Delicious Links for the week 19/2008

10^thMay 08

Here’s my DeliciousLinks list with my favorite links from the past week.

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Reuters best pictures from April 2008: New gallery containing the best pictures from the Reuters photographers selected by the Reuters staff
Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera: Article on Lifehacker providing a tutorial for firmware enhancement with CHDK for Canon Point and shoot cameras
Everything You Wanted to Know About Camera Firmware: Article from DIYPhotography describing what a camera firmware really is. Don’t miss to have a look in the follow up post too: Camera Firmware Exists
Layout Tool Disguised as Aperture’s Book Making Function: Podcast with Derrick Story about the new powerful book layout capabilities of Aperture 2.1
Patterns in Nature: Northern Lights: If you enjoyed Leopards Aurora Borealis wallpaper, then National Geographic has a perfect gallery for you with beautiful and stunning pictures of Northern Lights (straight out of the reality, not photoshopped). The other Patterns in Nature galleries are worth a look too
Going With the Glow: Awesome pictures of Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter illuminating Washington’s National Cathedral.
“What the Heck is an Aperture?” Part One.: Nice simple explanation for beginners of aperture in photography (this circular thing in your camera, not Apple’s program) with some beautiful example pictures

35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed
25 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed
Introduction to CSS3 - Part 1: What is it?: First of four articles in this series about CSS3
Introduction to CSS3 - Part 2: Borders
Introduction to CSS3 - Part 3: Text Effects
DROP CAPS 101: Nice article from Armen over at alpha blog designs with some quick facts about the history and usage of drop caps with fresh examples and tutorial links
30+ Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars
8 fonts you probably don’t use in CSS, but should
15 Great Examples of Web Typography: See what you can achieve with typography in the web
Understanding CSS Positioning part 1: Awesome all-in-one article about the various positioning methods CSS uses
CSS Shorthand, Step by Step How-To: Slim down your css-files by using efficient CSS shorthand
Stylize your digg count: Display the number of diggs beside your digg submit button or link
Plain del.icio.us count: Display the number of del.icio.us saves beside your del.icio.us submit button or link

NIN Gives Away New Full Length Album - the slip: Get it for free either in high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality or even in insane-higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. Needless to say that I took the WAVE files (guilty for being an audiophile too)

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