Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 30
hCard Wizard [Matthew Levine]
The hCard Wizard bookmarklet helps you quickly create basic hCards. To use it, drag the link below onto your bookmark toolbar.
Archive for August, 2008
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 28
webdev.stephband.info
Parallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.
typecase: - a set on Flickr
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 27
Desktop Engineering - Start Collaborating with Teamcenter Express V4
Desktop Engineering Magazine Mechanical Computer-Aided Design MCAD and Computer-Aided Manufacturing CAM
33 free HTML email templates - Campaign Monitor
Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so we’ve done the hard work for you with these free email templates. We’ve tested them in the major clients, so add your own content and you’re all set.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 26
claimID.com - Manage your online identity
Once you click the “Sign in with OpenID” button, you’ll be transported back to the claimID openID server, which will then log you in to the site you were trying to visit (middle image). Of course, different sites will have somewhat different login experiences, but the thing to remember is that you’ll simply be using your claimID URL as your OpenID login.
Smashing Magazine
smashing magazine is a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers
Code Snippets - Snipplr Social Snippet Repository
Snipplr lets your store and share all of your commonly used pieces of code and HTML with other programmers and designers.
Yahoo! Buzz
The best of the best - chosen by people like you.
* The buzz can be about anything - a great story on a major news site, an extraordinary bit from an obscure site, an intriguing video, or a fantastic blog that shouldn’t be missed.
* Instead of editors, people like you determine the top-rated stories.
Web Development & Design Tutorials - NETTUTS
NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, and Flash.
DZone | Your Personal Tech Universe
Development code and insight, including reference cards and resources.
Enterprise Social Software Products - Jive Software
Jive’s enterprise social software networks employees, vendors, and customers on one unified platform.
Project management, collaboration, and task software: Basecamp
Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets. Over 1,000,000 people signed up.
Intranet, Group Calendar, Small Business Organizer: Backpack
Backpack is a personal and small business information management, intranet, and to do list organizer.
Ning. Create your own social network for anything.
Create your own social network, focused on your projects, products or interests.
Petentials | The Internet for PETS!
With near-human levels of computer know-how along with Internet access and a healthy zest for networking, animals no longer need to be confined to traditional ways of meeting other animals, especially with tired alternatives such as high-cost dating services, newspaper classifieds, and the dreaded bar scene.
brightkite.com
Discover the hidden communities behind the places that you visit. Brightkite lets you make the connection and start a conversation.
Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle is an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared
Timesavers: Save time reading on your Mac with Summarize
Weblog TechPwn highlights Summarize a handy but relatively unknown entry in your Mac’s services menu that creates a precise summary
Chandler Project - Welcome
Chandler is an open source Note-to-Self Organizer. It features calendaring, task and note management and consists of a desktop application, web application and a free sharing and back-up service called Chandler Hub.
Our goal is to serve the way people actually work, independently and together, particularly in small groups, a market segment we believe is underserved. Our belief is that personal and collaborative information work is by nature iterative and that the existing binary Done/Not-Done, Read/Unread, Flagged/Unflagged paradigm in productivity software poorly accommodates the reality of how people work.
Our goal is to serve the way people actually work, independently and together, particularly in small groups, a market segment we believe is underserved. Our belief is that personal and collaborative information work is by nature iterative and that the existing binary Done/Not-Done, Read/Unread, Flagged/Unflagged paradigm in productivity software poorly accommodates the reality of how people work.
The Daily Slurp
A daily listing of beautiful sites.
Design Meltdown
Design elements, trends, and problems in web design.
Free Personal Finance Software, Online Money Management, Budget Planner and Financial Planning | Mint.com
Free Personal Finance Software, Online Money Management, Budget Planner and Financial Planning - Mint.com - Free personal finance software to assist you to manage your money, financial planning, and budget planning tools. Achieve your financial goals with Mint.
Wesabe: Get to Know Your Money
Take control of your money, find the best values in your area, and reach your financial goals by joining the Wesabe community.
Trevor Davis | Blog | The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know
I thought I would give a quick tutorial, with examples, of the 6 most important CSS techniques that I think you need to know:
Get a Consistent Base Font Size
Get Consistent Margins
Set a Float to Clear a Float
Image Replacement
Faux Columns
CSS Sprites
10 Principles of the CSS Masters - NETTUTS
10 Principles of the CSS Masters, Web Development & Design Tutorials
When it comes to CSS, there are lots of resources and supposed “expert tips” on the web. These are from unproven, self-proclaimed “gurus” who have no street cred in the design world. While they may have valid points, how is one to know whether a CSS tip is a valid resource or just an untested hack?
dsmwebgeeks | Google Groups
Google group for Des Moines Web Geeks
Failure
Some people have an ability to dissect and distill failure, they an innate ability to make their failings relevant and a learning exercise. I’m not one of those people. I believe it’s usually pretty obvious why something fails. Poor planning, lazy execution, no follow-through. Probably all of those contributed to the Satchelist sucking wind.
I still feel it was a good idea, a blog dedicated to laptop bags. Who hasn’t suffered through the frustration of trying to find the perfect tote for their tote-ables, especially with all the digital debris we lug around today. But alas the site’s tepid response and inability to connect with any manufacturers render it pretty useless. Unlike a food site, it becomes difficult to buy bag after bag to do reviews and talk 3rd hand about a review you read somewhere is boring endeavor for author and reader. All the awesomest Wordpress plugins and cool flickr feeds in the world won’t make up for shitty participation and a lack of good content.
The Satchelist has been put on hiatus. I’ve taken to carrying my laptop in a paper grocery bag and recommend you all do the same.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 20
The Long Wow
Such measures are popular because they track behaviors that create economic value: a customer recommending your brand to a friend, or a customer returning to buy from you again.
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they’re planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I’m late getting it to them (typical), but if it’s still
Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
By Adam Hay Some companies have made a living creating sort of “virtual classroom,” allowing members to learn at their own pace when they the time using video tutorials. The advantages classroom setting stem from
New Vista SP2 Desktop Background
cforms II » delicious:days
…living the good life with a blog so pretty you could eat it. venus zine no.29. one of time’s 50 coolest websites.
Build Your First Facebook App - NETTUTS
Build Your First Facebook App, Web Development & Design Tutorials
Des Moines Web Geeks Next Meeting - August 25
The next Des Moines Web Geeks meeting will be Monday, August 25th at Impromptu Studio. Hope to see you all there!
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 19
Automatic “Awesompersands”
If we take a look at Richard Rutter’s excellent resource, The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, you’ll see how Bringhurst’s other guidelines can apply not just to printed type, but type on the web as well.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 18
Grid? No Grid?
The IndyHall Labs dev team is growing and now that the engine is working well, they’re putting some focus on the UI. There’s an argument about using a grid (like Delicious Library does), or something better. Listen in on the debate, and then chime in with your own input!
The Arcade Ambience Project
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for August 16
visual evasion - Typographie vintage à l’ère du numérique - Magazines / Livres
Micah Tischler
Yet another IE6 PNG handler
Designing with grids - .net magazine
Do grids force rigid designs or unlock hidden creativity? Should designers take advantage of frameworks or build their grids from scratch? Craig Grannell asks the experts for their opinions