links for 2008-11-07

Word HTML Cleaner
Free version. Remove excessive tags from Microsoft Word generated HTML documents.
(tags: word tools utilities productivity html)

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Published on November 7, 2008

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MediaWiki Skins Design (Book review)

MediaWiki Skins Design — Designing attractive skins and templates for your MediaWiki site is the first book by UK based web designer Richard Carter. The book covers practical tips from the very basics to integrating MediaWiki with popular social networking services such as YouTube, Twitter and Delicious. It is published by PACKT publishing (ISBN 978-1-847195-20-3) [...]

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Published on November 5, 2008

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links for 2008-11-01

Where is Your Username registered
Finds out if you've got accounts with various web2.0 places.
(tags: useful)

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Published on November 1, 2008

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links for 2008-10-23

Colours Are Brighter: Various Artists
“If, as a parent, you are sick of the fact that "children's" albums seem to consist solely of muzak versions of nursery rhymes, and you'd secretly prefer to be playing the latest Killers album, then this should be top of your purchase list. It seems such a simple concept - get [...]

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Published on October 23, 2008

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links for 2008-10-19

Roger Waters on Rick Wright's death
“I was very sad to hear of Rick's premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliette, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very [...]

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Published on October 19, 2008

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I have never studied with the Open University

Well that’s not strictly true. During my first year of employment with the Open University (OU) in 2002-2003 I undertook a 10 point course on web design which was being piloted. I think it might have evolved into Design and the web. It wasn’t really my bag as it was pitched at a much too [...]

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Published on October 18, 2008

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links for 2008-10-17

Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AF-S
The reason you want this new 50mm f/1.4 is that you can tweak manual focus simply by touching the ring without needing to move a switch, and that its performance ought to be stellar at f/1.4 compared to all previous 50mm f/1.4 lenses made by anyone. The only gotcha is its weird [...]

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Published on October 17, 2008

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links for 2008-10-13

Subyo.com
Subyo.com - find, use and create subtitles for YouTube videos. Quick and easy. — If only YouTube could import them from here.
(tags: webdesign video subtitles accessibility)

Subtitle Workshop
Subtitle Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would [...]

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Published on October 13, 2008

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links for 2008-10-04

Nikon D40 User's Guide
No-nonsense user guide for the Nikon d40. I've pretty much made my mind up on this camera. I'm a novice at photography (just look at my Flickr photostream for evidence). I want a dSLR so I can control the flash (point away from subject) and focus (control bg blur) and do better [...]

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Published on October 4, 2008

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links for 2008-10-01

smush it!
"Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your [...]

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Published on October 1, 2008

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Guy having a creative day with some old Bluetones tunes providing the background.

About GuyWeb

This site is being redeveloped. Apologies if things don't look or act as you expect. I'm spending little bits of free time making some much needed changes.

GuyWeb is the personal website of Guy Carberry, a web designer based in Buckingham, England. He currently works full-time as a web designer for the Open University. He also undertakes interesting freelance projects where time allows. You can contact Guy by emailing Guy at this website's address.

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