Thoughtbird Design

These are my links for December 24th through December 26th:

• 5 Helpful Tips for Creating Secure PHP Applications – NETTUTS –
• 10 Steps to Improving Your Photoshop Skills – PSDTUTS –
• CSS On-Hover Image Captions – CSS Image Effects – Adding Captions to Images – CSS/XHTML Tutorial –
• 24 ways: Contract Killer –
• 10 Ways to Save Time While Building a Website | [Re]Encoded.com –
• Vertically Align with CSS – Vertical Alignment Tutorial – CSS –

This is one of the coolest Christmas cds. 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. Download the full album for free over at Doctor Octoroc.

So cool!

These are my links for December 22nd:

• Pinger Learn More (International) –
• 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine –
• SitePoint » 15 Must Bookmark Sites for Design Inspiration –
• 5 Awesome free PHP web hosting services –
• HTML-Ipsum –

These are my links for December 2nd through December 22nd:

• 40 Excellent Blog Designs – Six Revisions –
• 24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008 –
• 15 Minimalist Designs That Inspired Me | Spyre Studios –
• sIFR lite –
• 16 habits of highly creative people | Tickled By Life –
• Plugins I used to make Wordpress a CMS | Jesus Encounter –
• 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine –

These USB sticks by Thalbach Design look awesome. I love the wood container. I could definitely use one of these.

Main features of the exclusive Flash drives:

• each one is carefully handcrafted in Germany by Thalbach Design
• individual wishes on veneers used or style of aluminum inlay are possible
• attentions to details: e.g. the veining of the veneer goes all the way through the stick (china sticks don’t do – normally there the lid is made from a totally different piece of wood and just grabbed out of the big box when finally plugging the sticks together)
• these sticks can’t be bought from an online store since the producers believe that an exclusive product needs an exclusive customer service: they prefer to talk to the customers in order to build for them exactly what they imagine.

Gadgets Club is giving away 4 of these 4GB USB sticks. All you have to do is write a blog post about their contest with a link to their website http://www.gadgets-club.com and a link to Thalbach Design Manufaktur. Then just leave a comment of the Gadgets Club blog. Winners will be announce on their site on December 24, 2008.

photo credit: Matti Mattila

Christmas time is here! It’s time to bust out the Christmas cds and annoy everyone with your holiday cheer. Here are a few of my favorite Christmas cds.

1. Diana Krall – Christmas Songs – If you’re into Jazz, maybe this isn’t for you. But if you’re into Diana Krall, this is a great cd.
2. James Taylor at Christmas – Sometimes I just feel like listening to music my hippie parents would listen to. Not nearly as sexy as Diana Krall, but nice and smooth anyway.
3. Harry Connick Jr. When My Heart Finds Christmas – I think this guy has several other Christmas albums. This is the only one I have or have listened to.
4. Gary Hoey Ho! Ho! Hoey: The Complete Collection – Rock and roll! This is Christmas music played on electric guitar. Maybe it’s a little cheesy. But isn’t all Christmas music a little cheesy. Christmas is a time for cheese.
5. Merry Axemas – A Guitar Christmas – This is another rocking cd with Satriani, Eric Johnson, Brian Setzer and other famous guitarists playing Christmas tunes.

Yep, my collection is small and doesn’t have all those annoying songs from Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Charlie Brown or any of those other people you’re supposed to enjoy listening to on Christmas.

Are there any other good Christmas cds I should be listening to?

These are my links for December 1st through December 2nd:

• Are You Freelance Material? | Fuel Your Creativity –
• 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers – Six Revisions –
• Are front loaders the new Xtracycle? | Bike Commuters –
• 28 High Resolution Wood Textures For Designers | Graphics –
• The Ultimate List of the Top Best Logo Design Resources –
• In the Woods – 15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned –
• pinvoke – Icons and pixel fonts –

Woodin It is a two column 800px wide free Wordpress theme. This theme has sidebar widgets, valid XHTML + CSS, and supports gravatars.

Woodin It also displays your latest tweet from your Twitter account in the sidebar. To change it to your own twitter account, open sidebar.php in your text editor. Find getLatestTweet(‘aburiano’); and change “aburiano” to your own Twitter username. Then change the link below it to your own twitter URL.

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These are my links for November 29th through November 30th:

• 10 myths of blog marketers debunked –
• WallSwaps –
• Komodomedia » Blog Archive » jQuery Feed Menus –
• 40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks | Wordpress –
• Girl Avatars: Free PSD Vector Icon Set | Freebies | Smashing Magazine –

• worldclock.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
  (tags: statistics clock world worldclock population visualization stats)
• Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography
  (tags: webdesign css resources tutorial reference howto design typography)
• 25 Typography Flickr Groups for Designers
  (tags: tipografia community groups signs graphicdesign resources typography)
• 220+ Stunning Creative Skateboard Graphics | Blog.SpoonGraphics
  (tags: webdesign design graphics graphic illustrations skateboards skateboard)
• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – 127 RSS Feeds That All Designers Should Subscribe To
  (tags: feeds feed collection tutorial tips development css resources web designers designer graphics graphicdesign)
• Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
  (tags: smashingmagazine typefaces advertising design graphics vintage graphicdesign logo)
• Coroflot – Coroflot's Creative Seeds Blog
  (tags: rates jobs career freelance web freelancing)