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I have long had a funny theory about the nature of passion. My theory is that passion is merely caring about something more than it’s worth. It makes sense that passion is not rational, because otherwise rationality wouldn’t have the stigma of being somewhat passionless. Right? - Ayush Saran

Setting aside the arrogance of an article centered on an unsolicited JPG of the easiest page of a site to tackle—he “spent a couple hours redesigning [their] front page”—I’m amazed that anyone purporting to be a professional interface designer would assume a night of Photoshop earns them the right to be smug. It’s easy to “design” when you’re unencumbered by things like metrics, creative direction, business acumen, sales experience, actual functionality, enterprise scale, or any thought about how a site with millions of page views and users has to function. It’s easy to look at their site versus your comp and go, “See, mine’s better. You guys must really suck at this.” - Ayush Saran

If you are an experienced user of Facebook you are aware that it is possible to simply “love” an item instead of comment it. Now we have got a WordPress plugin to implement this for us. I Like This plugin is fairly simple, you can add a meter and a button to vote in your theme to allow your visitors to shout loudly that they like what you write (if so). The first, as its name indicates, displays the number of people who liked this article and the other allows players who have not yet voted to do (if desired). - Ayush Saran

There are so many different way to display your product’s features. Here are a few that I really like. Most of them are clean, minimal ways to get across a lot of information. - Ayush Saran

jQuery plugin to highlight a form field’s parent tag (or any other selector) as you tab into it - Ayush Saran

Boxy is a flexible, Facebook-style dialog box for jQuery with support for dragging and size tweening. It differs from other overlays I've seen by providing an object interface to control dialogs after they've been created. And for simple usage scenarios, boxy also provides a jQuery plugin for automatically hooking up links and forms, as well as an ask() helper for presenting multiple choices to the user. - Ayush Saran

37signals are well known for their suite of productivity and collaboration web apps, designed to help people work efficiently and get things done. Although 37signals applications are designed primarily for use in the browser, a wide range of complimentary Mac and iPhone software has arisen in recent years. This post will be offering a quick overview of each 37signals app: Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire and Highrise, before moving on to outline over 25 Mac and iPhone apps designed to work alongside them. You’ll be spoiled for choice! - Ayush Saran

Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money. Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do. So a plan that promises freedom at the expense of knowing what to do with it may not be as good as it seems. - Ayush Saran

This is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool. - Ayush Saran

In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination—partly because it makes a better story, partly because it gives onlookers an excuse for being lazy, and partly because after a while determination starts to look like talent. - Ayush Saran

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. - Ayush Saran

Basically, iTunes makes money by taxing people, not selling them stuff. You can only do that if you own the channel, and even then you don't make much from it, because a toll has to be ignorable to work. Once a toll becomes painful, people start to find ways around it, and that's pretty easy with digital content. - Ayush Saran

One of the best resources for people looking for Internet statistics. Their research cover social networking, web 2.0, broadband and digital divide. Apart from detailed reports you will also find infographics, presentations, trends and surveys. The research topics are quite actual as well. For instance, they already have a bunch of reports and numbers on Twitter. - Ayush Saran

# Dialog boxes are modal. But users do not think of them as "modal", they think of them as "preventing me from getting any work done until I get rid of them." # Dialog boxes almost always go away when you click the leftmost or rightmost button. - Ayush Saran

This one contains two versions of Che and Lenin (jagged and clean), a map of the world, the shape of an old airplane, some stars and the hammer& sicle-symbol - Ayush Saran

The jQuery Keyboard Navigation Plugin provides the capability for elements on a page to be navigated and activated via the keyboard's up, down, right and left arrow keys. - Ayush Saran

Your Members is a feature packed Membership Management Plugin allowing anyone to turn a Wordpress Blog into a fully functioning members site which can accept payments through Paypal. - Ayush Saran

WishList Member is a powerful solution for creating an online membership site all built using WordPress as the core content management system. Now its easy to control access to your content, accept payments, manage your members and so much more! Read below for full feature descriptions, tutorial videos and examples of sites using WishList Member. - Ayush Saran

add_meta_box in WordPress, and how it can be used to create some nifty Custom Write Panels. - Ayush Saran

Counting down the number of characters available in a text field - Ayush Saran

* Toll free or local number - local or national presence * Unlimited extensions - for departments & employees * Call forwarding - work from anywhere * Voicemails via email - play online or on cell phone * Manage online or by phone - no hardware to purchase - Ayush Saran

information flows into the background hearing of members of the team, so that they pick up relevant information as though by osmosis. This is normally accomplished by seating them in the same room. Then, when one person asks a question, others in the room can either tune in or tune out, contributing to the discussion or continuing with their work. - Ayush Saran

low-end disruption: addressing an over-served customer with a lower-cost business model. - Ayush Saran

Under Construction and Coming Soon pages - Ayush Saran

nice callouts - Ayush Saran

$('#someform').submit(onSubmit); function onSubmit(event) { event.preventDefault(); - Ayush Saran

This is a complete CodeIgniter TextMate/E-Texteditor bundle. It includes shortcuts for every CodeIgniter helper function, and library included in CodeIgniter 1.7.2. Tab stops and default values are provided. - Ayush Saran

Perfect for attention-grabbing headlines or logos - Ayush Saran

excellent template for a web app marketing screen - Ayush Saran

Welcome… this is the portfolio (albeit temporary) of Chris Rowe, a freelance designer based in Staffordshire, England. I take pride in creating stunning visuals for a variety of people, from local businesses to nationwide companies. - Ayush Saran