Photoshop Tutorials
Tutorials to enhance portraits in photoshop.
Tags: photography photoshop

Logo Fonts
A site with a list of fonts used by some companies for their logos.
Tags: design logos branding

Brand New
A blog with opinions on logo/image redesign.
Tags: design logos branding corporate blogs

Bansky
A famous grafitti artist from the UK
Tags: urban art

Landscape Globes Photos
Ben Frederick's gallery of panoramas converted to globes
Tags: photography

Cheat sheet: mod_rewrite
A pdf file with examples of common mod_rewrite rules.
Tags: apache development reference

IR Photos: Chris Keeney
Infrared photography section of Chris Keeney's website
Tags: photography

Infrared Photography Blog
A blog with information about IR photography
Tags: blogs photography infrared

Marca Pasos Magazine
A venezuelan magazine covering news not covered by mainstream media.
Tags: magazine venezuela news

Transparent Dialogs
A blog entry about using transparent dialogs instead of "OK" dialogs.
Tags: usability ui

Publish Your Own Book
A website where you can publish your own book and have it ilsted for sale.
Tags: print writing

Map of the Brain
Website showing a map of the brain by function or by structure.
Tags: brain map science

Macro Art In Nature
A blog about artistic nature macros.
Tags: photography blogs

Using Photoshop's Extract
A tutorial on how to get objects out of a background using paths and extract.
Tags: photography photoshop howto

Thomas Mangelsen
Website of wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen
Tags: photography

B&W high key effects
A tutorial on how to achieve the high key look using photoshop.
Tags: photography photoshop howto tutorial

Orlando Beyond Disney
A great National Geographics article about life in Orlando, FL.
Tags: living florida orlando city

SSH Reverse Tunnel
A tutorial on how to create a reverse tunnel to access computers behind firewalls.
Tags: howto ssh

Spanish Characters in Ubuntu
A forum entry that shows how to use an english keyboard for spanish characters in Ubuntu
Tags: howto linux

Brands Of The World - Logos
A website with a collection of logos for the most famous brands in vector format
Tags: design

Build Your Own Light Box
A tutorial on how to build a light box from PVC pipes and some other stuff.
Tags: howoto photography

Team Management
An article where Biglu Tinoco talks about managing high performing teams to handle tasks when someone is missing.
Tags: management interviews

Creating a .Mac Replacement
A tutorial on how to setup own server to act like .Mac for backups and such.
Tags: apple osx backup howto

CSS-Based Forms
A compilation of different samples of forms styled with CSS,
Tags: development css design

Jeff Croft's Blog
Blog covering general stuff, but mostly about design.
Tags: blogs

Jacquenline's Blog (Casi en Serio)
Blog covering general stuff.
Tags: blogs

Alexandra Medialdea's Blog (Mirada Femenina)
Blog covering general stuff, mostly related to Venezuela.
Tags: blogs

OSX Customization
An article with lots of applications to change lots of stuff on OS X.
Tags: apple mac osx

Text-Rezise Detection
An article explaining how to detect changes to font sizes on a page using javascript
Tags: development javascript

Photographer: Andrzej Dragan
Website of a photographer with (what I consider) a unique approach to portraits.
Tags: photography

9 Things Developers Want More Than Money
A nice article about 9 things developers should have to feel happy at work. It applies to all professions.
Tags: business management productivity

Antonio Jordana's Blog
Blog covering general stuff, mostly related to Venezuela.
Tags: blogs

Internet in Cuba (UN)
A transcript of the participation of a Cuban official at the UN and their logic of why they don't have Internet. No comments.
Tags: politics internet

Miniature Earth
A website with a presentation of how things would be like if the earth had only 100 people.
Tags: earth people

Presentation Zen
Garr Reynolds' blog about professional presentation design
Tags: business blogs

PTMac: Barrel Distortion Correction
A software to correct Barrel Distortion, Chromatic Aberration, etc
Tags: photography

High-Resolution Wallpaper
Website with lots of high resolution, widescreen wallpapers.
Tags: wallpapers design

Housing Boom or Bubble?
A nice Q&A session with economist Chris Thornberg about why bubbles happen and what they mean.
Tags: business realestate

Free Icons List
A nice compilation of free icons for web applications.
Tags: development design

Good, Bad Agile Dev
A long article about the good/bad types of agile.
Tags: business management development

Factors Affecting DoF
A flickr discussion about DoF and all the factors that play a role in it.
Tags: photography

Printing Services
Company that offers printing services for photos and such
Tags: print design

Who Is Jonathan Ive?
Article with some history of Ive's career and how he ended up working for Apple
Tags: apple design

War on Iraq: Profits
Article that points out the main companies that profit from the war on Iraq.
Tags: politics corruption business economy

DIY Macro Photo Studio
A nice turorial on how to build an inexpensive light box for macro photography
Tags: photography howto

Information on HDR Photography with Photoshop CS2
Tutorial with some good information about photoshop CS2 and HDR images
Tags: photography hdr tutorial

Comics
Funny webcomic site, jokes based on math and computer stuff (yes, quite geeky).
Tags: humor comic funny

LAB Color Tutorial
Nice tutorial on how to improve colors of an image with LAB color
Tags: photography photoshop

101 ways to organize life
101 project management lessons to get organized
Tags: business management productivity

Dave Cheong's Blog
A nice blog on with thoughts on entrepreneurship and personal development.
Tags: business blogs

Orlando Camera Club
A club based in Orlando for people who are interested in photography
Tags: photography

SLR Lenses Intro
Nice starting point for basic information about lenses
Tags: photography

.NET Error: Requested Registry Acess not Allowed
Solution for .NET issue with registry access when trying to write to event log
Tags: .net development

Your photographs in Flickr's Explore
Website that tells you which one of your photographs (if any) made it to the Flickr Explore page
Tags: flickr photography

Photoshop Tutorials Worth1000.com
Different Photoshop tutorials, some very weird, but good ones as well
Tags: photoshop photography tutorial

Photoshop Tutorials
Website with different tutorials to improve photos.
Tags: photography photoshop

Clean CSS
CSS Formatter and Optimiser based on csstidy 1.1. It reduces the size of the CSS by getting rid of new lines, etc.
Tags: css development

CSS Text Size
Simple sample code and examples to allow users to increase/decrease text size using CSS and simple Javascript.
Tags: css development javascript

CSS Web Gallery
A nice gallery with different CSS designs.
Tags: css development design

Why Vista Release Slipped
A good blog entry from Philip Su at Microsoft, with good points on why Windows Vista slipped, and comments about MS Management.
Tags: business development

Repair a Corrupt MBR and boot into Linux
I had a problem with LILO on my debian installation and found this how to on how to fix it. I used a knoppix live cd in text mode.
Tags: linux howto

History of the @ sign
An article from HP with a short history of the @ sign. I think I read it somewhere before.
Tags: history signs

Disney's "small" Mistake
Interesting article on how badly Disney screwed up when firing Lasseter back when he suggested to use computer animation.
Tags: business movies pixar

Google on Net Neutrality
A note from google where they put very simply what Net Neutrality is about. Let's hope this doesn't go through.
Tags: politics law

APA Formatting and Style Guide
Examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.
Tags: education writing research

Interview with Tim Berners-Lee
An interview in which Tim Berners-Lee talks about what it means for the Internet to be "free", and advocates for net neutrality.
Tags: interviews internet

The Ten-Percent Myth
Some reasons why the "We use Ten-Percent of our brains" Myth is not true.
Tags: brain

Raw Format Pictures
Article about saving pictures in Raw format. It's amazing how much better the pictures look after the raw image is processed when compared to a JPEG.
Tags: photography

Levels of HTML knowledge
Funny article listing 6 levels of HTML knowledge. As I read it I realized I was at each of those levels at some point in time, funny, but true. I consider myself Level 5.
Tags: development web html

The Web Standards Project
A group supporting standards in web development. They have interesting information. They are the group that created the ACID 2 browser test.
Tags: development web standards

Web development with Safari
Good article from Jon Hicks with a few hidden features in safari which are helpful for web development.
Tags: development apple safari

10 common grammar mistakes
A list of 10 of the most common grammar mistakes on all kinds of written communication (especially e-mails).
Tags: writing

Truelogic Website
Interesting javascript driven design. I like how you can navigate with the keyboard.
Tags: design javascript web

Freeware Icons
Very good freeware icons. Only free for personal and non commercial use but they're very cool.
Tags: design graphics icons

CSS Box Model Demo
An interactive "3D" basic CSS box model demo. A lot cleaner than the W3C diagram.
Tags: development css web

If bridges were built like software
An article where Ann Davidson from Oracle wonders what would happen if civil engineers worked like software developers do.
Tags: news development

Understanding Floats
A good tutorial with different examples of how the float and clear properties work on CSS.
Tags: css development webdesign

WallpaperStock
Nice collection of wallpapers sorted by different categories and resolutions.
Tags: wallpapers design

CSS Library
CSS codes and examples from dynamic drive.
Tags: css design development

Web design and dev resources
A website to share different tools and techniques for web design and development. They have a pretty good list so far.
Tags: design development css

del.icio.us Opera Buttons
This site creates a button that you can use in Opera to post a site to del.icio.us. Pretty cool, no extension needed.
Tags: web software browser

Disk Inventory X
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
Tags: apple osx software

Window XP Rebuild Command
The Rebuild command lets you remove and repair any references to whatever invalid, missing, or corrupt startup information was preventing normal booting. It's supposed to work when you get those "Can't find .dll" or "Windows could not start" errors.
Tags: microsoft windows fix

IE7 Standalone Launch Script
Article describing how to run IE7 in stand alone mode, with a batch file that gives users the ability to run both IE6 and IE7 without breaking IE6.
Tags: ie microsoft development

Top 10 CSS Tutorials
A collection of 10 good CSS tutorials for various things, like rounded corners, layouts, drop shadows, bar graphs, etc.
Tags: css design development

Wallpapers
Good collection of wallpapers for both single and dual-monitor setups.
Tags: wallpapers design

Prevent .DS_Store files on Network Shares
Terminal command that prevents Mac OS X v10.4 from creating these files on a shared network server.
Tags: apple mac osx

Design Resources
A huge list of design resources available on the Web. It also has many articles and such.
Tags: design

Java 1.5.0 in Ubuntu Breezy Badger
Quick tutorial on how to update Java to 1.5.0 on Ubuntu. Remember to include multiuniverse in your sources for apt because that's where java-package is.
Tags: linux java development

Procrastination Article
Procrastination is a complex psychological behavior that affects everyone to some degree or another. This article describes the reasons for it as well as some simple "solutions".
Tags: psychology productivity reference

Disadvantage of using prototype.js
Article describing protential problems when mixing prototype.js with already existing code. I tried to use it for an existing application and it caused the problem described here.
Tags: javascript development

Solution to moofx problem
This entry explains how to fix an issue with moofx not working with divs that have border or padding
Tags: javascript development

Asleep Or Awake We Retain Memory
A study showing how the brain doesn't wait until night to structure information. Day and night, the brain doesn't stop (re)working what we learn. Pretty cool I think.
Tags: neuroscience brain memory

Running Apple's Backup Without a .Mac Account
This document shows how to use the full functionality of Backup/iDisk, without having a .Mac account. It includes an overview of the steps that have to be taken to setup a private server that acts like the .Mac servers.
Tags: apple mac tutorial

How OS X Executes Applications
Article describing how OS X handles execution of applications and shows how to use a tool that gets a list of dependencies for an executable.
Tags: apple mac osx

Disk Backup Application for OSX
Free software that creates a fully bootable backup copy of your drive. It also includes (if you pay) an scheduler and some other functionality to create backups automatically.
Tags: mac osx software

Building pgadmin3 v1.4 on Ubuntu Linux
Detailed instructions on how to install a more recent version of pgadmin on Ubuntu Linux.
Tags: linux database postgresql

MySQL Replication
Briefly describes how to set up complete replication of a MySQL server.
Tags: database mysql

Google: Web Authoring Statistics
Results of a sample taken by google in December 2005 over a billion documents, They extracted information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata of HTML pages.
Tags: html development

Apache, MySQL, PHP For Mac OS X
Excellent package for PHP development on OS X. Extremely easy to install and change settings. Best of its kind on any platform in my experience.
Tags: apple mac osx development

Dashboard Widgets Preference Pane
Software to make it easier to manage dashboard widgets in OS X. It also allows you to disable the dashboard completely.
Tags: apple osx mac software

Presubmission Checklist for Correct APA Formatting
A checklist that can be used to make sure a paper follows the American Psychological Association (APA) rules.
Tags: writing research education

The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG
Article discussing the future of HTML and what different organizations are proposing to have implemented in the future. Wonder how long until some of those ideas are available in every browser?
Tags: development html xhtml web

Play iTunes Files on XMMS
Source and binary RPMs for xmms_mp4Plugin by Frederic Fondriest. This will allow you to play files created on iTunes on XMMS.
Tags: linux itunes

Small Budget Photography
Good article about low-budget photograhy. Simple but good explanation of types of camera, lenses, light.
Tags: photography design

Color Scheme Generator
Another site for color schemes. Good resource for when you need to find a good combination of colors.
Tags: web webdesign design

Oracle 10g XE Installation
Workaround for "Not enough swap space" error on Oracle XE installation on linux. Says Fedora C4 but it also worked on SuSE 10 for me.
Tags: linux database

Federal House Price Index
Measure of the movement of single-family houses in the US. Indicator of house price trends at various geographic levels.
Tags: properties realestate

Web Design/Development Bookmarks
Good collection of bookmars to websites about CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.
Tags: web webdesign design development

Free Stock Photos
Good source for stock photos. A lot of pictures to choose from and best of all, they're free for both personal and commercial use.
Tags: design photography

Interview With Jonathan Ive
An interview and some biography. Ive is the senior vice-president of design at Apple. Winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003.
Tags: interviews apple mac

What is Web 2.0?
Article from O'Reilly explaining why they're using the term Web 2.0 now and how they came up with it.
Tags: web

JavaScript Library
JavaScript library that provides visual effects, drag&drop and some "advanced" controls for use on web applications.
Tags: javascript web

JavaScript Visual Effects
Very lightweight javascript effects library. It has different types of fade effects, toggle, resize.
Tags: web javascript

Rounded CSS Corners with one image
Tutorial showing how to produce a box with rounded corners with CSS using only one image and off-setting it. Nice!
Tags: css design

List of Cool OS X Applications
Website listing new OS X Applications as they come out. I've found quite a few good ones in there!
Tags: apple mac osx

Wraparound For Mac OSX
Interesting application. Allows the mouse cursor to "wrap" around the screen.
Tags: apple mac osx

del.icio.us to MySQL
Tool for mirroring your del.icio.us bookbarks into a MySQL database. This is what I'm using for my site.
Tags: del.icio.us

Tango Desktop Project - Icon Gallery
Icon Gallery licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license. Good for application prototyping, or just for use in your applications. The real aim of Tango is to standarize icons on the linux desktop though.
Tags: icons linux

Various CSS websites
A website compiling a list of sites styled with CSS.
Tags: css design development

Safari Search Plugin
A search plugin for safari. Suggests search terms as you type, very cool. Donationware.
Tags: safari apple mac

System Usability Tests
Excellent site that has info about open source software usability. It even has videos of people using different types of software to analyze them.
Tags: development linux

Web Color Schemes
Website with different color schemes that could be used for web. Good resource for when you need to find a good combination of colors.
Tags: web design webdesign

CSS playground
All kinds of experiments and information about CSS.
Tags: css development design

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