
There are lots of sites on the internet and sometimes it’s a bit tricky knowing where to look next. With Links is a curated selection of internet links, from ruby scripts to roast potato recipes there is always something of interest for the digital flâneur.
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great app for working with filenames in Mac OS, has more power than Automater!
set a series of tasks/settings on your mac depending on where you are via @almonk
probably the simplest file sharing site you will find
“Enhanced (Nick Hook's Legalise It! Mix)” by Nick Hook is my new jam. ♫
.@RGA reconsider the watermark - just though how cool it would be if they put a Creative Commons licence on the idea!
iZettle could become the first company to arrive in the UK with a mobile phone PDQ solution
the story of send - how an email goes through Googles data centres
Read this: 'For businesses, being good at copying is at least as important as being innovative'
Welcome to Life: A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.
a quarterly themed exhibition of independent magazines from around the world
beautiful illustrations by @katiescottscott
Designing UI elements for retina screens
an app less than 4K in size that produces amazing visual complexity
The evolution of the moon
a type foundry index. via @ilovetypography
How oil prices affect the economy. A great video that clearly explains our current economic situation
really handy app that solves the issue of moving files around in Mac Finder, worth the $4.99
A great round up by @chriscoyieron responsive image solutions
is a publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. via the internet babe @almonk
“4D” by Koreless is my new jam. ♫
perfect for sending a webpage straight to your Kindle. No more infinite 'instapaper' deliveries
Queue Hacker, a concept for beating Post Offices queues
new styling and great documentation for Vimeo API and more
CSS box-sizing shim
CSS feature support tables
HTML5 video player
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - It's 'done the rounds' this one, but that's because it's good.
'tales from behind the dashboard' Tumblr's best of via @laughingsquid
Use WebKit inspector in MobileSafari simulator.
Touché: enhancing human touch interactions. via @joshuabaker @imagemechanics
create complex iOS prototypes n.b. we have not tested this app :)
How the iPhone multitasking works. You don't need to 'quit' all those apps
BBC suggest the 1% rule is over. However, 1% creators are still specific to a given community.
Navigable jQuery docs
Sign up in seconds! Interesting analysis of UX design for products from @37signals
create clickable walk throughs and let your team/clients feedback via @webponce
Send to Kindle App. via @rooreynolds
“Receptacle For The Respectable” by Super Furry Animals is my new jam. ♫
A film about a pack raft and folding bicycle trip from Sumburgh Head to Muckle Flugga in the Shetland Islands.
customer service for your webapp
your best of the web, served up to your inbox... A bit like withlinks ;)
an archive of book covers
Spotify release their iPad app
BBC working with external digital agencies to innovate and create. via @timharding
brush up on your bird spotting, with handy sound samples
Schema analyser for MongoDB.
read and write zip files in javascript
burger finder app for London via @domgoodrum
imagine hundreds of these in a desert, amazing. via @b3ta_links
tracking where the ship on top of the South Bank would be if it was a floating object in the wind. By @jamesbridle
as its Friday, play your own minimal techno with kittens and your keyboard. Famous artists samples from KOMPAKT
German DJs and their living rooms
… even better search patent search example: Bicycle What were some people thinking!
Google Patent Search via @lawrencebrown Random example search for 'counter' Tip: Click the Drawing links. They're best.
“This Too Shall Pass” by OK Go is my new jam. ♫
And another via the lovely @Futurefabric and in support of a practice WA has held for years: Time to ditch the pitch
RT @Futurefabric: Very nice one pager for Lore (the new, rebranded Coursekit) —
Control your Mac, with your phone.
Owning animation right now Consistently exceeding expectation and making delightful shorts. Follow @animadetv and see
annotate pages on the internet (a few more features this time) via @ThomStoodley
annotate pages on the internet
A UI for gaining users’ consent to use Google Analytics tracking.
Retina graphics detection script.
coming soon… a webapp that lets you easily create CSS3 animations using a smart GUI
open source toolkit for high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation of content. via @AlexGraul
"bite-sized CSS and HTML nuggets" great up-to-date techniques
Remembering Hillman Curtis by @brendandawes
Watch this repository: responsive image loader, deliver optimised images at different resolutions
free design elements
Hillman Curtis, design, artist, film maker give a window into his practice. via @byedit
Use and build applications which update and respond in real-time.
Yup
Make Blog
unofficial Lego marketplace.
type code, see result, save, share.
lovely helper for finding he right curve.
Zed Shaw teaches us C.
Some extremely handsome font families from Intro’s Adrian Talbot ~ @itsnicethat
Subscribe to your favourite record labels with Ghostly International’s intriguing new platform.
web-based electronic point of sale system.
simulate Amazon’s S3 service locally.
ux testing app.
loads bookmarks. DISCLAIMER: do _not_ click the magnifying glass.
Astute Instagram/$1BN observations from Matt Webb via Marx (and clearer than @MathewWilson's aphids and ants metaphor!)
The Guardian ask 'How will the new law on cookies affect internet browsing?'
@jgwhite didn’t realise this site existed, what a fool.
say goodbye to localhost
just found a nice little scrapbook site by @guiseiz
create mobile ready events guides, great for conferences, festivals etc
- nice when you just gotta have some T&Cs via @snookca
Media Query asset download tests. display: none; useless. via @chambersjudd
Building Software at Google Scale ~ @igrigorik
Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture — the finest sounds on the airwaves.
German Nightclubs After Everyone Leaves ~ @COLT_RANE
Next-generation app framework which totally removes the distinction between client and server.
“Belle and Sebastian” by Piazza, New York Catcher is my new jam. ♫
gives webpages the ability to tell if the user's device is capable of viewing high-resolution images ~@real_css_tricks
beautiful game for iOS via @Visuelleuk
an archive of mostly stamps and posters from 1960-80
scrapes boomkat and spotify to return matches of releases you can listen to on spotify. Not to be missed
Account Activity, stats on your google product usage and the ability to download everything you store online
A port of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
Whole world soul food.
Speaking of masterly.
Exquisite gallery from the masterly hands of @secondcousins.
Awesome Tapes from Africa.
The All-In-One Entirely-Not-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to HTML5 Fallbacks
A Brief History of Title Design. Superb.
“Golden Brown” by The Stranglers is my new jam. ♫
Sunshine: A short film about a real modern day 'Mad Man'
Explore the world
Does what it says on the tin.
mobilise your site now. Google give site owners handy tips and tests to help with mobile
Muxtape lives on in open source form.
@grahamashton compares QUnit with Jasmine.
Artfully promoting science since 2006
@freeagent’s small business advice from this year’s budget.
@jcoglan makes a significant privacy point regarding Facebook Connect session behaviour.
“Afraid of Monsters” by Xela is my new jam. ♫
fascinating peek into the infrastructural design thinking behind @picleapp
Only just noticed the quiet brewing of 'a creative consultancy based in the heart of London' from lovely @jamiewieck
4 classic TV ad's are given the digital treatment with their creators. Via @jacksaunderseu
planning, design and digital guidelines for the new Viget website
Parallax scrolling with javascript is clever and all but his nothing on the Disney MultiPlane Camera via @lawrencebrown
A rather comprehensive case study for a Redbull iPad app
genius inventor, now at the might @berglondon
noted brutalist architect
create high-fidelity mobile app prototypes in minutes in the browser.
Mozilla walk through there Boot2Gecko (B2G) operating system, it runs all the phones apps on the web.
Space shuttle launch video, camera positioned on boosters, really beautiful footage and sound
a lens from 1919 fitted to a Canon 5D, beautiful results via @riklomas
Slate’s Annie Lowrey spends a month learning Ruby, and discovers _why along the way. Great writing.
BSON id's have a time stamp
insight into the design and frames behind the Nike Fuel band. via @Madedigital
For 'our tiny minds' read Google - - phew, thank the lord for that...
- desperately wracking our tiny minds for the black and yellow striped fellows - any ideas?
Still loving this story after it's done the rounds Waiter uses dry marker pen on computer screen when UI fails
un-print paper that has been printed, super recycling
does what it says in the tin. Request rewriting for Rack.
Make a bike. Make a difference. Awesome idea. Teach people to build bikes then send them to Africa
the rhubarb and ginger 'un was @lawrencebrown 's birthday cheesecake
online home of things magazine, essays, reviews, short stories about objects and their meanings
Under the Mircoscope, short and detailed videos from Cambridge University.
sound advice on using the new Facebook layout
Ad hoc Hypothesis aka post rationalisation aka current business plan of most internet start-ups
How apple will serve retina image to new ipads via @grigs
view any site with a range of mobile sizes/formatting via @Futurefabric
view any site with a range of mobile sizes/formatting via @BenStott
social media icons font via @Futurefabric
fine reading collection of print and digital texts
scaleable royalty free icons for user interface design
"platform for ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art"
visual load testing tool.
a graphing library for jQuery.
jQuery plugin for tokenized tag inputs.
print-on-demand e-commerce that integrates with your own site… client side
Preflight for HTML email
rational #wordpress theming, via @almonk
how to make coffee, thats the drink, not the script
designing a mobile responsive site
HTML5 + Flash audio player via @byedit
fluid width any aspect ratio videos on the page, great for responsive design
#js favicon manipulation library
D3.js #js graphing library
reference page for the Raphael Library via @3stripe
build a grid and download as css in the browser
lets you create a err one page website, great for businesses
test any browser in your browser, brilliant testing app
one app implemented in all the different #js MVC frameworks
digital delivery of purchased digital things, online payment of files
ruby cloud services
email delivery for web apps
symbols and pictograms available for free use
Get British Business Online - an amazing introduction to owning a website as a business
translate the web while learning more about the language you translate #translation
a bookmarklet for testing your graceful degradation #css #testing
publish events to multiple sources from one place
#ssh tunnelling #mongodb
Heston Blumenthal teaches you about beef #cooking #food #beef
is a file-based cms #cms
lovely #js #sketch app
realtime #js graphing
great #cucumber #bdd advice
a #venue in Hackney for the free exchange of ideas.
simple hosted app for selling #downloads
Design with web fonts, in the browser.
@squaremile #coffee in #Dalston.
#javascript framework via the saintly @almonk
#symbol #font
Style CSS using the photoshop layers panel
#js #date library
creative #agency site
javascript overlay technique via @almonk
reverse image searching javascript bookmarklet #search
the 2 screen tv watching experience now has its own app
lovely #prints
thoughts on #social or something
#bikes
social media #icons
#payment solution that looks like magic.
essential #reading via @mike_matas
tablet webapp that allows you to scribble on webpages for feedback #usertesting
#photography soft focus
write on your walls, rub it off. via @salxhart
simple take on #newsletters
16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
movie rentals in the UK
Interaction design student makes a physical player that hooks into Spotify #electronics
Glasgow School of Art has a sweet #shop
make a one page website is seconds
#photography of niagara falls with no water
workspaces of artists
simple and elegant: print a week/month calendar
#usertesting A/B testing thats so easy and clever
#social #webapp #gps social sharing of GPS, may interest @danielbower
#cycling #photography following pro riders
#imagegallery #dropboxsync app for image collection
#ideasonworking attitudes and ideas to working methods
super #culture
#baffling #stuff #store via @samuelbaker & @thefinalform
#cargo #design #blog
lush #photography via @frankigoodwin
is a tool we use every day to work out #timezone stuff.
is a pretty awesome #screenshot #api
#bike geek time via @MartinCarty
#nice #photography of people places
uk #hosting
Eric Carle is one of the best people in the world ever. #nice
#mixtape
#clever stuff from BBC and Berg.
is about #coffee
#video great videos from #radiolab about moments, symmetry, laughs, moments, routines
#googlemaps is magic
for #ruby #documentation
#templating heaven
primo #font blog
professor #cool.
screenshot generator, plus a list of good alternatives.
The seven dumbest sins of social media #SocialMedia
Alok Jha is my hero #science #science #science
#wordpress plugins with a sense of style.
#app #onepager
unbelievable #javascript #vector library
#ruby wrapper for #twitter’s streaming api
an essential #monitoring tool
via @lawrencebrown #nice #realthings
Spanish practice + eye candy = #nice
a guide to what to eat and when #food #seasonal
@bengoldacre has gone and made this #map of fun
an intriguing project built with #sproutcore, #node and #socketio
Thomas Fuchs, #javascript wizard, makes an interesting point on #flash