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Great Resource for Designers and Devs Alike

Mar/01 in Online Apps, Web Hosting

Web Developer Resources

I am always looking for great web development resources to share, but this time around I am going to give you a link that also highlights the best of the best when it comes to designer or developer tools.  Corkdump.com is one of the best resource web sites for webmasters.

They provide resources for:

  • CSS/XHTML
  • JavaScript/AJAX
  • Flash/ActionScript
  • Photoshop/Illustrator
  • Blog Resources
  • Design Insperation
  • PHP/MySQL

That is not all, but I have to leave you with a few surprises, right?  So if you want a database of some of the best web developer links – check out and bookmark corkdump.com.  You will not be disappointed.

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10 Places to Search for Your Next Job

Feb/17 in Online Apps

Looking for a new job?  There are dozens of web sites out there catered to finding you the job that best suits your needs.  Here are a few of my favorites.

  • Flipdog – Great local job search engine
  • StandoutJobs – The standout jobs recruitment communications platform
  • JobThread – Find precise targeting at fair prices
  • Indeed – One search engine that claims to be for all jobs
  • CareerBuilder – A very popular job finding web site
  • oDesk – Great job resource for remote contractors
  • SimplyHired – Another great job search tool
  • Recruit.net – Search thousands of job sites, newspapers and more with one click
  • Krop – Resource for creative and tech jobs
  • Mployd – Cute name, and “where hiring happens”

Know of another great job hunter resource?  Be sure to share!

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18 Resources for Geeky Bookworms

Jan/19 in Online Apps

31QS3K8FXXL._SL500_AA280_ Do you see yourself as a geeky bookworm?  If you like reading blogs, chances are you might also enjoy reading a book or two.  Have you ever tried to write your own?  Do you want to share your favorite books with others?  I have a resource to fit any book related need you might have here:

  • DailyLit – Read a book online, daily e-mail or via RSS!
  • BookSprouts – Create your own book club!
  • Reading Trails – Find a book linked by theme, topic or total whim.
  • Book Glutton – A new way to read online!
  • BookMooch – Give books away, and get the books you want.
  • Anobii – List books, share thoughts, and meet people!
  • Goodreads – Keep track of what your friends are reading.
  • Lulu – Publish your own book, and make a little ‘bit of profit!
  • BookBump – Book management and organizing resource.
  • Shelfari – a social network for people who love books.
  • FourtyChapters – A service that helps would-be authors make the first steps towards writing a novel.
  • Booktagger – An online bookshelf application to list the books you’ve read and to share them with others.
  • Bookhuddle – Another resource to help you discover, organize and share books with others.
  • Blurb – Make your own books!
  • Wobook – Upload your document, share it with others and monetize your content.
  • Lookybook – A resource of children’s picture books.
  • LibraryThing – Share what is on your bookshelf with others!
  • SwapTree – A place to trade books for free!

Know of another great book resource that did not make it onto the list?  Feel free to share it in the comments.

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For the Love of Great Wallpaper

Oct/13 in Desktop

I love great wallpaper as much as the next guy.  Want proof?  Here is every single wallpaper suggestion I have ever made to all of you.

Have a wallpaper you love or a resource to share?

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Search in Tabs with Search!o

Sep/15 in Online Apps

There isn’t much more you can do to re-invent the search engine that others haven’t tried before in the past.  What you can do is improve on ideas that are already out there.  You have all seen the pages that search multiple search engines at once, and they all pretty much suck.  Well, I have finally found one that does it right – and Search!o is its name-o.

searcho

The front page is pretty slick, you have the search box, the “go” box (to get your search started) and then you can pick from a number of search engine groups such as: audio/music, blogs, books, css galleries, fonts, images, jobs, news, search engines, social bookmarks, videos and more.  Each group will search a different series of web sites.  Doing your basic “search engines” search will give you results from Google, Live Search, Ask, AOL, Dogpile, Clusty, Alta Vista, Lycos, and All the Web.  Each source has it’s own tab inside of the web site, so navigation is as easy as clicking the tab or the Alt + a number combination.

The address it gives to you is the last feature I want to share with you.  Look at this:  http://search.io/search-engines/web hosting show/

The address is based on the search group type I used (“search-engines”) and then my phrase I searched for (“web hosting show”).  Only thing that lack that I would like to see is an easy way to add them to the search box via the browser.  Play with Search!o today, and let me know your thoughts on it.

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Use Paint.NET to Edit and Create Icons

Aug/01 in Desktop, Resources

Logo3I had an idea to customize a few of my default Vista icons, but had no way of doing so.  I had the icon files, but no way to edit them.  So after doing some browsing around I did come up with a solution to my icon editing woes.

First Step?  Get Paint.NET!

First step was to pickup Paint.NET.  This is an awesome free image editor with all the bells and whistles of your hundred-dollar programs.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It  features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,  tutorials, and plugins.

Grab the Paint.NET ICO Plugin

Well worth having, just as a backup image editor if nothing else.  Since Paint.net does not have .ico support built in by default, I picked up this page:

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1152

To use it, all you need to do is unzip and then put it in the “FileTypes” folder in the Paint.NET directory.

Startup Paint.NET and try dragging and dropping an .ico icon onto the canvas.  Thanks to this neat plugin, it will open just as any other image would open.  With saving as an .ico, I had a few errors at times but doing it again or changing the name of the file seems to have helped.

So there is a totally free way to edit and create custom desktop icons for your next design project or desktop redecoration.

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Playing with My Second Brain

Jun/19 in Online Apps

second-brain I always like to check out the new services out there and one of the new ones to catch my socializing eye is Second Brain.  It is another place that promises to be a “catch all” for all of your social content on the Web.  Supporting everything from Flickr to Twitter you can import all your various profiles all in one place. 

Once setup, here is what it looks like:

second-brain2

So far everything is fast, and looks like there is a lot of things to explore.  If you’ve signed up feel free to check me out too:  http://mitch.secondbrain.com/

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While You Wait for Firefox 3…

Jun/17 in Desktop

While you are waiting till 10:00 AM California time, why not browse through some of the Firefox 3 archives of stories, posts and links on Firefox Facts?  Here are a few of my favorites from the past few months…

Also be sure to watch or subscribe to FirefoxFacts.com all day long for any new and exciting Firefox 3 news!

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Quickly Share any Song

May/29 in Online Apps

Taking the link shortening service to a new level, TinySong allows you to type in the name of any song and get a shortened link to it to share with others.  For example, lets say I knew you were in the mood for some Van Halen (with David Lee Roth of course, Sammy Hagar is not welcomed here).  Now I go to TinySong.com and type in “Jump”.  The number two result there is “Jump” by Van Halen.  Click on that and your done.

Now I can share that song with all of you here:

http://tinysong.com/4Gq

Of course this makes sharing song recomendations REALLY easy.  This is all powered by Grooveshark, which is an awesome service in it own right that is well worth checking out too.  Go give TinySong a test to see if it can pull up the song you have stuck in your head right now…

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Easy to Add RSS Widgets

May/05 in Online Apps, Web Development Tutorials

There is no doubt that there are many places to grab widgets of your RSS feed to display on other pages as a badge in flash or javascript form.  The newest resource to toss into this endless bucket would be WidgetEasy.  Playing a little ‘bit with the site this morning – I do have to say it is easy.  All you do is put in your RSS feed address into the box, they they spit back out a javascript box with all your links.

widget-easy

Then all you have to do is copy and paste the widget code onto any web page out there to display the widget on that specific web site.  Ranks high in the pretty neat category.  Doesn’t give a bad presentation.  I would give this one two freaky Mitchelaneous thumbs up.

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