#WDNDL For 4/29/2009 – Fonts, Icons and Inspiration, oh My!

This week is going pretty well so far! Hope the same for you! Happy Hump Day! Todays links post contains a ton of different things, something for everyone for sure! So check out todays links and pass it on! Thanks!! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

Web Development/Designer Resources, Inspirations and Entertainment!!

• Typographic Visualization of TED | Brain Pickings
  Awesome typographic Visualization!
  (tags: typography)
• “Retweet is stupid” – Think again fellow social media citizens • openpresswire.com
  Is retweeting dumb?
• How to Expand Your Skillset by Teaching Others – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Teaching is a great way to learn
  (tags: tips blogging freelance freelancing learning career)
• Pretty Loaded – a preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship
  AMAZING COLLECTION of the coolest flash pre-loaders on the net 🙂 I can watch this for EVER!
  (tags: showcase design preloader archive interface collection twitchboard webdesign)
• 13 Beneficial WordPress Plugins For Your Design Blog | The Design Cubicle
  Sweet plugins for your WP Blog
  (tags: design add-on redesign plugins plugin resources tools list wordpress diseño wordpress-plugins downloads gallery webdesign)
• The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Needs | Cracked.com
  Awesome Foreign Words!
  (tags: writing reference interesting culture language languages procrastination international words humour digg cool funny humor english entertainment linguistics word)
• Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent | TorrentFreak
  Collection of most pirated TV Shows lol
• Gizmodo – Firefox 3.5 Beta Available for Download – Firefox 3.5
  New FF Beta!
• Adobe InDesign tutorial keyboard shortcuts for the type tool | Layers Magazine
  Awesome tutorial for shortcuts of the type tool
• Zipper Earphones by Ji Woong – ReflectionOf.Me
  Now these are cool headphones.
• Original Designers Workbook at FormFiftyFive – Design inspiration from around the world
  Freaking sweet workbook!
  (tags: designers)
• 70+ More Rainbow Colors Inspired Photos and Pictures | Showcases | instantShift
  Awesome Rainbow Colors
  (tags: design inspiration showcase photography photo color pictures)
• Art of Design: Amazing Artistic Furniture Designs | WebUrbanist
  Awesome furniture designs!
  (tags: design creative furniture)
• jQuery Sliding Boxes with custom captions | Sharebrain »
  Awesome Sliding Boxes w/ Custom Captions!
• Variable Grid System — TypeNeu: An Odyssey in Typography
  This is a crazy grid system!
  (tags: webdesign layout grid)
• Araelium Group : Screenflick – Screen Recording / Capture
  Cool screen recording software for OS X
  (tags: tools applications record screencapture screencasting screen software video videos macosx application)
• MediaPost Publications Forrester: Social Web To Evolve Due To Portable IDs 04/28/2009
  Sweet look at the Future and Portable ID's
  (tags: web forrester jeremiahowyang social.media news article research socialnetworking identity reference internet ping.fm business)
• Five Questions with Collis Ta’eed
  inspirational interview with Envato CEO
  (tags: blog interview envato)
• Whatever happened to the Art in Design? | Think Vitamin
  Great read – Wheres the Art At?
  (tags: design inspiration video follow)
• App pillows | Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.
  LOL Adobe Pillows!
  (tags: online adobe shopping wishlist store cs3)
• 5 Links to Power-Up Your Web Skills
  Web Devs, Power Up!
• Houston Search Engine Marketing and Optimization Services » Blog Archive » 10 Twitter Commandments
  awesome commandments for twitter!
  (tags: tips web2.0 twitter social socialnetworking media networking)
• In the Woods – Diving into PHP: Day 14
  Awesome look at OOP In PHP
  (tags: tutorial php screencast oop)
• Ajaxian » CSS3 Template Layout through jQuery
  Sweet look at CSS3 Templates and jQuery
  (tags: tutorial template css3 webdev css reference javascript jquery ajax layout)
• 60 Hand Based Logo Designs
  Awesome Hand Logos!
  (tags: showcase logo vector branding brand hand)
• 20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know – Nettuts+
  Sweet AJAX Effects
  (tags: design plugins programming javascript jquery gallery ui webdesign)
• 19 Creative And Free Fonts In Vector Formats
  Sweet Vector Fonts!
  (tags: design fonts font resources typography download vectors)
• The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog]
  Awesome habits of web 2.0 sites
  (tags: howto entrepreneur sites architecture collaboration blog development business article internet applications programming webdesign design software ajax webdevelopment analysis presentation 2.0 social tips webdev web2.0 blogs blogger)
• 52 Professional Website User Interface Photoshop Tutorials | Minervity
  Awesome UI Interface Tutorials – Photoshop
  (tags: design webdesign tutorials website photoshop ui inspire)
• Top 10 Free Tools to Create RSS for Any Website – create rss, feed43, feedity, Feeds, Free tools, make rss, Online Tools, RSS, syndication, tools, Web 2.0 – Technically Personal!
  Awesome RSS Creation Tools!
  (tags: website rss feed create)
• TechEBlog » 6 Wooden Gadgets That Actually Work
  Awesome wooden gadgets!
• 18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio | Design daily news
  Awesome scripts and tutorials for your portfolio!
  (tags: design ajax plugins webdesign articles web portfolio collection tutorials gallery)
• Best Photoshop Tutorial Websites & 91 Free Photoshop Tutorials
  Awesome tutorials – Stunning – Photoshop
  (tags: resource recursos information typography tutorial photoshop print roundup photography bestof showcase inspiration design web tutorials tutoriais tuts photo graphics)
• Blogging Essentials: 5 Tips For Better Readability / Brian Cray's Blog
  Great tips for better readability!
  (tags: design tutorials blogging marketing blogs ux usability)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Portfolios | UX Booth
  Good look at some Portfolios!
  (tags: design portfolio career ui usability business webdesign)
• 10 New Big Sets of Free Icons | Microgeist
  Great roundup of Icon sets
  (tags: twitter blogging icons rss)
• iPhone Owners Don’t Use Their Devices For Work? Yeah, Right.
  iPhone owners goof off?
  (tags: business iphone mobile)
• Todays forecast: chance of brainstorming | kyle steed
  Good read about brainstorming
• 35+ Interesting Twitter services and applications
  Interesting Twitter Services
  (tags: tools socialnetworking twitter-tools uses web2.0 twitter apps productivity internet applications socialmedia social software twittertools it)
• Restart N Shutdown Your PC With Twitter | Cool Tricks N Tips
  This is just crazy
  (tags: twitter pc)
• How to Create a Vector Texture From Scratch – Vectortuts+
  Awesome vector Texture tutorial!
  (tags: tutorial vector create texture)
• 40 Beautiful Sites Designed in Blue | 10Steps.SG – Photoshop Tutorials and Resources
  Awesome Blue Site Inspiration
  (tags: webdesign links inspiration blue websites)
• Best big companies to work for – Valero Energy (1) – FORTUNE
  Awesome companies to work for!
• 27K39.jpg (JPEG Image, 640×480 pixels)
  LOL swine flu humor
  (tags: funny humor photo image photos ping.fm social humour)