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links for 2010-12-28

  • If I were going to launch a blog this very moment, and if my intention was to start from zero and re-create the success I’ve enjoyed on this blog… hm. I guess my first move would be to get a domain name.
  • For Fireworks, there are countless extensions, that expand the program allowing additional web & screen design functions
  • Yahoo, which earned $1.6 billion in revenue last quarter, is “sunsetting” Delicious because the unprofitable acquisition “is not a strategic fit“. The tech and blogger community, along with Delicious fans, are crying ‘no.’ Michael Arrington says Yahoo is in “absolute disarray“. Even though Yahoo’s Delicious home page says it’s “the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe”, many most internet users have probably never heard of the social bookmarking site. So, what’s the big deal? Forget all the PR blunders for a moment and the significant damage its done to consumer confidence. Here’s why it matters. Yahoo bought Delicious in 2005. At the time, a post on the Delicious blog said: We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We’re excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team
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    Twitter Updates for 2010-12-27

  • RT @shashib: You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends – NYTimes.com – http://goo.gl/Juzb2 #
  • Fantasy RPG News: Play Dungeons & Dragons Online®: Eberron™ Unlimited Now!: I haven't tried this as of yet. I wish I… http://goo.gl/fb/m3EvX #
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    links for 2010-12-26

  • Those days are gone when we had to wait for the people to be in front of us to show them our pictures. Today we make use of photo sharing sites to share our photos with friends and relatives. So,here we present top 5 websites for photo sharing.
  • 81 Betterists matching your search criteria for all services under Trombone
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    Twitter Updates for 2010-12-26

  • Driving home in the snow #
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    Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26

  • Driving home in the snow #
  • Silly Bands? If you get your kids "Silly Bands" for Christmas or at any other time, I'm not sure what to say to you. They are rubber bands! #
  • Be nice to the retail employees. Their job stinks the other 360 days of the year, but the last few days before Christmas, it's much worse. #
  • When life gives you lemons, drink Diet Coke! #
  • Has anyone had any luck with #Wix It looks attractive as a simple flash site tool, but I haven't messed with it. http://icio.us/E5QCQ4 #
  • Best Open Source Genealogy Software? – [Posted On:] Slashdot http://icio.us/svz45U #
  • Quote by Thomas Alva Edison: #Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like… http://goo.gl/fb/7sEaC #
  • RT: @netflix: #HolidayTradition my family and I watch RUDOLPH, FROSTY, & A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) together every single year. #
  • Can sites like – http://www.logomaker.com/ – really stand in for a professional designer? My instincts say 'no' but what is the reality? #
  • Now is a good time for preparing to make any updates for the end of the year. If your website has a yearly copyright, make sure you update. #
  • The end of the Internet as we know it. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/21/obama-fcc-caves-net-neutrality-tuesday-betrayal-assured #
  • Latest Blog Post: I Still Use Del.icio.us http://goo.gl/fb/tLs1Q #
  • Unlike other 'Robin Hoods' I can speak with an English accent. #NameThatMovie #
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    links for 2010-12-25

  • This morning I saw a couple of tweets from @seangaffney and @maxvoltar about the CSS text-rendering property, which is in the W3C Working Draft. Aesthetically Loyal has outlined the differences in kerning pairs and browser support for text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; quite nicely, and after seeing how well capital As, Vs, Ys and Ts display I had to test it for myself. Similar to Kyle Meyer’s experiment, I noticed a significant improvement and added the property to my body CSS for this site.  Overall, type looks much tighter and successive capital letters, like “CSS”, seem more evenly spaced.  Firefox uses optimizeLegibility by default for font sizes 20px or larger and I agree with Paul Irish’s thought that Webkit should do the same.
  • A lot of shit happens in comic books, and a lot of shit happens in real life, so every once in a while they're bound to coincide, right? That still doesn't explain some of the freaky stuff comics have gotten right. Like…
  • Sam Brown is an interface designing standardista from Edinburgh, Scotland who specialises in usability and web standards, is a geek and loves all things technology. Get in touch!
  • Transparency is one of those things that can really add depth and make a website design pop – when it’s done right of course! We’ve collected 40 websites that make great use of transparency. Some of them are using transparent PNGs and others are using the CSS opacity property. Enjoy!
  • Attracting customers to your website is the first concern for any business, and the initial step would be design the best website making it a grand one, but this may not always give you the desired results. Keeping today’s competition and creativity in mind, new ways are designed every where to keep the business on the move. One such new move is the E-mail Newsletter Designs. Newsletter, the word may sound boring or spam to you, but an attractive newsletter design is sure to give visitors a second thought for your website. But be careful, about choosing the right design since inbox is always flooded with e-mails and your mail could be the one among them. Your newsletter design should be able to convey the information at the first glance without forcing the visitor to read till the last and explain your discounts, updates or any information u want to convey.
  • Video.ME by Go Daddy is a growing video-sharing community where you can easily post videos to the Web and share them with your family and friends on Video.ME–or on your Web site or blog, via email, or through a variety of social networking sites.
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    links for 2010-12-24

  • Brad Colbow is a web designer, illustrator and cartoonist This is the online home of his illustration work and The Brads, a web comic that thrills and delights about a half a dozen people every week.
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    Twitter Updates for 2010-12-24

  • Silly Bands? If you get your kids "Silly Bands" for Christmas or at any other time, I'm not sure what to say to you. They are rubber bands! #
  • Be nice to the retail employees. Their job stinks the other 360 days of the year, but the last few days before Christmas, it's much worse. #
  • When life gives you lemons, drink Diet Coke! #
  • Has anyone had any luck with #Wix It looks attractive as a simple flash site tool, but I haven't messed with it. http://icio.us/E5QCQ4 #
  • Best Open Source Genealogy Software? – [Posted On:] Slashdot http://icio.us/svz45U #
  • Quote by Thomas Alva Edison: #Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like… http://goo.gl/fb/7sEaC #
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    links for 2010-12-23

  • Today we are going to use jQuery and CSS3 rotations, along with the jQuery rotate plugin, to create a beautiful slideshow. You can use it to spice up your web sites, product pages and other projects with some CSS3 magic.
  • Earlier this year, Mozilla convened a privacy workshop that brought together some of the world’s leading thinkers in online privacy. People from the FTC to the EFF were there to answer the question: What attributes of privacy policies and terms of service should people care about? This lead to a proposal presented for the W3C, among other places, which further refined the notion. We are now ready to propose an alpha version of Privacy Icons that takes into account the feedback and participation we’ve received along the way. We’ve simplified the core set dramatically and tightened up the language. While the icons don’t touch on all topics, we do think they significantly move the discussion on privacy, as well as the general level of literacy about privacy, forward. We do not want to let perfection or devotion to taxonomy get in the way of the good. Keep in mind that the target adopters of Privacy Icons are 2nd-tier sites—
  • With Wix its easy to make a free website and enjoy the benefits of a strong online presence. Make a free website with the Wix website builder. Get your business noticed.
  • An anonymous reader writes "I'm looking to build a family tree for a holiday gift. Do the Slashdotters of the world have any recommendations on open source genealogy software? I did try a 14-day free trial of Ancestry.com. What a scam! I submitted the personal information for my parents, grandparents, and me. Then, I received a pop-up telling me that if I would like to get information on my family, I would have to upgrade my subscription for $29.95 US. So, I took the chance. Turns out that the only information they had was my previous addresses for the past 20 years." The venerable GRAMPS is still actively developed, and its site lists several other possibilities, too. Any favorites, or anti-favorites, out there?
  • You can set up Microsoft Outlook 2010 to send an automatic response to some or all of the people who send you e-mail messages. You can combine an Outlook e-mail template with Outlook rules to reproduce the functionality of the Automatic Replies feature available only to Exchange Server accounts.
  • WordPress Shortcodes are very useful, especially in wordpress theme development. People who buy themes aren`t experts in web design, so a shortcode will be very useful. But what is a shortcode? As the name says, a shortcode is a simple and elegant way to display complicated codes using just a word.For example: Imagine that you want to insert inside a post a nice info-box. You have to create div-classes after div-classes and finally you make it. A shortcode gives you the possibility to do this just adding “[information]lorem ipsum[/information] . That`s wicked, don`t you think? WordPress shortcodes are a set of functions created of course inside functions.php (which you can find it in your wordpress theme folder) for creating macro codes for use in post content.I`m going to show you how to create some nice boxes powered by a bit of CSS3 and how to split content in 2 columns. Then, you can extend it in 3,4 and how many columns you want.
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    Twitter Updates for 2010-12-23

  • RT: @netflix: #HolidayTradition my family and I watch RUDOLPH, FROSTY, & A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) together every single year. #
  • Can sites like – http://www.logomaker.com/ – really stand in for a professional designer? My instincts say 'no' but what is the reality? #
  • Now is a good time for preparing to make any updates for the end of the year. If your website has a yearly copyright, make sure you update. #
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