The week is moving right along, What have you accomplished so far? Need Motivation? Look no further! Get your Daily Nerdy Link Fix!! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters for making 2008 a success! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• Seven Deadly Sins For People Trying to Make Money Online - ShoeMoney®
  Don't Commit These Sins when Trying to make money online!
  (tags: tips entrepreneurship mistakes motivation entrepreneur money self-improvement lifehack freelance online marketing internet business)
• Top 10 Tax Tips for Small and Growing Businesses
  Great tax tips! I hate dealing with taxes. Stuff like this makes it easier
• 25 Signs You’ve Got a Strong SM Consultant or Agency » The Buzz Bin
  Is your SM Consultant or Agency Strong? Use these tips to find out!
  (tags: tips media and consultant community list reference social social-media online agency socialmedia consulting socialnetworking people quality)
• Utilize your email signature for added exposure | Bootstrapping Guerrilla Marketing Blog
  Use your Email Signature to get Exposure!
• 22 Secrets to Discovering Your Dream and Living It | Dumb Little Man
  Good tips! Live the dream!
  (tags: learning Inspiration lifehacks lists work productivity advice employment life job goals visualization change blogs blog career self-improvement health motivation jobs list tips happiness improvement vision dreams personaldevelopment dream)

Contests!

• The Dirty Shirt's Kickoff To 2009 With A Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme 1TB External Hard Drive | The Dirty Shirt
  Win a 1TB External HD! NICE!!

Blogging

• 10 Reasons Commenting is Good For Bloggers @ chrisg.com
  Commenting is good for EVERYONE! Even you!
  (tags: blog geek advice commenting class blogging tips traffic article comment blogs comments marketing promotion 2008 bloggers media social)
• 10 Step Expert Guide to Blogging Your Personal Brand « Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
  Spread your brand like wildfire! Nice Tips!
  (tags: blogging marketing online branding guide career personal personalbranding)

Programming

• Login example with Zend_Auth ~ Robert Basic
  Login example with Zend Framework and Database Usage! Nice!

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• Weekly 30 inspirational websites #17 | CSS and Flash gallery
  Weekly Inspirational Sites! Some nice ones!
  (tags: design Inspiration CSS flash)
• 10 Inspiring sites to gain Photoshop inspiration | Inspiration | Web Design Blog | Design Shard
  Some Inspirational Sites, Motivate you in Photoshop!
• brandflakesforbreakfast: can't afford billboard space? not a problem.
  Arby's FTW. Arbys uses competitor billboards for free advertisement
• 2experts Design - Web Design and Graphic Design Blog
  Freaking Awesome eCommerce Web Designs!!
  (tags: online showcase designs shopping style ecommerce)

Laugh of the Day

• A client can have their project _____: « GraphJam: Music and Pop Culture in Charts and Graphs. Let us explain them.
  Perfect illustration of how a client can have their project! Hilarious!
  (tags: development chart humour charts blog graph blogs marketing cheap links projects images fast funny good daily)
• Mac Vs PC Ads : 2008 Compilation | Mr.Gadget
  Love these ads, here is a compilation!!

Designer Toys

• The Web Design Sketchbook | Paranaiv / Are Sundnes
  This is FREAKING amazing! Someone Quick! Buy me this Sketchpad!!
  (tags: design geek book Chrome interesting web webdesign notebook sketch mac Browser Inspiration cool Apple stationery firefox fun gui Art ideas wishlist photo gifts stationary sketchbook)
• 10 Amazing iPhone Ocarina Players
  This is just awesome haha

Applications

• 5 Apps You Run That Suck, and 5 Replacements That Don't - Download Squad
  Makes you realize how stuck you are using same apps that suck! Some of them suck, some don't though. Either way, alternatives rock!
  (tags: tools application Ipod alternative sysadmin programs entertainment tech apps tips reference productivity opensource utilities computer free software lists Applications downloads alternatives itunes windows freeware download lifehacker replacement technology 5 downloadsquad)

Tutorials

• How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop - PSDTUTS
  Awesome! Portrait in Photoshop! Detailed illustration
• Denis Designs » Transform a day photo into a creepy night one
  Awesome Day to Night Photo Tutorial!

2009

• Web Design Predictions for 2009 | Smiley Cat Web Design
  Web Design Predictions for 09!
  (tags: webdesign business trends unread predictions 2009)

Bad Week for Twitter

• Fox News Apparently Falls For Twitter Phishing Scam | CenterNetworks
  LOL Fox News Falls for Twitter Phishing Scam!
• Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked - ReadWriteWeb
  Twitter Security Failing, Accounts Hacked
  (tags: twitter Security)

Web Developer/Designer Resources and References

• 36 Must Have Backgrounds and Patterns Resources for all Designers : Speckyboy - Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources
  MUST HAVE Designer Resources!!
  (tags: textures download graphics design web webdesign inspiration Resources images webdev blog links graphic resource twitter photoshop free graphicdesign background wallpaper generator pattern backgrounds pixelart speckyboy patterns texture)
• Free resources collection available for designers to download | Resources
  Designer Resources! Tons! Free!
  (tags: design photoshop vector psd textures icons illustrator backgrounds fonts grunge icones drawing brushes illustration graphics free Resources download list images inspiration lists links resource webdesign collection patterns icon brush)
• Book review: Don’t Make me Think by Steve Krug | Design daily news
  Review of a book I want to read
• LOL Gadgets
  Funny Gadgets LOL provided by @robertbasic
• Sb2 Developers Blog | Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions
  Cool! A roundup of Most Interesting Questions from StackOverFlow!
  (tags: development asp.net .net samples stackoverflow c#)
• 5 reasons to get obsessed with conversion rate optimization | Conversion Rate Experts
  Get Optimized in 2009!
  (tags: marketing conversion optimization monetization)
• Stationery Icons, Soccer Icons and Atlantic WordPress Theme | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
  More FREE and Awesome Icons!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration free)
• jQuery Captify Demo
  Really nice Caption added to image with this Plugin!
  (tags: captions javascript jQuery plugin photo processing caption image captify)
• The Great British Sandwich
  Help build the worlds Tallest Sandwhich!!
• 14 Essential Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Search
  Essential Greasemonkey Scripts!!
  (tags: google search scripts greasemonkey)
• PngThing v1.1 (Previously PngOptimizer) | LevelTen Web Design | Dallas, TX
  Cool png Compresser!
  (tags: images optimization design webdesign apps macosx Applications tools webdev graphics software tool osx Apple fireworks freeware mac CSS compression png image pngthing)
• 10 start-ups to watch in '09
  Startups to watch in '09!
• Can Twitter Help your Professional Development?
  Twitter while you work
  (tags: development tips business social twitter learning)
• 3D Spiral Component Giveaways
  Awesome 3D Spiral Component Giveaway!
  (tags: webdesign ui flash 3d)
• How To Delete Twitter DMs in One Go | A Techy Mom's Social Media Strategies And Web 2.0 Finds
  Delete Twitter DM's in one fell swoop!
  (tags: twitter hacks howto)
• What Fight Club Teaches Us About Freelancing | Outlaw Design Blog - A Graphic Design Blog
  Interesting Read about Fight Club and its association to Freelancing LoL
  (tags: Resources methodology tips article freelance interesting advice freelancing process)
• AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/05/2009 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  Here it is! Monday is upon us! That means the true test of 2009 is here, Get productive or get left behind! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily links)
• altgate: Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million
  Far Fetched prediction for 2009, will it come true? LoL
  (tags: microsoft 37signals exit)
• 26+ CSS Galleries to Follow on Twitter | Ultimate Smashing
  Great Galleries to follow on Twitter!
  (tags: web layouts blog inspiration galleries ping.fm CSS twitter blogging gallery)
• Branding the United States - The 50 State Tourism Logos | Build Internet!
  State Tourism Logos from across the U.S.A!
  (tags: design logos webdesign brand inspiracion inspiration brands nice travel usa branding graphic logo diseño turismo states tourism)
• Q&A: What WordPress Plugins Do You Use?
  A List of Common WP Plugins!
  (tags: wordpress Plugins)
• Abduzeedo 2 Years Art in Photoshop | Abduzeedo - design inspiration & tutorials
  really freaking awesome tutorial!!
• PHP for Beginners: Building Your First Simple CMS
  Quick and Easy simple CMS created with PHP Tutorial
  (tags: startup webdesign webdev mysql beginner Tutorials webdevelopment cms php unread tutorial)
• JQuery Tutorial - Getting Browser Information
  using jQuery to get Browser info
  (tags: tutorial programming javascript jQuery)
• How Businesses Accomplish Ridiculous Things
  Funny post, uniquely designed
  (tags: tips business)
• Why Are You A Designer? | The Design O'Blog
  Very good insights from some respected Designers!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration designers)
• 9 Up & Coming Design Blogs
  Some nice Underdog Design blogs!
  (tags: design blogs startup)
• FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool) | H1DD3N.R350URC3
  Freelancers, Need help making that quote? Estimator assistance tool!! NICE!!
  (tags: Resources lifehacks projectmanagement freelancing tool freelance work apps flash project job productivity adobe-air cost pricing analysis adobeair finance generator air tools)
• Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
  Steve Jobs sets the record straight on his health
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/05/2009 - Pligg Beta 9
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/05/2009 - Get productive! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters for making 2008 a success! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!
  (tags: ping.fm web development design resources dev)
• FORA.tv - Guy Kawasaki: The Power of ‘No Bull Shiitake’
  Another Great Guy Kawasaki Video
  (tags: social guykawasaki technology socialmedia kawasaki Video trends interview interviews venturecapital guy_kawasaki vc)
• Joren Rapini.com Weblog » Double Body Background CSS Trick
  Quick CSS Trick
  (tags: webdesign background development tricks backgrounds webdev tips CSS Tutorials howto double)
• 60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources
  (tags: design howto illustrator ressources top photoshop inspiration Resources resource art creative tutorial Tutorials tips photos reference showcase diy tip brush patterns textures psd brushes gimp)
• Top 100 Web Designs in 2008 {radiiate}
  Amazing Web Designs from 2008!
  (tags: design wordpress portfolio color blogs web webdesign gallery websites inspiration 2008 layout showcase blog CSS web-design bestof 100 designs examples radiiate favorite top web2.0)
• How to Change the World: Signs of the Times
  Sign of the Times collection of SALE adverts
  (tags: blogs recession humor Apple sales discount economy christmas)
• Top 10 Marketers of 2008 | 2008
  Top 10 Marketers of 2008!
  (tags: Resources socialmedia entrepreneur bestof work business internet media 10 top10 SEO blogs obama geek search 100 marketing online 2008 analytics top guykawasaki marketers)
• AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/05/2009 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  Here it is! Monday is upon us! That means the true test of 2009 is here, Get productive or get left behind! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily links)
• The Best Worst Videogame Ads Part 4 from 1UP.com
  MAN are these some old ads, I actually remember these back when all I did was read Video Game Mags!
  (tags: list graphicdesign advertising funny humor games ad)
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
  Google Tricks I can't live without, they make life easier truly.
  (tags: web article computer hack lifehacks geek blog fun tools technology tips howto cool internet search research guide reference google tutorial interesting useful searchengine lifehacker hacks productivity tech articles lifehack tricks)
• 2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
  New year - Products you can't Live without!
  (tags: blog web webapp sites tools web2.0 services list product software 2009 trends products websites trend top techcrunch)
• Social Media Icons Pack in 3 Sizes for Download | WordPress Blogging | Blog Perfume
  3 Sizes of Social Media Icons!
• VoicePHP: Indian Startup Marries Voice with PHP
  Interesting Startup! PHP and Voice! Nice possibilities!
• COLORBURNED - Professional Design Resources - Win a Free Copy of Filter Forge - Comment to Win
  Win a FREE Copy of Filter Forge!
• Online converter
  Convert pretty much anything.
  (tags: web conversion educational units convert reference tools internet science calculator tool online work useful education conversions measurement converter math metric school weight convertor maths kg measures conversor distance metre)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/05/2009 - Pligg Beta 9
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/05/2009 - Get productive! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters for making 2008 a success! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!
  (tags: ping.fm web development design resources dev)
• AbhiTech: Create Your Own TinyURL With PHP And MySQL
  Quick and easy tutorial for creating your own TinyURL with PHP and MySQL
  (tags: blog work snippets opensource tinyurl tutorial tips Tutorials howto links webdevelopment webservice url php link apache scripts mysql create short mod_rewrite)
• 40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials
  Awesome Typography Resources and Tutorials!!
  (tags: design tutorial graphic poster illustration fonts links list web webdesign Tutorials gallery creativity typography font graphics howto inspiration Resources blog tools art photoshop creative graphicdesign cool posters tipografia type effects)
• Arbenting’s Best of the Week for 12/28 - 1/03 | Arbenting
  First Best of the week in 2009! Keep it up Arbenting!
• How Lists Can Help Conquer Creative Blocks | The Design Cubicle
  Lists help defeat Creative Blocks! Good post
  (tags: design tutorial)
• Easy Widgets jQuery plugin
  Easily Widgetize your site with this jQuery Plugin
  (tags: javascript jQuery widgets)
• xkcd - A Webcomic - Converting to Metric
  Funny Metric Conversion guide!
  (tags: webcomics reference fun gr2dic technology units humor culture conversion xkcd geek metric)
• Twitter Overrun with Phishing DMs & iPhone Offers | Brent Csutoras
  Stupid freaking Phishers on Twitter

Best Of

• My 50 Most Linked To Posts | chrisbrogan.com
  A Look into what posts are MOST Popular for Chris Brogan
  (tags: socialmedia socialnetworks socialnetworking social.media networking community)
• 8 Interesting CMS for e-commerce websites
  Nice CMS Options!!
  (tags: web freelance list cms howto free opensource programming freebies resource ecommerce software php e-commerce)
• Startup School 08 | Omnisio
  Amazing Keynotes from 08! Must Watch!
  (tags: web programming career innovation conference ycombinator presentation entrepreneurship technology inspiration development blog tutorial business web2.0 media Video education startups podcast entrepreneur towatch presentations videos startup advice learning lectures startupschool school)

Here it is! Monday is upon us! That means the true test of 2009 is here, Get productive or get left behind! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters for making 2008 a success! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• 12 Ways To More Effective Blog Design — SE7ENize.com
  Nice Blog Design Tips!
  (tags: design 2read blog-design webdesign inspiration blogging wordpress tips blog)
• The Year of jQuery UI » Learning jQuery - Tips, Techniques, Tutorials
  2009 will be the year of jQuery!
  (tags: jQuery ui)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/04/2009 - Pligg Beta 9
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 1/04/2009 - I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters for making 2008 a success! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!
  (tags: ping.fm web development resources design dev)
• 960 CSS Framework - Learn the Basics » DivitoDesign
  Learn the Basics of the 960 CSS Framework!
  (tags: design Tutorials web-design frameworks howto web webdesign Resources webdev tutorial CSS webdevelopment 2008 layout article xhtml Web_Design html framework webmaster cssframework grids grid learn basics 960 divitodesign css-frameworks)

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• Kick Starting a Freelance Business… When You Can’t Afford to Fail - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
  Nice kick in the pants if you haven't started your Freelance Business yet
• 270+ Tools for Running a Business Online
  Ultimate resource for Online Business Tools!!
  (tags: web software Applications collaboration projectmanagement entrepreneur startup lists Resources tools online web2.0 technology list business freelance internet apps blogs productivity lifehacks webapps webapp freelancing mashable directory entrepreneurship businesstools onlinetools accounting)
• 5 Trends That Will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009
  The strong is separated from the weak in 2009
  (tags: business internet trends 2009 predictions)
• 3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
  Night owls, keep doing what you are doing.
  (tags: links iphone lifestyle stress science creative productivity data wired coding health creativity misc culture lifehacks random psychology late sleeping sleep)
• Jeff Fisher LogoMotives: Profiting from Pro Bono Creative Efforts
  Profit from Pro Bono Efforts!

Photoshop

• How To Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop | Webdesigner Depot - Photoshop Tutorials, Wordpress, Icons, WP Themes
  Create a vibrant image using photoshop!
  (tags: design art photography web webdesign illustration inspiration photos tutorial photoshoptutorials photoshop tutorials)

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• 31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Truly Incredible Resources and Inspirations!!
  (tags: design webdev graphics designers typography creative examples resources tutorials ajax css incredible graphicdesign diseño photo useful links resource html javascript photoshop web2.0 web webdesign tutorial inspiration tips list development reference)
• Toxel.com » 24 Unforgettable Advertisements
  Freaking amazing Advertisements.
  (tags: design 2008 photos advertisement humor creative inspiration list photography billboard publicidad creativity interesting funny cool art marketing advertising gallery fun images photo media ads amazing ad awesome signs unforgettable advertisements)
• The Best Papervision3D Websites | Flashmoto
  Very nice collection of Papervision3D Sites! Inspirational!
  (tags: design navigation webdesign experience inspiration papervision3d gallery lists flash 3d collection pv3d papervision)
• Top 50 Best Looking Blog Designs of 2008
  Best Looking Blogs of 2008!
  (tags: webdesign blog)
• PostSecret: Sunday Secrets
  Anonymously Post your secrets in an artsy format! Nice!
• Gary Vaynerchuk's FIGHT CLUB Style Wisdom
  Awesome Gary Vaynerchuk quotes

Gaming

• iminlikewithyou: /
  Awesome Social Gaming Site!
  (tags: design internet socialnetworking games Game socialsoftware drawing gaming networking culture network funny cool free flash CSS ideas web2.0 online inspiration fun community AJAX software Video webdesign web social dating iminlikewithyou)

Best of 2008

• 23 Unforgettable Resources Of 2008 You Couldn’t Live Without - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Resources from last year that you CANNOT live without!!!
  (tags: design resource web trends inspiration tools web2.0 tutorial photoshop)
• Cynthia Barnes’s Secrets to Self-Improvement » The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008
  Awesome list of Lifehacks!!

Freebies!

• 25 Hottest Free Fonts of the Moment
  Hottest Free Fonts!!
  (tags: design cool examples resource help webdesign tool lists roundup typography inspiration showcase webdev Resources web2.0 free font fonts freefonts temp typeface fontes fuentes no_tag)
• The Woork Handbook
  The Woork Handbook - free PDF: A free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous
  (tags: programming web freebies books webdesign Resources html AJAX web-development pdf php CSS Tutorials web-design howto free via:mento.info guide handbook ebook woork)
• Free Copy of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill | RyanWade.com ( blog )
  Get a FREE Copy of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill! Classic. No strings

Press Release

• Method to the Mayhem: Self-Promotion: The Press Release
  Promote yourself!
  (tags: press)
• Public Relations: Sweet Deals, Hard Truths
  Great PR/Promotion Piece!
  (tags: design article marketing writing niche pr authenticity)

Twitter Stuff

• Twitter Blog: Gone Phishing
  Be on the lookout for Twitter Phishers
  (tags: twitter social socialmedia network)
• Mr. Tweet -> Your Personal Networking Assistant!
  Follow him now! He will help you follow more influential and relevant people!
  (tags: tools twitchboard web2.0 twitter social tool technology networking