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I'm a blogger and web designer from Jogjakarta, Indonesia. See my other blog in Bahasa Indonesia. I love photography. Currently, I live in Jakarta.

I'm @thomasarie on Mengumpulkan energi kembali, dengan mandi. § 18 mins ago

links for 2009-08-18

The Associated Press: Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover fallout

(tags: twitter)
Resistance to fanaticism in the wake of Jakarta blasts

WHEN freelance advertising copywriter Glenn Marsalim went for his regular jog in Jakarta's Senayan stadium soon after the July 17 terrorist bombings he fell to chatting with a T-shirt and souvenir vendor.

ø August 19th, 2009, 7:35 am
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links for 2009-06-29

How Would You Feel if Your Flickr Account Were Permanently Deleted?

A very bad situation. Very bad. :(

(tags: flickr)
60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots | Inspiration

(tags: photography, photos)
What Lisa Marie Presley wrote about Michael Jackson

(tags: blog music death michaeljackson)

ø June 30th, 2009, 7:34 am
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links for 2009-06-27

MashDeck

Mashable meets TweetDeck

(tags: tools twitter)
Michael Jackson's death causes enormous spike in AT&T traffic (June 26, 2009)

4 million text messages per minute, nearly 65,000 texts per second were sent.
APNG – the animated PNG

The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) file format is an extension to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification. It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated GIF files, while retaining backward compatibility with non-animated PNG files and adding support for 8-bit transparency and 24-bit images.

(tags: animation png image browser design)

ø June 28th, 2009, 7:33 am
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links for 2009-06-25

Transformers 2 Parody (Revenge of The Twitter Icons)

Twitter Icons strike back!

(tags: twitter youtube video funny)
Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome

The application allows online/offline mode management of your photos. You can upload, search and download photos, through the easy to use interface.

(tags: gnome apps flickr desktop ubuntu linux photos)

ø June 26th, 2009, 7:33 am
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links for 2009-06-16

PXR + Cufon = Pxfon

PXR — pixel-based alternative to IFR — and Cufón — sIFR’s heir apparent — play together. By Shaun Inman.

(tags: cufon sifr pixel fonts)
45+ CSS Grid Systems, Layout Generators and Tutorials that every Designer should know

Great collection of CSS Grid Systems, online generators and tutorial on how to use these in your design.

(tags: tools webdesign css grid)
100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know

Some search engine alternatives to find something more spesific like e-book, audio files, videos and more.

(tags: engine resource reference)

ø June 17th, 2009, 7:34 am
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links for 2009-05-09

Shoot Thru Umbrella and Bounce Umbrella – a Comparison

OK, thru or bounce.

(tags: tips photos photography lighting tricks)
Video lighting secrets for your home studio

Cheap and I think it's not difficult to setup.

(tags: video tutorial lighting production)

ø May 10th, 2009, 7:32 am
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links for 2009-03-14

Top 100 Best, Cool, Most Popular Professional Fonts (In English)

ranked by their objective and various other weighted measurements: FontShop sales figures, historical value/meaning, aesthetic qualities.

(tags: popular fonts typography design webdesign reference)
WriteOnIt – Fake pictures

Create your fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes

(tags: tools online poster cover)

ø March 15th, 2009, 7:31 am
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links for 2009-02-12

35 Stunning Hi-Res “Public Domain” Astronomy Images

All have a Public Domain License.

(tags: space earth photography astronomy pictures images stock photos hi-res)
15 Websites To Sharpen Your Business Skills | Freelance Folder

From management, to marketing, to finances — business skills of all varieties are critical to have in this economy and incredibly beneficial no matter what your situation.

(tags: reference business blogs resources tips inspiration)

ø February 13th, 2009, 2:23 am
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links for 2009-01-01

The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008

Selected according to their popularity and the amount of discussion they generated both here on the site and across the blogosphere.

(tags: todo reference lifehacker productivity tips)
Top 20 Twitter Posts of 2008

Collection of posts related to Twitter.

(tags: twitter, reference)

ø January 2nd, 2009, 7:30 am
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links for 2008-10-07

80's Music Videos

Over 1,000 classic music videos from the 1980's

(tags: video retro online music)
freesound

A huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.

(tags: resources podcasting opensource library sounds samples free)
Wubi – Ubuntu Installer for Windows

Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way.

(tags: windows ubuntu utilities tools opensource linux)
20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

Links to source code and demo page are available.

(tags: webdesign tutorials ui tools webdev tutorial)
How To: Custom Maps on Each Node

Display a map on each of the nodes for that location or place using Drupal

(tags: drupal tutorials maps howto googlemaps module)

ø October 8th, 2008, 7:06 am
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links for 2008-10-05

Screenlets

simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related needs and generally improve the usability and eye-candy of the modern composited Linux-desktop

(tags: ubuntu utilities opensource widgets tools)
Mac4Lin

User interface of Mac OS X (newest version being 10.5, Leopard) to GNU/Linux and UNIX-System like Operating Systems

(tags: ubuntu theme opensource linux osx howto)
Slice and Crop Picture – PICSLICE

Picslice creates slices of picture.It can also crop pictures.

(tags: tools online photo images)
Swirrl: Data collaboration online

A web application that allows your team to store, share, edit and analyze information. It's like a wiki, but better.

(tags: wiki software collaboration social)

ø October 6th, 2008, 7:05 am
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links for 2008-09-10

20 Firefox Add-ons to Enhance your Web Development

For Firefox fans and add-ons lovers :)

(tags: firefox extensions extension web webdesign webdev)
PHP Tutorials Examples Introduction to PHP Regex

A good start to learn about PHP Regex

(tags: php web tutorials regex reference resources tutorial)

ø September 11th, 2008, 12:31 pm
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links for 2008-07-12

Free Excel Spreadsheets

(tags: excel spreadsheet)
25 Twitter Tips for College Students

Getting the most of Twitter

(tags: twitter)
Why Reddit is Better than Digg

Yes, why? Here are some reasons

(tags: digg reddit sharing bookmark)

ø July 12th, 2008, 7:38 am
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links for 2008-06-28

9 tweaks for Firefox 3′s location bar

Some Firefox tweaks.

(tags: browser firefox tweaks howto)
about:mozilla – 18 million downloads, Firefox 3 t-shirt, browser security, developer resource kit, Labs meetings, and more…

Some updates about Mozilla Firefox 3

(tags: firefox browser)
Blogger in Draft: New Feature: Embedded Comment Form

Post comments without opening a new page

(tags: blogger google)
Expression Engine vs Textpattern

Some notes about these two platforms by Jon Hicks.

(tags: article blog expressionengine textpattern comparison cms)

links for 2008-05-27

WobZIP

uncompress on the fly, unzip a file from your computer or a url

(tags: zip online tools uncompress compression)
Convert Word Docs to Web Pages

Microsoft Word has its place, but that place isn’t the web.

(tags: html word howto convert conversion converter)

ø May 27th, 2008, 7:39 am
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links for 2008-05-21

Taglines eliminated: newshound shortage could be next!

Yahoo Mail Removing Tagline Ads

(tags: email yahoo)

links for 2008-05-19

Cross-browser transparent columns

how do we create transparent columns that can work in all browsers?

(tags: css transparency webdesign tutorial png)

ø May 19th, 2008, 7:34 am
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links for 2008-04-11

Awesome: apt-get install movabletype-opensource

Installing Movable Type Open Source should be easy for Debian users.

(tags: movabletype debian linux opensource)

ø April 11th, 2008, 7:51 am
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links for 2008-04-10

Open Source Windows

Free, Open-Source software for Windows XP and Vista

(tags: opensource software free download tools)
Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver.

a program that allows you to select and download audio files from anywhere on the Internet to your desktop.

(tags: software podcasting podcast audio opensource)
Drupal 6.2

Fixing security issues | drupal.org

(tags: drupal)
From 10000 to 0 Emails in an Inbox in 24 Hours

Working with email inbox.

(tags: email gtd productivity tips)

ø April 10th, 2008, 7:53 am
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links for 2008-04-09

How to bind papers without staples or clips

Tips: The heavier the paper, the bigger the triangle fold and the deeper the slits.

(tags: howto tips diy lifehacker productivity guide)
Commander

Nice article by Boy Avianto. Welcome to the New Order 2.0.

(tags: indonesia blogger goverment)

ø April 9th, 2008, 7:51 am
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links for 2008-04-08

PrimoPDF

Free PDF Creator – Convert to PDF from Any File You Can Print

(tags: pdf tools utilities adobe converter file)
60+ Unusual WP Blog Designs

How WordPress used to create unusual web designs.

(tags: wordpress webdesign design gallery css inspiration layout themes)
Google Email Uploader

Upload email and contacts from desktop email programs into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.

(tags: google email free tool outlook gmail)
Official Web site hacked over porn ban

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Hackers have defaced the Web site of Indonesia’s information ministry in response to a government move to restrict access to pornographic material on the Internet, an official said on Friday.

(tags: indonesia, blogger, goverment, policy)

ø April 8th, 2008, 8:07 am
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links for 2008-03-19

10 CSS Form Examples

About creating and designing forms.

(tags: css webdesign design tutorial examples)

ø March 19th, 2008, 7:34 am
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links for 2008-03-17

ManyBooks.net

Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader

(tags: ebooks books free download pda)
Inspiration by Super Heroes Color Schemes

When we start thinking about a new design, one of the first things we start researching is cool colors that we might use. But how about researching Super Heroes color schemes?

(tags: color comic design inspiration graphics)

ø March 17th, 2008, 7:28 am
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links for 2008-02-14

Gallery: How Google Got Its Colorful Logo

RIght, how?

(tags: Google identity inspiration branding)
mooColorFinder – retrieve all website colors

This neat little tool extracts any color information, no matter if inline CSS, CSS files via import or
link, and even if you have a master CSS file with references to other css files.

(tags: tools color webdesign css design)
Suddenly Last Supper

Many last suppers…

(tags: design humor fun)

ø February 14th, 2008, 7:35 am
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links for 2007-11-30

Email Standards Project

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email

(tags: email standards development)
Wufoo Form Gallery

The Wufoo Form Gallery is a resource for web developers and designers to help get a head start on data collection.

(tags: css forms webdesign templates html design)
Understanding Web Design

An interesting article from ALA by Jeffrey Zeldman.

(tags: webdesign design article zeldman advice)

ø November 30th, 2007, 6:31 am
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links for 2007-11-22

Every Macedonian Student to Use Ubuntu-Powered Computer Workstations | Ubuntu

The Macedonia Ministry of Education and Science will deploy more than 180,000 workstations running Canonical’s Edubuntu 7.04 as part of its “Computer for Every Child” project.

(tags: ubuntu linux)

links for 2007-11-19

What’s not to love about CSS frameworks?

Some people love them, not all. Jeff Croft tried to get the best answers. Interesting discussion.

(tags: css webdesign yui blueprint framework)
DjangoSites.org

List of sites powered by Django.

(tags: blogs django python examples gallery inspiration)
Ruby Logo Contest

Tom Schaub wins the Ruby logo contest. The new official Ruby logo in vector format will be available later.

(tags: contest design logo ruby)

ø November 19th, 2007, 6:29 am
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links for 2007-11-15

favikon

useful tool to create favicons… it’s very easy!

(tags: online favicon tools design generator webdesign icons)
MSNBC Redesigns – Taste The Rainbow

by Mike Davidson. Interesting read.

(tags: design webdesign work)

ø November 15th, 2007, 6:42 am
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links for 2007-11-07

How will OpenID change your site?

find out “how”.

(tags: openid webdev)
10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

With some sample sites.

(tags: tips design development webdev)

ø November 7th, 2007, 6:44 am
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links for 2007-10-19

Findings From the Web Design Survey

by A List Apart and An Event Apart. Must read.

(tags: articles webdesign survey research development)
Mint

Refreshing Money Management

(tags: finance money online software tools)
25 Open Source Web Design Programs And Tools You Should Already Know About > Design Vitality

Text editors, WYSIWYG editors, FTP Clients, Image Editors/Creators, and more…

(tags: webdesign opensource freeware webdev design editor)
Vimeo. Because everyone shouldn’t see everything.

Exchange videos with only the people you want to. A bunch of different privacy options so you can choose exactly who can see your videos.

(tags: video web2.0 sharing social)

ø October 19th, 2007, 7:43 am
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links for 2007-10-04

Encyclopedia Of Stupid

All things stupid. May include this website.

(tags: reference humor encyclopedia wiki)
How To Use An Indian Toilet

Just in case you don’t know how to use it.

(tags: guide howto instructions)

links for 2007-09-30

AirPress

Another new blogging client, powered by Adobe AIR

(tags: blogging adobe airpress)
80+ Free 2-Column Website Templates

Useful collection.

(tags: free layout templates css design)
Adding a Subscribe Bar to Your Blog

Another method to make RSS subscription more visible.

(tags: blog reference cookies tips webdesign design)
What’s Right with WordPress 2.3

Another useful information before ugprading to WordPress 2.3.

(tags: wordpress)
WordPress 2.3: Canonical URLs

to avoid confuse search engines and to consolidate your rankings for your content, there should only be one URL for a resource. We call this URL the canonical URL

(tags: wordpress seo url canonical)

ø September 30th, 2007, 7:41 am
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links for 2007-09-07

Lion Air sangat mengecewakan

Kantor perwakilan sudah pindah selama tiga bulan, kantor pusat tidak tahu?

(tags: indonesia transportation)
A Brief Message

features design opinions expressed in short form — 200 words or less.

(tags: advice inspiration article writing)
LiveValidation

Validation as you type

(tags: ajax javascript validation forms prototype)
Creative Business Cards

Nice!

(tags: business design)

ø September 7th, 2007, 7:53 am
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links for 2007-09-02

W3Counter – Global Web Stats

Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Countries and Screen Resolutions

(tags: browser information internet statistics counter)
The journalism that bloggers actually do – Los Angeles Times

A New York University professor critiques Michael Skube’s recent Times Op-Ed questioning the journalistic value of blogs.

(tags: blogs media citizenjournalism reference social)
edu 2.0

welcome to the future of education

(tags: education web2.0 e-learning collaboration)
DEL.ICIO.US TOOLBOX

180+ Del.icio.us Tools and Resources

(tags: del.icio.us tools)

ø September 2nd, 2007, 7:38 am
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links for 2007-08-08

Google Custom Search Blog Hacked?

No official explanation for this, but the screenshot tells it all.

(tags: google services)
googlonymous.com

Search Google anonymously

(tags: google seach services anonymous internet privacy)
What’s Special About This Number?

A long list.. from 0 – 9999.

(tags: math numbers mathematics interesting)

ø August 8th, 2007, 7:40 am
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links for 2007-07-30

RightFields 1.2 Beta 1 Now Available

This plugin will help you add more custom fields in Movable Type. Many improvements in the latest release

(tags: sixapart movabletype plugins)
Faceball: your face, our balls

Two people hitting beachballs at each other’s faces

(tags: games work faceball)
VideoJug

Life Explained. On Film.

(tags: video tutorials)

ø July 30th, 2007, 7:34 am
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links for 2007-06-25

Opera Mini 4 beta

Great features!

(tags: browser mobile opera internet)
The Power of Makeup (Extreme Makeover)

Before and after.

(tags: makeup makeover women)
ExpressionEngine 1.6

Also introducing Multiple Site Manager, Forum 2.0.

(tags: pmachine blogs)
What’s New in Movable Type 4

Many great new features added in this release. Can’t wait!

(tags: sixapart movabletype mt4)

ø June 25th, 2007, 7:31 am
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links for 2007-06-16

Snooth

Find Better Wines

(tags: wine guide food search)
HTML5 differences from HTML4

Editor’s draft

(tags: html html5 w3c standards reference markup article development)
Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work

by Larissa Meek

(tags: webdesign design inspiration articles advice)

ø June 16th, 2007, 7:40 am
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links for 2007-06-10

Class: Ngeblog (PHP Classes)

Manipulate posts in Blogger blogs using GData

(tags: api blogger php xmlrpc)
Serendipity 1.2-beta1 released

The authentication and session scheme has been altered to allow easier plugin interaction. Also the backend (master template and template for the entry editor) has finally ben Smartyfied so that they can be changed by template authors.

(tags: serendipity blogs blogtools)
Vox: Editing from the Blog

If you browse to Vox blogs, you can simply edit the data.

(tags: sixapart vox)
b2evo 1.9.3 released

Code name: Rainforest

(tags: blogtools blogs)
Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

It’s all about Google PageRank. Very useful.

(tags: article blogs google pagerank seo information)
Movable Type 4.0 Templating

A summary of some of the new features and tags available in Movable Type 4′s new templating engine.

(tags: sixapart movabletype templates)

ø June 10th, 2007, 7:35 am
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links for 2007-06-07

A simple Textpattern template

as used by Kusaeni

(tags: textpattern templates)
Asia Blogging Network

AsiaBlogging is a global new media network on a wide ranging of topics.

(tags: blog network asia indonesia)
Movable Type Open Source Project

The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

(tags: blog blogging movabletype opensource sixapart)
Firefox + Stylish = 10 Extremely Beautiful Websites

Because we have our own preferences.

(tags: firefox stylish tools extension design browser)
Comeeko

Creating comic strips from your photos

(tags: comics tools photo fun comic)
Tips on how to not get busted for file-sharing

Top tips on how to keep your identity safe from prying eyes and keep out unwanted visitors.

(tags: articles internet sharing how-to)
Instructables

step-by-step instructions

(tags: howto diy tutorials reference)
How to Kiss

You need to read this :D

(tags: howto instructables tips)

ø June 7th, 2007, 7:34 am
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links for 2007-06-02

Water figures 2007

Photo Gallery… colorful water

(tags: color photo inspiration photography)
Burj Dubai Skyscraper

The World’s Tallest Skyscraper

(tags: skyscraper architecture engineering building)
Underage Photographer’s Work used for PORN

“My image is being used for a pornographic movie called ‘Body Magic’” (Digg)
Google acquired Feedburner

Congratulation Feedburner (and Google)!

(tags: feedburner google acquisition)

links for 2007-05-28

Vertical Bar Graphs using CSS and PHP

When CSS and PHP work together. Nice!

(tags: css design php)

ø May 28th, 2007, 7:35 am
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links for 2007-05-23

300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu

Great fonts, Ubuntu-friendly.

(tags: blog ubuntu linux fonts typography graphics opensource)

links for 2007-05-21

flickrSLiDR

Embed Flickr Slideshows within Your Site.

(tags: flickr slideshow tools photos blog)
Fuck Off, I’m Busy

If you were so busy.

(tags: business work)
MyMiniLife

Your Life Miniaturized! Express your physical life on the web

(tags: social networking)
The Blog is the New Resume

…whenever anyone wants to know anything about me I send them here.

(tags: article blog blogging business resume identity)
FedEx still faster than the internet

… for anything larger than one terabyte, it would be faster for this company to just send the data on disks for over-night delivery.

(tags: internet web)

ø May 21st, 2007, 7:36 am
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links for 2007-05-04

7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

(tags: article web2.0 webdev api)
Yahoo! Messenger for the Web

IM from any browser. Anywhere.

(tags: tools online services)

links for 2007-04-21

How to Moderate a Panel

If you’re going to moderate a panel, here are a few bits of unsolicited advice for you. (by Derek Powazek).

(tags: presentation tips advice)
For Sale: One Useless Cat

Unexptected.

(tags: funny humor pictures cat mouse)

ø April 21st, 2007, 7:35 am
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links for 2007-04-16

On Sponsored Themes

How do you share your themes?

(tags: blogging theme)
Found+READ

by GigaOM

(tags: startup business daily blogs)

ø April 16th, 2007, 7:34 am
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links for 2007-03-29

Indonesia United (tumblr)

The Indonesian Tumblelogs List using Tumblr (Hat tip: Kuncoro Wastuwibowo)

(tags: tumble indonesia)
Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site (Digital Web Magazine)

Read how Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain redesigned Expression Engine. Very inspiring.

(tags: webdesign design process articles inspiration expressionengine)
Yahoo! Mail goes to infinity and beyond

Unlimited storage.

(tags: Yahoo! email storage)

ø March 29th, 2007, 7:46 am
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links for 2007-03-28

younanimous

The social search engine

(tags: search social tools internet)
Urban Dirty

Free texture stock photography for your artwork, desktop and design

(tags: photos resource stock design)
WorkHack

To do list: functional, whiteboard feel, priority visualization by color and size

(tags: Productivity tools)
Free Stock Photo Resources

Great places on the web that offer free photos to use in your design projects.

(tags: stock images photos)

ø March 28th, 2007, 7:43 am
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links for 2007-03-17

www. is not deprecated

the opposite of no www.

(tags: internet standards web)
FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Thousands of royalty free stock photos for websites, PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework.

(tags: photos free photography stock design resource)