The first thing I try to find out about the client is their primary focus. The theory behind this is that all clients have three needs and only two can be focused on our end. There is Price, Quality, and Time.

So since I am in the web design business, I started to question what is so great about twitter and its community. So I set up an account and installed a free program called Twitterrific and left it running. The end results its a time waster and not as involving as facebook and other social networking sites, but its simple and interesting for SEO. I will keep playing with it and trying to improve its popularity.

Here is a list of people that I follow and have provided decent feeds.

Dan Cederholm - http://simplebits.com/

Fabio Sasso - http://www.abduzeedo.com/

When dealing with file transferring a simple and stable GUI interface is great. There are several FTP clients out there but the ones I am gonna list here are free and just as good as software that you can purchase.

MAC

1. Transmit
   The truck, by far is the best one for Mac users. It includes dual windows and various setting options, including live editing.
   
   
   
   
2. CyberDuck

There is a spyware or malware being spread recently that has hit multiple windows users. What it does is store a file on your computer and runs a .reg which causes you not to be able to change your desktop background or your screen saver.

Your background is changed to blue with a fake window in the middle:

"Warning! Spyware detected on your computer! Install an antivirus or spyware remover to clean your computer."

A nice site displaying artwork of the community. This includes beautiful drawlings and design work internationally. The second site is another display of great work. You can spend your day surfing these sites for inspiration

Featured site where you can find samples of various types of web format. The showcase breaks up the categories very well and gives you good inspiration to whatever it is your looking to do. Check it out when you have time!

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this is for all of you guys in Vancouver that want to know where the shops are at.

feel free to add to the list of clothing stores!

Gas Town

alife
350 Water Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1E5
www.alifenyc.com

The Circle
164 Water St
Vancouver, BC V6B 1B2
www.thecircleyvr.com/vancouver

COMPLEX
Clothes: Artful Dodger, SciFen, LRG
231 Abbott St.

By far the best wireless mouse I have used for web development and design work. There are a few things I would like to point out, one is the popularity of the mouse. More and more people seem to be using it, maybe its the price -> quality ratio.

To the point:

A very cool concept of scrolling with a fixed background image. This works very nicely with the transparent backgrounds for text blocks. This is just fun to look at but content will get less focused on.

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