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Link Round-Up: April 28, 2009

28 Apr 2009  Links

From Around the Web

20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know – More scripts to help you turn your website into a slick, high-end commercial product. This installment in the series includes an image Carousel and a jwysiwyg text field.

20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners – In the old days, we depend a lot of on developers and programmers to help update the website, even when it’s just a minor one. Thanks to the CSS and it’s flexibility, styles can be extract independently away from the codes. Now, with some basic understanding of CSS, even a novice can easily change the style of a website.

30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials – This article provides 30 Impressive Flash and Actionscript 3.0 tutorials which can enrich your design skills and may serve as an inspiration for your Flash-projects.

50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Researchers – Twitter is a wonderful social tool, but did you know that it’s also a goldmine of information? You can use Twitter to get the latest scoop on current events as well as topical interests.

Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat – A new implementation you can build without spending all that money on those expensive seebeck generators. This one uses Peltiers in reverse to generate rather than cool. They aren’t as efficient but they are much more affordable. Plus most of the parts required are made from scrap.

NASA Scientist Predicts We’ll Meet E.T. by 2019 – Smith said “We’re ardently searching for evidence of life on our closest planet, I think it’s coming, I really do — at some point, we’ll turn over a rock, and by gosh there it is.”

The Pirate Bay verdict goes English, and we dish the dirt – The Pirate Bay ruling has been translated into English, and it’s full of little surprises. Ars dives in to answer the big questions: who possessed those Klomifen tablets, how much did the state pay to defend The Pirate Bay admins, and why did the backers consider moving to Argentina?

Steampunk Segway – The Legway, a human-powered and completely green version of the Segway, is built from old iron and copper plumbing.

Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All – Troy’s Twitter Script provides so many useful tweaks to almost every Twitter view that it was almost overwhelming. Read the Read Write Web write out to learn more.

Twones – Twones is a music service and a new way to store, organize, find and share music played all over the web: YouTube, Myspace, Last.fm, Hypemachine, Favtape, or Blog at one single point of access.

Website Layout Toolbox – Laying out a website is obviously one of the most important parts of the design process. In this post, DesignMag shares a listing of resources, tutorials and articles covering various aspects of web layout.

Tech News

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta
Now, LCD monitors watch you
Old Nokia 1100s prized by criminal underground
Pentagon’s Cyber Command to Be Based at NSA’s Fort Meade

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