Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 30th…

• URL Design

• Kindle book lending now available

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 29th…

• Free Transit Service on New Year

• A Visual History of Daft Punk's Helmets [Helmets]

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 27th…

• How to Design App Icons for iPhone and iPad

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 26th…

• Fab 94.3 New Oldies Station in Winnipeg

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 25th…

• Doctor Who 2011 Series 6 Trailer
  

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 23rd…

• QuickPix 2010

• Skype, millions still without service

  Skype is still working to right itself from a major outage that began yesterday.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 21st…

• A VERY ZOMBIE HOLIDAY (Instructional video)
  

• Solstice Lunar Eclipse

  For those who missed it, a video of the lunar eclipse last night.

• Children exploring old technology
  

• Warlord Of Mars

  First issue of the new comic book. I love the original pulp novels, am interested in flipping through this one :D

• Tips for Taking a Screenshot on Your Mac

  When you need to grab and share what you are currently looking at.

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 20th…

• Rare lunar eclipse expected tonight

  A full lunar eclipse on the winter solstice. The last one occurred in 1638.

• Title Junk

  A good little rant from Gruber, echoing my own issues with page titles. Too much emphasis on SEO, not enough emphasis on the real people using the webpage.

• Steam Holiday Sale On Now

  The yearly Steam Holiday sale is on right now. If you have spare time to kill over the break (i.e. no kids) then there are some pretty sweet deals.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 18th…

• Kildonan Place Flash Choir
  

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 17th…

• TweetMag

• Oracle Cloud Office

  Oracle has announced an online suite which will allow users to create and edit documents collaboratively in the browser without having to rely on desktop software.

• Amazons Mechanical Turk used increasingly for spam

  Sad but obvious, I suppose. Cheap and non-robotic, it is the perfect vehicle for traffic bumps and twitter bloat.

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 16th…

• Google Maps 5.0 for Android
  

• Yahoo Internal Layoff Memo

• Apple Mac App Store to Open on January 6

  Launching in 90 countries and offering free and paid applications.

• Export Your Bookmarks on Delicious

  WIth todays the announcement that Yahoo is killing off Delicious, this link may come in useful.

• Introducing Word Lens
  

• Word Lens

  I was just thinking about making an app like this about a week ago. I thought, why has no one made an app that uses real-time translation through the iPhone yet. Voila! Here it is.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 15th…

• Ars Technica gets hands-on with the Cr-48 Chrome OS laptop

  Although the software is still under development and not yet mature enough to support an authoritative conclusion about the platforms potential, they have assembled some observations based on their experiences.

• iBooks 1.2 now available

  I am particularly interested in the ability to create collections. My iBooks list is getting pretty unwieldily without.

• 8 Cheat Sheet Wallpapers for Designers and Developers

• Chapters 30% Off Regular Priced Items

  Good at both the online store and the brick-and-mortar stores. And if you are a member, you can get an additional 10% off on top!

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 14th…

• An Introduction to CSS 3-D Transforms

  Linked for Max, who is applying some CSS3 to a project as I write this.

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Ross McDowall over the course of December 13th…

• Humble Indie Bundle 2
  

• Valve Offices Receive Custom Motion-Sensing Sentry Gun

  The makers of Team Fortress 2 get a cool new security feature. Nice!

• NEW Official Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides Trailer - Official Disney UK Trailer
  

• 2010 Black List of Unproduced Screenplays

• WWF file format

  A PDF-like format that is supposedly impossible to print. Which makes it guaranteed to not be implemented in any real amount.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 11th…

• Batman Arkham City
  

• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  

Contributed by Ross McDowall and Wil Alambre over the course of December 10th…

• Predicting astronomical events with Lego

  2000 year old Greek computer to predict eclipses recreated using lego.

• Apple picks Flipboard as App of the Year

• Google Docs on the iPad

  The iPad can now use the desktop version of the excellent Google Docs cloud services.

• Thor - Official Trailer HD 1080p
  

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 9th…

• Dropbox for Teams

• Titanic exhibit coming to Winnipeg

  Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will make its long awaited Winnipeg debut this February 12th, 2011 at the MTS Centre Exhibition Hall.

• iTunes rolls out 90-second song previews

  Apple has, as promised, begun extending the length of song samples from 30 seconds to 90 seconds at the iTunes Store in the U.S.

• Details emerge of Microsofts failed Facebook buy

  What could have been and why it did not happen.

• Star Wars Glass Ornament Set

  Just in time for Christmas!

• Apache quits Java governance group

  The move is a response to Oracles ongoing failure to comply with the intellectual property policies established by the JCP.

Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of December 8th…

• Google Tunes Up Chrome Javascript Engine

  Between continual browser improvements and the launch of thier app store, Google has convinced me to switch my default browser

• Icon design trends 2010

  The iPhone button style was nice, but I did not have to see it everywhere. Pictograms, however, I still adore :)

• Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon
  

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 7th…

• hooppps

  A mobile dribbble browser.

• Tumblr explains daylong outage

  The annoyance was not that it WAS down, but that there was no word from Tumblr what was going ON.

• Tumblr Backup App for Mac

  time to give this a try

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 6th…

• New Facebook profile layout

• Pure CSS3 box-shadow page curl effect

  Nicely done, a subtle effect to reward those using modern browsers.

• 10 Tips to Beat Clutter in Less Than 5 Minutes.

• How To Speed Up your Coding Time

• Tumblr down for 13 hours And counting?

  There is a dissatisfied rumbling over the internet about tumblr and the regular, frequent downtimes. Will this latest one affect their user base?

• Google eBookstore

• Compact Portable Hard Drive

  Dell has a compact portable 500GB drive for fifty bucks. If you have been putting off backing up your computer, now is always a good time to start!

• Can you defame someone with a hyperlink?

  Jon Newton is on his way across Canada this morning to Ottawa, where the Supreme Court will tomorrow consider a key question for the Internet age: can a mere hyperlink be defamation?

• Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System

  Wired with an awesome article about commets and a dark planet lurking not too far away.

Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of December 4th…

• Fictional story of a flash mob gone terribly wrong

  worth the five minutes

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 3rd…

• Google adds PDF reading in Chrome 8

  You know, like Safari has been able to for a ages now. :P

• More Queen songs for Rock Band

  Damn, and I was trying to not buy Rock Band 3. Now I may have to! :P

• 50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets | Speckyboy Design Magazine

  marked for future reference.

• 40-proof chocolate milk

• Dr. Seuss does Star Wars

  I would buy this book! :D

• TweetMag

  A preview of a possible Flipboard killer, under construction by Teehan+Lax.

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 2nd…

• BBC iPlayer Will Be Available Internationally Soon

  But first it will come out as an iPad app. Doctor Who and Top Gear for everyeone!

• Best jQuery Plugins of 2010

  Includes the excellent Masonry plugin, naturally.

• The 50 Best Albums of 2010

  Paste Magazine with their 50 best albums of 2010. I love this time of year!

• Gowalla 3

  Now includes integration with Foursqaure and Facebook Places. Gowalla suddenly becomes my favourite location app again!

• The inevitable decline due to clutter

• Ben the Bodyguard

  What a great teaser site featuring some awesome css3 and HTML5. Scroll down.

Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of December 1st…

• Reeder for Mac

  Liked the iPad Reeder app? Give the desktop version a try! Currently in public beta.

• Manitoba eliminates small business tax

  Manitoba will be the first province in Canada to have a zero per cent small business tax rate. The rate officially drops on Wednesday.

• 24 ways

  The annual list of excellent web advice is underway! A must read!

• Google to Launch New E-Book Store

  On store, any device. Google powering it ... look out Apple and Amazon.

• New Flash Player 10.2

  new beta release eases up on the CPU usage.