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Best bookmarklets roundup
bookmarklets are smart links: instead of pointing to pages, it runs simple scripts. Used wisely, it’s a huge timesaver.
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to use it, simply drag the titles to your bookmarks bar.
Composes an email with the info of the page you’re currently browsing: subject is the page title, body is page title + link. A godsend.
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It breaks if the title uses ampersand.
Same as above, but as a popup to your twitter post page. Link is minified automatically. You gotta be logged in tho.
MOODBOARD
Opens a query popup, you type your term and it builds a spezify moodboard for you. Good for quick inspiration needs or if you wanna check art/fashion/design terms.
LATER
Saves the page to instapaper. If you want, you can even install the iphone app to read on your commute: no interruptions. You need to setup an account tho.
READABILITY
Cleans cluttered article pages: just the content, please.
SELECTOR
That’s for webdesigners: It allows you to click on page elements and give you info about it (classes, etc). Good for reverse engineering.
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PS: Safari has a nifty keyboard shortcut: command/control + 1 opens the first link, command/control + 2 opens the second, etc. If you keep same order it makes life even easier.
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Firefox works differently: you can setup keywords under link properties (option/right-click), and if you type it on the address bar and hit enter, it opens the link.
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Podcasts I watch or listen to
- Boxes and Arrows | site
- Disinformation | site
- Right Where You Are Sitting Now! | site
- iPhone Application Programming - PDF | site
- iPhone Application Programming - Video | site
- Just the Facts | site
- TPMtv | site
- MSNBC Rachel Maddow | site
- MSNBC Countdown | site
- Anderson Cooper 360° | site
You can either click on each link to subscribe, visit the site or download the complete OPML file and drag it to iTunes to subscribe to all. you can delete later the ones you don’t care about.
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Enjoy!
Music
Talks
News
Entertainment
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Tech Toolbox, 3
twenty-one jquery & CSS effects I like. Enjoy.
- Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail
- jQuery Inline Confirm
- 8 Ajax Data Controls and Effects to Work with Tables
- jQuery plugin: ‘autoResize’
- DataTables: highly flexible data table component
- jQuery-gestures
- Animated Ajax Record Deletion Using jQuery Example
- Moving Boxes
- 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI
- IE Fix: Bicubic Scaling for Images
- Text Effects Plugin
- KeyTable: Instant keyboard navigation in a table
- sevenup
- Spell Check - Instant Website Spell Checker
- Overlay your HTML with eyecandy with jquery overlay
- Styleneat - CSS Organizer
- jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial
- Simple Photo Gallery
- MenuMatic
- A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion
- Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
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Tech ToolBox, 2
Following Tech ToolBox: more jquery & CSS effects I like.
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thanks @elijahmanor & ajaxrain for most of the tips.
- Accessible News Slider
- Fade Out Bottom
- Fix My HTML
- Web Development Project Estimator
- JQuery Drop-Down Combo Box
- How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery (tutorial)
Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery- jQuery Editable Plugin
- jQuery FadeI/fade Out Effect
- Menu Fader
- Fixed drawer slide out demo (using accordion plugin)
- Unobtrusive JavaScript date-picker widgit
- create astonishing ical-like calendars with jquery
- CompareNetworks jQuery’d Bread Crumb
- Moving Boxes
- Coda Popup Bubbles
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Podcasts I subscribe to
I’m moving my podcast subscriptions from my macbook air to my modbook, so below I listed all podcast I listen/watch. Some guidelines/clarifications:
- It’s all free (it should go without saying, but some people don’t get it yet, so again: All podcasts are free)
- If not noted, it’s an iTunes link
- If there’s no iTunes link it’s a direct subscription link
- If there’s an HD version, I choose this one (hence, no iPhone sync)
- YouTube videos are converted using YTPodcaster
- I do have time coz I watch no TV. I have no TV.
Audio
- Boagworld Web Design Advice
- BitBang! direct subscription
- Cut&Mistake direct subscription
- The Disinformation Podcasts
- Green 960 - Rachel Maddow
- The Monocle Weekly
- Right Where You Are Sitting Now!
- This American Life
- UIE Brain Sparks
Video
- Anderson Cooper 360° Daily
- Apple Keynotes
- Apple Quick Tour of Leopard Server
- Channel Frederator - Cartoons!
- Cool Hunting Video
- The Digg Reel
- enxame.tv direct subscription
- EPIC FU
- fred | YTPodcaster direct subscription
- ill doctrine
- Just the Facts
- Most Viewed | YTPodcaster direct subscription
- Most Viewed - Brazil | YTPodcaster direct subscription
- MSNBC Countdown
- MSNBC Rachel Maddow
- mwesch | YTPodcaster direct subscription
- Nite Fite
- Onion News Network
- sxephil | YTPodcaster direct subscription
- TEDTalks
- TPMtv
- Track-shun Anime Review
- Technology | David Pogue
- WebbAlert
- WhatTheBuckShow | YTPodcaster direct subscription
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Tech ToolBox
I tuck all cool effects I find under a TOOLS bookmark folder… Below is my updated collection. It’s heavily slanted towards jquery effects, but you can find CSS tricks & other graphic design tools.
- Word HTML cleaner - A tool to strip Microsoft’s proprietary tags and other superfluous noise from Word-generated HTML documents, leaving all the basic goodness intact.
- Body Border - cool CSS trick
- jQuery ToolTip
- ecommr - a collection of e-commerce interface and design elements
- Spoonflower - custom fabrics
- Superfish - an enhanced menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu and adds much-sought-after enhancements
- Favikon - creating favicons has never been easier
- SocialHistory.js - enables you to detect which social bookmarking sites your visitors use
- jQuery magicpreview plug-in - automatically updates selected elements on a page based on form fields. Perfect for previewing forms.
- jQuery pageSlide - sliding (or “throwing”) content aside to reveal a secondary content pane
- Color Fading Menu with jQuery - fading is the new rollover
- Animate a hover with jQuery - Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information while doing that
- Ctunnel is here to protect your anonymity online! Browse the web through our server to get past pesky url or ip based filters!
- VectorMagic - Convert bitmap images to vector images with a few simple clicks
- Blueprint Grid CSS Generator - generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files
- HTML/XHTML Character Entities
- Convert TrueType Font to Sifr Flash File - Upload your font and they’ll send the sifr file to you
- .htaccess Password Generator - generate all the necessary codes needed to password protect a directory or selects files within it on your site via .htaccess
- Select Multiple Form Fields - Finding a better solution for multiple selection
- jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu - an iPod-style drilldown menu to help users traverse hierarchical data quickly and with control
Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery- Galleriffic - A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries
- CrossSlide - a jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available to the web developer via Adobe Flash™ or other proprietary plugins
- Using jQuery for Background Image Animations
- Sliding JavaScript Dropdown Menu - easily add smooth transitioning dropdowns to your website
- Versionista - monitors any Website and alerts you when it changes, visually showing you the exact words and senteces that have been added or removed
- A brand new PNG fix for IE6
- prettyCheckboxes - a solution for people who wants to have a consistent look for checkboxes across browser or those who simply want them to look better
- Packaging Templates
- PatternTap - Interface collection for design inspiration
- jParallax - turns a selected element into a ‘window’ that moves in response to the mouse
- NEW dynamic basic CSS TEMPLATES
- ie7-js - a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser
- 4 Uber Cool Css Techniques For Links
- text2mindmap - convert your text to mindmaps
- bgPatterns - make or browse patterns on the web
- BigTarget.js - Increase the size of click targets and get more call-to-action conversions
- Multicolr Search Lab - Using visual similarity technology you can navigate flickr interesting collection by colour
- title - description
- droppy - Nested drop down menus
- Jquery DynaCloud - a dynamic JavaScript tag/keyword cloud with jQuery
- Lorem2 - An all-around better Lorem experience
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my 10 best animes of 2008
Maybe you’re not into anime: I can’t blame you ,there’s a lot of crap out here. But there are gems too: Amazing stories like the ones I list here.
Chevalier d’Eon
wikipedia | netflix | another review | watch trailer
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Eureka Seven
wikipedia | netflix | watch first episode
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Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
wikipedia | netflix | watch first episode
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Ghost Hound
wikipedia | no netflix | watch first episode
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Kurau Phantom Memory
wikipedia | netflix | watch trailer
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
wikipedia | netflix | watch first episode
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Paradise Kiss
wikipedia | netflix | watch first episode
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Red Garden
wikipedia | netflix | another review | watch first episode
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Shingu: Secret of Stellar Wars
Welcome to NHK!
wikipedia | netflix | watch first episode
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