LinkPost – May 2009
Yep, I'm a few days late, but this month is full of more tasty linked goodness! Plenty of image links, multimedia, jQuery, generic web dev, some WordPress, a couple of iPhone links, plenty of 'other', and of course what a LinkPost be without tons and tons of fonts (now that I've said that, next month watch there not be any 
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Graphics, imagery, and the like:
SmashingMagazine: sprites - a nice collection of sprite tutorials
35 inkscape tutorials - Awesome! Yes! Inkscape Rules! w00t! Thanks Speckyboy!
30 places to find CreativeCommons licensed media - Because who doesn't need the occasional freebie...ish
60 beautiful logo design tutorials and resources - Another great article from smashing magazine. They do good work and put together some really useful resources.
http://pattern8.com/ - Free patterns, yep, patterns, for free.
80 Fresh New Textures... - Yep, 80 textures for you to throw on your site, isn't the interweb great?
Free Vectors - Free Vectors for Everyone!
30 stunning photoshop brushes - Some nice ps brushes (remember as of gimp 2.4 ps brushes work in gimp )
Best Grunge Textures and Brushes... - Time to get your grunge on, and not talkin' bout your old plaid shirt and doc martin shoes...
Optimize your png files - Optimize your png'ery, in 'bout five minutes... Actually this article is pretty much a bust, it's just common sense mixed with smush.it. Although the png compressors aren't a bad idea...
15... color scheme generators - A very nice collection of color scheme tools and generators (some I've linked before).
Flavour-Extended the ultimate icon set for web designers - Dude/Bro/Kemo-Sabe... SmashMag, you guys are my heroes this month!
Photoxpress - Free Stock Photos (I think you have to sign up though...)
iconza - Serving you icons 24/7, 4 weeks a month, 13 months a year (plus a day -pesky earth rotation ).
Video
Cinecode - Open-source video to FLV converter. I haven't tried it, but it looks great.
Best tutorials for cinematic visual effects - If you have 3dsmax, and/or after effects, this will suck up a month of your life, and you will thank me (or smashing magazine) for it.
EncodeHD - DoubleTwist is cool, wicked buggy, but cool. That being said, uninstall it, throw it away and use this instead! you don't have to sync, you don't have to sign-up, and it runs from a usb stick (if you want)!
10 free screen recording softwares... - Ever wanted to screen cast but didn't know where to start? You do now.
8 free mp3, flash video, and audio plugins/players - Not a fan of their design/layout, but it's a good list.
jQuery
Demystifying the jQuery selectors optimization - Optimize your jQuery code - speed baby, speed!
15 exceptional jQuery resources and tutorials - Yep another list of jQuery tutorials, get started today, you can catch up, I believe in you.
15 excellent jquery plugins to enhance html forms - Make your forms pretty with jQuery.
12 jQuery tooltips for web developers - Tooltips are great, some are better than others, but jQuery makes them all happen.
jPlayer - a nice jQuery mp3 player (uses jQuery and flash, and is fairly customizable).
jQuery performance rules - Time to learn more about how jQuery works and how to speed it up a bit (different from the link above).
Animated Header with jQuery - Animate your site header with some jQuery magic.
javascript, ajax, jQuery mega toolbox - btw this may have been stolen from WebResourcesDepo, seems tripwire likes to steal posts from people...
jQuery tabs - Casey needed some jQuery tab tutorials, so here's one.
Extend your google analytics with jQuery - You probably use both, now combine them to make the ultimate hybrid that may usher in the apocolypse.
6 Flexible jQuery plugins to control webpage layous easily - Showing WebResourcesDepot some love, thanks for the great post!
Turn off the lights while watching videos, with jQuery - I first saw DivX do this, and now with jQuery you can do it too.
jQuery tutorials April 2009 - A nice round of jQuery tutorials that surfaced during April.
jGrowl, like Growl but with jQuery - Me love Growl, now jQuery can make your webapp love it too... or at least look like it.
jQuery tutorals Map 2009 - Right, here's the may jQuery tutorial links, I knew I was missing something.
HTML/CSS/JS
10 cross browser css properties you have probably forgotten - a decent list of css properties... oddly enough, we use most of them still.
See your css changes in real-time - This is more awesome than it sounds, yes you have firebug, but what about when you want to see a change happen in safari, ie, and firefox at the same time?! Yeah, you use this.
jsTracer - an interesting approach to javascript tracing.
jTrace - Yeah, I didn't like the above solution so much, so I coded my own (both a jQuery plug-in (ish) and a stand-alone)
15 free functionality and load testing tools... - List of testing software for you web applications
Styling your lists - We already do some of these, and some are interesting, pretty good read.
Build your own javascript stack tracers - Links are here, and another one here.
Mollom, the spam stopper - Similar to Akismet and friends, this one is used by Sony, Adobe, WB, and more... oh, and it's free (thanks WRD for spotting this)
CSS mega tool box - Tripwire likes to use the word mega a lot, I like the word awesome.
10 essential dom methods and techniques for practical javascript - sometimes your project doesn't have jQuery, and it's not going too, that's when your skills (that you learned from this link) shine.
CSS Enhancements... - a few quick css tricks (that may not work in all browsers).
25 important web design tools - This is a nice list of the tools that the author uses, I use quite a few of these myself.
7 ways to load ajax - ajax loading tutorials, I've done a few of them, ajax makes me happy.
Protecting your ajax pages from non-ajax requests - Nice read, good to know a simple server variable trip does the trick.
10 incredibly useful collection of... - We've covered most of these before, but here's another concise list.
22 CSS button styling tutorails and techniques - Speckyboy does another great post on using styles to create buttons.
phpjs - Use php in your javascript (400ish functions already ported, and growing).
WordPress & CMS
Ultimate WordPress tutorial collection - Very large collection of WP tutorials.
100 the very best of free wordpress themes - Yep, plenty of free themes... 100 of them, and nice too.
100 amazing free wordpress themes for 2009 - Another 100 free themes for WP.
Extend your WordPress with these plugins - Noupe has a nice list of WP extending plugins.
iPhone
How to get started with iPhone Dev - Ryan read this and while it is useful, it's not useful. It highlights features that won't be accepted by apple... so keep looking for some xcode tutorials, although this is a nice design read.
8 ways to view page source code on your iPhone - Sometimes you need to see what's going on, on your iPhone.
Other
Build a webservice with php, mysql, xml, and json - David Walsh has a great article on how to make this happen.
VisualSVN Server - The All in one SVN solution (Bert Tested, and Bert approved!)
Eye tracking websites - Nice study on eye-tracking and websites.
Crossloop - Like VNC, but with a sign up, and a ghetto web 2.0 client widgety thing.
Demonsterdebugger - Debug your flash, flex, and air apps with this.
Prism, by Mozilla - If AIR had been created by Mozilla, this is what it may have looked/been like.
Sectools index - Always nice to refresh yourself on security tools, and it really has been a while since I've been to insecure.org.
Poster - a pretty cool Firefox add-on that lets you mess with webservices (you can do posts, gets, etc. with it)
Enable 1/2 star ratings in iTunes - See I knew I wasn't the only one that wanted this. Although I'd settle for a value-10 system with one decimal place too. This works, and it's made my iTunes more useful, cos not all songs are 3 stars, some are 3 1/2.
Tweetmypc - Yeah, shutdown your computer with a tweet.
Mynimi - Like Compiz (for linux) on crack for windows!
Slack Radio - Like pandora, only it plays commercials, likes to play the same songs A LOT, and doesn't have an AIR app. Wait, why did I link this again?
145 cheat sheets for the interwebs - Become the ultimate cheater, I mean be faster, stronger, and be able to jump higher on the information interwebtubes'n'such.
IcePDF - java based pdf renderer, it's open-source have at it my java loving friends
Aribaweb - interesting framework for building WebApps, not sure I'll ever use it, but it's nice to see that something like this is out there.
22 neat code editors for Windows - Can't decide that notepad++ is your favorite text editor? Well give the other 21 a try (includes both free and paid apps in the post).
Fonts
45 Beautiful fonts for modern design trends - What kind of LinkPost would it be without some fonts?
FreePremiumFonts - I will never run out of fonts again.. ever.
15 fresh high quality free fonts - 15 MORE fonts, oh and there's a big fat explative on the page when it loads... You were warned!
26 must have free fonts - I feel like I've posted this... deja vu?
Fontex - Look, more fonts!
10 awesome free handwritten fonts - Sometimes chicken-scratch that made by other is better than your own chicken-scratch.
105 free grunge fonts for web designers and logo artists - Get your font grunge on!
That is the LinkPost for this month, of course I'm sure I messed up a link or two, so feel free to let me know, or drop a comment question below.
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June 4th, 2009 - 14:45
I tried tweetmypc but it didn’t work on my work computer. I would like to know if anyone has success with this tool.