Here are the most recent bookmarks that I have saved to Ma.gnolia.
Design decisions – T Inc.
A nice write up by Tom Watson on the decisions he made for during his redesign of his personal site.
PureButtons
“Purebuttons specializes in custom buttons, promotional buttons, band buttons, and campaign buttons. We continuously re-invest in ourselves to offer the best service, as well as the highest quality custom buttons. With having top of the line equipment and a very dedicated and experienced staff, we’re all you need for your next job. So, if you haven’t made the change yet, let us show you why Purebuttons should be your only source for custom buttons.”
Coupon codes and discounts for 10,000 online stores! RetailMeNot.com
Find and share coupon codes and promotional codes for great discounts at thousands of online stores. Follow the votes and comments to see which ones work.
Patrick Winston – How to Speak
“Every year during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), Professor Patrick Winston gives a wonderfully reflexive and recursive talk about giving talks titled How to Speak. This lecture provides some useful speaking heuristics, especially if you’re in the business of helping people learn. This year the talk will be given Friday, Feburary 1 at 11am in room 6-120, but for those not in Boston, you can watch his 1999 performance in full (albeit a tad bit out-of-date)”
Bush Last Day Party – January 20th 2009
January 20th, 2009: The world celebrates the end of Bushocracy.
Smart Scroll X
“Smart Scroll X offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling:
* Super Wheel makes your scroll wheel or trackpad smoother, faster and more comfortable. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it!
* Grab Scroll gives you a openHand tool to easily move (and “throw”!) any window’s contents.
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Remove Color Casts Using Photoshop Lab Color
“Color Correction is one of those things you don’t get a lot of practice on as a web designer, so I thought we might look the quick and mostly foolproof method I prefer to use.”
Access 1Password Data in Windows via Firefox
“1Password recently introduced an iPhone export function that provides on-the-go access to sensitive data. This is accomplished by creating an encrypted bookmarklet in Safari, which is in turn synchronized to your iPhone. However, Firefox recognizes this bookmarklet as well — meaning that Windows-by-day users no longer have to suffer without their critical logins.”
Access 1Password data on your PC via Firefox
“1Password, the acclaimed password manager for Mac, recently introduced an iPhone export function that provides on-the-go access to sensitive data. This is accomplished by creating an encrypted bookmarklet in Safari, which is in turn synchronized to your iPhone. Excellent.
“Firefox recognizes this bookmarklet as well — meaning that Windows-by-day users no longer have to suffer without their critical logins.”
Dingbats Roundup: 16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts
“Personally, I love dingbats because (most of the time) I convert them to vectors in Illustrator and use them as very large elements in some cases. All you have to do is use the font in Illustrator and then go to Type > Create Outlines, and Bam. You got yourself a vector to work with. Here are some dingbat fonts that I thought you might enjoy.”
Create Eye-popping Graphics with Photoshop Brushes
Every designer knows that Photoshop’s Brush tool is terrific for touching up photos and other images. However, few realize that it’s also a powerful utility for creating graphics from scratch, fast! Corrie cleans up with headers, backgrounds, and other graphic elements that you can create in moments.
Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone
Learn how to “teach your Mac to open iPhoto when you plug in your camera but not your phone.”
Bow Street Runner
“‘Bow Street Runner’ is set in London’s Covent Garden in the 1750s. With crime and vice running at very high levels, and before the organised police force existed in England, local magistrates formed the Bow Street Runners and began to impose law and order.”
StrawPoll—Tiny polls in 140 characters or less
Tiny daily polls in 140 characters or less.
iPhone LoJack
Set up your “iPhone to “call home” regularly in case of loss or, let’s be more realistic, theft.”
A Font We Can Believe In
A short piece analyzing the Obama campaign’s great font choice.
WordPress Plugin API/Filter Reference
“This article is a (hopefully complete) list of the filter hooks available for use in plugin development in Version 2.1 and above of WordPress.”
WordPress Plugin Resources
“This article is a comprehensive list of resources related to plugins and plugin development.”
WordPress Plugin API/Action Reference
“This article is a (hopefully complete) list of the action hooks available for use in plugin development in Version 2.1 and above of WordPress.”
WordPress iPhone / Mobile Admin Plugin
“Mobile Admin adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically phones.”
WW II Military Film Strips
“These are WWII vintage US Navy Film strips that I found and took pictures of.” Provides an interesting view into the skills taught to pilots during World War II and the prejudices of the time. Released under the public domain.