Interesting Links: 7.19.07

  • Build Your Own Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget: An easy to follow and comprehensive tutorial that walks through how to create a sidebar gadget (including demo code).
  • Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here: The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
  • 10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once):I have about twenty bloggers working for me at any given time. Many new bloggers are often not familiar with the details of blogging software (e.g. the screwy video embed issue with WP) or they don’t know much about the art of blogging.
  • The Open Source Web Design Toolbox:: This pervasiveness of the open source spirit in web design now means that you can use open source software to design both graphics and your CSS and HTML, and you can also use the dozens of reliable open source code resources or thousands of templates to base your own designs on.

This is precisely what happens when I don’t have the energy to blog during the week (thank my internship for that lack of energy). I wanted to get this summary completed before my copy of Harry Potter Deathly Hallows arrives on Saturday morning… I don’t plan on leaving the house all weekend.