Please All Types of Clients: Guide to Choosing Color Combinations

A must read article for web and graphic designers:

Please All Types of Clients: Guide to Choosing Color Combinations

DIY surface mount soldering iron for under $20

Recently had a motherboard go bust: one of the surface mount resistors fell off the board because of incorrect heat redirection from the processor and a DIY water cooler.

  I did manage to find a component identical to the one originally installed on the motherboard. But what I didn't realize, is that its practically impossible to solder such a tiny component (the size of a red ant) to the board, without an SMD rework station , which costs anywhere from $200 - $800 depending on the make and model.

Luckily, I came this tutorial which converts a standard soldering iron into a surface mount soldering iron for under $20. And after completing my own, I was able to get my old server board chugging along again.

A must read for DIY geeks:
How-To: Make a surface mount soldering iron -- Engadget

Pure CSS folded-corner effect – Nicolas Gallagher – Blog & Ephemera

Pure CSS folded-corner effect – Nicolas Gallagher – Blog & Ephemera

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Link Diversity from Scott Willoughby

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Link Diversity from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

http://www.seomoz.org/

URL Redirects and Forwarding from an SEO Perspective

There are many reasons for redirecting URLs: Web pages may have moved but their old URLs may still be bookmarked by visitors, indexed by search engines and back or reciprocally linked by other websites.

Without a redirect this traffic would be lost to a 404 Server Error, the website will not only lose visitors but search engine reputation (links, page-rank and possibly even its listing) as well.

There are several ways to redirect domains; however, some of them are not search engine friendly. The best way to redirect URLs is to use a 301 redirect, since major search engines like Google and Yahoo endorse 301 redirects. 

This article sums up URL redirection methods, along with pro's and con's.

THE ULTIMATE FIREFOX OPTIMIZATION GUIDE

Firefox may well be almost everyone’s favorite browser and while it’s not absolutely perfect, that doesn’t mean that it can’t be. I’ve compiled a list of the best tips, tricks, tweaks and fixes from the world of geeks.
This guide primarily applies to Firefox 3.5 but most of the fixes should work with older versions.