#WDNDL For 4/30/2009 – Random Gloriousness from the Web!

Awesome week. How was yours? Drop me a line and let me know! Lots of random awesome stuff from the web yesterday, some of it is hilarious, some great tutorials, nice inspiration, just a solid group of links! 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!!

• 60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements | Photoshop Tutorials
  SWEET Photoshop actions for photo enhancement
  (tags: photoshop photography download article free howto design inspiration tutorials tips)
• FriendFeed Beta Becomes Regular FriendFeed. Hope You Like Real-time.
  FF In Real Time?
• 12 Amazing Chewing Gum Sculptures – Oddee.com
  This is stunning. so much gum.
  (tags: art lists bizarre)
• Retweet.com
  We want twitter to integrate a RETWEET Button! Sign the petition!
  (tags: mobile microblogging sms interesting twitter resources)
• T-shirt designs from Glenn Jones a.k.a. Glennz in the spotlight
  Awesome tShirt designs!!
  (tags: portfolio design flash inspiration programming freelance funny)
• Showcase Of Elegant And Original Blog Designs | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Awesome Blog Designs! Inspiration!!
  (tags: showcase blog blogging wordpress interface smashingmagazine designs smashing art cool inspiration blogs webdev gallery css graphics diseño)
• Design Blurb » Photoshop Tutorial: Basic Introduction to Using Textures
  SWEET for beginners! Using Textures
  (tags: tutorial beginner tutorials background photoshop graphicdesign textures)
• 15 Useful SEO Plugins For WordPress
  Awesome SEO Plugins!!
  (tags: wordpress_plugin wordpress seo plugins cms wordpress-plugins)
• Web 2.0 Guide and 2000+ Resources | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
  HUGE Web 2.0 guide!
  (tags: design webdesign web web2.0 resources free templates 2.0)
• Top 28 Best Motion Graphics Blogs and Resources | GoMediaZine
  Awesome Motion Graphics Blogs!!!
  (tags: design AfterEffects motion animation inspiration tutorials effects tutorial resources graphics bookmark article resource blogs video motiongraphics after 3d blog list reference aftereffect ae)
• Gizmodo – 106 Historical Scenes Rendered Hilariously Inaccurate by Technology – Photoshop
  LOL hilarious.
  (tags: funny)
• Gizmodo – Adobe Creative Suite Pillows Are All About Design – Adobe pillows
  Those pillows rock.
  (tags: creative adobe suite)
• Cool and influential designers on twitter Blog
  Awesome Designers on Twitter!
  (tags: submit gallery websites inspiration webdesign)
• 25 logos with hidden messages – Amazing Graphic Designing tricks! | Graphic Design Blog
  Awesome Logos with hidden messages
• Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio | Developer's Toolbox, How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Great guide if you use WordPress for your portfolio!
  (tags: webdesign smashingmagazine guide wordpress resources website webdev gallery web_design theme cms portfolios smashing blog tips plugins)
• » Cinema 4D: CS Tools – Cluster
  Awesome Cluster tool in Cinema 4D
• Twitter Nation – TwitterNation
  Twitter on homepage of MSN
  (tags: twitter web2.0)
• Transparent Screens
  Amazing transparent backgrounds on computers
  (tags: design fun mac geek computer photoshop)
• Fixing Your Crooked Horizon The Easy Way | ORANGE COUNTY Photographer | Southern California Photographer | Digital Photography Services
  Straighten up a horizon – Photography
• Form Armor – Friendly Anti-Spam (and Anti-CAPTCHA) for Web Forms
  Awesome anti spam web forms
  (tags: webdesign web)
• 15 Impressive and Beautiful Uses of WordPress | Web Design Ledger
  Awesome uses of WordPress
  (tags: reference webdesign development)
• 20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures | Freebies | Web Design Blog | Design Shard
  Awesome Paper Textures!
  (tags: design grunge resource freebies images webdesign resources brushes texture paper textures photoshop downloads reference free backgrounds ps material)
• Become an Adobe Certified Expert |
  be an adobe expert
  (tags: photoshop adobe career information education training cs4)
• Let’s Go Retro *Clap Clap Clap* Mt Dew and Pepsi Throwback! | The Design O'Blog
  Awesome MT Dew and Pepsi packaging
  (tags: design packaging retro)
• 7 Things To Consider When Starting As A Freelance Designer | Acuity Designs
  Excellent read for those starting out as freelancers!
  (tags: design checklist business tips april article freelance freelancing career)
• 8 Ideas For Unique And Affordable Business Cards
  Awesome and Unique ideas for Business Cards!
  (tags: design businesscards inspiration cards tips business marketing webservices lists saas temp printing unread list)
• Celebrities Make Life Terrible For Graphic Designers » James Kurtz III | Graphic Designer | Northeast Ohio
  LOL @ Celebrity apprentice graphic designers
  (tags: design writing article example graphic graphicdesign media celebrity professional)
• xkcd – A Webcomic – Swine Flu
  LOL @ Swine Flu on twitter
  (tags: comics web ping.fm humor)
• Photoshop Tutorials – Tutorial9
  Awesome tutorials at Tutorial 9!!
  (tags: howto design webdesign photoshoptutorials photoshop-tutorials tutorial library psd photography)
• April Roundup – 30 Best Post Designer should read | IzzatAzizDotCom | A Design Blog
  Great posts for designers!
  (tags: inspiration blogs)
• The 10 Best Windows Backup Software Programs
  Great backup software for PC
  (tags: application windows data computer freeware)
• 10 Excellent Art and Design Twitter Accounts You Should Follow
  Awesome art and design twitter accounts
  (tags: design twitter)
• 10+ promising jQuery Lightbox-Clones Plugin | INSIC 2.0 Web Development & Design Blog
  Great jQuery Lightbox Clones!
  (tags: desarrollo zoom javascript webdev plugins design)
• Free Amazing Texture Art |
  Awesome Texture Art!
  (tags: inspiration clipart background grunge resources patterns texture free images download textures)
• Traps To Avoid When Designing An Online Photo Portfolio | My Ink Blog
  Good read – Make our photo portfolio rock
  (tags: design photography webdesign portfolio web resource)
• Zillow iPhone App: Using GPS to Compare Home Prices
  Now this is a cool app to waste a saturday with
  (tags: mobile inspiration blog interactive socialnetworking realestate real_estate apps trends mashup)
• 100 Amazing Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real | Css Globe
  Excellent Design Concepts – Futuristic Inspiration
• 10+ jQuery photo gallery and slider plugins | Css Globe
  Excellent jQuery photo gallery/slider plugins
• Weekly 30 inspirational websites #30 | CSS and Flash gallery
  Really inspirational websites!!
  (tags: design webdesign web inspiration list cool)
• 35+ Flash Game Development Tutorials & FLA Files | Tutorials | PelFusion.com
  Awesome Flash Development Tuturials – Games and FLA Files
  (tags: inspiration game unread development tuts as3 developement tutorial actionscript3 flash tutorials games great)
• CSS Scoop – CSS Gallery – Categorized CSS Gallery and Website Design Inspiration – CSS Scoop » Blog Archive » How to Create a Golden Mechanical Owl in Illustrator – Vector Plus Tutorial
  Amazing illustrated Owl tutorial – Mechanical Owl
• Flip! A jQuery plugin
  FREAKING SWEET FLIPPING BOX! – jquery
  (tags: webdesign ajax navigation interface js jquery programming bookmarks animation plugin webdev resources)
• CSS Scoop – CSS Gallery – Categorized CSS Gallery and Website Design Inspiration – CSS Scoop » Blog Archive » Five Questions with Jeffrey Brown
  Awesome interview with Jeffery Brown
• Twitter Users Don't Stick Around
  More news about twitter and new users leaving
  (tags: twitter)
• paidContent.org – Twitter Still Having Problems Holding Onto New Users – washingtonpost.com
  Twitter trouble with new users?
  (tags: twitter)
• Five Types of Effective Headers in Web Design
  Great Header Designs
  (tags: design resource tutorials example sixrevisions headers interface gallery inspiration)
• 16 Genuine, Authentic Designers on Twitter
  Excellent designers on Twitter
  (tags: webdesign twitter)
• 40 Awesome iPhone Application Websites | Webdesigner Depot
  SWEET iPhone app websites!
  (tags: design showcase webdev web apple interface websites downloads mac webdesign wordpress)
• BeBizzy.com » Blog Archive » Go Daddy Helps to Honor the Web Professionals with Web Professionals Day
  Did not know this was such a Day!
• PsDeluxe | Photoshop tutorials – PsDeluxe.com
  Brand new photoshop tutorial site
• 6 Cartoons about being a Web Developer | dtsn
  HILARIOUS Web developer cartoons