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These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 03 May 2009 through 06 May 2009:

• The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words — It may be incon­ceiv­able for you to mis­use a word, but a quick look around the web reveals plenty of peo­ple doing it. And it’s all too easy when we hear or see oth­ers use words incor­rectly and par­rot them with­out know­ing it’s wrong.
• 14 Essential Magazines for Graphic Designers — In spite of the tremen­dous expan­sion of the Internet, the power of the printed word remains strong and pop­u­lar. Print media is where it all began and today
• 12 Tips for Flawless Service — 12 tips for improv­ing your e-mail cor­re­spon­dence with your design clients. Hey true believ­ers! At Go Media we’ve started hav­ing in-house “classes.” Basically any designer from Go Media that has some good advice to pass along to the staff will sched­ule a time to do a quick presentation.
• 120 Free Icon Sets to Enhance User Interfaces | Back to Essentials — Icons have been used to make com­puter inter­faces eas­ier for every­one. They rep­re­sent a file, folder, appli­ca­tion or device on a oper­at­ing sys­tem. This is a list of 120 Icon Sets for every web devel­oper and designer.
• 13 Training Principles of CSS Everyone Should Know | Design Reviver — Your website’s Cascading Style Sheet defines the pre­sen­ta­tion of the doc­u­ment, but writ­ing your CSS file can some­times take a bit longer than you originally
• 13 WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should @ SmashingApps — Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers
• 60% of Enterprise Companies Still Use Internet Explorer 6 — This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 per­cent of com­pa­nies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, accord­ing to Forrester Research. Meanwhile, your IT depart­ment spends a decent amount of time erect­ing bar­ri­ers to pre­vent browser upgrades. Bottom line: com­pa­nies need a browser pol­icy, or they will risk pro­duc­tiv­ity losses.
• What Happens When Twitter Gets Mainstream Attention « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing — Twitter is get­ting a tremen­dous amount of buzz from brands, celebri­ties, media, politi­cians, and ath­letes. Despite the hype, it’s still a very small social net­work­ing site (likely under 10mm), com­pared to the social giants like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace (150-300mm), see my stats page to learn more. I assert that main­stream atten­tion is dif­fer­ent than main­stream usage.
• Ultimate WordPress Tutorial Collection | Mogdesign — WordPress is prob­a­bly the most used blog­ging CMS in the whole uni­verse. Starting a blog on WordPress is very easy and the amount and vari­ety of great WordPress tuto­ri­als is really help­full to every­one inter­ested in blog­ging . I found WordPress really easy to use and almost-perfect solu­tion for my web­de­sign blog and many of these tuto­ri­als helped me to build my blog suc­ces­fully in a very short time. Enjoy!
• Contact Sheet, Extract, More Free for Photoshop CS4 — Adobe removed sev­eral pop­u­lar com­mands from Photoshop CS4 like the con­tact sheet, extract, and oth­ers. I found this out the hard way when try­ing to do a tuto­r­ial on con­tact sheets and found out that you have to down­load it.
• Unusual and Creative Bus Stops — ReflectionOf​.Me — Creative and unusual bus stop designs that make the time you spend wait­ing for the bus a bit more bearable.