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How do colors affect purchases?
To learn more about color psychology and how it influences purchases, see our latest infographic.
(tags: color conversion design)

How to Install Snow Leopard on VirtualBox
After 2 months of experiments, fighting in the dark, and with help from black Trinitron, the work is done and I think its time to reveal it.
(tags: virtualbox osx)

chandraonline.net » OpenVPN on a Jailbroken Iphone
OpenVPN support is one of the things sorely missing from the iphone. And there is very little information about how one could go about getting OpenVPN working even on a jailbroken iphone. There is iopenvpn.com if you are running 2.x and it costs $29.
(tags: iphone openvpn)

Online Video Cooking School
Welcome to Rouxbe (roo-bee), an online cooking school for anyone who wants to cook better. We deliver a professional culinary school curriculum in high-definition, close-up video, together with professional chef support, practice video recipes and assessment tools. Plus, you can watch the lessons as many times as you like, on your own [...]

Abstraction as Leverage (#110) - PyCon 2009 - Chicago - A Conference for the Python Community
Abstraction is a powerful servant, but a dangerous master. We code, design, think, debug … on a tower of abstractions. Spolsky's Law tells us that "All abstractions leak". This talk explores why they leak, why that's often a problem, what [...]

iWebKit - Make a quality iPhone Website or Webapp
Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes and is based on an LGPL license.
(tags: iphone website development)

How Long Does it Take to Build a Technology Empire?
Have you ever seen a business plan with hockey stick revenue projections? It’s common for VCs to receive business plans showing sales growing from 0 to $100m in the first 5 years of a company’s life.
(tags: entrepreneurship)

My tech talk on Tornado (video and slides) - Bret Taylor's blog
Zech talk on Tornado yesterday evening at Facebook's offices
(tags: python tornado webserver)

Tornado Web Server
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
(tags: python webserver authentication)

Google Chrome | Ben Kevan's Blog
Google Chrome for OpenSuse
(tags: google chrome linux)