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Links for February 17th through May 22nd

Michael — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:00:08 +0000

Links for February 17th through May 22nd:

Sterling Power Products: What is the best battery to use for an auxiliary charging system? Very well-argued discussion on leisure batteries, cutting through the marketing-speak
GPS POI Data Directory – Free POI Files – GPS POI Data Many, many quality POI databases for a wide variety of things, including camping and LPG filling stations. Requires a small ($10 or thereabouts) registration fee to download.
Touring and Tenting -> Download Manager -> Mapping Aids -> italian sosta’s poi’s for sat nav’s A very good POI database for Italian sostas
Links and Downloads Manager – MFC Google Earth Campsite Finder – My Favourite Campsite Camping POI databases for UK/Europe
PoiGPS – Punti di Interesse per Navigatori Satellitari – Downloads Site with many Italian POI databases, including aree attrezzate, camping and camper service facilities.

Links for June 3rd through June 18th

Michael — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:26 +0000

Links for June 3rd through June 18th:

Ten logo design tips from the field | Logo Design Love
10 astonishing CSS hacks and techniques
Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? effective techniques to create 100%-functional adaptive CSS-layouts
WordPress Theme Development Frameworks If you build and develop WordPress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a WordPress development framework
How to Draw Pixel-Perfect iPhone Toolbar Icons Using OmniGraffle

Links for May 21st through June 2nd

Michael — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:01:25 +0000

Links for May 21st through June 2nd:

49 Decent Virtual Assistant & Personal Outsourcing Resources
PHP: Display Adobe PSD files on a web page "Any webdesigner know the PSD filetype, which is the Adobe Photoshop format. PSDs have a lot of great features, as such as layers, but they can’t being read by a browser. Unless you use this great PHP class!"
Iconfinder – Icon Search Made Easy
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
KNAppGuide KNAppGuide is a Cocoa framework for embedding “guides” into your application, visually inspired by Apple Guide from the System 7 and 8 era

Links for March 17th through April 24th

Michael — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:41 +0000

Links for March 17th through April 24th:

XSD Schema XML Validator A XSD Schema validator in Java, provides lots of useful information; use it with a schema and an xml instance
Three20 Three20 is a collection of iPhone UI classes, like a photo viewer, and general utilities, like an HTTP disk cache. Three20 is derived from the Facebook iPhone app, which is one of the most downloaded iPhone apps ever.
CSS Decorative Gallery …How to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is an extra tag and apply a background image to create the overlaying effect.
Comet (programming) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Comet is a neologism to describe a web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Cocoa Tutorial: awakeFromNib vs applicationDidFinishLaunching A very good overview of the 'startup' procedure for objects stored in IB nib/xibs.

Links for March 6th through March 16th

Michael — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:00:30 +0000

Links for March 6th through March 16th:

CSS Code Snippets : 15 Wicked Tricks Some useful CSS tricks; of particular interest: cross-platform min-height, a trick to clear floats (without needing a 'clearing' div), and page breaks
45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience Here are over 45 impressive jQuery plug-ins and techniques that have been recently created and that could make the development of your next website an easier and more interesting experience than the last.
How to Create a Disk Image Installer for Apple Mac OS X
Cocoa: Sidebar with Badges, Take 2 'Source list'-esque sidebar with support for badges
soultravelers3 A family of three from Santa Cruz, California on an epic odyssey: open-ended, years long slow trip around the world as a family adventure, unschool, spiritual journey and lifestyle.

Links for February 28th through March 3rd

Michael — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:00:23 +0000

Links for February 28th through March 3rd:

Lifehacker readers: Most Popular Reliable and Affordable Web Hosts Top seven hosts as voted by readers (DreamHost, Blue Host, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, 1&1, GoDaddy, HostGator and A Small Orange)
Domainr, the domain name search engine Given a name, suggests a variety of different domain name possibilities, and reports on availability
Even More Rounded Corners With CSS – Schillmania.com Single-image, PNG-based, fluid rounded corner dialogs with support for borders, alpha transparency throughout, gradients, patterns and whatever else you (or your designer) could want
50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus Navigation inspiration
OCR Terminal OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and PDF's into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents.

Links for February 10th through February 27th

Michael — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:02:42 +0000

Links for February 10th through February 27th:

TinEye Reverse Image Search TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
Traffic Shaping in Mac OS X | Mac Geekery "…Create several pipes that have a set bandwidth and other properties for all packets that get filed into them; you then add queues to those pipes that determine what priority certain requests will get in that pipe; then you add actual firewall rules to identify packets and file them into queues."
Brandon Walkin » Introducing BWToolkit BWToolkit is a BSD licensed plugin for Interface Builder 3 that contains commonly used UI elements and other useful objects. Using these objects is as simple as dragging them from the library to your canvas or document window. In particular, "No Code" preferences window and tabbed sheets.
Aussie iPhone app developers and the IRS? Discussion about tax details for Australian iPhone developers. It appears the advice from Apple on the tax form is incorrect for sales on the App Store.
google-toolbox-for-mac – How to do iPhone unit testing This is a quick tutorial on doing iPhone unit testing using the facilities in the Google Toolbox For Mac

Links for January 31st through February 9th

Michael — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:00:19 +0000

Links for January 31st through February 9th:

Lost and Taken Free stock textures for your graphic design and photography projects
NSCollection Extensions Weird and wonderful extensions to key/value coding ([myRecordCollection valueForKeyPath: @"[collect].{artist like 'Tom Waits'}..albumCoverImageData"])
Free Fonts Generator Make Your Own Handwriting Font
Grayson’s pluginmanager A series of classes that provides support for a vast number of scripting languages as well as standard Cocoa bundles
Deezer Listen to full songs online: Good for getting a preview of albums, much better than iTunes' silly 30 second snippets

Links for December 29th through January 28th

Michael — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:00:38 +0000

Links for December 29th through January 28th:

Dramatic Gritty Effect In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to add a dramatic, gritty, bronzed effect to your images.
Propel Propel is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework for PHP5. It allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and retrieving data.
The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time Passwords to try when I desperately need to get onto a locked Wifi network for some reason. Don’t tell anybody.
Foreign Exchange Rates (FOREX) XML Feed or CSV Feed Free for commercial or non-commercial use, updated daily, XML/CSV format
10 Places To Publicize Your iPhone App A list of iPhone App review/gallery sites

Links for November 24th through December 9th

Michael — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:00:02 +0000

Links for November 24th through December 9th:

Creating libraries for the iPhone Discussion on creating static libraries for the iPhone
Photoshop Tutorials – Layered HDR Tone Mapping Learn how to tone map with Photoshop CS3 to create beautiful high dynamic range (HDR) photos. The final result is exceedingly better than Photoshop's local adaptation and similar to Photomatix's tone mapping.
Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator Generate loading animation images, given type, background and foreground.
Free Texture Tuesday | BittBox "Jay over at Bittbox has just announced that he will be giving away five high resolution textures (3,000 x 2,000 pixels) every Tuesday of the year, absolutely free!"
GeoNames Free service (including webservice) to search for place names, yielding co-ordinates and a feature class.

Links for November 13th through November 17th

Michael — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:28:21 +0000

Links for November 13th through November 17th:

How to Price Your iPhone App out of Existence Write-up on the dangers of pricing an iPhone app too low, and the need to 'correct' the market
Open Radar Community-driven, open Apple bug reports
Free Australian Postcode location data "…Both the original CSV is available zipped below and contains Postcode, Suburb, Latitude and Longitude, a MySQL dump of the data is also available in a Zip file below. You can also download the PHP functions we coded to interface with the MySQL database. Simply call the postcode_dist() function with the two postcodes as shown in the example and you'll have a result in Kilometers returned quite quickly, these functions are freely available under the BSD licence."