Archive for April, 2006



Om Malik’s Top Ten Mac Apps

Om Malik lists his top ten Mac apps. Sometime soon we’ll do ours.

Oxymorons

The “largest list of oxymorons” ever compiled. The first five are:

5. Dodge Ram
4. Work Party
3. Jumbo Shrimp
2. Healthy Tan
1. Microsoft Works

Ten Best Designed Blogs

The ten best designed blogs according to Elliot Back. Definitely some nice looking sites in there. It’s interesting that four of the ten have 3 columns in their layout and two have only one column, making the two column layout a minority.

100 Most Powerful Game Developers

The 100 most powerful game developers based on games sold in the United Kingdom 2005. Check out the full article.

List of Rails Resources

Here are a bunch of resources to help you learn Ruby on Rails.

Top 10 CSS Tutorials

Cameron Olthuis has posted a great list (with images and descriptions) of the top 10 CSS tutorials. Most of these are newer techniques many of them pretty slick, check them out if you haven’t already.

Hoverbox Image Gallery
CSS Bar Graphs
CSS Vertical Menus
Listamatic
Floatutorial
Rounded Corners
40 CSS Layouts
CSS Photo Gallery
CSS Drop Shadows
Style Sheet Switcher




Top 10 Words of 2005

We’re well into 2006, but it’s interesting to see the top 10 words looked up last year on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. Here they are:

integrity
refugee
contempt
filibuster
insipid
tsunami
pandemic
conclave
levee
inept

How many do you know?

This is another list that will help you market your blog or news website. Robin Good of MasterNewMedia.org has compiled a large directory that will get you started on publicizing your site. Here are a few of the directories he has listed, read the full article for more.

http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data
http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php
http://www.newsknowledge.com/contact_us.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
http://www.genecast.com/news/create.jsp
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
http://www.feedster.com/
http://blogdex.net/add.asp
http://www.topix.net/topix/faq?feedback=1
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/134209.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/addrss.cgi
http://www.blogwise.com/submit
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php
http://www.weblogs.nu/
http://www.blogtree.com/signup.php?
http://www.bloguniverse.com/radlinks/?id_category=%7BCAT_ID%7D&act=add_new
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://www.memigo.com/feed
http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
http://www.pubsub.com/add-feed
http://www.fastbuzz.com/channels/insert.jsp
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/add_link.html

There are enough to get you started, again, [...]

Here’s another list from John Jantsch of DuctTapeMarketing.com. He has an article on the HP Small Business Marketing Toolbox on how to prepare to have a great interview with a reporter. This could be useful if you run a business, are introducing a product or selling almost anything. These are just the titles of the [...]

I’ve been pondering getting Lasik for a couple years now, while reading around, I found that Jason at 37 Signals is thinking about the same thing. I found this list in the comments on the post where he asks advice on Lasik–it made me laugh… then think. Take it for what it’s worth.
10. If God [...]




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