Tags: Cross Bible
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  • If you’ve wanted to ride the social media marketing wave by adding social features to your website, but the economy has you worried about spending lots of money on apps, then get excited. Google is again coming to the rescue by offering a free service for
  • The very first trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe has finally arrived! The buzz for this movie is definitely going to pick up with this trailer. It really doesn’t reveal much, but still the perfect amount to start up discussion surrounding what th
  • THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
  • We are experiencing a highly exciting information revolution that is having an enormous impact on society and education. The capabilities of interactive communication technologies (ICT) are continuing to evolve at a rapid pace, accompanied by easier ac
  • This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don’t have to create an image
  • I’m pretty much addicted to photography. Methods, gear, news, you name it. It really is kinda scary. To keep my addiction in check when I’m not shooting or shopping, I need a steady flow of photo content to keep the shakes and withdrawl symptoms from
  • Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years after you’ve written it you need to make use of sen
  • Alliance is a private and secure environment to share files and communicate with people you know.
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    links for 2008-05-12

  • Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it’s still hard to grasp just how much a “billion” really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one s
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    links for 2008-05-11

  • According to a poll I conducted, just over 1 out of 10 people don’t think SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is mandatory as a designer; and what really surprised me is about 24% don’t even know what SEO is! If you’re among the quarter of people who d
  • Toolbox CSS is styling information that has nothing uniquely to do with any particular website. These are a collection of common styles that can be useful on any web project. How many times have you written a class for clearing a float? Too many, is my gu
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