LinkPost – May 2009

Posted by Phil on June 2, 2009 under LinkPost, Web Development | Read the First Comment

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 ).

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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.