April 2008
Best Of April 2008 →
Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll…
Theme: Omni with Youtube and Flickr Integration →
Omni Theme was created by Bryan Hauer, website styled WordPress theme that is great for your own website or blog with a more professional and custom look. Omni themes are also great for small…
Drug Dealers Rejoice: The $10 Mobile Phone is Here →
Sugarrhyme.com - Awesome portfolio →
Hot damn! Check out this great portfolio! Were not worthy!! Click here to visit »
The vanishing personal site →
The vanishing personal site: Zeldman has some sharp thoughts on the disappearing personal site as we instead opt for third party collection of our lives, be it Flickr, del.icio.us or twitter
WordPress Plugin releases for 4/28 →
Clean WordPress Gallery Plugin
This plugin replaces the default gallery feature in WordPress 2.5 with a valid XHTML solution and offers Lightbox, Slimbox, and Thickbox support.
Theme Tester
Woopra and WordPress: Unofficial Coolness Guide →
Woopra was opened up to the world at the Dallas WordCamp where I met John for the first time. His talk was not on Woopra but he introduced it to the event in a very short, three minute spiel…
30+ Things that should be changed for WordPress... →
Article written over at WPCandy.
I have been using WordPress pretty frequently for about a year now. I’ve written two plugins and counting for the blogging CMS, ran a site dedicated to customizing…
Plugin: Create Your Custom FeedBurner Chicklet →
If you do not like the FeedBurner chicklet, now you can have a custom feed count easily with FeedCount. FeedCount 1.2 is the latest version of Wordpress Plugin that displays the number of…
Wave of Chat Customizations Released →
With the help of the skinnable-in-every-way duck, Adium (kids, don’t skin ducks), chatting has always been a task that could be spruced up with a little customized magic. Still, the release…
This is How You Get sIFR to Work →
Sometimes people ask me about sIFR when they have a problem and this could be just the thing they need.
SEO Tip Open Comment Author URL in new Window →
For good SEO, it is preferential to open your comment authors URI in a new page. Why you might ask? Google and other search engines track sites you visit, they can tell what that site contains…
Hack Attack : Find The Most Obscure MP3’s Using... →
photo credit: RossinaBossioB Music sharing has been of the most common file sharing activities on the internet. There are many ways you could find the music you were looking…
Inspirational Hyperreal Vector Artists and Images →
by Sean Hodge
Hyperrealism is an art movement,which requires the same level of technical ability as photorealistic illustration. To get an idea what is actually meant by that, you can take a…
Pzizz: A Great Way To Get some ZZZ’s →
A lot of the time, most of us are completely busy with work and other daily activities. It can take a lot out of you, and sometimes we need a way to regain energy during the day in a short…
Peep show, anyone? →
I’ve posted a few glimpses of the *new* Virb. You know… The project that we’ve been working on for ages. Yeah. That one.
WordPress Theme Releases For 4/26 →
One Column Themes
Integrati
Integrati is a single-column theme with the sidebar below the post. This theme has a built-in recent comments and previous posts section in the sidebar.
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Online Tutorials Done Right →
I’ve never been much of a tutorial guy as I’ve always found that most tutorials are either to time-intensive or not very well written. That doesn’t however mean that I could not have used…
4 Uber Cool Css Techniques For Links →
4 Uber Cool Css Techniques For Links
Laguna →
Laguna “Laguna” is the name of the custom blogging engine I use for this web site. I’ve gotten email from several people who were interested to see the code, and there’s no real reason not to…
Free Credit Card Icons For Online-Shops →
Credit card icons are an essential part of every online-shop. They are often used to indicate available payment conditions and purchasing options. The clearer they are presented in the…
How To Build WP-PageNavi Into Your WordPress Theme →
WP-PageNavi, from Lester “GaMerZ” Chan, gives you an awesome upgrade to your WordPress post-page navigation. Instead of the typical “Older Post/Newer Post” links, you get “Digg-like” pagination….
How To Add Gravatars For The Post Author in... →
Now that Gravatar support is part of the WordPress core adding them into your WordPress theme is easy. Adding them to your comments has been documented. How about adding them to your post titles…
drewwilson.com [scrapbook] →
Fantastic header design. Nothing funky about this one though.
30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples →
30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
Foxinni Evolves →
Don’t you just love redesigns? It’s always fun to talk about; whilst comparing the new version the the old one (as everyone always seems disagree about whether the redesign is better or…
Reset WP Password Manually →
Although there were over 80 security/bug fixes in WordPress 2.5.1, there was one thing that crept up immediately following the release. According to numerous reports by individuals and a ticket…
The Coolest Font Ever →
From time to time we run into cool fonts sites, some of these have become a reference to all of us, like dafont. You can see some cool font design there… but what if you find the coolest font in a…
Batch Category Editor →
Just the other day, I ran into a problem. I deleted a number of categories on my blog and since WordPress does not give you the option of reassigning the posts within those categories to…
“iLeopard” 10.5 Theme Released →
New member ghall has released a theme for Leopard. He calls the theme iLeopard and it can be found at this forum thread. The theme itself isn’t overly flashy or different from default…
New AB Meta Markup Tools for WordPress →
New ‘AB Meta’ Markup Tools Could Create a Smarter Web: Wired has an interesting article on a new set of tools from Adaptive Blue called AB Meta which could be used to easily add metadata to…
'Round the Campfire →
The Virb Team is comprised of 5 individuals superheroes. Most of the time, 4 of us can be found, snugly nestled, in our humble Boston office; while one team member works from Los Angeles. Why LA,…
Cure dormant blog syndrome by declaring blog... →
We’ve all seen it and most of us have experienced it first hand. Dormant Blog Syndrome. A blog that started out as a promising and exciting new venture slowly runs aground and goes without…
This…
You Need Business Cards →
As a pseudo-followup to my post about establishing an online identity, I want to talk about creating your in-real-life (IRL) brand. Meeting people at business networking mixers, tech events and…
Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design →
Web design has significantly improved over the last years. It’s more user-friendly and more appealing today — and there is a good reason behind it: over the years we’ve found out that design with…
Theme: Elegant Blubs Premium WordPress Theme →
We have launched Feed Analysis few months ago, it helps bloggers analyze their Feedburner feeds. It has got featured on many popular blogs and we have received a lot of positive feedback. Few…
Leaked Today: Real GTA4 Gameplay Footage →
This just popped up today. This is legit Grand Theft Auto IV gameplay footage on the Xbox 360.
iPhone Unpacking Like You've Never Seen Before →
This. is. brillant!
Recreating the early universe →
The Large Hadron Collider, the largest scientific instrument ever built, examines the universe’s tiniest pieces of matter to discover the origins and makeup of our Universe. This illustrated…
Coding Horror: ‘Behold WordPress, Destroyer of... →
Jeff Atwood on the out-of-the-box performance of WordPress: I’m not alone; just do a web search on [WordPress CPU usage][1] or [WordPress Digg Effect][2] and you’ll find page after page of horror…
Let Your Car’s Exhaust Be It’s Jack →
Isn’t is a pain in the ass to get the jack out of your car when you have a flat? Now with a ingenious invention, you can use your cars own exhaust to help you jack up your car.
This Exhaust…
IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time →
IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time
Product images, Apple-style →
Tired of perusing the online Apple Store to find only one itsy-bitsy image for many of their products? Those days are no more. Not only do their products have multiple images along with the ability…
Unpacking →
Quite possibly the most creative iPhone unboxing photos. Ever.
Get Stuff Done - "Facebook" + "productivity"... →
Facebook Groups and Applications have matured to embrace every facet of a users in-person and online life with the exception of bridging the fun & games with “simple” projects and really simple…
Jonathon Yule: Robots made from sans-serif fonts →
Quick Look Plug-ins: Save More Time →
With the release of Leopard came over 300 new features. Some of these new features includes Time Machine, Screen Sharing, and Quick Look. I find Quick Look to be the most useful addition to Mac…
50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials →
Amazing list of CSS Examples and Tuts to learn from.
Asus Eee 900 Battery Shenanigans →
Mark Wilson reports at Gizmodo that review units of the Eee 900 had higher-capacity batteries than the ones actually being shipped to customers. Bizarre.
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Vous Pensez – The geekiest pants… ever? →
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