Recent Links: January 02 to January 05

Ultimate Leopard Tweaking Guide — tons of cool tips

“WordPress continues to evolve and change, and one of the things that will take a bit of getting used to in WordPress 2.4 will be its latest administration panel design, which is a bit of a departure from previous versions.

The full design hasn’t yet been implemented as of yet, but I wanted to give everyone a quick look at the changes we can expect and what has been put into the nightly builds of WordPress so far.”

“This collection contains letters that I received from trucking companies, private carriers, manufacturers, and suppliers during the time period between the late Fifties and early Sixties.”

Tasty Planner is a recipe sharing site and so much more. Using our tools you can find and create recipes, plan them out on a weekly basis and even automatically generate a grocery list you can take to the store.

ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.

We’re on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds.

The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern. Based on good practices, it allows you to:

* Write views using Ajax easily
* Control requests and responses through a controller
* Manage internationalized applications
* Communicate models and the database using simple conventions.

RadioSherpa Widget brings terrestrial radio to your dashboard along with real-time program listings. The feature list includes:

* 50+ stations from New York, Boston, San Francisco
* Includes new commercial-free HD2 Radio Stations
* Real-time radio listings
* Customizable station list by city and genre
* Automatic tagging integrated with iTunes
* Universal audio format support with VLC media player for Mac
* Automatic update check

A “PDF packed with snippets that help extend WordPress’ capabilities. Although the Advanced WordPress Help Sheet is mainly aimed for more advanced WordPress developers, beginning WordPress developers can use it to further their knowledge.

The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet includes snippets from Styling Different Categories to Dynamic Page Titles. “

An eye-opening view into the design of the Obama ’08 logo and the way it has been integrated throughout the candidate’s Web sites.

“Slickr Gallery is a very fast, bandwidth-friendly photo gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages. It is especially useful for people with many Flickr albums/photos.” Uses AJAX and requires the Lightbox plugin.

“I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950’s and 1960’s.. There are some real gems in here!”

A great collection of screen shots from the designer of Wufoo, showing the themes and UI elements used throughout the Web app.