four5one:

http://www.four5one.ie/
Designer for music artists, including a lot of work for U2

10 Necessary Mac Apps for the College Student

http://dbachrach.com/blog/2007/09/17/10-necessary-mac-apps-for-the-college-student/
"Going through the first few weeks of college, I’ve found a few apps that have made my university life so much easier. Some of these apps will be things you have heard of. Hopefully, some will be new to you. Most of the apps have been designed for a much larger audience, but greatly help college students in particular."

Full Color Screen Printing with Photoshop

http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/
"If you have read my article, “The Secrets to Full Color Screen Printing”, than you already understand the underlying principles to 4 color screen printing. In that article we discussed the principles of the CMYK color model, color separations, halftones, and lines per inch (LPI). In this tutorial, we are going to take what we have learned, and using photoshop, quickly create color separations for output to transparencies for screen printing."

Search Engine Optimization And The Magic Fairy Dust

http://mybasepage.com/p.php?id=b6ynue
"There is only one thing that all webmasters agree upon... They all want to be at the top of the search engine results for search terms that will drive traffic and consumers to their website. The search engines are like our childhood game of King Of The Hill"

I Have a New Favorite Web Browser: Flock

http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005768.html
"More than two years ago, I blogged about the preview version of Flock, a browser, built with Mozilla Firefox at its core, with a social bent. I said it showed promise and said I'd keep an eye on it.

And then...the Flock folks failed to release a final version and I sort of forgot about it. Two years later, this browser still isn't available in final form. But I've been using the iteration billed at the beta version of Flock 1.0--available for download here--for the past few days. And I'm so impressed that I've done something I didn't see myself anytime soon: I've dumped Firefox as my primary gateway to the Web. For now, I'm using Flock as my default browser on both my desktop Vista machine and my MacBook portable, and thoroughly enjoying the experience."

Job Aggregators

http://www.simplyhired.com/

http://www.jobster.com/

http://www.indeed.com/

An Event Apart San Francisco: Day One and Day Two Notes

http://www.silverstripe.com/aneventapart-san-francisco-day-one/
http://www.silverstripe.com/aneventapart-san-francisco-day-two/
"A day into Alistapart's intimate web conference, AnEventApart San Francisco 2007, and its clear where the industry is focusing: with the battle for web standards now entrenched, consideration can go into content (aka copy) strategy, as well enlightening the rest of us busy souls of some interesting coding and design tricks."

YouTube: The Real Hustle - Bartender Scams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfNXcVLjaDc

YouTube: CHESS MASTER GARRY KASPAROV EXPLAINS POLITICAL NATURE OF OIL

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LQYyPooETcI
Gary Kasparov interviewed by Bill Maher.

PSD Tuts: Applying a Realistic Tattoohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

http://psdtuts.com/photo-effects-tutorials/applying-a-realistic-tattoo/
"Our first guest tutorial comes from Arik, if you'd like to write a tutorial read more about how you can contribute.

There are lots of tutorials on the web that claim to achieve a realistic tattoo effect. Usually these tutorials instruct the user to import an image they want to use as a tattoo and to set it to overlay. Out of experience I can say that this does NOT look like a tattoo. It looks like...well...an overlayed image.

In this tutorial I will be demonstrating an advanced technique to achieve a realistic tattoo. We will be using masks, adjustment layers, displacement maps and several brushing skills will be applied."

Content, the King of Missed Opportunities

http://www.blogaboutcrafts.com/index.php?/archives/69-Content,-the-King-of-Missed-Opportunities.html
"I recently blogged about how having Adsense or other affiliate advertising on a business site can lead to reduced sales - see Adsense Kills Business.

One of the people who visited mentioned that they wanted 'to get something from the people who came' and didn't buy. This got me to thinking about the many sites I've seen where they have quality content that is well-written and informative, but fails to do it's job."

Fast Company: The Tao of Steve: Why We Keep Buying Apple Products

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/the-tao-of-steve.html
"The column you're reading right now was typed on an Apple PowerBook G4 whose fan is only slightly quieter than a Formula One racing car and which crashes in an equally spectacular yet horrifying manner. My previous Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) laptop began falling apart week one, when a flimsy plastic key on the flimsy plastic keyboard abandoned its tenuous hold and took a suicidal leap onto the nether regions of its owner's desk. Other keys, perhaps despairing of their own mediocrity, eventually followed suit."

Fast Company: Magic Shop: Are your frontline employees going to save or kill your most important quarter? At Apple, nothing is left to chance.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/magic-shop.html
"Day one at my new job. Sporting white headphones, I am plugged into a computer watching Ridley Scott's awe-inspiring "1984" Macintosh ad, reviewing the company history, and getting pumped up about my new workplace. Like most of my coworkers, I'm already a loyal fan of the company, so starting this job will take my interest to the next level. I'm working as a Mac specialist at the Apple Store."

Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik (Kick Butt With Internal Site Search Analytics)

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/
"I love Internal Site Search data.

It is a amazing peek into customer intent, which usually is quite elusive in our normal clickstream data.

I had first written about the wonders of site search analysis in a June 2006 post: Are You Into Internal Site Search Analysis? You Should Be. It is also covered in detail in Web Analytics: An Hour A Day."

Times Online: Google. Who's looking at you?

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2688404.ece
"In the blissed-out California sunshine, the glistening glass-and-steel curves of the Googleplex seem to sweep you up off the pavement with the promise of a glimpse into the future – and a good time. It is 8am on a Monday morning and battalions of high-tech foot soldiers arrive at the gilded palace of the online revolution. Laptops and lattes in hand, they step off conga lines of biodiesel-powered buses, chatting loud and fast about the latest skyrocketing Silicon Valley start-ups, which have names that sound like Teletubbies: Jajah, Orgoo, Ningo. Geek by geek, they head inside to begin surfing and controlling the quadrillions of bytes of information that surge through Google’s giant servers, and which crash on to our desktops and mobile phones every minute of every day."

Go Mediazine: Rule Three: Contrast, Contrast, Contrast

http://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-contrast-contrast/
"Good contrast in your design goes hand-in-hand with your color selections. Contrast is the value difference between the colors on your design. Value is how bright or dark the color (ink) is. Ever see a blank white canvas and as a joke someone says: “Hey – it’s a white cow in a snow storm!” This is an example of no contrast. White on white is no contrast – you can’t see anything."

PSDTuts: Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish

http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/elements-of-great-web-design-the-polish/
"When I put together designs I usually do so in two phases - Layout and Polish. During the layout phase I place the main objects on the page usually finishing with something that looks relatively complete. In the second stage - the Polish - I go over the design and adjust colours, type treatments, shadows, layers, and generally clean it all up. In this first of a series of tutorials on web design, we'll be looking at the Polish."

Inc.com: Turning Browsers Into Browsers

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070901/turning-browsers-into-buyers.html
"Anyone who does business online worries about how to boost Web traffic. But traffic is only part of the story. Equally important is the conversion rate--the percentage of customers who actually buy something. On average, companies report that only 3 percent of Web surfers actually buy, according to a survey by Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation."

Tablecloth: table elements with style

http://cssglobe.com/lab/tablecloth/
"Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behaviour to your html table elements. By simply adding 2 lines of code to your html page you will have styled and active tables that your visitors will love :) Try to mouseover or click on a table below."

Virtual hosting blog: Webmaster Intel Basics: 25 Tools to Compile an In-Depth Dossier on a Competitors’ Site

http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/webmaster-intel-basics-25-tools-to-compile-an-in-depth-dossier-on-a-competitors-site/
"Your rankings don’t just depend on how good your site is. They depend on the quality of your competitors’ sites as well. As a result, keeping an eye on your competition should be a regular part of every webmaster’s tactical plan. Use these 25 tools to get the lowdown on their sites."