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"Michele read a couple weblog entries and heard an NPR story about how you might be able to clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher. So she organized a bit of an experiment."
A great Flickr photoset with things including "How to Understand Postmodernism"
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"Ascots invoke images of old Hollywood and a royal day at the races. This hybrid of a tie and scarf is a rare sight these days, one that will surely bring attention to the man who dares to wear it."
Redesign Notes 1: Width-based layout
How to create a layout that changes depending on the size of the user's browser.
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From Communication Nation: "Here's a compilation of "how-to" posts from this blog that can help you be more effective in business situations:"
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A couple of days ago we had a forum entry on how to create badges, like those used on Bartelme Design to indicate new entries. So here is a short description of how to create them using Adobe Photoshop.
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"Get a full local backup of your remote web server with some basic command-line interaction and rsync. Bonus for OS X users: clickable icon backup goodness."
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SimpleBits: "Here’s a quick look at the methods and techniques I used to create an icon from the Overcast set."
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CSS Image Maps - Flickr-like Technique?
"Below is a sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML."
Google Information for Webmasters
Google explains how to get yourself listed and ranked on their search engine.
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"The drop shadows are implemented in valid XHTML and CSS, with no CSS hacks or JavaScript. We call it ydnar Drop-Shadow-Fu."
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How to find and add media to your iTunes library with del.icio.us
"Now that iTunes 4.9 supports podcasting and video blogging, you can use the del.icio.us bookmarking service to auto-load music and video files others have bookmarked."
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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SimpleBits explanation for highlighting a specific author in MT comments
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Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver
How to use Quicksilver to add Spotlight comments
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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How to Post Daily Del.icio.us Links to Your Movable Type Blog
Common Craft: "What I’m describing today is a way to bookmark a web site using Del.icio.us and have that bookmark (along with others from that day) automatically show up on your Movable Type blog, once every 24 hours."
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Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC
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How to make a horizontal list using css. The simplest explanation I've found.
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PAGES: Adding content to a Backpack page via email
Backpack makes it easy to add content to any Backpack page via email (watch as video to see it in action).
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Create notes that appear on the side of a page.
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Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)
A step-by-step guide on how to use Bloglines
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How to "uninstall" programs in Mac OS X
Al Fasoldt's: "In nearly every case, you only have to do one thing when you no longer want to run a program on your Mac OS X computer: You drag it to the trash."
Learning to eat everything.
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With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your selects beautiful… and you won’t have to sacrifice accessibility, usability or graceful degradation.
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How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS - WebReference.com
With this article I hope to show you how to produce a professional quality photograph gallery using nothing more than an unordered list of photographs and a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
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Two rules for trend spotting
10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing
A good list of ways to get your brain working creatively and work through a problem
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MSNBC: "Your Vulfix Shaving Brush should be allowed to air dry in a "Bristles Down-ward" position after use. Doing so will assure long brush life and proper bristle shape retention. Never enclose your brush in a sealed container while still damp."
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How to make buttons using CSS rather than images
Ten Ways to Relax and Reduce Stress
The following are some wonderful ways to reduce anxiety, agitation and stress and promote relaxation, calm and peace within yourself.
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"To chill a bottle of white wine quickly, put the bottle in a bucket with ice, water and a large handful of salt. The salt reduces the freezing point of water . . . which will in turn chill the bottle of wine in six minutes flat."
How to create Firefox extensions
Roachfiend: "Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that."
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These instructions apply to pants users only.
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Tricks of the Trade: "Use a small tooth comb to hold small nails in place when hammering. This will keep your thumb and other fingers out of harm's way."
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Tricks of the Trade: How to get someone to sweeten the pot
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Learning programming via web apps
Ask Metafilter question about how to start programming web apps
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A List Apart: "What if we could have one clean, well-structured menu which would combine the dynamism and code-ease of dropdown menus and do away with their main problems (not to mention degrade beautifully)?"
Paul Graham writes a short essay on how to write
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Experts agree it takes 21 days to break a bad habit and form a new one.
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Here are some hints on how to construct a mind map.
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Professional secrets from those in the know
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This library is a simple way to implement tabs on your page using CSS, a little JS, and semantic markup which degrades gracefully on browsers with CSS unavailable or disabled.
How to grow your (blogging) audience
Susan Mernit gives some tips on how to get more people to read your site
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Learning a Language in the Digital Age
Some good tips on learning a new language
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The wiki for 43 Folders: The web site all about getting things done
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Tips to make Firefox work better, including lots of good extension recommendations
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Kill those pesky Firefox popups
Easy instructions to put an end to the popups that have found ways around Firefox's popup blocker
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A helpful guide for finding MP3s using Google
Five fast email productivity tips
Some good tips from 43 Folders
Advice from Fodors on how to best pack for a trip
22 Different Ways to Lace Shoes
From the decorative to the useful
All the info straight from Six Apart on upgrading to Movable Type 3.1
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think
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