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Link // Electronic Vector Co… // Wed // 19 Nov 2008 // 6:17 p.m. // 0 comments

Electronic Vector Collection

Some cool vectors collections. Love the simplicity and the perfection of the work.

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Link // Colorful Design - A… // Wed // 19 Nov 2008 // 6:10 p.m. // 0 comments

Colorful Design - Adobe Photoshop Designing

A tutorial on creating a apple logo with wonderful effect. Love the way he makes background and blend colors into the apple.

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Link // Using encryption and… // Mon // 17 Nov 2008 // 8:33 p.m. // 0 comments

Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail

A tutorial on signing your email via Mac Mail.app. security issue. via Will Larson.

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Link // CharlesSoft - softwa… // Mon // 17 Nov 2008 // 11:33 a.m. // 0 comments

CharlesSoft - software you always wished someone would write

A mac osx app that allows you to extract individual files and folders from dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar files. Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files

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Link // Using Django with O… // Mon // 17 Nov 2008 // 11:23 a.m. // 0 comments

Using Django with Orbited

A tutorial on using django with orbited framework. Create a streaming coet server where client browser can initiate a tcp socket. Server can push content into the client with out client intervention

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Link // Image Annotation Sta… // Wed // 12 Nov 2008 // 5:29 p.m. // 0 comments

Image Annotation Standard and Scripts

A javascript collection which helps you to annotate images with notes. I think i might need it to annotate my flickr photos on my blog. Will check at my leisure time

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Link // Australian designer … // Wed // 12 Nov 2008 // 5:07 p.m. // 0 comments

Australian designer Rob Morris

Great web design. Fantastic look. Good work Rob Morris. Via Jeffcroft.

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Link // Using Paypal with Dj… // Wed // 12 Nov 2008 // 5:05 p.m. // 0 comments

Using Paypal with Django

Great tutorial on setting up PayPal transactions with Django. I used this snippet in one of my project to test how it goes and works like a charm.

Thanks a bunch. Via Jeffcroft

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Link // iPhone development v… // Mon // 10 Nov 2008 // 10:47 a.m. // 0 comments

iPhone development video tutorials

A collection of more than 600+ minutes of iphone development video tutorials. Interesting got to check it in free time.

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Link // Lessons Learned whil… // Fri // 07 Nov 2008 // 12:35 p.m. // 0 comments

Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site

Here is an experience shared by Ross while designing flickr UI for iPhone. Ross suggests 5 rules which are to be remembered while designing for iPhone.

He encourages iUI by Joe Hewitt.

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Link // UNITY iPhone Publish… // Fri // 07 Nov 2008 // 11:34 a.m. // 0 comments

UNITY iPhone Publishing

Unity 3D A studio for building 3D games on an iPhone. Its wonderful that we can import 3D meshes into the studio and define its velocity and other attributes. Ability to load scripts for a model and define its boundaries and limitations is simply awesome.

Looks like I can build one if I have good amount of max script experience.

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Link // Django Doctest Tips // Fri // 07 Nov 2008 // 9:48 a.m. // 0 comments

Django Doctest Tips

A post on django doctests. Good set of tips. via Eric

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Link // touchDefense - An iP… // Fri // 07 Nov 2008 // 9:44 a.m. // 0 comments

touchDefense - An iPhone game by Luke & Will

I have known Will Larson for quite sometime. I love the way he shares his knowledge through blog posts. Amazing details.. Will along with Luke wrote a game for iPhone touchDefense. Check out the screenshots on their website. Cool one.

All the best with your first iPhone app. I will get that...

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Link // Free CSS Drop-Down M… // Thu // 30 Oct 2008 // 8:49 a.m. // 0 comments

Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework

Here is a free CSS dropdown menu framework. Mostly CSS, just a bit of js for IE6.

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Link // 25 Impressive Blog F… // Mon // 27 Oct 2008 // 8:51 p.m. // 0 comments

25 Impressive Blog Footers

A showcase of 25 impressive footers. Trying to get some fresh design inspiration.

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Link // Selecting layers in … // Thu // 23 Oct 2008 // 9:04 p.m. // 0 comments

Selecting layers in Photoshop

You probably know you can select a Photoshop layer by clicking it in the Layers palette, but there's a lot more to selecting layers than meets the eye. This tutorial reveals a whole range of useful tips and tricks for layer selection.

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Link // Complex Circular Des… // Thu // 23 Oct 2008 // 2:14 p.m. // 0 comments

Complex Circular Design Techniques

Creating intricate circular designs and patterns may look difficult because the shapes can be very complicated, but you will be surprised at just how easy making these shapes can be. I will go over some neat tricks, tools, techniques, and settings that will have you pumping out perfect circular designs in no time using Illustrator.

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Link // Creating a crazy coo… // Thu // 23 Oct 2008 // 2:11 p.m. // 0 comments

Creating a crazy cool logo

A small illustrator technique creating a logo. I like the glossy finish.

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Link // Recaptcha for django // Wed // 22 Oct 2008 // 5:44 p.m. // 0 comments

Recaptcha for django

Here is a quick tutorial on setting up recaptcha for django. The author had put togeather a new Form Field Recaptcha to support it. Cool!!

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Link // Sieve // Wed // 22 Oct 2008 // 11:55 a.m. // 0 comments

Sieve

Language for filtering e-mail messages. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is suitable for running on a mail server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs. Need to check this out when I am free

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Link // A presentation site // Mon // 20 Oct 2008 // 9:52 a.m. // 0 comments

A presentation site

An app where you can upload your designs, add bulleted points and send them over to your client. Gone were those days where you need to visit client and show our designs and explain stuff. Cool!!

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Link // 10 Tips For Creating… // Sun // 19 Oct 2008 // 12:27 p.m. // 0 comments

10 Tips For Creating Website Mockups In Photoshop

A post mentioning various tips on creating mockups for website. I love the mention of resources like colorlovers etc at the end of tutorial. They give a lot of inspiration while designing.

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Link // 50 Stunning Examples… // Wed // 15 Oct 2008 // 10:32 a.m. // 0 comments

50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign

Here is a great post on re-design. There are 50 scenarios where we can observe "How redesign was made carefully with lot of things in mind?"

Design is a subtle mixture of Art & Science which needs to be handled with great care.

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Link // How to install ejabb… // Sat // 11 Oct 2008 // 3:59 p.m. // 0 comments

How to install ejabberd 2.0.0 with PostgreSQL support

A simple tutorial on installing ejabbered on ubuntu with Prostgres. I just want to this see how it goes.

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Link // Winpdb-A python debu… // Thu // 09 Oct 2008 // 5:29 p.m. // 0 comments

Winpdb-A python debugger Tutorial

Here is a platform independent python debugger for python. Looks like its cool. I need to check this out some time.

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Link // iPhone webapp develo… // Wed // 08 Oct 2008 // 11:38 p.m. // 0 comments

iPhone webapp development

How to get started on iPhone application development using Safari, CSS, JavaScript and bit a of Cocoa Touch. Accessing location data from iPhone is one of the cool feature. This feature is served as an example in this post. Do check out.

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Link // Webpages as graphs -… // Sun // 05 Oct 2008 // 7:37 p.m. // 0 comments

Webpages as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet

A wonder java applet which shows the visual graph of all the elements on a webpage.

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Link // Introducing a new wa… // Fri // 03 Oct 2008 // 8:26 p.m. // 0 comments

Introducing a new way to minify CSS

Here is a good tutorial on minifying CSS. This process removes the white-spaces and comments there by reducing the size of the CSS.

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Link // How to combine two L… // Tue // 30 Sep 2008 // 8:12 p.m. // 0 comments

How to combine two Lists in a dictionary

Here is a small code which joins 2 lists into a dictionary.

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Link // Useful form tricks i… // Sat // 27 Sep 2008 // 9:49 p.m. // 0 comments

Useful form tricks in Django

here is a cool trick on how to constrain the choicefield in a form for the logged in user. Very cool. Via Magus -

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Link // The Python Property … // Tue // 23 Sep 2008 // 7:04 p.m. // 0 comments

The Python Property Builtin

Using python builtin property in Django. Via Jeffcroft

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Link // Using Git with DropB… // Tue // 23 Sep 2008 // 7:02 p.m. // 0 comments

Using Git with DropBox

Here is a simple tutorial on collaborating your code among your team using GIT. In this tutorial the author used dropbox a file sharing service to share repositories.

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Link // Hosting Git reposito… // Fri // 19 Sep 2008 // 9:36 p.m. // 0 comments

Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way

A wonderful tutorial on setting up a Git repository on linux server. it worked for me. Thanks a lot scientist.

> That's what i call a perfect tutorial.

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Link // hb // the weblog // Wed // 17 Sep 2008 // 7:02 p.m. // 0 comments

hb // the weblog

A good django blog with informative posts. Good work hughbien

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Link // Date Time Picker // Fri // 12 Sep 2008 // 6:16 p.m. // 0 comments

Date Time Picker

A useful javascript datetime picker which I used in my Django project. simple to use.

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Link // Inline edit using jq… // Fri // 12 Sep 2008 // 12:32 p.m. // 0 comments

Inline edit using jquery plugin Jeditable

Here is a jquery plugin "jeditable" which creates a inline edit box for every html element with class 'edit. Simple and very customizable.

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Link // Hostmonster + python… // Thu // 11 Sep 2008 // 8:14 p.m. // 0 comments

Hostmonster + python 2.5 + subversion 1.4 + django-svn + mysqldb + fcgid

A small tutorial installing python, svn, django, fcgi etc on hostmonster.

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Link // 75 (Really) Useful J… // Thu // 11 Sep 2008 // 5:38 p.m. // 0 comments

75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques | Developers Toolbox

Developers and designers are using more JavaScript in modern designs. Sometimes this can be a hindrance to the user take away from simplicity of design, other times it add greatly user’s experience.

> Really awesome tutorial do check it out.

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Link // Git Guide // Wed // 10 Sep 2008 // 8:30 a.m. // 0 comments

Git Guide

Howto use git 1.5. Especially good instructions for branch handling

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Link // pyExcelerator // Wed // 10 Sep 2008 // 8:17 a.m. // 0 comments

pyExcelerator

Generating Excel 97+ files with Python 2.4+ (need decorators), importing Excel 95+ files, support for UNICODE in Excel files, using variety of formatting features and printing options, Excel files and OLE2 compound files dumper. No need in Windows/COM

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