http://nsyght.com/rss/users/baldtechnologist Nsyght is a search engine powered by you, your bookmarks,and your friends. en-us 50 A new selector engine that is expected to become the default engine in jQuery.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/tree/master http://github.com/jeresig/sizzle/tree/master Free icons and free icon sets, as well as free vector graphics.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://dryicons.com http://dryicons.com "A typeface is not a font. A font is not a typeface. It’s been said before, but confusion still resigns supreme; even the Online Etmology Dictionary and the holders of the rights to Georgia get it wrong. So, at the risk of stating the obvious, but in the hope that someone might find this useful, I’m going to attempt a little disambiguation."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/08/typeface--font http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/08/typeface--font "M2 is a ground-up rewrite of Ma.gnolia, re-creating features we love today, taking a second run at what didn't worked as well as planned, on a distributed, service-based architecture designed to handle the large volumes of data we've seen. But even more significant, M2 will be an open source project that can be downloaded to remix and run as your own."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://ma.gnolia.org http://ma.gnolia.org A starter theme for WordPress to make the creation of a new theme as easy as possible. Some of the features include: * Blank style.css with theme name, author, URL, etc. tags at the top * Content-ready 404, archive, search, index, single post, and page files * Full, working comments.php file * Complete header.php set up with links to RSS, a stylesheet, and JS file; template * Default search form template * Blank screenshot.png file and images folder<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://wpcandy.com/articles/the-wordpress-starter-theme-project.html http://wpcandy.com/articles/the-wordpress-starter-theme-project.html A survey of techniques for creating infographics and visualizations from textual data.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.timshowers.com/2008/08/visualization-strategies-text-documents http://www.timshowers.com/2008/08/visualization-strategies-text-documents Test your URL on practically any platform, browser, screen resolution, JavaScript / Java / Flash enabled or disabled... returned to you from a server farm as screen shots while you wait! Sure, it saves time, it saves money but better than that is what becomes actually practical in terms of quality management.<br />Submited by aaronbassett 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://browsershots.org http://browsershots.org An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.telescopictext.com http://www.telescopictext.com WP Developer Assistant is the first WordPress plugin of its kind. It essentially is a toolkit that makes life as a WordPress developer easier.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://gaarai.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-developer-assistant http://gaarai.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-developer-assistant "As part of a recent management summit at my company, we were asked to fill out an RMPT matrix for our departments (I head up Product Design). An RMPT matrix consists of (R)esponsibilities, (M)etrics, (P)rocesses, and (T)ools. I have been intending to develop better metrics for both measuring and guiding our design efforts, and this exercise served as a catalyst to get me started. "<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://blog.dexodesign.com/2008/08/18/6-metrics-for-managing-ui-design http://blog.dexodesign.com/2008/08/18/6-metrics-for-managing-ui-design If there’s one type of headline that gets attention—it’s about claiming the death of something. Well, I’d like to proclaim the “un-dead” nature of a format which I think has the potential to become something more powerful than we are currently seeing today. The Micro-site first became adopted by the marketing community as a tool of convenience. It simply became too unwieldy to continue adding sections to our large company/product Websites every time we wanted to promote a new product, feature or service. And specifically for advertisers—well, they needed an online extension for their campaigns to live in the digital space.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/08/the-microsite-i.html http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/08/the-microsite-i.html Mat Wall and Nik Silver explain how their has been using Domain-Driven Design in an evolving and Agile environment, at high traffic news site guardian.co.uk.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-evolving-architecture http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-evolving-architecture "Espresso is not a bunch of apps forcibly smashed together. Instead, we looked at the needs of modern web developers and streamlined their workflow into one focused app. Extremely powerful editing, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit — did you really expect anything less?), real publishing and extensive synchronization tools. All this, and an amazing extensible core? It's not too good to be true."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://macrabbit.com/espresso http://macrabbit.com/espresso xSort is a free card sorting application for Mac OS X aimed at user experience professionals and social scientists.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.xsortapp.com http://www.xsortapp.com "The five second test is a simple usability test that helps you measure the effectiveness of your user interfaces. "<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.fivesecondtest.com http://www.fivesecondtest.com "Square America is a site dedicated to preserving and displaying vintage snapshots from the first 3/4s of the 20th Century. Not only do these photographs contain a wealth of primary source information on how life was lived they also constitute a shadow history of photography, one too often ignored by museums and art galleries. Or at least that's what I tell people- more accurately, the site is a catalog of my obsession with vintage photographs."<br />Submited by Kleverson 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.squareamerica.com http://www.squareamerica.com "We've taken out the text and created an immersive experience to help you lose yourself in exploration. Trailers for bestselling movies. Insight into the hottest TV shows and video games. Track samples from Tuesday's new music releases. Audio reviews of books you should read. Amazon Windowshop lets you get a taste of many titles. They're here - in one place - and all you have to do is move a few keys to zoom in on whatever flips your switch. "<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://windowshop.com http://windowshop.com Google's Privacy Center includes an easy way to opt out of being tracked via cookie.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html It "is the primary goal of this text to better define Interaction Design: to provide a definition that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field, the conceptual underpinnings of Interaction Design as a legitimate human-centered field, and the particular methods used by practitioners in their day to day experiences. This definition and investigation centers around the issue of argument and rhetoric, and illustrates that Interaction Design is a form of communication that can be thought of as identical in nature to language. As Interaction Design is a vast subject, this text attempts to touch on many topics in a slight manner rather than one topic in a deep manner. "An additional goal of this text is to assure practicing Interaction Designers that they are not, in fact, simply tools to be used in the cleanup phases of a technology-centered project. Interaction Designers need to possess a great intellectual capacity for complicated problem solving, for dynamic inquiry relating to technology, and for substantial empathy of the human experience. This intellectual insight is ideal for solving strategic business problems and for humanizing technology, and the creation of 'pretty interfaces' is perhaps the most blatant misuse of this critical resource."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://thoughtsoninteraction.com http://thoughtsoninteraction.com A large collection of screen shots taken by user experience designer Gustavo Pimenta.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.flickr.com/photos/guspim/collections/72157600047307884 http://www.flickr.com/photos/guspim/collections/72157600047307884 add many window management features to most Mac applications: * Keep windows afloat (heh) on top of all others. * Make windows transparent with a gesture. * Move windows from anywhere, not just the title bar. * Turn a window into an "overlay" on your screen that doesn't hinder your work. * Show a window's file in the Finder with nothing more than your keyboard. * Do all of this with quick keyboard shortcuts, or a flick of your mouse wheel or multitouch trackpad. <br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://infinite-labs.net/afloat http://infinite-labs.net/afloat VOTE411 is a one-stop-shop for election related information. It provides nonpartisan general and state-specific information aspects of the election process including Absentee ballot information, Ballot measure information (where applicable), Early voting options (where applicable), Election dates, nonpartisan candidate information in various federal, state and local races, tips on watching candidate debates, voter ID requirements, Polling place locations and where to vote, voter registration deadlines, Voter qualifications, Voter registration forms, Voting machines, overseas voters<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.vote411.org http://www.vote411.org mushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download. Smush it comes in different flavours: * You can upload a bunch of pictures in your browser * You can provide us with a list of image urls or * You can get a Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page <br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://smushit.com http://smushit.com A nice set of tips for presenting well and keeping the audience engaged.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?733 http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?733 The Netflix API allows access to data for more than 100,000 DVD titles plus a growing library of more than 12,000 choices that can be watched instantly on PCs as well as access on a user's behalf to manage their movie queue. The Netflix API is free and allows commercial use.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://developer.netflix.com http://developer.netflix.com There are several principal ways that the FiveThityEight methodology differs from other poll compilations: Firstly, we assign each poll a weighting based on that pollster's historical track record, the poll's sample size, and the recentness of the poll. More reliable polls are weighted more heavily in our averages. Secondly, we include a regression estimate based on the demographics in each state among our 'polls', which helps to account for outlier polls and to keep the polling in its proper context. Thirdly, we use an inferential process to compute a rolling trendline that allows us to adjust results in states that have not been polled recently and make them ‘current’. Fourthly, we simulate the election 10,000 times for each site update in order to provide a probabilistic assessment of electoral outcomes based on a historical analysis of polling data since 1952. The simulation further accounts for the fact that similar states are likely to move together, e.g. future polling movement in states like Michigan and Ohio, or North and South Carolina, is likely to be in the same direction.<br />Submited by nbr 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://www.fivethirtyeight.com http://www.fivethirtyeight.com A useful demo of the relationship of font scale and vertical rhythm of traditional typography with tools to make it easy to adjust the layout and easily view/copy the resulting CSS. <br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://lamb.cc/typograph http://lamb.cc/typograph An elegant, timeless, collectable magazine for people who love web design and are intrigued by the possibility of the web<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:17 GMT http://scrollmagazine.com http://scrollmagazine.com A collection of Photoshop brushes, color swatches, fonts and desktops.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://thedesignbureauofamerika.com/thebureaulovesyou http://thedesignbureauofamerika.com/thebureaulovesyou The steps required to set up CalDAV support for Google Calendar in iCal, which allows syncing between the two calendars.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358 http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358 Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://mouritsada-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#Brush-Packs http://mouritsada-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#Brush-Packs Welcome to the very first edition of our Design Resources Pack, the basic idea behind this is; we collect a load of resources around a certain theme or style and put them together in one place. Grunge is a style which is often misunderstood. Grunge doesn’t always have to mean really over the top dirty and dark. Today grunge comes in many forms, subtle grunge effects seem to be more common than just completely “grunging” something up. Whether you choose to be subtle, or over-the-top with your Grunge style here are some amazing resources to help you out.<br />Submited by yatot 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://wefunction.com/2008/07/design-pack-grunge http://wefunction.com/2008/07/design-pack-grunge This FREE 30 days Illustrator crash course is created for beginners interested in learning Illustrator. Each lesson will take around 20 mins to complete and you will be able to learn the basic fundamental techniques before the 30 days trial ends.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.istockdiary.com/illustrator/learn-illustrator-cs3-in-30-days http://www.istockdiary.com/illustrator/learn-illustrator-cs3-in-30-days An interesting look at the foundation of Meebo, which relies upon Comet. 'The ability to create an "instant" communications experience through the Web is the strength of the Comet recipe. The use of long-polling via the XMLHttpRequest is a critical technology to meebo. It enabled meebo to implement low-latency bi-directional communication on any modern computer that can access the Web, without the need to download software.'<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/how-comet-brings-instant-messa.html http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/how-comet-brings-instant-messa.html Kellan Elliott-McCrea (co-presented with Rabble) presentationt, which was a 'XMPP outsiders look at how to hijack XMPP to solve the problems of RSS and polling at “quantum” and “relativistic” scales. (small and rare, or huge fast and raging).'<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.slideshare.net/kellan/beyond-rest http://www.slideshare.net/kellan/beyond-rest Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both. Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder’s search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use. <br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://tagfolders.vndv.com http://tagfolders.vndv.com "Activate The Death Ray is a Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://activatethedeathray.com http://activatethedeathray.com Schtock is the online playground of a pseudo-disgruntled stock photography employee.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.schtock.com http://www.schtock.com A great visual breakdown of the impact of the tab plans from Senators McCain and Obama.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://chartjunk.karmanaut.com/taxplans http://chartjunk.karmanaut.com/taxplans pptPlex is a plug-in that explores an alternate method for presenting a PowerPoint slide deck. Using pptPlex, you can present your slides as a tour through a zoomable canvas instead of a series of linear slides.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx Everymoment Now. Exploring news histories and bringing context and scope to the moments shaping our world.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://everymomentnow.com http://everymomentnow.com AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.<br />Submited by stinie 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://applejack.sourceforge.net http://applejack.sourceforge.net "Filtering data. We all have to do it. Most, if not all of us, despise doing it. However, unbeknown to most are PHP's filter_* functions, that allow us to do all sorts of filtering and validation. Using PHP's filter_* functions, we can validate and sanitize data types, URLs, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, strip bad characters, and more, all with relative ease. This is part one of two, covering filter_var() and the different constants and flags that can be set."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://devolio.com/blog/archives/413-Data-Filtering-Using-PHPs-Filter-Functions-Part-one.html http://devolio.com/blog/archives/413-Data-Filtering-Using-PHPs-Filter-Functions-Part-one.html "FunctionFlip's purpose is simply to disable the special features — rewind, play, mute, etc. — on the function keys. For example, if you "flip" F7, F8, and F9, those keys will revert back to normal F keys — without affecting the other functions. Press the fn key with the special key to get the special function back. That is, the "special" and "normal" functions are flipped."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://kevingessner.com/frog/projects/functionflip http://kevingessner.com/frog/projects/functionflip "Tired of the cumbersome searches through stock photo sites? See better results with Cyclo.ps. Our monster machine brings the results of the most popular stock sites to one location. Search once. See it all."<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://cyclo.ps http://cyclo.ps We want citizens out in the field observing, asking questions, asserting the right to know. We know it will help to have a booklet you can put in your purse or jacket pocket, to remind you of what to look for and what kinds of questions to ask. Therefore, we have also printed booklets.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://googlechrometips.blogspot.com http://googlechrometips.blogspot.com tr.im is for quick, easy, full-featured URL shortening service with integrated posting to social networks such as Twitter, with conversation panels, and a free public API.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://tr.im http://tr.im Polltrack gauges the mood of the nation and predicts the outcome of elections from the perspective of where it matters the most: with voters on the ground. Maurice Berger presents a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute picture of what voters are thinking and feeling, with maps and commentary.<br />Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.polltrack.com http://www.polltrack.com Submited by BaldTechnologist 08, October 2008 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:47:16 GMT http://www.performancebike.com http://www.performancebike.com