Saturday Link Round-Up 10
Number 10 already, feels like I just started this last week. No images this time, I’m feeling quite sick, thank you little cousin who infected my brother who in turn infected me. To top it off it’s that special time in a woman’s month that she’s allowed to turn into a complete monster and boy-oh-boy am I taking advantage of that. So, enjoy this weeks round-up :)
Geeky
YouTube File Hack (and Others) Download Clips to Your Desktop – Windows only: Free software YouTube File Hack is a standalone application and Internet Explorer integrated menu item that downloads videos to your desktop from the popular video sharing site. Simply run the application, enter the URL of the YouTube video you want to view offline, and press the Download button. When all is said and done, you’ll have an FLV file for watching offline (we recommend the free VLC player to do so).
Listen to your music with style (if you have the time and will) using Foobar2000 – Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
Rejaw – Rejaw is a new way to chat with your friends, family, and co-workers. Starting a conversation is fast and easy: You can shout messages to your followers, or whisper to your friends. Just think of something to say, and get started!
Firefox: Time Saving Tips & Tricks – Do you use Firefox as your main Internet browser? If so, here are some neat tips and tricks to help you use it faster and more efficiently.
Mozilla brings Twitter, RSS, other messages to Firefox with Snowl – Mozilla released a plugin for Firefox called Snowl yesterday that has the potential to completely change the way you use your web browser. Or it could just frustrate the heck out of you. Here’s what it does: it brings messages from various sources (Twitter, RSS feeds, and eventually instant messaging services) to your browser.
Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths – As a tech writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is the plethora of bad advice littered across almost every web site dedicated to system tweaking. Besides the tweaks that simply don’t work, some of them will actually cause your computer to run even slower—or worse. Let’s examine some of the most offensive myths out there regarding PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all.
Food
As-You-Like-It Breakfast Casserole – Have you ever made a breakfast casserole? The basic ingredients are eggs, cheese, milk, and bread. It’s the easiest thing in the world to put together. We have a sausage breakfast casserole on the site that is one of my favorites. The great thing about a breakfast casserole is that you can add almost anything you want to the base. Italian sausage is my all time favorite, but bacon or ham will do too. Or make it veggie, with zucchini, broccoli, basil and onions.
25 Cooking & Baking Tips – Timeless Wisdom Collection – These tips for cooking and baking are from a large collection of tips I’ve gathered together from a variety of books and magazines from the 1940s and 1950s…most of these are quite unique I think since I don’t recall coming across them before.
Cookbook of the Month Recipe – Sausage Rolls – The picture of these sausage rolls caught my eye as I was looking through this month’s cookbook of the month – Donna Hay’s Modern Classics Book 1. And I knew it would be one I would made when I remembered that I had a sheet of puff pastry in my freezer. In fact, I didn’t have to buy one thing for these rolls – all of the ingredients came from my freezer or my pantry.
How To De-Kernelize Microwave Popcorn – Like microwave popcorn, but don’t want to risk chipping a tooth on one of the rock-like kernels that never met its potential? Get rid of unpopped kernels with a simple shake.
Success. Sort of. – My definition of success… not eating the chocolate chip cookie dough that has spent the last two days singing its sweet siren song from the back of the fridge. Out of sight, but no where near out of mind.
Sewing
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 – A fellow sewist wrote to me and asked if I had any advice on getting the angled seam in Vogue 2988 to lie flat, as she was not looking for pouchiness at the hip.
Web Design
14 Design Retrospectives – Looking at the results of a good website design helps improve and inspires our own designs, getting into the mind of a designer can be invaluable.
42 Resources of Inspiration for Graphic Designers and Lovers of Design – 42 Resources of Inspiration for Graphic Artists and Designers and Lovers of Design.
7 Fonts that should die – The problem with being a fontwhore is that you begin to recognize some of the tired, overused fonts that no designer seems to want to let go. If you see them, let out a scream and shoot them on sight./2008/08/7-fonts-that-should-die.html
25 Examples of Creative Navigation – In addition to being one of the most significant influences on the usability of a site, navigation menus also allow designers an opportunity to get creative and add some interesting and attractive visual elements to a site. Of course, in some cases the creativity can hinder the usability of the site, but in many cases appearance and functionality can work together.
Interior Design
Is This Room Not To Die For? – Major swoonfest. That is all.
Sofa Wall Climber – Canape – There is no way you can miss this sofa design by Lila Lang. One half is a plain looking sofa with a decidedly curvy old fashioned style. The other half appears to be climbing the wall!
Freebies
Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes: Fabric Textures – If you’re anything like me you’ll be collecting high resolution brushes like crazy. That’s way I put together a new set of Photoshop brushes for you. There are a total of 11 brushes in the collection and they are the largest possible: all of them are a stunning 2500 px.
My 10 Favorite Swirls & Decorative Brush Sets – As promised here is another list of awesome Photoshop brushes. This post will focus on my favorite Photoshop brushes for swirls, swooshes and floral elements. If you missed my first list on My 15 Favorite Grunge Brushes, you should definitely check that out as well!
Code
Weekend Quick Tip: Create Your Own Simple Reset.css File – Far too many novice CSS designers don’t realize the importance of creating a “reset.css” file. When you have an environment where each browser has its own “default” styling, you’ll often find yourself thumping your skull as you ask yourself, “Why is there a spacing here?” To save yourself some of the headaches that you’ll undoubtedly experience, you’ll need to create your own simple reset file.
CSS Frameworks – A framework is a basic conceptual structure which you can use in your web-projects.
Miscellaneous
56 Impressive Ads About Problems In The World, That Really Makes You Thinking – The last post in my series “creative ads” is about ads, which are talking to your conscience. They are really effective to show the problem of the world and open your eyes. They are about war, child soldiers, human rights, smoking, drink and drive, obesity, child abuse, hunger, environmental pollution and more. Really powerful pictures!
42 Crochet Tips – Here’s a collection of 42 tips to make your crocheting easier:
Who knew making your own oil paint was this easy? – Paints for artists are incredibly expensive, which makes painting a difficult hobby to take up if your cash flow is tight. That’s a pity, because painting is fantastic brain exercise, therapeutic against stress and other negative feelings, and fun. And if you’re lucky, you’ll end up with homemade decor at a fraction of the price of buying art.
Increase Your Privacy with $16 DIY Window Frosting – Windows present a tricky dilemma when it comes to balancing the need for privacy with the desire to have light and fresh air entering your home. Most window treatments are both costly and a compromise between the neighbors peeking in while you’re getting dressed in the morning and natural light.
Bad Blogging 101 – I’ve learned a few things in my blogging experience so far and some of them demonstrate how to be a bad blogger. There are countless articles floating around about becoming a better blogger, so here are 21 tips in sarcastic form to put kind of a fresh spin on these recycled blog teachings.
10 Small Roles for Big Stars – We’re less than a week away from the release of Tropic Thunder, and as the reviews and puff pieces make their way onto the web, there’s one thing clearly uniting the media’s coverage: talk of Tom Cruise’s appearance in a small role as a Hollywood studio boss. Everyone seems to agree that he steals the show and that his performance — or the joke surrounding it — is one of the comedy’s major highlights, if not the actual best part.
Clean Notifications – WordPress plugin – Without a doubt, WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms currently available for people who want to install and maintain their content management system on their own server. I mean, what’s not to love? Free, powerful, and easy to use – it’s the whole package.
AddicottWeb
August 22, 2008
I just switched hosting services, and the link you posted above for “Firefox: Time Saving Tips & Tricks” has been updated. Could you please update it on your blog? The link is now http://www.addicottweb.com/2008/07/firefox-time-saving-tips-and-tricks/.
Thanks!