Recent Links: July 20 to July 27

A great collection of vinyl stickers that can be added to any wall in the house.

A writeup of the launch of Dangerbird records by Athletics, which provides insight into their prototyping method (using Flash plus a bit of actionscript) as well as their implementation choices.

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This is the fourth and final installment of my series on creating textures in Photoshop. If you missed the first three, they were creating: Water Texture, Wood

Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder’s search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.

Kellan Elliott-McCrea (co-presented with Rabble) presentationt, which was a 'XMPP outsiders look at how to hijack XMPP to solve the problems of RSS and polling at “quantum” and “relativistic” scales. (small and rare, or huge fast and raging).'

An interesting look at the foundation of Meebo, which relies upon Comet. 'The ability to create an "instant" communications experience through the Web is the strength of the Comet recipe. The use of long-polling via the XMLHttpRequest is a critical technology to meebo. It enabled meebo to implement low-latency bi-directional communication on any modern computer that can access the Web, without the need to download software.'