#WDNDL For 8/10/2009 – Web Inspirations, Mac Widgets & Tips, & jQuery!

Happy Monday! Today we have a ton of great links to enlighten you, inspire you and prepare you for the week ahead! Hopefully the Inspirations in this post and the Mac Widgets will help jumpstart your monday! Enjoy the links! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

• Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project
  Very Interesting Database Project
• 60 (Latest) Beautiful and Enticing Blog Designs | Inspiration
  Fantastic examples of BEAUTIFUL Blog Design!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration wordpress blogs lists themes best beautiful)
• Apple – Find Out How – Mac Basics
  some nice Mac Tutorials for beginners
  (tags: mac apple tutorials tutorial howto osx video macosx)
• Faith Alone: 7 Stunning Abandoned Churches | WebUrbanist
  Awesome but creepy abandoned churches!
• Take Feedburner feeds to the next level: A visual how-to guide / Brian Cray's Blog
  Great read if you have Feedburner
• Portfolio Themes in WordPress, Examples and Tutorials « WPCrowd
  Awesome WordPress Portfolio resource!
  (tags: design themes webdesign themeforest reference ping.fm wordpress portfolio)
• 30 Cool Artworks Surrounding the H1N1 Flu | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  This is awesome – Artwork regarding to swine flu
  (tags: design print wallpaper artwork swine flu)
• 10 Things Gen Y Won't Pay for | Under30CEO
  Hilarious and TRUE Things that Gen Y Won't pay for, we refuse lol
  (tags: demographics geny)
• 350+ Fresh Twitter Icons | Blog Godown
  More awesome Twitter Icons!
  (tags: twitter graphics links icons)
• Create a cartoon landscape website with a little JQuery « CreativityDen
  This is a really nice tutorial with a fantastic end result – simple and clean
  (tags: design webdesign graphicdesign jqueryplugin)
• 10 Drupal Modules You May Not Know About
  Awesome Drupal Modules
  (tags: webdesign resources howto showcase lists)
• 65 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork – Part 2 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  These are really inspirational Album Artworks!!
  (tags: inspiracao design inspiration cover album art graphicdesign music abduzeedo)
• All you need to get started with a Mac | Hein Maas – Freelance Graphic/Web Designer
  fantastic ways to get started on a mac – good beginners guide
  (tags: tutorial tutorials tips reference apple safari wordpress)
• Why Every Freelancer Should Slow Down and Brainstorm | FreelanceFolder
  Fantastic read for all freelancers – Take a step back and upgrade yourself
  (tags: tips freelance productivity toread brainstorm efficiency)
• Woot : What Are We Doing While Twitter Is Down?
  Ok this was pretty funny
  (tags: fun down twitter)
• 30 MAC Dashboard Widgets for Web Designers and Developers : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  Fantastic Mac Dashboard widgets for Designers/Developers
  (tags: 2read html design webdesign resources tutorial development software dashboard code apps recursos widget widgets tools)
• Create the accordion effect using CSS3 | The CSS Ninja – All things CSS, Javascript & xhtml
  Holy Sh*t – Accordion effect with CSS3 – No javascript!
  (tags: web menu html coding css tutorials webdev webdesign css3 accordion)
• Using jQuery to Extend CSS
  Great slideshow on Extending CSS with jQuery
  (tags: webdesign css slideshare)
• 60+ Amazing Examples Of Illustrative Web Designs With Overview | Inspiration | instantShift
  Fantastic Illustrative Web Designs!!
  (tags: design webdesign web inspiration ilustração freelance showcase diseño websites inspiracion compilation illustration reference)
• Presentations, Keynotes, and Interviews with 37signals
  This is fantastic – Compilation of all the great 37signals talks!!
  (tags: entrepreneurship inspiration video innovation presentations business 37signals businessmodel towatch presentation rails toread webapp startup usability ui collection)
• DIVINE official website
  This is very interesting – FREE Software that is supposed to take your .psd file and create a wordpress theme out of it, amazing.
  (tags: webdesign design howto templates themes wordpress webdev tools photoshop freeware tool software application html web theme converter convert code)
• 50 Awesome Robots | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Stunning Robots!
  (tags: illustration digital drawing draw)
• Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
  Fantastic FREE Fonts for your designs!
  (tags: design webdesign web inspiration resources typography smashingmagazine download freelance designs tipografia beautiful font smashing)
• 40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials | Noupe
  Fantastic High Quality Photoshop Tutes!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration resources art images photography photoshop reference web2.0 list)
• 100 Striking Examples of Grunge Photography | Webdesigner Depot
  wow, thats some grungy photography!
  (tags: design inspiration photoshop images effect photography)
• Episode 170 – Magazines, CSS, Rants – From The Couch | CSS Videos | Video Tutorials | Video Interviews
  Another good Episode, CSS and Rants! w/ Magazines!
• 30 amazing 3D cars | TheLanceLife
  Freaking awesome 3D Car compilation!
  (tags: inspiration freelance graphic 3d computer)
• Showcase Of 45 Mind-Blowing Signage, Street And Urban Typography Photos | Spyre Studios
  Freaking awesome Signate, Street, and Urban Typography!
  (tags: inspiration typography showcase photography photo j)
• Easiest “check all” ever with jQuery / Brian Cray's Blog
  Great jQuery "Check All" Functionality – Time saver
  (tags: check webdesign tutorial tech forms form jquery javascript)
• Really Awesome Free Grunge Fonts inspirational Showcases | tripwire magazine
  freaking awesome Grunge Fonts! FREE!
  (tags: design typography inspiration webdesign download fonts webdev grunge share graphics tshirts free)
• 20 Great Websites I find very useful and worth recommending to Web-Developers and Designers | tripwire magazine
  Nice Web Design/Dev sites!
  (tags: design webdesign web inspiration javascript tutorials)
• CSS Scoop – CSS Gallery – Categorized CSS Gallery and Website Design Inspiration – CSS Scoop » Blog Archive » How to Create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator and Make a Vector CD
  Awesome Vector CD Tutorial!
• 50 Beautiful and Effective Package Designs | Webdesigner Depot
  Awesome Package designs!!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration showcase advertising graphics design list graphicdesign brand beautiful product diseño typography blog reference resources)
• In the Woods – Top 5 Web Statistic Systems
  Good read on Web Stats Systems!
• Famous Artworks Lego-lized « Bit Rebels
  Awesome Lego-ized artworks!
  (tags: art)
• TimThumb PHP Script Released | Darren Hoyt Dot Com
  Excellent php script that quickly and easily lets you resize thumbnails
  (tags: php resize images thumbnail script wordpress image)
• Gary Vaynerchuk – A keynote I gave at Mediabistro yesterday- please…
  OMFG Gary Crushes it again! nice keynote – kinda long, but if this doesn't motivate you, nothing will.
  (tags: video motivation gary vee)
• Extract colors from photos and make color schemes | ColorSuckr
  ColorSuckr is a tool for extracting colors from photos and make color schemes – Awesome!
• 40 Weird and Playful logos – A Double treat!! | Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers
  interesting categories with 20 logos each: "Playful Logos" and "Weird Logos".
• jQuery: check whether image is loaded
  Wow, this is helpful, easy, and very overlooked
  (tags: jquery tech)
• links for 2009-08-06 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  20 Tips on How to Write for the Web | Webdesigner Depot Great tips for writing for the web! (tags: tips writing
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily web development and design links)

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