Elance Marketplace

Elance is an online market place which freelance web developers can use to bid for projects. Looks pretty neat and with a free basic sign-up it might just be worth a look.

intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: TemplatesStyle it.

Khmerang.com: More Worn Text CSS Examples

Khmerang.com: More Worn Text CSS Examples - Love it!

satirical magazine for modern gentlemen

The Chap - words and images that may induce excessive languidity and an increase in levels of panache, leading to an overall rise in self-esteem. Also my new favourite website.

SUPERMOINE | Super Monks Movie

Possibly the best movie I have seen in months!

evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups

Sage like business advice from Ev

Santa's Snowball - Presented by Addicting Games

A friend showed me the beta version of this years ago - good to see it made final release.

Freeline Skates

A crazy hybrid of skatboarding, snake-boarding and rollerblading.

Royal Mail – SmartStamp

SmartStamp is software which lets you print postage directly from your PC onto envelopes and labels. Once you've got it, you'll never need to worry about stamps again, you just pay your subscription plus the postage you use.

No need to lick and stick, Just click!

Killer Cool

Cribcandy - a thumbnail bookmark blog with the best stuff for your home

Cool shit for your house!

Readymech

Paper robots, ready to build and deploy.

Unobtrusive dynamic select boxes

A very handy tutorial on creating dynamic drop down lists based on other drop down lists ... if you like that sort of thing.

DTI Employment Relations - UK Public and Bank Holidays

This is bound to come in useful

Bungeman's Blog: Vote Plugin

A new source for a vote plugin in MT.

Flock

I get it, but I don't get it.

I think I need a bit more time playing with this ...

Bartelme Design — Creating organic desktops

A nice tutorial on how to create organic desktop images.

SEOmoz | Search Engine Ranking Factors

At long last, quantifiable search engine optimisation - yeah right. Still a nice list on and very nicely categorised.

Miš i Pile: Logo Design Portfolio

Simple, informative, beautiful. A refreshingly old-school design portfolio.

CustomFields - Movalog Plugins

Cool plugin that lets you add custom fields to MT

OpenSourceCMS - Home

I love this site. A great way to try out Wikis, blogs and CMSs.

OpenSourceCMS - Home

Remember The Milk

Looks like a nice, free, list management tool.

VisitorVille: Web Site Statistics - Traffic Monitoring - Clickstream Analysis - Live

This is brilliant. Grand Theft Auto meets AWStats.

Spam Stock Tracker

I used to get a lot of Stock Spam mail, two or three a day. I always wondered "what if" - guess now I know.

Finkbuilt � Blog Archive � Ketchup Label Design Contest

My favourite ketchup redesign. Anadised bottles - genius.

Update!

But of course

DokuWiki

The more I see it, the more I like it.

There - the online virtual world that is your everyday hangout

This looks pretty intriguing

Google Maps API Documentation

Fantastic documnetation and examples can be found in Google Maps API Documentation

particletree � An Argument for Small Business Blogging

A great article about small business blogging

add google maps’ directions to your site - malevolent design weblog

This will come in handy, no doubt

MORE: A Graphic Design, Public Relations, and Marketing Firm in Baltimore, Maryland

More is less but impressive

MORE: A Graphic Design, Public Relations, and Marketing Firm in Baltimore, Maryland

Linotype FontExplorer X

Looks like a nice bit of freeware

Step-By-Step Guide to a Signed Contract [Find Clients]

An excellent article on the art of the pitch

MODx CMS

An interesting looking content management system that really should say more about itself it's webpage

MODx CMS

Creating a Star Rater using CSS

Clever trevor star ratings

Apple - iPod nano

How do they do it?

Movalog

This guy creates some seriously cool MT plugins including custom fields, ajaxify and this template generator.

David Raynes Plugins: Rebirth of the Vote plugin

A voting plugin for Movable Type; could come in very handy

How to make your own map

This is interesting. Seems to be a very quick walkthrough on how to make your own Google Map.

I really should dedicate more time to figuring out stuff like this : How to make your own map

Lavaluva.com : Limited Edition Lavascapes. Museum quality, archival printing and framing. Unlike anything on Earth.

Someone else with a good idea and a nice site to promote it.

Come on brain .. come on .. think!

Handling recurring payments with PayPal subscriptions and IPN

Pretty darn usefull walkthough of the PayPal subscription service

Khronos

This little invoicing and time management tool could come in handy at some point

Stopdesign | Photon open sourced

I guess Im all out of excuses then. Time to look into the Movable Type powered photo library.

Cre8: "Converting" A Google Adsense Website Into A Busin - Business and Marketing - Cre8asite forums - Search Engine Optimization, Usability and Web D

Quite a useful thread

Seth's Blog: Free KnockKnock ebook now available

Excellent eBook from Seth Godin

Seth's Blog: Free KnockKnock ebook now available

CutePHP.com | CuteNews

I love Movable Type to bits, but there's something so enticing about taking a simple CMS (such as cute news) and modifying the heck out of it so as to build your very own Content Management System.

CMS a la jamlike. Just imagine ...

OCEANIC AIRLINES

Clever website for the Lost TV series

Gestalten mit digitalen Medien

Seriously cool idea.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Text links and PageRank

I like Matt's blog, it gives a real insight into the inner workings of Google.

Writely - Home

This blogger / blog type look is increasing in popularoty - especialyl when you factor in the AJAX element. Nice lookin' thingum though.

Jake: The online, social, professional networking community

Another gay site. Two in one day. Must mean something. Anyway, Jake is nicely designed and, more importantly, a clever idea which is beautifully implemented.

Something queer is coming

Fantastic. Could this be the blog that will help me look good, act right and buy smart?

Something queer is coming ... get queer September 6th.

Update!

Im dissappointed. The site is full of .. well, stuff that doesn't interest me. Maybe that's a niche ..?!

Jewelboxing - Super Jewel Box Packaging System - CD and DVD Cases

When I grow up, I'll have reason to use Jewelboxing - Super Jewel Box Packaging System - CD and DVD Cases

The Watchmaker Project · Build it and they will come - how to promote your site online

A nice, layman's term, guide to promoting your new site online. There's a bit of designer rant in there but it's good none-the-less.

Cats In Sinks

Need I say more

particletree · Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates

I wonder if I can get these set-up in Text Wrangler?
That would be cool.

Ocado: Home

A nice webshop that is clear, easy to use and ... cheaper?

Weekly Standards - Downloads.com

Quite a nice writeup which I need to read sometime.

Chalk

Looks interesting, well designed and has a cool name.

How to Build a Successful Web Startup in the UK - 15 Do’s and Don’ts

Quite a nice list.

Wired News: A P2P Network for Bikes

Love it.

Wired News: A P2P Network for Bikes

Banksy

Yup

Photo Gallery Templates

A photo gallery driven by Movable Type. Courtesy of Doug Bowman.

Includes many useful MT plugins.

Google Talk

I never really got instant messaging but I guess now Google does it I might as well have a go. Shame they don't have there own Mac OSX client though ..

sIFR 2.0

Flash font headers. Nice.

Mike Davidson -- sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

Update!

Flash fonts

AIRTIGHT - SimpleViewer Download

Nice free photo slideshow viewer. Well worth a download.

SimpleViewer

W3 Compliant Sites

That's a nice idea. A directory with a difference

W3 Compliant Sites: Sites designed to comply with W3C Web Site Standards

CSS Reboot Fall 2005

I signed up to CSS reboot so I might as well pimp it.

AdBrite - The Internet's Ad Marketplace

It's just a good idea and well executed.

AdBrite - The Internet's Ad Marketplace

Internet maverick goes legit

Pud comes good: is what I would've called it.

All this creativity and inventiveness is starting to tick me off!

Steve Jobs : You’ve Got To Find What You Love

Inspirational stuff.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Fucking brilliant.

Steve Jobs : You’ve Got To Find What You Love via AnitaRoddick.com.

Moxie Design Studios | Website and Blog Design

Refreshingly different with a massive portfolio.

Deleted Domain Names

A clever little tool for finding recently expired domain names

Deleted Domain Names

Update!

This on finds domains based on keyterms. Nice

My Protopage

Clever Trevor.

My Protopage - personalisable start-up page

easy.com : new ideas

I don't get it. Basically the easygroup are saying that if you have an idea that can make money, give it to us. We won't reward you for the idea, we'll just profit from it. Thanks. Why the hell would you send it to them?

So anyway, I've come up with an idea. Niot a great idea, not a world changing idea (not even a devilishly simple idea) but an idea.
I can find nowhere that tells me how to document this idea, not for patent purposes, but for actually documenting the thing so that anyone can pick it up, read it and understand the idea.

So I've come up with my own list of questions which, if answered, I beleive will help lay-out the idea for all the see

• What’s the idea
• Why is it needed
• Business
• Consumer
• How will it help
• Business
• Consumer
• How will it be used
• Business
• Consumer
• What is needed to get set-up
• How much will it cost to set-up
• How much will it cost to run
• How will it be marketed

Having said all that there's some interesting info at the BBC.

BulletCatchers.net

You cannot be serious! Working in their personnel department must be demoralising.

BulletCatchers.net

the food loop

Think clip-n-seal.

Think devilishly simple

Think wish Id thought of that

the food loop

Orange - call barring

ideal for parental control it may be, but what happens if one number is calling you and either hanging up after the second ring (as in girlfriend clare's case) or leaving you a message of nothing but background noise (as in my case). How can we stop a single number calling and disturbing us? Is the only way to stop ourselves from being bothered to sign-up for the inconvenience of rendinering our mobile phone useless?

Orange - call barring

Another classic case of a system working as efficiently as it possibly can. Ha!

#!/usr/bin/girl

#!/usr/bin/girl was the first blog I ever read. Nice to have stumbled across it again.

Kubrick at Binary Bonsai

I don't get what's so special about Kubrick. To my mind its a template for Wordpress. Loads of wordpressers are using it which must mean that
A » they're not particularly design orientated
B » Wordpress templates aren't that easy to understand / alter.

Kubrick at Binary Bonsai

Nice title attributes

Nice title atrributes; as seen pretty much everywhere.

microformats

I want to understand this. Is it just adding attributes to tags?

microformats

Chiseled Flower

I like the idea but I don't know what it is.

Welcome to Chiseled Flower

Paparazzi!

Found you! At last!
Take full length screenshots of webpages - for your viewing pleasure.

Paparazzi!

Spaceworms

Addictive little flash game. Run for the hills!

Putfile - Upload Video and Upload Images

Amazon Associates $10 cap removed

Might be time to open that store!

Brad Choate: Key Values Plugin

Before I loose this again in my email.
An EXTREMELY COOL MT plugin by the Choatster.

Brad Choate: Key Values Plugin

UPDATE!

Also this post from Wayward Puppy about adding New fields to MT; you big ape.

SMS text messaging

A nice thread about SMS text messaging over the web. Good to know.

UPDATE

Rock my socks off.

Arrangement de couleurs

Creating colour palettes via And all that Malarkey

Internet Mapping Project

An interesting site (for about three minutes). Might be nice to use one of the maps as a background image for a website - almost Mark Thoms-esqu

Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery

Down To Business

A nice blog about selling web design services.

SitePoint Blogs : Down To Business

Yahoo Hubfinder 2.0

Pretty neat link building tool.

Yahoo Hubfinder 2.0

CSS Examples

It's cool to get a little CSS schoolin'.

Pentix

Don't try to learn these in a quiet office; people will stare.

Pentix - Tricks

HTMLtoRSS

Kinda cool but not sure how I could use it ... yet

HTMLtoRSS

Harley-Davidson New Rider Courses

Must ... Save ... Money. Must ... Learn ... To ... Ride

Beat the Meter

Although I've fallen out of love (a bit) with the easygroup (being that they are now more affiliate than entrepreneur) I still enjoy watching Stelio's portly body romp around a garage forcourt.

HTML Tidy Online

Neat

Sportster xl883l

On the way to the dayjob I passed a caravan of hog-riders on their way to 'whoi knows where'. As I overtook the rumble of the engines passed through my car and across every synapse in my body; I was infused (momentarily) with the spirit of Harley Davidson. Never have I been more tempted ...

Harley-Davidson Sportster xl883l

Micah Ganske

Cool art

Things that are still hard to find online (but shouldn't be) - Signal vs. Noise

Holy smokes! For the past few weeks I've been thinking about creating a site for my dad (a tiler); only yesterday I decided to actually do it.
Today, 37signals are saying how they'd like to see more sites like that; my dad is a good tiler.

Wish Id be more proactive now a few weeks back - could have gotten some free publicity. Dang!

Update!

Hire A Tiler

Clip-n-Seal

Good idea. Great blog. Nice marketing.
All I need to do is come up with a great invention like these guys.

Clip-n-Seal · Air- and Watertight Bag Clip · Keep Your Food Fresh

Update!

Marketing the mundane from Strange Brand

ColorToy 2

A nice flash based colour picker - reminisent of the 5k.org color picker.

Defence Mechanism > Developer > ColorToy 2 - The Flash Color Schemer [BETA]

CaRP

Cracking little PHP/XML feed thingum.

CaRP: Free and commercial PHP scripts to display RSS news feeds on your website

Wikis For Business

Quite a nice summary on Wikis in business

How To Use Wikis For Business

Using a Day Planner as a Life Planner

Girlfriend Clare pointed out that I've been spending quite a lot of time in front of the tube (read t.v. or iMac) recently and ... well, she's right. Getting home from work at 7pm I just feeling like chilling - out for a few hours. But what a waste ot time that is! I mean, once or twice a week is perfectly healthy but I have started to become a bit of a slob! Actually, Im reminded of Channels 4's Wife Swap programs; every once in a while a wife from a ant-tv family will be swapped with a wife from a pro-tv family and it always amazes me to see how much happier the anti-tv family is; how much more productive.

Anyways, getting to the point, now that I have a phone with a great planner built in (and the ability to sync it with iCal) Im wondering whether I should start to plan things more using my phone?

Using a Day Planner as a Life Planner

Update

Coincidence?!

Going Solo

A nice summary about the business aspects of going freelance

Garrett Dimon / About Going Solo

Diet And Fitness: Don't Learn The Hard Way

Having just wasted a year long membership at my local gym, this walkthrough couldn't have come at a better time; I particularly like point six.

Diet And Fitness: Don't Learn The Hard Way | Lifehack.Community Beta

Strongspace : Secure File Storage and Sharing

A nice idea which is executed with simplicity. Very 37Signals.

Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com

Welcome to Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange

Love the idea; and the design.

Welcome to Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange

Johnnie Manzari

Nice walkthrough on the subject of preventing comment spam

Johnnie Manzari: Angelina Jolie Nude

eBay's Spoof Email Tutorial

Thankfully, the two scammers who tried to lure me into their deadly web of intrigue were idiots. But for future reference, this official guide is usefull.

Spoof Email Tutorial

Easy-peasy PHP

Goo to know.

Digital Web Magazine - Easy-peasy PHP 2

TextWrangler 2 for OSX

Finally a nice little free text editor that I can install on girlfriend Clare's iBook

Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : TEXTWRANGLER

Amazon Products Feed

Some sort of automated Amazon store that allows you to set-up a huge affiliate site with minimum effort. Looks kinda neat.

Amazon Products Feed

Shaun Inman's Mint

Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site ... Intriguing.

Vanilla

Looks like simplicity itself.

Lussumo Vanilla - The sweetest forum on the web

PledgeBank - Tell the world "I'll do it, but only if you'll help"

The beauty of Danny Wallace's Join Me was that you could do something safe in the knowledge that there'd be a community of people supporting you doing it or even doing it themselves. So if you wanted to feed the homeless, it no longer becomes such a big hurdle because you know they'll be support there for you no matter what happens. Anyway, PledgeBank is a bit like that - safe volunteering for the masses.

TinyMCE

Some kinda crazy JavaScript WYSIWYG editor. Not too sure how I'd use it but interesting none the less.

TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor by Moxiecode Systems AB

Start as you mean to go on

I browse the internet way more then I should. On my trails I stumble upon an awful lot of interesting shit which I always mean to go back and visit but very rarely do. To prevent my gmail getting even more clogged with useless prompting emails I thought I'd start a blog to record these interesting finds instead.

Jamlike : interesting discoveries from the world wide web