There comes a time in your life when you need to admit you’re not perfect. You may be the best damn web developer in the world (me), and you may know your stuff like the curves on a pretty woman. But you don’t always remember everything you need to know – all the time – and you know it!

The people at Smashing Magazine were kind enough to remind us that we’re not perfect, and that even though we are the best at what we do – we still need some help at times.

That’s why I’m proud to share with you the 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionaires from Smashing Magazine.

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This is a little tip taken from the book Vista Performance and Tuning Guide.

They say to put your computer to Sleep instead of hibernating or turning it off each time you want to shut down your computer. I can confirm this – it works wonderfully. Back before I knew anything about computers (and when computers took a year to boot) I would turn my computer completely off. Stupid, I know. But some people actually still do this. I used to always complain because it took so long to get back into the computer. Well, then I grew up and started to use the nifty “hibernate” feature. This worked wonderfully for several years. Of course, Sleep was available at the time, but the word “hibernate” sounded so much cooler. Needless to say (even though I’m saying it), I chose to “hibernate.”

Time passed by and I bought a Vista. Now, I was scared to buy Vista. I’ve heard so many bad things about it. Mostly from gossip which has been proved wrong. I actually like Vista. I’d say go buy Vista, but Windows 7 is out, so go get Windows 7.

The moral of the story, use Sleep on Vista because “hibernate” and shut-downs are too slow.

The quickest way to get up and running with a social networking or dating site with video, chat, photos, blogs and more is by using a great piece of software called Dolphin 7 from BoonEx.

No need to click a save button anymore with this jQuery plugin: jQuery Autosave. Seriously, this is something I’ve been wanting and never had the time to develop. Thankfully, these guys/girls created what I’ve been wanting. In this article I’m going to let you know some of the features this plugin offers, how to use it, link you to a demo, and thank you for taking the time out to read what I have to say!

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I finally got my classified site up. Go there to see the books or computers or whatever I might have that you might want to own.

Visit Michael Barton’s Classifieds site.

I’ve been doing a lot of Quality Assurance for my #1 Client, and in addition to being fully thorough, it’s good to have a bunch of tools under your belt. Rather than re-blog about it, I’ll share with you a blog about 10 Browser Testing Tools. He says they’re for designers, I say they’re for anyone that works with the web. You can be a Developer, Designer, Quality Assurance Engineer or even a Project Manager – these tools are for you!

I recently stumbled upon this site that lists 8 free Photoshop alternatives. I thought I’d share it with you.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-simple-free-photoshop-alternatives-that-are-under-2-mb/

Cheers!

I’ve studied Napolean Hill a lot. He’s a great guy from 100 years ago. I’m not sure if a lot of people still know about him, but he’s done many great things and wrote many great books. One of which, Think and Grow Rich, is my favorite.

Now I believe heavily in competition and sharing knowledge. In honor of my belief, I’m going to give you some of my notes from the Hill:

Why some men succeed
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