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Free Fonts Of The Month: Freebooter Script, Cora Basic
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 12, 2008
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.This month we are glad to present you Freebooter Script, Cora Basic Regular,...
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Best Online File Sharing Services [Hive Five]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 08, 2008
Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service, and over 200 nominations later, we've rounded up the five most popular services. Hit the jump for a look at the top five, and then cast your vote...
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The Power of Niche Social Network Sites
via Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter by Josh on May 02, 2008
Just ran across an interesting site the other day: Ravelry.com. Ravelry is an online “knit and crochet community”. A site for knitters? What will they think of next…a site for dog owners? The reason why these sites seem so alien is because they support communities that we often don’t see. My wife is a knitter, and I have often been struck at how often, when she visits a yarn shop,...
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XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center [XBMC For Mac]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
You don't have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it's as stable and useful as ever. Dubbed the "throw out your Xbox" release, XBMC...
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Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 02, 2008
Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the layout, numerous classes as well as the color scheme you’ve used in the project. In CSS-files sensible structuring can drastically reduce complexity, improve code management and consequently simplify maintainability. However, how can you achieve sensible structuring? Well, there are a number of options. For...
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Piwik: Open Source Google Analytics Alternative
via ReadWriteWeb by Bernard Lunn on May 08, 2008
Google Analytics may be free, but it is still based on proprietary technology - which means you only ever get reports on the things that Google thinks are necessary and some of those reports are aimed at people using Google's other services (managing campaigns on AdWords, for example). Further, using Google Analytics means that you're tied to Google's TOS. Enter Piwik, which aims to...
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ScreenSteps 2.1 beta: post lessons directly to your blog
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Brett Terpstra on May 05, 2008
Filed under: Cool toolsWhen Blue Mango Learning Systems released version 2.0.3 of (TUAW favorite)ScreenSteps, its software for creating screen-based lessons, they added the option to output blog-friendly code for pasting into your own site. But some of us were inspired by the possibilities and cried for direct blog posting. Taking to heart user input, they've just opened up the beta of...
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Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on April 30, 2008
Insoshi wants to be WordPress for social networks, except built on top of Ruby on Rails instead of PHP.We covered them in March when they presented at the Spring Y Combinator demo day. Now they’ve officially released their software for public download so anyone can install it on-premise to run their own social networks.Insoshi is not the first company to release its social networking code....
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Health Insurance for Freelancers
via FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog by FreelanceSwitch.com on April 30, 2008
So you’re sick of the cubicle, middle management and 9-5 hours. You dream of quitting and freelancing full time but there’s one thing holding you back: the company health plan. This is by the far the most common reason I hear from Americans on why they won’t quit the full-time job.However, there are options available. In this article, we’ll look at several solutions to keep yourself...
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Settlers of Catan
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
IanSchreiber via Play This Thing shared by 2 peopleIf you were in one of a handful of places in 1995 in the United States, you knew that a revolution was starting. It's been going on quietly ever since, even though most people are still blissfully ignorant of it. This game, Settlers of Catan, was the opening shot.Before 1995, non-digital games in the US were mostly children's games....
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