Saturday, October 15, 2005

1000 Feet of cat5e; Buy it pennies on the dollar.

Computer Geeks, or Geeks.com, is selling 1000 feet of category 5e Ethernet cable, a high quality crimping tool, 100 RJ-45 crimp-on heads and a battery operated cable tester for under $50 in one package. The cable comes down to costing less than 2.5 cents per foot.

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Friday, October 07, 2005

Absolutely Hilarious Geek Quotes

This site has some of the funniest geek quotes that I've seen. Most sites have all the same ones, but this one is Great! Make sure to check out my favorites, #7 and #9.

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How to Nail a Sexy Layout

Step-by-step guide on how to code a sexy, CSS and XHTML compliant, and tableless layout.

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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

CSS Drive - Inspiration for Web Designers

This site has a huge collection of beautiful sites designed with CSS. A Great place to go for inspiration when designing a new site!
http://www.cssdrive.com/

Useful Online Tools

Dynamic Drive has some tools you may find useful. Like a tool that lets you easily generate a gradient image for your site background, buttons, etc., generate encrypted e-mail ad code for your site making it impossible for spammers to harvest from your site, etc.

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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Turn A Photo Into A Sketch

A simple way to turn any photo into a sketch.

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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

List of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005 (nominated by useit.com's vistors.)

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Monday, October 03, 2005

CSS/Javascript Desktop

This page has a working desktop demo written in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Icons behave properly when they gain/lose focus, when they are dragged, and doubled-clicked.

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Most addictive and challenging pong game

This game used to be available on addictivegames.com. It's a good idea to have a good mouse to play this one.

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CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1

Among the first things you learn about when you start out with CSS are selectors. Selectors are obviously a fundamental part of CSS, but few developers use them to their full potential. While you can get a lot done with just the type, ID, and class selectors, there are many more.

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Apple blames iPod nano screen defects on obese Americans

It is not a design issue. It has more to do with obese Americans in tight pants putting the nano in their front jeans pocket, and then sitting for extended periods of time.

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Flash animation starts 10M light years away, zooms in to microscopic levels

Makes you feel really smal in the universe, and a cool animation showing how much we overlook in the world we live in.

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Default Passwords for almost any hardware vendor

Maybe there was a way to stay secured if you bought products by not well known vendors without web precense, well, those days are over, you will find a neat list of default admin passwords for a lot of hardware vendors here.

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Google Total - Much better than the real Google

Much better than the real Google. It is a Google interface that contains 27 Google services and integrates them into two simple drop down boxes.

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