links for 2008-04-29
April 29th, 2008
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some interesting techniques and observations, guaranteed to get the creative photo-juices flowing (try combining 2 or three of these for a real circus of possibilities)
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some excellent collections of video lectures on a variety of computing topics. I’m planning on showing one a week for the rest of the year while I retire to the tea room for an extra hour off \^_^/
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some interesting techniques and observations, guaranteed to get the creative photo-juices flowing (try combining 2 or three of these for a real circus of possibilities)
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A 3 column CSS layout that does not use DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR or any unsightly code hacks – nice.
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an image-color processing utility that will give you an image’s primary and complementary dominant colors, how many visually unique colors are init, and its top ten visually unique colors. Uuseful when creating designs around an image
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an editor that allows you to create a facicon for your site. Import an image or choose a color; Click on the squares and paint your icon; Download when you’re finished, and put the favicon file into your webserver directory
links for 2008-04-27
April 27th, 2008
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a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms,. Aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software.
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learning professionals who share their Top Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/productivity and for creating learning solutions for others
links for 2008-04-24
April 24th, 2008
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Art, money and the internet. If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?
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it the wikipedia the end for traditional institutions of knowledge? Should we applaud this development as progress or mourn it as a loss? How reliable is Wikipedia?
links for 2008-04-23
April 23rd, 2008
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weird title, massively entertaining read
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Mnemosyne resembles a traditional flash-card program but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review.
links for 2008-04-22
April 22nd, 2008
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The Framework’s E-standards for Training business activity has a total of $80,000 available for up to 6 projects for registered training organisations (RTOs) to trial emerging technologies that may have wider applications in the national training system
links for 2008-04-20
April 20th, 2008
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Ubuntu Studio Tutorials & Ubuntu Studio News – I’ve just installed ustudio and this blog has some terrific tutorials for digging a little bit deeper
links for 2008-04-18
April 18th, 2008
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an in-game ad network that allows Flash developers to generate revenue whenever their games are played
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a community site for Flash game developers of all experience levels
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dedicated to Flash game programming, classic and current games and self-indulgent stories of misspent youth – some very readable tutorials make this one worth a few visits
links for 2008-04-15
April 15th, 2008
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“Good afternoon,
I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.
Love, Jay”
links for 2008-04-11
April 11th, 2008
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an API that does a semantic markup on unstructured HTML documents – recognizing people, places, companies, and events. This technology is the next generation of the Clear Forest offering, which Reuters acquired last year
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Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which allows developers to take web applications to the desktop and store data offline, is finally available on Linux
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For therapists, hypnotists, meditators, yogis, witches, those who explore inner space, priests, politicians, marketing and sales professionals, and many others who use trance or some form of it.
links for 2008-04-10
April 10th, 2008
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a three column, widget ready theme with a really nice and simple look to it. One nice feature is the ability to allow users to select a colour set they like
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‘nother ‘must have’ plugin for wordpress
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minimising the security risk posed by using the web’s most popular blogging software
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a fairly comprehensive list of the Best Wordpress Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheatsheets
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and a few more tutorials – the loop looks like a ‘must read’ but there’s some good stuff for seo and site monetisation pundits here too
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the whole ‘powerful guide’ is great, but I had to highlight this page, featuring minimalistic solutions, Elegant Themes, Artistic Themes, Photo Blog Themes, 2 and 3Column themes, Unique Theme Ideas, and Mobile Themes
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on how wordpress was tricked out to become a content management system for UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism
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with WP, you don’t always need to pay $50,000+ for a proprietary, difficult to learn CMS
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ease into wordpress hacking with this well paced set of step by step tutorials
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Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog
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while not nail screechingly ugly, the admin sections of wordpress aren’t quite what you’d call a fashion statement – fluency goes some of the way towards addressing that lack.
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Farewell to the blase reverse chronological text heavy front pages, and hello to visuals & imagery to lure visitors deeper into your website / blog. A WordPress theme comprised of a – grid aligned – images for forward facing pages, and clean textual prese
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integrating the excellent smoothgallery javascript library into wordpress – a gem
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i think i must have been haning around the design students too long – suddendly i’m finding fonts interesting (note to self: must get a life)
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how to make any page into your wordpress homepage
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an interesting web service that allows you to create your own simple web application without any coding or web designing experience
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find beautiful new color schemes – a huge list of online color tools and utilities to find new color schemes for your layouts and designs
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fun with paper
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must be my day for collecting font links – another great collection (nice presentation and taxonomy too)
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undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it’s not.
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a list of free web design ebooks and guides that will get you started building accessible, usable, and useful web sites in no time.
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links and information about nearly 175 free PDF mags from all over the world with main focus on art, design, illustration and culture
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animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
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a pro quality 2D Animation Toolkit for linux designed by animators (Toonka Films ) for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry. This project is covered by the GPL License using G++, OpenGL and QT
