How to taste beer

http://www.cureforwhatalesyou.com/2007/01/23/how-to-taste-beer/
Tasting beers may seem simple to many: buy beer and drink it. However, there are an increasing number of people who understand that craft beers can be just as complex as some wines. Because so many brewers are starting to put more thought and effort into brewing beer, we as beer drinkers should also think more about what we taste when we drink beer.

Stupid Name. Cool Brushes!

http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes.php?i=1
"Welcome to Brusheezy.com! A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom photoshop brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet! Got a custom photoshop brush or pattern you'd like to share with the world? Visit our Upload Page and submit your own! We only accept the best and highest quality photoshop brushes and patterns for our collection. Be sure to read the terms and conditions for the official rules for uploading your own."

23 ways to find new readers for your blog

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/01/31/23-ideas-for-finding-new-readers-for-your-blog/

101 Free Games: The list is live

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/1/21/6697
"If you're tired of being burned by piles of $60+ games and just want to relax this Sunday, playing something for a lot less money, this list is for you. Here's an idea of what the staff of Games for Windows has put together for the discerning gamer:"

Direct Link: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3156339

Lifehacker Code: About This Site add-on (Firefox)

http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/lifehacker-code--about-this-site-addon-firefox-232375.php
"When you happen upon a new web site - or you're just interested in finding more about one you frequent all the time - it's difficult to get a sense of how popular it is, how long it's been around, what people are saying about it and how much it's been bookmarked. The About This Site Firefox extension offers one click access to web services that compile just that kind of information for you."

Channel Frederator: World's original cartoon podcast

http://www.channelfrederator.com/index
We're the world's original cartoon podcast. We package together some of the world's coolest and funniest cartoons sent in by you, the viewers, and serve them to you fresh each week.

Ubuntu Ultimate

http://ubuntusoftware.info/ultimate/index.html
A tongue-in-cheek response to Windows Vista: Ultimate Edition from the Ubuntu community. Actually, altogether, an impressive realease. And the price is right.

Shycast

http://www.shycast.com/
"Shycast is a community of people and brands, working together to make great new things happen in the world of social marketing.

At Shycast we see the future: brands opening up to their customers, and people becoming more able, interested in, and open to, a real relationship with their favorite brands.

Our first feature that brings brands and people closer is an automated video contest engine. We encourage brands to use Shycast to engage their fans, and to contribute to the community with contest, prizes, and more: we want to see brands go a step further and work with the Shycast community to come up with great promotional concepts, and new and innovative rewards.

To support the flow of ideas, Shycast will run continual challenge that asks community members to come up with their own contest ideas. In the background we will solicit brands to embrace the community’s thinking and launch contests created by, and starring, their real life customers.

Shycast is run by a small group of people with considerable experience in social media and consumer advertising. We recognize that all community members – brands and people – deserve to feel secure when using Shycast , and so we require all content on the site to abide by our community standards, which you can read here."

Top Ten CSS Gallery/Showcase Websites

http://forum.programming-designs.com/viewtopic.php?pid=4324
Top Ten CSS Gallery/Showcase Websites

Free Font Manifesto

http://www.elupton.com/index.php?id=17
"A small but growing number of designers and institutions are creating typefaces for the public domain. These designers are participating in the broader open source and copyleft movements, which seek to stimulate worldwide creativity via a collective information commons. This web page provides information and airs ideas about the concept of free fonts. Its annotated appearance reflects my conversations with type designers about the danger and necessity of free fonts. —Ellen Lupton"

Controlling how search engines access and index your website

Via Googleblog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/controlling-how-search-engines-access.html
"I'm often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results."

Microsoft Expression Suite

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx
Microsoft Expression takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality—whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content.

Worthless little paper toys (Nah, actually really fun)

http://smpenterprisesllc.com/flash/bin/1999/model04.html
http://www.readymech.com/
Free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5"x11" page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.

Sexy free OS X Apps

http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/blog/400/free-os-x-apps
"I am still, on a day to day basis, a PC user at heart but I love my iBook (now it's all fixed up). Over the months I seem to have collected a good few apps to play with, these are a few of my favourites."

Open Culture weblog

http://www.oculture.com/weblog/
Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that help make learning dynamic and fun, no matter what your age.

100 Best Fonts

http://www.100besteschriften.de/
Die 100 Besten Schriften

Roxik

http://roxik.com/toy1.html
Toy from Roxik motion studio.

The art of Adam Betts

http://artofadambetts.com/weblog/
An often interesting blog from web designer Adam Betts.

Joost beta review

http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/01/16/joost-beta-reviewed-tv-just-got-a-little-smarter/
"I installed it, I started it, and in 5 seconds I was watching television.

I did it for an hour before I remembered that I’m actually supposed to review the thing. I guess there’s no greater praise, but for those who like details, I’ve included the details as well. So, here’s what I think about Joost, the latest project from the authors of Skype, formerly dubbed as the Venice Project, for whose beta I was lucky to be invited a couple of days ago."

Addicted to Digg? Here Are 5 Must Have Tools for You

http://www.techpwn.com/?p=62
"Like most of you, I am addicted to digg. Every day it seems as if I spend hours going through the queues and front page stories while at the same time I am busy obsessively updating my submitted stories. Therefore, I have put together a list of applications that I use that can help you ease (or maybe worsen) your digg addiction."

AT&T and BellSouth Merger

http://www.att.com/customer_merger/index.html
Site flash animation for the AT&T merger.

The Apple Blog

http://theappleblog.com/
All Apple, all the time. Appley blogging goodness.

OS X note taking application faceoff

http://theappleblog.com/2007/01/22/note-taking-application-faceoff/

Whether you’re writing a simple article for a blog, piecing together the next blockbuster hit, or penning a 500 page romance novel, there are quite a few options for helping you get all of that information organized and drafted. There really are enough to chose from with a wide enough range of options that you’re sure to find something to fit your needs.

Phallic Logo Awards

http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/
The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it's a big spurting penis?

First Ever REAL Wii Modchip Arrives - CycloWiz!

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=13934

Speak-n-spell for the internet

Online (working!) speak-n-spell
http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/

Interview with Daniel Burka from digg.com

http://www.creativecomponent.com/2007/01/26/interview-with-daniel-burka-from-diggcom/

"CreativeXpert is back with a great interview with Daniel Burka!

Daniel is not only the full-time UI designer of the SanFrancisco-based digg, he’s also partner of a firm in Canada called silverorange.

Daniel and I talk about accessibility, usability and the viral content at the core of what makes digg work. We learn about the joys of working on a site that’s forever stuck in Alexa’s top 100 list."

Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/31/inspire-yourself-50-remarkable-favicons/

Actually it’s a pity that many designers don’t really make use of them. Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. To be recognized immediately, favicons have to be visually appealing and fit to the design or logo of a given page. In fact, if you use Favicons for your sites, users can easily find your URL in their bookmarks - in this way you create some kind of a visual connection between your web-site and your sites’ visitors.

Windows Vista's new spin on licensing...and why it grates

http://techreport.com/etc/2007q1/vista-licensing/index.x?pg=1

Vista OEM Licensing and differences

http://techreport.com/etc/2007q1/vista-licensing/index.x?pg=1

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD

Convert any file to a DVD!

"Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task. There's plenty of software that tackles this sort of thing for a price, but as a lover of open source software, free's always my first choice."

Link!: http://lifehacker.com/software/dvds/hack-attack-burn-almost-any-video-file-to-a-playable-dvd-232322.php

Amazing painted hands

http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/01/amazing-hand-painting-art.html

http://www.freewareosx.com/

http://www.freewareosx.com/
We provide links and descriptions to the best freeware available for Mac OS X. Please come back and visit us often as we update our site daily.

InstantShot (screen capture for Mac)

http://www.glennwolsey.com/2007/01/22/instantshot-taking-screenshots-the-smart-way/
http://www.digitalwaters.net/progetti/2006/12/27/instantshot-v2.html
Screenshots can help explain a process so much easier than words, screenshots can help capture readers and reel them in to read more, and they can make articles look stylish and pretty. But screenshots are at times a hassle to capture, it’s a time consuming task many of you dont want to have anything to do with. That stops now, as InstantShot! has taken the scene and made the task of taking screenshots as simple one one, two, three.

Lo8os

http://www.lo8os.com/
Lo8os is a logo gallery and graphic design community. Our goal is to share design ideas, and inspire.

style gala

http://www.stylegala.com/
Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS. Web standards are recommendations set by the W3C as to how web sites should be constructed to work better for everyone. CSS is the acronym for Cascading Style Sheet and describes how a html document is displayed or printed. The basic idea of web standards and CSS is to separate content from presentation - an effective way of producing beautiful and functional websites for the internet.

AIGA Boston

http://boston.aiga.org/

352 Media, Atlanta Web Design Co.

http://www.352media.com/
At 352 Media Group, we aren't your typical Web design company. With a staff of almost 50 people, we have the ability to dedicate an entire team of specialized professionals to each of our custom Web design, Web application development, CD and DVD production and motion graphics projects.

Design Snack

http://www.designsnack.com/
Design Snack is a user-controlled web design showcase, providing the members with the power to decide which sites are showcased and which sites are not. We believe this concept gives the visitors and especially the registered members much more control over the content they would expect to see on a web design showcase.

designwire

http://www.designwire.org/
At it's core Designwire is a place to meet up, communicate and collaborate with like-minded creatives. Designwire was launched in December 2005 by a group of Australian creatives.

Artician

http://www.artician.com/

Curbly

http://www.curbly.com/
Curbly is a Web community for people who love where they live. By connecting with others, sharing your experiences, participating in feel-good contests, and getting advice from experts, Curbly is the best community to help you feel good about your place.

Open Designs

http://www.opendesigns.org/
The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing free web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.

Creativebits

http://creativebits.org/
creativebits.org is a professional blog and community site for graphic designers working on Mac OS X. It's objective is to provide graphic designers a professional forum where they can share tips and tricks, follow up on the industry's events and ask for help and critique from fellow members.

Opern Source Web Design (Templates)

http://www.oswd.org/
Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place.

CD/DVD Covers Archive

http://www.cdcovers.cc/

Online archive for all sots of disc covers.

CSS Superdouche

http://isnoop.net/tools/css.php

This tool can significantly reduce the size of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.

SeekingAlpha.com

Seeking Alpha is the leading provider of stock market opinion and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters. ('Alpha' is a finance term referring to a stock's performance relative to the market; it's used more loosely by fund managers to describe beating their index, so every stock picker is "seeking alpha".)

Changethis.com

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. Read more...