December LinkPost
And onward to the December LinkPost! I don't think I'll get around to posting the January LP until tomorrow or next week, but in this one we have more jQuery goodness, vectors, brushes, fonts, and more!
-= Misc and Tools=-
Chrome with webkit development tools - Chrome's devtools, like firebug, but different. Note that you will need the to use this.
Useful web design tools - Another list of tools for web designers.
25 graph and chart solutions for web developers - nice list of charts and graph libs.
50 Ultimate useful free mac apps for graphic and web designers - yay for mac tools (especially free ones, which I'm finding are wicked rare on that platform).
30 must see web generator for lazy web masters - see web 2.0 isn't dead... it just kinda missed the upgrade.
ajax push engine - New comet server... yay! I really need to find an excuse to play with this.
Browser Size from Google Labs - intersting overlay based on visitors to google.
Deep linking with ajax - Deep linking is becoming a necessity these days...
Project Ares - Whoa, you can develop a WebOS app from the ground up in your browser, that's pretty cool.
15 best articles for designers in 2009 - a round up of this years best posts for designers.
The Best 40 Photoshop text effect tutorials from 2009 - More end-of-year best-of roundup, this time photoshop'd style
SEOToolkit (for iis) - For those poor souls who are forced to use IIS, here is an extension to make life easier, see I care about everyone.
fontfriend - Bookmarklet that lets you change the fonts being used on the page (read: javascript css changer), very useful for on-the-fly changes without firebug.
Screenpresso - Cool Screen shot util... I suppose when I drop fscapture (if I ever do), I'll switch to this.
Visual Event - Nice little Bookmarklet that shows you what dom-events js is tied to.
Reducisaurus - a webservice for minifying CSS and JS (runs yui 
)
-= jQuery =-
Parallax header (the way css squirrel does it) - a quick post on how css squirrel gets their parallax effect on.
Processing (animations with canvas) - Ok fine, this isn't jQuery, but it is from John Resig, it's called Processing.js. It does image, animation, and interaction without flash or java. Uses Canvas, and looks awesome
More jQuery and general javascript tips to improve your code - a tripwire post with some helpful tips.
20 must read jQuery tutorials for web - a good round up of miscellaneous tutorials to help you get your jQuery on.
Full jQuery Animations - I've played with animation before, and I handled the queue a little differently, but I like the approach of this method.
jQuery 1.4 presentation at Yahoo! - What happens when Resig drops by Yahoo? He delievers awesome presentations on testing, performance, and jQuery 1.4
10 useful jQuery form validation techniques and tutorials - Who doesn't love a little validation?
Meerkat - for those times when you need a sticky header/footer/div
Roundabout - This is a fun little plugin, not sure I'd use this on a production site, but it's fun to play with.
-= Fonts =-
designing with fonts, 30 useful free dingbats - Who doesn't need a good dingbat now and then!? Yeah you're right, people who use illustrator 
but hey for those of us without that, here you go.
font squirrel presents... font face generator - for those who are using @font-face, font-squirrel has got some good news...
17 Awesome free fonts for your work - Personally I love the walkway font, used it in a few sites already 
-= Images =-
30 free psd templates for product design - Excellent list of free (psd) templates for everything from dvds to books to soda cans.
free abstract brushes to use for light effect - a plethora of brushes for light designs
49 most creative photoshop tutorials of 2009 - Sometimes it's fun to try to learn some new things (when the design and cut out gets too monotonous)
The ultimate Christmas round up of patterns, brushes, vectors, and icons - Get your wintery-Christmas designs on, this has everything... of course by the time I post this, you won't need it... but eh, whattaya do.
Top 50 web development icon sets from 2009 - The top icon sets for the last year, get it while it's still semi-warm
Ultimate resource list of vector graphics - Sometimes we all needs some vectors right?
30 professional tutorials for designers using gimp - Gimp tutorials... some are pretty good, others are well, uh... yeah there's no real good way to say bad.
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