The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet

The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet distills the best tips for improving your site’s findability by search engines down to two sides of a letter-sized sheet in PDF format. Download it, print it, design your sites by it!

GTA IV Grab Bag #1

Here’s a first in a series of regular updates on the just-released and much-awaited Grand Theft Auto IV. In this installment, there’s a hint about how to get all that Serbian translated into English, a video featuring ten more minutes of gameplay, and some thought on “sandbox” games done right.

Assassin’s Creed, I Wish I Could Quit You

I’ve played Assassin’s Creed only on XBox 360 and I don’t recall the procedure to quit the game being as byzantine as it is on the PC version, shown below:

Roadside Signage Fonts

If you’re working on an app like the Church Sign Generator or Photoshopping your own roadside signs, you might want to take a look at these fonts, “Signage Standard” and “Signage Modern”, which are designed to look like the black letters on clear plastic that you see on roadside signs all across North America.

ASCII Curtains

Here’s something for people with both nerdy and interior design tendencies: ASCII curtains!

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5

Aaron Brazell, b5media’s Director of Technology has a blog entry on his blog, Technosailor, titled 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5. It provides a brief overview of ten features of the very-soon-to-be-released WordPress 2.5, which I’ve quickly summarized.

Read on for the full story…

Mike Rohde’s SxSW Notes

At the recent South by Southwest Interactive conference, most of the note-takers, myself included, took notes at the sessions using their laptops. One notable exception was designer Mike Rohdes, who took notes the old-fashioned way: with pen and paper, or more specifically, pen and Moleskine notebook. Read on for more…

Now THAT’S a Computer Book Cover!

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Mockup vs. Reality

Pictured below are two photos:

1. The mockup of an International Space Station module at Leicester’s National Space Centre, and
2. The reality — a photo taken a week ago aboard the actual International Space Station.

Click the photo to see it at full size.
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

I think it’s a pretty apt visual metaphor for the difference between your application’s design and the actual implementation.

Ten Worst PC Keyboards of All Time

PC World takes a look at the 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time…

T-Shirt of the Day

Here’s a fine t-shirt that you can get made at any shopping mall that has one of those stores where they’ll stick the slogan of your choice in Cooper Black letters onto a t-shirt or sweatshirt with one of those big press irons. You’ll be a big hit at your next geek gathering!

Read the full article to see the picture at a larger size.

Mac Support Ad Based on Desktop Icon Art

Here’s an ad created by the ad agency 2008Scandinavia for “Teknograd Mac Support” in which the graphic is a Mac OS X desktop with icons arranged to form images:

Read the full article to see these images at full size.

The Weighted Companion PC

Based on an item from the game Portal, it’s the casemod of the moment: The Weighted Companion PC! “The pink heart melts the frozen soul of the lonely modder!”

Lessons from a Paper Bridge

Yesterday, TSOT engaged in a company-wide exercise which was supposed to teach us about teamwork and blitz planning. In the process, we got a couple of lessons that could be applied to the process of building software…

“MP3-Ready” George Foreman Grill

There have been times when I have been grilling and wished that I had some music. My prayers have been answered…

Whirlpool’s Fridge has Docks for Tablet Computers, iPods and Digital Photo Frames

Gizmodo reports: “Whirlpool’s latest tech for their refrigerator line is based on their ‘centralpark’ feature, which is a essentially dock that lets you plug in a bunch of different gadgets into the big gadget that holds your food.” Such gadgets include digital photo frames, tablet computers and the Brandmotion iPod speaker system.

Top 10 Secure Coding Practices

Here’s a list of CERT’s Top 10 Secure Coding Practices. It comes with two bonus secure coding practices (making it an even dozen) and better still, a funny photo that shows that it’s often easier to circumvent rather than defeat security measures.

Lesson from a Criminal Genius

Here’s a quick test.