The week in links 02/01/09

Like I thought I would I missed last week’s set of links as I sat back and had a little break over Christmas, of course with Christmas gone I’m back to work and continuing yet another redevelopment of my website but this time I feel it will stick longer. It’s a more thorough rework but anyway, less of that, more of the links I’ve found over the past week.

1/ BB Free Font: Whiteboard Modern Demo (bittbox.com)
   BittBox continues its excellent output of free resources with a this charming little font.
2/ 30 Unforgettable Christmas Ads Around The World (weirdresources.com) (Above)
   A collection of the best Christmas ads this year.
3/ ShareTabs (sharetab.com)
   Give it a set of links and it’ll give you one link to a page of thumbnails of your links.
4/ 30+ Great Adobe AIR Apps For Designers And Developers (mashable.com)
   AIR continues to be a great development platform and here’s some more design tools.
5/ 25 Fantastic Design Articles From 2008 (davidairey.com)
   David Airey gathers together a collection of the best posters as suggested by his readers.

6/ 160+ RSS Feeds For Web-Designers And Developers (spyrestudios.com)
   This is one huge list of feeds. Comes with a OPML file for easy downloading.
7/ Smashing Highlights 2008 (smashingmagazine.com)
   It’s been a great year for Smashing Magazine, here’s a roundup of their best articles.
8/ Top 10 Twitter Apps #2 (netgendesign.com)
   I always love finding unique ways to use and visualise Twitter and this selection is great.
9/ 2008 Most Popular Design Posters, Tutorials and Resources (noupe.com)
   Large collection of the best collections of 2008.
10/ ColorFlip (colorflip.com)
   Neat little page flip effect going through a selection of colours.

11/ 60 Great Abduzeedo Articles From 2008 (abduzeedo.com)
   Abduzeedo gives some of the best tutorials and inspirations, here’s the best of the best.
12/ Best Posts On Designer Daily For 2008 (designer-daily.com)
   Designer Daily sums up the best of 2008 on site.
13/ 15 Minimalist Designs That Inspired Me (spyrestudios.com)
   As the title says, great list of minimalist websites.
14/ Adobe PDF Guide: How To Do Everything With PDF Files (labnol.org)
   PDFs are pretty useful things, here’s a guide to getting the most out of them.
15/ The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008 (photoshoplady.com)
   That’s a lot of tutorials.

16/ 30 Super-Juicy Photoshop Illustration Tutorails (psdtuts.com)
Is your new year resolution to brush up on your Photoshop skills? Here’s some great tutorials.
17/ Launch: Are My Sites Up? (css-tricks.com)
Just web app that checks if your sites are up, free and easy to use, just launched today.