Saturday Link Round-Up 7
I spent a good half hour yesterday out in the sun helping wash out the freezer my parents bought. After letting our old freezer die (by unplugging it and not running it for about four years, who’d have thought it wouldn’t start up!) they shopped around for a new freezer, decided that a new one was too expensive and finally settled on a used Whirlpool. It’s 10 cubic feet and 7 years old. Is it bad that I’m excited about it? Probably.
Anyway we’re going to go to the Farmers Market again this Thursday and buy green and yellow beans to freeze. Oh the fun that will bring. Our kitchen is small, very small and I don’t know how we’re going to do the beans, tomatoes and canning of various things. Add in the fact that it regularly gets up over a 100° F out and I’m sure it’ll be fun.
Tips and Tricks
50 Quick Tips For The Kitchen – Strawberry Tip: Wash freshly picked strawberries & then take a wide plastic straw and insert it at the bottom of a strawberry–then push the stem out. This was previously published as a feature tip on Tipnut for Ask Your Neighbor – Helpful Household Tips.
Stop Bleeding With Ground Black Pepper – Who knew! I did try this on a new little cut I have just to see if the pepper would sting and found that it didn’t at all. The cut is a bit deep, wasn’t bleeding, but it is a day old so the healing process already started before I applied the pepper.
Freebies
Design Resources Pack #1: The Grunge Pack, Brushes, Fonts, Textures etc… – Welcome to the very first edition of our Design Resources Pack, the basic idea behind this is; we collect a load of resources around a certain theme or style and put them together in one place.
25 New Brushes hand-picked from DeviantArt – Round 2 – Not all of them are winners, but there’s a few there that I really like.
PC keeps falling asleep during movies? Caffiene 1.2 – How about a better question: Did your IT staff configure your screen saver to kick in after 10 or 15 minutes of inactivity? Then I bet you’ve been frustrated at some point – all the sudden the ‘Windows Pipes’ screen saver blinks right into the middle of your fiscal 2008 report (or the screen turns off!) – or, you’re watching a movie and right at the most suspense filled moment, a marquee marches across your screen: “What would you like to do today?”
Collection of over 70 excellent dark wallpapers – I’ve made this article for all the people who like dark wallpapers. By saying dark I mean the whole package, gothic, black etc. but not morbid or macabre.
Font Resources: Create, Organize, Identify, and Test – Who doesn’t love fonts! Collecting them is easy, storing them takes minimal space, and most of them are free. But when your collection becomes rather large, do you have the proper resources to organize and test them? Have you ever ran across a website with a beautiful font that you wanted to identify? Or have you ever wanted to create your own font for the sake of tinkering? Well in this article we link a bunch of font resource websites to help answer the above questions.
DIY
“Google Images “DIY”“:http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/07/google_images_diy.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 – Fun way to take Google images with you anywhere
Ipod Cool & Creative DIY Speaker! – DIY Do-It-Yourself Speaker box!
Web Design
How To Create a Horizontally Scrolling Site – If web pages were made out of wood, the grain would be running up and down. Vertical is the natural flow of web layout. When page elements reach the right edge of the browser window and go over, the flow defaults to “wrapping” that element down onto the next line. The more content on the page, the taller it gets, not the wider.
Fixed footer design – Fixed footer design can be very attractive if a website designer could pull it off correctly – especially with the help of some well-designed PNG graphics.
Blog Navigation and the Ongoing Challenges that Arise – Navigation is obviously one of the most critical aspects of usability. Developing effective navigation is a challenge for most websites, but it’s especially an issue for blogs because of the content that is continually being added.
Cool
“New on the market in Atlanta”: – A house came on the market this week in Atlanta, and it is a beauty. Built in 1920, it is a classic Tudor design, but the interior has been completely remodelled and updated. I have always admired the look of the Tudor style, and gravitate to Tudor/gothic motifs such as quatrefoils, arches with points, heavy fireplaces. A Tudor house in combination with a beautiful interior is a homerun in my eyes!
MONA LISA – art speed painting by M. Missfeldt – Painting of the Mona Lisa using Adobe Photoshop 7 and Wacom Intuos3 A4. Original painting time 4hrs 30min
Geeky
How to Compile Software From Source Code – When you run across good-looking open source software which isn’t available as an executable, installable file, it’s time to get down and dirty with the source code at the command line.
Creative Domain Names: Some Clever Alternative Methods – The web’s been around for quite some time if you really think about it, the first domain name Symbolics.com was registered on 15th March 1985, yes, some 23 Years ago! That means that any idea you have for a domain name today has been through someone else mind up to 23 years before you.
Flash and SEO – Compelling Reasons Why Search Engines & Flash Still Don’t Mix – I know, I know. Google’s indexing Flash and Flash developers can rejoice now that their content is SEO-friendly. Sorry – I don’t buy it for a second. Flash content is fundamentally different from HTML on webpage URLs, and being able to parse links in the Flash code and text snippets does not make Flash search-engine friendly. I think it’s great that Google’s digging deeper into Flash, but I don’t believe web developers should be any less wary than they’ve been in the past about Flash-based websites or Flash-embedded content.
Why People Still Use IE 6 – Internet Explorer 6 is always a hot subject of debate. We’ve talked about it here many many times. The forums are full of folks trying to troubleshoot it. The CSS support is problematic and the JavaScript support is proprietary nonsense.
Miscellaneous
30 Fonts That ALL Designers Must Own – Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career!
The Heartbreak of Gaposis – First — did you make sure that the pattern you’re making is the right cup size? As La Belladonna has often reminded us, patterns are intended for a B cup. If you’re not a B cup (and it sounds like you aren’t), you have to do something called a Full Bust Alteration (check out the Pattern Review boards or Stitches and Seams or this link for information about this).
Awesome GIMP tutorial websites you shouldn’t miss – GIMP is a free and open-source image editing tool. With a large community of open-source admirers, it is no secret that GIMP is growing in popularity at an astonishing rate. GIMP is bundled by default on many Linux distros. With sufficient plugins, brushes and scripts, GIMP can become very powerful.
Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts – If you liked my previous article on Photoshop shortcuts, you’ll probably find this post useful. Here are 26 Illustrator shortcuts that can help you to speed up productivity.
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