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Miralinks 02-06-09

I know if I forget about this again, I’ll never come back to it. So…

• SixRevisions posted a great list of 30 Inspiring Dark and Sleek Web Designs. Great for helping me get over the creative block I’ve been having recently
• Lifahacker gives an excellent tutorial on how to create seamless textures in Photoshop
  
• Designing for yourself is often the hardest job to do. This is mainly the reason why this sites design is always changing
• If you’re using Windows 7, Gmail Notifier Plus makes great use of Jump Lists.One of my favourite small apps. Download here.
• Tesco are finally putting some thought into their packaging. Very nice

Miralinks 31-05-09

Time for this badboy to make a comeback. Its fitting because of the new design launch, which takes the good stuff from the last design and adds more functionality and consistency.I really like it anyway, and my jQuery knowledge is tested . Anyways I’ve decided to get my Links straight from my Google Reader Shared List, so if you want to see what links will I’ve featured in this post every week, I suggest you look there first

• Free textures – This is an excellent set of cracks and grungy textures by chorando. Excellent for distinctive backgrounds
• Are you tired of Captcha? – Swedish Fika gives a great tutorial as to how to combat spam instead of turning to those ever annoying Captcha images. And its fairly simple to integrate into WordPress
• Speaking of which, WordPress 2.8 Beta 2 is out! One of the best features in this build is the ability to download themes straight into the server. Also now when you press Ctrl(Cmd) + S, it saves a draft of the post.
• Tutorial 9 has a great article, outlining the steps in the creation of a very Stylish Mail Icon, you could use for just about anything
• I find it extremely hard to find people on Twitter, now that @replies is gone. NaldzGraphics has an excellent list of 300+ web designers on Twitter.
• This week, Engadget gave me two very exciting news articles. First of all, SkyTV is coming to the Xbox 360. And Windows 7 (which I’m using right now),  might be able to connect to multiple WiFi networks at once to get a faster speed. Schweet.
• Alan Foran, has a great review of Green Day’s – 21st Century Breakdown. I have one on the way, but not sure if its post-worthy yet.

Finally heres a bit of awesomeness from NIN:

Miralinks 12/03/2009

Its that time again where I show you some of the more interesting finds online;

Everyone in the Leitrim drug ring have been caught. I mean everyone.

The new Yahoo homepage looks nice, but is it enough? I don’t think so.

Tommy Collison is struggling in choosing both a new theme and an iPhone Twitter client.

The townie has found solace in an Apple Store in NYC.

Also I would like to mention @jimmyfallon for a wonderful 8 days of TV so far. Props for featuring Kevin and Alex and good luck to @bryanbrinkman in becoming the first Twitter rock star.

Damien Mulley is organising free schwag. I’m interested.

Also no link here, but the new Shuffle is just horrid.

More tomorrow!

Miralinks 01/02/09

Its the end of the first month of 2009, and what a month its been. Technology galore yet we cant afford any, economic difficulties worldwide are still rampant, New leader of this country that disappeared 8 years ago, and of course the weather. So while you’re all sipping on your Hot Chocolate, have a look at some of my favourite sites/posts/articles that i found interesting.