LinkPost for August 2009
Wow, another month has come and gone, and summer is nearing the end. Schools have started back up and it's time to buckle down and start working on things you've learned over the summer (not to mention all the gratuitous homework you may start accumulating). To help you out with either some stress relief, or with a project you've been assigned, we have plenty of links to sort through.
This months highlights include the usual sampling of fonts, some image links (tons of photoshop goodness this round), a new image compression resource (better compression than smush.it), jQuery tutorials/plug ins, and some mac widgets to help you get things done on your mac.
Let's get started...
-=Images=-
http://labs.chemist2dio.com/free-vector-wings-kick-ass-set.php - Vector wings
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/03/a-z-of-free-photoshop-plugins-and-filters/ - All the free things you need for photoshop
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tutorials/tutorials/huge-essential-collection-of-photoshop-actions-to-dpeed-up-your-work.html - tons of actions for your photoshopery
http://www.icopedia.com/ - whenever you need icons, here's where you go
http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/40-new-high-quality-adobe-photoshop-tutorials.html - Awesome photoshop tutorials, man I gotsta get back into photoshop...
http://www.geeksucks.com/icons/72-sets-of-free-social-bookmarking-icons.htm - Sometimes you need some social icon'ery
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=6258 - a ton of 'tech' brushes, note: all seem to be from deviant so if your losery proxy hates deviantart, you my friend are SOL - till you get home.
http://www.gracepointafterfive.com/punypng - Like smush.it, but with better compression (for now)
-=Mac=-
http://visionwidget.com/toolz/8-web-development/277-apps-macfor-web-development.html - 12 More apps for the mac
http://speckyboy.com/2009/08/05/30-mac-dashboard-widgets-for-web-designers-and-developers/ - more mac love
-=jQuery=-
http://buildinternet.com/2009/08/lights-out-dimmingcovering-background-content-with-jquery/ - Learn how to dim the background and display content with jQuery... I love the static dimming, very nice.
http://www.myinkblog.com/2009/08/04/10-tips-for-writing-better-jquery-code/ - Tips to help your jQuery become more awesome
http://www.webgurusdesignblog.com/2009/08/fancyplayer-jquery-fancybox-and-flowplayer-integration-tutorial/ - Integration tutorial of Flowplayer and Fancybox.
http://codefusionlab.blogspot.com/2009/06/31-refreshing-jquery-techniquesplugins.html
http://firequery.binaryage.com/ - Firefox plugin that changes firebug to respect the jQ, and jQuerify pages (insert jQ directly into the page through the console
http://www.devirtuoso.com/2009/08/beginners-guide-to-using-ajax-with-jquery-part-2/ - Part two from last months guide to ajax with jQuery
http://www.agilecarousel.com/ - Nice carousel, but it looks like it requires php...
http://www.noupe.com/design/sliding-content.html - Me likey the sliders...
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/5-ways-to-make-ajax-calls-with-jquery/ - yep some ajax with the jQ, always a good time
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/23/50-useful-new-jquery-techniques/ - I'm fairly sure I've covered most of these by now, but smash is great, so here is their list.
http://www.openstudio.fr/jQuery-spherical-panorama-viewer.html?lang=en - Spherical Viewer plugin... looks interesting
-=Fonts=-
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/design/design/60-free-fonts-for-big-bold-and-beautiful-headlines.html
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/design/design/35-really-awesome-free-grunge-fonts-with-inspirational-showcases.html - I swear I've linked this before, but it shows up as new in the feeds, so here we go...
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/07/beautiful-new-free-fonts-for-your-designs/
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/design/fonts/75-free-fonts-for-professional-design.html - I'm starting to wonder if tripwire is reusing some of the fonts in all of their posts...
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/08/14/40-fresh-high-quality-free-fonts-for-your-designs/ - 40 more fonts, not all are free, but some are.
http://spyrestudios.com/32-trashy-and-distorted-fonts-for-you-next-grungy-design/ - get your grungy dirty font on.
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/28-free-high-quality-fonts-to-boost-your-typography - Yay for fonts
http://designm.ag/resources/handwritten-fonts/ - Handwritten fonts are the new..uh.. font
-=Tools=-
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/integrate-statistics-into-any-application-using-open-web-analytics/
http://flv-player.net/ - Pretty good free flv player
http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/ - SmillaEnlarger, image enlarger (w/out artifacting! ish...)
http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ - Freaking sweet encryption technique, good idea, doubt I'll ever use it, but it's good to know someone is still doing something to keep privacy alive.
http://pdfpirate.net/ - for those times when a restricted pdf just doesn't get you what you want... muhwa ha ha
http://www.pingdom.com/ - We've covered the great list of tools they offer before, but now they offer a free account for website uptime-monitoring.
-=Misc=-
http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ - Google's take on improving the web, and making it faster
http://designfellow.com/blog/freebies/codeigniter-quick-reference-cheat-sheet-version-2-0-released/ - cheat sheet for codeigniter
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/8-regular-expressions-you-should-know/ - another excellent tutorial on regexing, or at least some important ones to know.
http://www.freeliberator.com/ - Liberator is a comet server (comet is like ajax... get it) only it runs on push methodology, check it out, here's a free server... oh and to get your "free license" you need to fill out a marketing form.
http://www.ftrain.com/unicode/ - Get your unicode on
http://www.methodologie.com/webcanvas/ - Nice visual example of what visitors will be able to see (dimensions of your page) on your site.
http://www.devirtuoso.com/2009/08/speeding-up-page-loading-for-javascript-heavy-sites/ - I have heard of using imports for your js files, but initially shrugged it off as a possible bad practice, but after reading this, the import could come in very handy.
http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/ - Useless, but fun and a great example of what you can do with box2d. Works best in Chrome, but FF3.5 performed adequately too.
That's all for now, but as always, let me know if any links are broken, mis-directed, or just plain wrong.
Enjoy!
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