“Working through Screens is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides teams with a broad range of considerations for setting the overall direction and priorities for their onscreen tools. With hundreds of envisioning questions and fictional examples from clinical research, financial trading, and architecture, this volume can help definers and designers to explore innovative new directions for their products.”

“The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. “

“WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns. “

“AutoBlogged is a powerful autoblogging plugin for WordPress that automatically creates posts from any RSS or Atom feed. With dozens of powerful features, AutoBlogged is one of the most flexible feed aggregating plugins available.”

“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.”

Planet Fallout harnesses the power of Google Maps to allow its community to create a highly annotated map of the Fallout 3′s Capital Wasteland, detailing major locations, quests, item collection points and even easter eggs.

A set of beautiful vintage illustrations. “things drawn or inked, quirky or informative, naughty or nice”

A collection of beautiful vintage illustration.

“A full featured and beautiful CSS framework spawned from Blueprint and Tripoli, now with a life of its own.
Features:”

* 24-column grid
* Sensible typography styles
* Clean form styles
* A print stylesheet
* An empty starter stylesheet
* Sexy buttons
* Status message styles

“Family-owned and operated PubGlasses.com offers personalized beer & pint glasses, Guinness glasses, shirts and many more products from your favorite beer brand merchandise.”

They have a store front in Austin.

Do you use many social services? Annoyed that you have to run 6 different applications? Enter the new revolutionary social app, EventBox. All your services in one place, integrated.

“Tarpipe simplifies the process of adding, sharing, and moving content among the web services you use, by allowing you to define a repeatable, automatic workflow. The Tarpipe/Evernote integration allows you to add content into your Evernote account, as well as automatically extract content, such as recognition data and URLs to public notes, which can then be shared with other supported services.”

“this article will explain some of the changes needed to make themes capable of supporting the new comments functions” in WordPress 2.7

Pluck On Demand adds relevant content and social media to websites increasing traffic, pageviews and user engagement. The Pluck On Demand widget gives websites instant content, grows community and revenue.

“Over the past two years, I have developed a growing fascination with lawn signs. Not the ones advertising politicians or plumbers, but the ones advertising websites. Dating websites.

“These signs are so prevalent in my area that I decided to launch a private investigation into who was behind them and just how far they stretched. What I found started in my small home town and led me all the way to the secret guerilla marketing infrastructure of a multimillion-dollar company…”

It’s surprising how many web designers forget to specify a background color. To check for this, set your browser’s default background color to magenta, or something equally piquant. Then visit websites. If you find anything heinous (and you will), please share it here!

A collection of covers from albums bought at thrift stores and garage sales.

Carrington is an attempt to better abstract WordPress theme organization, and simplify commonly needed theme functionality.

At the moment, Carrington is basically three things – in this order:

A developer friendly theme and conventions-based templating system.
A set of best practices for theme organization.
An elegant, semantically rich WordPress theme for end-users with advanced features (like SEO-friendly AJAX loading of comments and archives and drop down navigation menus).

An OmniGraffle stencil containing common social media interface components

“Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML. ”

“Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site.”

Crowdstatus is made up of crowds, each crowd contains people and each person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.

The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to build and launch open-social applications to the largest daily viewing audience on the web.

Social Directory is the central location for Yahoo! profile data and connections lists. The Social Directory APIs will enable you to tap into a wealth of information to make your website more engaging and more “social” giving you the ability to achieve your engagement, distribution, and other business critical goals!

Sales prices, current values, and housing trends for Austin, Texas. No registration required.

Of course it is always better to have content. But sometimes you need text filler to show how a layout will look. “Lorem 2 is a simple and better way to grab Lorem Ipsum text content.”