Recent Links: February 27 to March 05

"If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it might look like this...This was a school project."

"Drag any file or folder you want to share onto the Dockdrop dock icon then choose how you want to send it. Dockdrop uploads it and puts a URL for your upload on the clipboard, ready for pasting into an Email, chat program or website. Dockdrop is currently available completely free of charge."

"Recently I’ve added Gravatars to the comments portion of the site. This is extremely easy to as long as you’re not totally useless in terms of copying and pasting. Fear not of messing your blog’s important code up, for this plan is fool proof."

"What if we could use the opacity property but still have the content opaque?"This is possible using some clever use of CSS-positioning. What we’ll be doing is having a parent element that contains two children. One transparent background that fills the entire width and height of the parent, and one child that contains the content. This way we can have a transparent background while the content remains opaque."

"As designers, we’re wrongly perceived as custodians and exponents of creativity. This matters because business currently overvalues creativity. To avoid the inevitable backlash, we must lead our clients’ perceptions."

"Stop worrying about how good a designer you are, and start worrying about the myriad tiny details that can elevate your work from passable to near-perfect."

"WordPress 2.5 will come with Gravatar (aka, Avatar) support. Within this post I will demonstrate how Gravatars will be used with WordPress 2.5."

Links to download the IE8 betas.

Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online. We want to make the whole web respond to where you are, and to help you discover more about the world around you.

"Thmbnl is a compact utility for showing thumbnail-style images of pages linked from your website or application. Developers can sign in, grab our code libraries and samples, write some code and you've got thmbnl in your app! It's so cool, we had to take out all the vowels. Check us out and see for yourself."

"Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together.. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight — you could build yourself a platform to stand on, and then pick it up and move it wherever you need to."