Elsewhere Reloaded Archive

June 10th 2010

• Firefox 4: CSS3 calc() and IndexedDB (0)
  Some great new features will be landing in Firefox 4; among them are CSS3 calc() (OMFG!) and IndexedDB. Great stuff, can’t wait to play with ‘m!
• There are no famous programmers (0)
  “I still have to do programmer interviews like everyone else. No matter how much code I put out, I still have to solve stupid puzzles about coconuts and manholes. No matter how many web servers or email frameworks or database servers or chat servers or assemblers I write I still have to prove I can code. No matter how many copies of my software get deployed I still have to prove I can make reliable software.”

June 3rd 2010

• Smokescreen (0)
  Smokescreen is a Flash player written in JavaScript: “It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG.” — Love to see where this will be going … (via)

June 2nd 2010

• The curse of max_file_uploads (0)
  Sneaky settings require clever workarounds if the original developer doesn’t want to fix it.

May 28th 2010

• Introduction to memcached (0)
  Last tuesday Jurriaan Persyn (Netlog) came over to the technical university I’m teaching at to give an introduction to memcached. Students were happy afterwards :-)

May 25th 2010

• A New Type of Phishing Attack (0)
  Beware of tabnabbing by always keeping an eye on the URL (and not merely the favicon) when switching tabs!

May 20th 2010

• Google Font API: Font Preview (1)
  Great addition to the Google Font API is Font Preview, which lets you browse all fonts in the blink of an eye (and which provides you the code to implement along with it)!

May 18th 2010

• ReclaimPrivacy.Org (0)
  Following the past few week’s Facebook Privacy Uproar a handy bookmarklet to check your Facebook Privacy settings has been released by ReclaimPrivacy.Org. Nice!

May 16th 2010

• Google Street View Cars mistakingly collected Wifi data (0)
  Great to see how Google is handling this (although this never should have happened): “Google said that once it discovered the issue, it grounded its Street View cars. It intends to delete the data that’s already been collected and is working with regulators to determine how to dispose of it. In the interest of transparency, the company will also have a third party review its software to verify what data was collected and confirm that it’s been deleted.”

May 14th 2010

• Super Sexy CPR (NSFW) (0)
  Guess if they would show Super Sexy CPR in schools the kids would remember it. Sex Sells!
• Banksy Street Art (1)
  Banksy Street Art documentas all Bansky works as they appear (and disappear aftwards).

May 12th 2010

• CSS3 Transitions available on Firefox 3.7 (0)
  Great, CSS3 Transitions are available on Firefox 3.7. Note that Firefox 3.7 has dissolved into Firefox 3.6.4 (out of process plugins), so these won’t make it into Firefox until Firefox 4.0 which should ship by the end of the year :-)

May 5th 2010

• Xcode iPhone Simulator location (1)
  

  Keep on forgetting the location of iPhone Simulator.app (I know, you can access it from within XCode, but that’s not always running when developing a website). Placing it here not to forget it anymore (and to find it back via Google): /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app.

  Pro-tip, place a link in your Applications to it: ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app /Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app, that way the app will also be available from QuickSilver ;)

April 29th 2010

• :-moz-any type() for jQuery (0)
  :-moz-any type(), but then for jQuery! (via @mathias)
• HTML5 <details> fallback using jQuery (0)
  Currently, there’s no native support for the HTML5 <details> element in any browser. Mathias Bynens studied the spec and whipped up a jQuery fallback, allowing us to use this element. Looking for a non-jQuery dependent version? Try Remy Sharp’s take at it.
• CSS3 Flexible Box Model (0)
  “CSS 3 introduces a brand new box model in addition of the traditional box model from CSS 1 and 2. The flexible box model determines the way boxes are distributed inside other boxes and the way they share the available space.”

April 27th 2010

• :-moz-any() selector grouping (0)
  The future is bright and shiny.

April 21st 2010

• Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space (0)
  One word: Wow!

April 15th 2010

• Real-world iPad annoyances: A timeline (0)
  “These are the annoyances and roadblocks that makes this appliance, otherwise engaging and attractive, feel like it was rushed out the door. Or done on the cheap. Which, for a device that starts at $499, is just wrong.”

April 9th 2010

• Firefox Lorentz beta available (0)
  “Firefox Lorentz takes the out of process plugins work from Mozilla Developer Previews and builds it on top of Firefox 3.6.3. This beta offers uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when a problem causes a crash in any Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugin instance” — I’ve been looking forward to this; Too bad Mac support for this feature will only be added in Firefox 4.0 (src)

April 7th 2010

• HTML Validator Extension for Google Chrome (0)
  Great work by Robert Nyman!

March 13th 2010

• HTML5 <video> ambilight javascript plugin (0)
  Really neat: Ambilight for <video>. Read how it’s done over at the developer’s blog. It could be smoother (it doesn’t feel perfect yet) but then I guess your CPU would start clogging.

March 3rd 2010

• Gecko 1.9.3 pre-release: Out-of-Process Plugins (0)
  Great news from the Mozilla/Gecko team: “The main feature of this release is out-of-process plugins: on Windows and Linux, plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted. (Note that we are working on this for Macs as well, but is not part of this preview release.) We are making this preview release available so that it can get wider testing and generate feedback.” — Looking forward to see this merged within Firefox (Planned for 3.7 (early 2011) if I’m not mistaken) / Now that I’m looking forward: Jägermonkey/Jaegermonkey looks promising too :-)

February 19th 2010

• Halloween in Harlem (0)
  “Ever wonder what Halloween would be like if you were a kid growing up in New York City?&rdquio; — Great set!

February 3rd 2010

• TotalFinder 0.7 (0)
  A new version of TotalFinder has been released. This version gives us dual-pane support along with some nice tweaks (such as tabs now actually being Chrome-alike tabs)
• Plupload (0)
  The developers of TinyMCE bring us Plupload, a highly usable upload handler: “Using Plupload one can upload multiple files using Google Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or HTML5. Flexible configuration allows you to choose all or only some of these upload “runtimes” with fallback in the order you specify.”

February 2nd 2010

• HipHop for PHP (formerly known as HyperPHP) (0)
  As hinted before, in an interview with a Facebook employee: “HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP’s runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations.” — Too bad they didn’t keep the name HyperPHP though …

January 27th 2010

• How to be a full time Tech Blogger (0)
  Great chart by @steffest: How to be a full time Tech Blogger

January 26th 2010

• TinyMCE 3.3 and jQuery (0)
  With the release of TinyMCE 3.3b1 a lot of jQuery Goodness such as being able to write/do stuff like tinymce.get(0).$('body').html('Hello world'); and $('#textareaid').tinymce().selection.setContent('Hello world!'); has landed upon us! Wow!

January 25th 2010

• NetExport Firebug Extension (0)
  NetExport is a very neat Firebug Extension created by Jan Odvarko, one of the main Firebug contributors. Basically this extension lets you save traces from Firebugs Net Panel into an HTTP Archive (HAR file). The true beauty of this plugin is seen when passing such a created archive into the HTTP Archive Viewer. Be sure to try some of the examples, and be amazed!

January 19th 2010

• Firebug 1.5 (0)
  In case Firefox didn’t notify you yet: Firebug 1.5 is out!

January 15th 2010

• jQuery 1.4 (0)
  Yesterday, jQuery 1.4 was released. Be sure to check the updated jQuery API Browser, to read The 15 New Features you Must Know and to keep an eye an jquery14 the coming 2 weeks. Of course the jQuery Docs still are a must have resource.
• Pythonic Javascript: Javascript with Python Syntax (0)
  Interesting project by Aza Raskin: Pyscript is a syntactic beautification of Javascript, where indents have meaning and braces are unnecessary, allowing you to script in a Python-style syntax. The source can be found on Google.

January 13th 2010

• Facebook Employee gives (anonymous) interview (0)
  Although some people say it’s fake, I think this is a genuine interview indeed. Quite intrigued by the mentioned HPHP (HyperPHP) mentioned in the article … wouldn’t surprise me if that were a real thing, given the many open source technologies have introduced / helped developing.
• Google's new approach to China (0)
  Nice to see Google putting people before profits (quote by @aral)

January 9th 2010

• Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX (0)
  Interesting read (with history details, real facts, etc.) on why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
• jQuery14 — 14 Days of jQuery (0)
  “An online event marking the release of jQuery 1.4. To celebrate, we’re unveiling 14 releases over a period of 14 days.”
• Listify (0)
  “Ever wanted to bring your home music collection to work? Crafted out a playlist on iTunes but want to put it on the studio Spotify? You get the point. iTunes to Spotify with Listify.”

January 6th 2010

• The Tiger's Code of Conduct (0)
  Are you Tiger? (video)

December 25th 2009

• DOMCached (0)
  DOMCached is a simple wrapper library for the use of DOM Storage provided by the modern browsers. The library is designed after the hugely popular memcached caching system, providing similar “caching” options in JavaScript in the form of local storage. — Comes in both a Prototype and a jQuery flavor :-)

December 22nd 2009

• Facebook Zeitgeist (0)
  Facebook Zeitgeist (via @netlash)
• What's the "blue moon" in "Once in a blue moon"? (0)
  Geeky/scientific explanation by the guys from Panic; Definitely worth the long read!

December 21st 2009

• Why are Europeans "white"? (0)
  One word: wow! (via)

December 9th 2009

• Websockets in Chrome (0)
  As of release 4.0.249.0 (yes, that’s including the offical Mac release), Chrome sports Web Sockets. Very exciting news if you’d ask me!
• When can I use... ? (0)
  Highly interesting and handy compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies. To be taken with a dash of salt though, in some cases you can actually some browser to piss off and implement it anyway ;)

December 8th 2009

• Detainee 063 (0)
  Detainee 063 is republishing the interrogation log of Mohammed Al-Qahtani in real time. Beginning on 23 November 2002, the log covers a fifty-day stretch of Al-Qahtani’s interrogation at Guantanamo Bay (where he was, and still is, being held on suspicion of terrorism). Each entry will appear on the website exactly seven years after it was first recorded.

December 7th 2009

• What makes Google Chrome fast? (0)
  Interesting set of videos from the Chromium Team. Related: Why Google launched Google DNS
• Omniwriter (0)
  Text processor, the Zen way.
• Student improves UK Power Plug (0)
  Ingenious (via)

November 23rd 2009

• Spotify Plugin for Plex (0)
  I’ve been using Plex Media Center for OS X (XBMC based) for a (little less than a) year by now and I must say that this piece of software has become one of the irreplaceable pieces of software on my machine. Today I was really happy to see there’s a new plugin release: Spotify. This again gets me into thinking of buying a Mac Mini as a dedicated Media Center (or if Apple were to release a new Apple TV I’d dig that).

November 21st 2009

• Creative Use of Bitwise Operators (1)
  Now this is pure genius! Jonathan Snook cleverly uses bitwise operators in order to nicely fill up a week calendar, as seen in Google Calendar amongst other likewise apps.

November 20th 2009

• Resource Packages: One HTTP request to rule them all (0)
  Resource Packages, a simple solution to an old problem. Best part of it all: it’s landing in Firefox 3.7. Also, the people at Google are working on SPDY (speedy)
• Google Wave's Scrollbars (0)
  Insightful analysis of the Google Wave Scrollbars
• Dan23 (0)
  Awesome street art by Dan23 (my fav)
• Illustrations by Steve McGhee (0)
  Sweet illustrations by Steve McGhee

November 9th 2009

• Five years of Firefox (0)
  (Romanticized) animation celebrating the fifth anniversary of Firefox
• JavaScript - From Birth To Closure (0)
  Excellent “Sums it all up”-presentation by Robert Nyman
• Browser Specific CSS hacks (0)
  Darn handy overview of Browser Specific CSS hacks by Paul Irish

November 7th 2009

• Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? (0)
  

  Wise words from Joel Spolsky: “We do have a large competitor in our market that appears to be growing a lot faster than we are. The company is closing big deals with big, enterprise customers. And the wheels are falling off the donkey cart over there as the company stretches to fulfill its obligations. Meanwhile, our product is miles better, and we’re a well-run company, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Why?” — Be sure to read the full article (via @wolfr).

  I must admit that I’ve worked at such a company in the past: they promised everything but eventually under-delivered or delivered code which was held together with duct tape. Worst part of it all: the customer just dealt with it — or in some cases: didn’t know about it (!!) — and moved along as the company jumped on another client to do the very same thing.

November 6th 2009

• UDK (Unreal Engine 3) Released ... for free! (0)
  Epic Games released Unreal Development Kit (UDK) for free (via @DonArdonio) — Wow!
• Javascript Chroma-Hash (0)
  Chroma-Hash, an experiment in how to visualize the live-input of secure fields, such as a password on a login screen.
• Google Dashboard (0)
  Google has launched Google Dashboard which aggregates all the info about the various Google Services your account has been linked to.
• Closure Tools by Google (0)
  “The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient.” — The Closure tools include: A JavaScript optimizer named Closure Compiler, a comprehensive JavaScript library named Closure Library and an easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript named Closure Templates

November 5th 2009

• Underscore.js (0)
  Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.

November 4th 2009

• Solving a Sudoku using Recursive Subquery Factoring (0)
  “Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces a new feature called Recursive Subquery Factoring. When I first was thinking about a pratical use for this feature I couldn’t come up with anything, but on second thought: solving Sudokus!”
• Looking to the future with Cassandra (0)
  Highly interesting article on Digg The Blog: Digg implemented their new badges feature in Cassandra, a distributed, structured key-value store also used at Facebook. — “When an item is dugg, we asynchronously populate Cassandra. This job fetches the list of followers of the digging user, and places one column in each of their buckets. This is a large amount of data for popular users. Kevin Rose, for example, has 40,000 followers. Thanks to Cassandra’s excellent write performance and batch operations, every column is inserted at once, atomically, in under a second.”
• CSS Nuggets in Scrunchup (0)
  Some lovely CSS2.1/CSS3 tricks used in Scrunchup

October 27th 2009

• SQL Buddy (0)
  SQL Buddy — an alternative to the reigning PHPMyAdmin (via @maxvoltar)
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) (0)
  “Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database.”

October 23rd 2009

• Introducing Mozilla Raindrop (0)
  Mozilla Raindrop, a new Mozilla project in the making which – as far as I have read/watched (watch the vids) – is a cross communications systems / services aggregator: fetch messages from mail, twitter, facebook, RSS, etc. and show them in one interface. In a way it reminds me of fever° along with some Gmail labs features (YouTube Previews, Flickr Previews, etc).

October 22nd 2009

• Singletasking (0)
  “When using the computer at home, I never seem to do anything productive – just follow an endless cycle of checking my feed reader, my e-mail, Twitter, and flicking through my open tabs. Sure, I get things done, but slowly, and piecemeal. My concentration usually feels scattered, my focus divided, my brain like it’s trying to juggle too many balls/clubs/knives/porcupines at once.” — Great piece on short attention spans / the addiction to finding new stuff / etc. which sounds very familiar …
• In Firefox: Add feeds to Google Reader, without 5 clicks (0)
  Hat tip by Mr. Snook!

October 20th 2009

• Know Your Type: Part 1 – Anatomy (0)
  “In this post series, which will be called Know Your Type, I will share some basic concepts and theories to introduce you to the amazing world of typography. In this first post, let’s find out the main terms used to describe specific shapes used in the characters formation and their surroundings.” — Pinging all my students ;)

October 12th 2009

• Dear Google, fix it. (0)
  Today I got my invite for Google Wave (thanks Matthias) but yet again I had trouble with claiming my username. Turns out I’m not the only one; Dear Google, fix it.

October 7th 2009

• Jewelery for Giants (0)
  Jewelery for Giants — I lol’d :)
• How Adobe got Flash apps on the iPhone (0)
  “We created a new compiler front end that allowed LLVM to understand ActionScript 3 and used its existing ARM back end to output native ARM assembly code. We call this Ahead of Time (AOT) compilation — in contrast to the way Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR function on the desktop using Just in Time (JIT) compilation. Since we are able to compile ActionScript to ARM ahead of time, the application gets all the performance benefits that the JIT would offer and the license compliance of not requiring a runtime in the final application.” — Full article (via)

October 5th 2009

• CSSHttpRequest is cross-domain AJAX using CSS. (0)
  “Like JavaScript includes, this works because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy that affects XMLHttpRequest. CSSHttpRequest functions similarly to JSONP, and is limited to making GET requests. Unlike JSONP, untrusted third-party JavaScript cannot execute in the context of the calling page.” — Has ingenious hack written all over it :-)

September 22nd 2009

• Google Chrome Frame (0)
  

  Just a minute ago the Chromium team put a big sparkle into my eyes: “Today, we’re releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.”

  <snip>

  “With Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of the latest open web technologies, even in Internet Explorer. From a faster Javascript engine, to support for current web technologies like HTML5′s offline capabilities and <canvas>, to modern CSS/Layout handling, Google Chrome Frame enables these features within IE with no additional coding or testing for different browser versions.”

  What the … Could it really be? — Having checked my calendar twice I can safely state that’s it no April Fools’ Joke and that it’s really true!

  Be sure to check out the video and to dive into the resourceful Developer’s Guide to get you started

• JSONView Firefox Extension (0)
  “Normally when encountering a JSON document (content type “application/json”), Firefox simply prompts you to download the file. With the JSONView extension, JSON documents are shown in the browser similar to how XML documents are shown. The document is formatted, highlighted, and arrays and objects can be collapsed.”
• The HTML5 drag and drop disaster (0)
  A rant by PKK; Highly enjoyable :-D

September 15th 2009

• Handcrafted CSS Workshop (0)
  The sketchnotes of Handcrafted CSS Workshop are not only very informative, they’re frickin’ beautiful too!

September 8th 2009

• Geeks != Nerds != Dorks != Dweebs (0)
  An insightful Venn Diagram

September 3rd 2009

• Dinky pocketbooks (0)
  This is cool: tiny pocketbooks which get their full glory when printing (and then folding & cutting) them.
• IxEdit (0)
  “IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.” — Must say I code it faster, yet nonetheless very nice. Don’t know if you an export the generated code though …

September 2nd 2009

• The speed of information travel, 1798 - 2009 (0)
  Puts things in perspective: “In 1805 the news of the Battle of Trafalgar took 17 days to travel the 1100 miles to London; that’s a speed of 2.7 mph. By 1891 when the Nobi earthquake occurred in Japan, it only took the news one day to travel 5916 miles, a speed of 246 mph.” (src)

September 1st 2009

• SPEAR Algorithm (0)
  “The graph-based SPEAR algorithm (Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) is a new technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their activities. The focus is on the ability of users to find new, high quality information in the Internet. A great benefit of SPEAR is that it actually returns two very interesting results at the same time: first, a ranked list of expert users; and second, a ranked list of high quality Web documents.” — via the delicious blog

August 31st 2009

• HTML5 Super Friends (1)
  “We, the HTML5 Super Friends, wish to declare our support for the direction in which the HTML5 specification is heading. However, we have significant concerns about some aspects of the specification.”
• 32/64 bit Snow Leopard (0)
  

  So yeah, Snow Leopard boots in 32-bit mode by default, but that’s not a big problem as it only affects the kernel. 64-bit applications (like Finder, Mail, Safari, iCal, and iChat) will run just fine (including benefits) on a 32-bit kernel in Mac OS X!

  One can trigger OSX into booting the 64-bit kernel by either pressing the 6 and 4 key during boot, or by using a tool such as Startup Mode Selector.

  The only consequence when booting a 64-bit kernel, is that the kernel will only load 64-bit kernel extensions (kexts). So what’s the problem then? Well, applications such as VMWare Fusion currently still rely on 32-bit kexts, making them unusable with a 64-bit kernel.

  In short: for now, just stick with the 32-bit kernel as you’ll still see the benefits. When apps that still use 32-bit kexts have a new 64-bit release, then you can/should go for a 64-bit kernel ;-)

• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List (0)
  Planning on upgrading? Check this chart first to see if all of your apps will keep on working ;-)

August 24th 2009

• Pop quiz, hotshot! (0)
  “What do Indiana Jones, Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter and the Muppets have in common? A creator of iconic images.”

August 22nd 2009

• You should fix that bug (0)
  “Yesterday, I spearheaded a new movement at the office. I stopped using the word “we”, and started to say what I really meant to say. Instead of “We should fix that bug”, I say, “You should fix that bug””

August 17th 2009

• TinyMCE for jQuery (0)
  “TinyMCE 3.2.5 introduced a new jQuery plugin. This plugin helps integrate the TinyMCE with jQuery by extending some internal functions and adding a new tinymce function and tinymce pseudo selector. ” — announcement — download — wiki

August 10th 2009

• Anatomy of a feature (0)
  “[Implementing] the core functionality of a feature is often the very smallest part [of the total implementation]”

July 30th 2009

• If the Twitter community was 100 people ... (0)
  Error prone visualization of some percentages someone yanked off some site; Spot the errors (or read the comments) and have a good laugh ^^
• One single tip to buff up your Gmail skills (0)
  The 14 tips and tricks to buff up your Gmail skills list is just another useless “X number of things”-list as you need only one golden tip in order to buff up your Gmail skills: use the built-in shortcuts/hotkeys. Don’t know’m? Press “?” in Gmail (or in fact any other Google webapp such as Google Reader) and open your eyes ;)
• What I don't understand ... (0)
  … is that Apple is getting away with so much. Read this once again saddening article on the malfunctioning approval process of iPhone apps. Then re-read it and imagine replacing Apple with Microsoft. Don’t think they could even pass the pulling of the tethering app in the first place.

July 27th 2009

• CSS 3D Transforms (0)
  Webkit now sports 3D transforms letting you do cool stuff such as Snow Stack
• iPhone-like password fields using jQuery (0)
  TSIA: iPhone-like password fields using jQuery
• HTML5 drag and drop in Firefox 3.5 (0)
  “Wouldn’t it be nice if browsers offered first-class support for drag and drop, and maybe even extended it beyond the window sandbox? ” — Yes, that would be is nice.
• Web Design is a Journey (0)
  The process behind the redesign of the Carsonified website

July 2nd 2009

• The em and en of iPhone 3.0 (0)
  “The iPhone has always included a hyphen, and in iPhone Software 3.0, you can also now make the em dash. What about the en dash?”
• What do Programmers Feel About their Software? (0)
  “I’ve written a little program to find out. It works by extracting the comments from the source code and feeding them into Synesketch, a textual emotion recognition and visualization engine. The program ignores documentation comments, because those are written for public consumption. I’m only interested in the comments used for private communication between team members.”

June 30th 2009

• Firefox 3.5 for Developers (0)
  Now that Firefox 3.5 is out, it’s time to know what changed for Developers

June 29th 2009

• A what-man? (0)
  BBC Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week (via)
• TinyMCE 3.2.5 Released (0)
  

  “This version introduced a specific jQuery package. This package includes a special jQuery version of TinyMCE that excludes the Sizzle engine and a few other redundant functions this reduces the script size and enables you to upgrade jQuery independent of TinyMCE and there for also the Sizzle version. The jQuery package also includes a TinyMCE jQuery plugin that enables you to interact directly with the replaced element using jQuery methods.”

  — Yes, I do like. Go download

  (be warned though: “The directory structure of the zip archive has been changed to include a root level tinymce directory. This will make it easier to uncompress the package but might break automatic installation scripts.”)

June 26th 2009

• Content First (0)
  “Content isn’t a three-step create, revise and approve process. It’s much more complex than that. And it’s never done.”

June 21st 2009

• User Agent Switcher 0.7 (0)
  User Agent Switcher got updated and now sports the ability to set the googlebot or the iPhone (3.0) as your user agent string
• 10 Useful Firebug Extensions (0)
  Go select and install!

June 20th 2009

• iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough (0)
  After having updated my iPhone to 3,0, I found this extensive list with changes very handy to get me up to date.
• Internet Explorer 8, get the *real* facts (0)
  Microsoft published a list with “ways Internet Explorer 8 is taking the competition head-on” … turns out they got it all wrong and should’ve published this list instead. They also published a list of IE myths which they busted. Turns out the mystbusting itself got busted too.

June 12th 2009

• Why Designers Should Learn How to Code (0)
  “The only real way to know if a web layout works or not is learning how to build it yourself.”
• MetaLab (0)
  “We Make Interfaces” — Slick!
• Web Trend Map goes ... web (0)
  The kind folks over at iA are working on a realtime online version of their infamous web trend map. Nice!

June 11th 2009

• The Future of Facebook Usernames (0)
  Anil Dash on what June 13 will look like in Facebook Country (the day when one can get a Facebook username on top of the given ID). Hilarious!
• The first few milliseconds of an HTTPS connection (0)
  In depth study (via sniffing) of the first few milliseconds of an HTTPS connection.
• "Dear Dustin Curtis" (0)
  Dustin Curtis placed an open letter on his website regarding the American Airlines website, along with a redesign proposal. A few days later: “A user experience architect who works on AA.com sent me a response to my letter. He titled it “ You’re right. You’re so very right. And yet…”” – Go read

June 8th 2009

• jQuery Edge (0)
  Very interesting set of blogposts by one of the jQuery developers, giving us code-wise sneak peeks of what the next version of jQuery (1.3.3) will bring. A must read!

June 3rd 2009

• BooneOakley (0)
  Ingenious website by/for BooneOakley

May 28th 2009

• Google Bets Big on HTML 5 (0)
  Google goes “all-in” on HTML5. Be sure to check out the accompanied HTML5 demos too.
• Google Chrome for Mac OS X (0)
  Apparently some Mac OS X builds are appearing on the Chromium build server. Let’s say that it “works” to test some things. Day to day / Production use isn’t an option atm though.
• Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond Engagement (0)
  Great Presentation on why we actually thrive to learn new stuff, get new information, are hooked to the interwebs, …: Discovery Is The New Cocaine – Going Beyond Engagement
• Springfield PUNX (0)
  Springfield PUNX is a project by Dean where he draws some famous stars/characters in genuine Simspons style. Next to having done some famous ones (such as House, Rick Astley); he’s drawing the characters from Lost (check out Hurley) this week. Great to see that the drawing actually evolves: if you browse through all the pictures you’ll notice that Spiderman and Batman appear a few times, each of ‘m getting better per drawing iteration :)
• Can you copyright a tweet? (0)
  “Copyright and Tweets is really about practicality. Many people believe they own everything they post online, be it Tweets, Facebook status, or whatever. The truth is that most people are most likely incorrect in their assumption. I guess the bigger question is what would you do even if you did own a Tweet?” (source)

May 24th 2009

• Mozilla Labs Jetpack (0)
  “In short, Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know (viz. JS, CSS, XHTML).” – Indefinately need to check this one out.
• Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS (0)
  “Do not waste hours in time and a client’s money on lengthy workarounds in an unnecessary attempt at cross-browser perfection. Instead, you and I should provide simple but effectively designed HTML elements. This means just great typography for headings, paragraphs, quotations, lists, tables and forms and no styling of layout.” The result: Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS
• Applying OOP Concepts to CSS (0)
  Jeff Croft on applying OOP concepts to CSS: “Do not be afraid of multiple classes, even if they’re borderline presentational; and think of CSS classes as objects that can extend one another (even though they technically can’t).” – That’s how I roll, and so should you!
• The State of ECMAScript 5 (0)
  John Resig gives us a nice two part overview of the state of EXMAScript 5. Part 1: Objects and properties – Part 2: Strict Mode, JSON and More. Must say I like the most of it, yet not all (certain syntaxes, certain names of functions, etc).
• TinyMCE 3.2.4 released (0)
  Another update of TinyMCE: release notes – download. Indefinately need to check the “We also made some modifications to the Event class editor events will now be bound to that specific editor instance instead of having a global event collection. This has the advantages that if you remove an editor instance it will remove any listeners and clean up resources. We also added the preventDefault/stopPropagation methods for the event object on IE so it will be easier to write cross browser code.”-part more in depth (think bramus_cssextras)
• jQuery vs Mootools (0)
  In depth writeup on jQuery vs Mootools: “If jQuery makes the DOM your playground, MooTools aims to make JavaScript your playground” Even if you’re not into one of the libraries, be sure to read it anyway!
• Good Design vs. Great Design (0)
  Summary of a presentation Cameron Moll is giving at HOW conference next month. Good Great read.

May 21st 2009

• Mozilla Jetpack (0)
  “In short, Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know.”

May 20th 2009

• Physics (0)
  Jump on a rolling ball and … — It has FAIL written all over it, yet it’s anything but FAIL at all!

May 19th 2009

• [vid] Sorry I'm Late (0)
  Refreshing stopmotion vid that stands out imo.
• What goes around ... (2)
  … comes around. Ingeniously executed campaign to stopping the Iraq War.
• From Voodoo to GeForce (0)
  Now this really is a trip down to memory lane: The Awesome History of 3D Graphics. Close your eyes and “Remember the Magic!” (TM)

May 18th 2009

• The Pool (0)
  Presidential Photography, a video: “Pool.” — Rush In. — Focus, snap, check focus, snap again. — “Thank you, pool.” — Rush out. #amazing (via)

May 14th 2009

• jQuery Masonry (0)
  Masonry is a layout plugin for the ever-popular Javascript library jQuery. Think of Masonry as the flip side of CSS floats. Where as floats arrange elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges them vertically then horizontally. The result leaves no vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall. (via)
• The Do's & Don'ts of Modern Web Design (0)
  “Relevant, snacksized web design resources”

May 12th 2009

• Firefinder for Firebug (0)
  An extension to Firebug to quickly find elements matching your CSS selectors or XPath expressions. Nice! As an alternative one could of course hook jQuery via a bookmarklet and then type some selector s(h)izzle into the regular console.

May 8th 2009

• New Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8 Virtual PC Images from Microsoft (0)
  Hear herar, the IE Testing VPC Images have been updated – Go download :-)

April 29th 2009

• 7 JavaScript Differences Between Firefox & IE (0)
  Great article with 7 (of the many) JavaScript Differences Between Firefox & IE, things one really should now … be sure to read the first comment too (Hammer. Nail. Spot on.) ;-)

April 28th 2009

• Shrinking and expanding selections in Mac OS X (0)
  Now this one’s been bother me ever since I got my Mac: how does(n’t) selecting with the keyboard work in OSX?. #dangerherebedragons
• Pulp Browsers (0)
  Say “what” again. Say “what” again! I dare you! — I double-dare you, motherfucker! — Say “what” one more goddamn time!
• Adobe Application Pillows (0)
  Oh, do want one of those Adobe pillows :D #geekalert

April 27th 2009

• Facebook Open Stream API (0)
  Facebook opens up the stream by releasing the Facebook Open Stream API
• 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs (0)
  This one most definately will be one for my students: 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs. Sums it up quite nicely.
• Building a URL Shortener (0)
  Jonathan Snook gives us instructions on how to build a simple URL shortener in CakePHP. The basic idea of course can be converted to any scripting language. Be sure to check this (plain) PHP script from one year ago too while you’re at it.

April 26th 2009

• Change (0)
  Hmmz, Obama’s “logo” looks quite familiar … (via)
• Webkit in Titanium Screencast (0)
  John Snook made this lovely screencast with some real life examples on how to use the new Webkit features such as custom scrollbars, box-shadow, and transitions.
• The Microsoft Surface, first impressions (0)
  “Should the input mechanism for a touch screen computer always be, well, a touch?” (via)
• I ♥ Wireframes (0)
  Great collection of wireframes (via)
• Gameboy Timeline (0)
  Know your history.
• Is it time to move beyond 960? (0)
  Cameron Moll: “Lately I’ve been questioning if it isn’t time to move beyond 960 for websites, and if so, what the ideal width may be.” — The answer:1080, or not? (Be sure to check the comments)
• Most likely one of the best web designs of 2009 (0)
  Be amazed! (via Digg)

April 23rd 2009

• Daft Dock (0)
  Now this is pure genius: Daft Dock by Cameron Adams (aka The Man in Blue)

April 22nd 2009

• PSD is not my favourite file format (0)
  Do not underestimate the importance of comments in source code (starting line 107) ;-)

April 21st 2009

• Design Considerations for Touch UI (0)
  Watch and learn. Watch. And learn.

April 14th 2009

• The real Jim Shady (0)
  Article on how to deal with digital copycats. Nice design too (luv the comments & comments form — So gonna rip it :P j/k)

April 12th 2009

• Javascript Sound Visualisations (0)
  Some really neat sound visalisations, using SoundManager 2 and the canvas element. Be sure to check out this experimental 360° interface (again using the canvas element) too. (via)

April 8th 2009

• Twitter is everywhere (0)
  “Just bombin’ a wall”
• Dreams of Flying (0)
  Something for “The Catalog”: Dreams of Flying — more
• Dikk! (0)
  A handy little app by the same crew that brought us ForkLift: “Just call: Hey, check this out! – and hit F1. Dikk! will then send a screen capture of the active window to everybody in the room who has Dikk! running.”
• The problem with MacHeist (2)
  Interesting take on Macheist by Lukas Mathis – “Rather than arguing about whether MacHeist is good for the participating developers, or whether it’s good for MacHeist’s customers, or whether it’s a nice experience, or whether the participating developers are getting great marketing, I would be interested in knowing how it affects the Mac software market as a whole.” (FYI: yes I did buy it, pretty soon after it started)

April 6th 2009

• WiiSpray (0)
  Looks Yummy!
• Shrtr (0)
  Jeremy Keith on URL Shorteners and the recent uproar about ‘m

March 30th 2009

• How your resume is read (0)
  Spot on chart :-D
• Why Logos Should Cost More Than $300 (0)
  “Well…to put this very frankly: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Great design takes time, research, hard work, discipline, experience, talent, and great communication with the client. When you take shortcuts (especially in price) you sacrifice these things and in turn sacrifice the quality of the logo. I understand that clients are usually looking for a good deal, but really cheap design is not it!” – oh.so.true

March 26th 2009

• Email Client Popularity, anno 2009 (0)
  Excellent stats by Campaign Monitor
• Where the Wild Things Are trailer (0)
  Nice trailer; music by The Arcade Fire BTW :)

March 25th 2009

• Timeline: Version control for Adobe Photoshop (0)
  “Timeline is a revolutionary version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. Timeline features a unique user interface that allows you to always see the file’s history and save file versions and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window.” — Basically an SVN client that works from inside Photoshop. Too bad one can’t self host it. (From the same gents that brought us ComparePSD)
• Protovis (0)
  “Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using the canvas element. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composing custom views of data with simple graphical primitives like bars and dots.”

March 24th 2009

• The first one's the hardest (0)
  Jeremy Mickel on designing his first typeface named Router. (via)
• 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know ... or? (0)
  This article is oh so wrong. Next to the fact that most of the elements aren’t rare at all, it’s filled with wrong examples and wrong descriptions (since when is fieldset an attribute?! Looks like an element to me!). Yeah, one shouldn’t take everything for granted on the interwebz.

March 23rd 2009

• ForkLift 1.7 beta (0)
  Beta version of the new ForkLift is up, with some spiffy new features, mainly Sync folders and Merge Folders. Nice!
• Selective Twitter Facebook App (1)
  Selective Twitter is a Facebook App which updates your FB status with your Twitter status, yet only if you tag is as such. Nice, but I’d like to see this the other way around: show ‘m all, except those that you explicitly tag to not be shown. Note that this app only works only with public Twitter profiles.
• Typeface Anatomy and Glossary (0)
  The anatomy of a typeface: Ascender, Descender, Bracket, Tail, Shoulder, …. Keming is missing though :-P

March 22nd 2009

• The four stages of programming competence (0)
  

  Good description of the evolution of one’s programming knowledgee. Stage 3 sounds really familiar and – imo – defines a promising programmer who has a keen interest: “Stage 3: Conscious competence — The other day he wrote 30 or 40 lines of code for a personal project of his. He can’t help but feel a little disappointed when, browsing the net a few days later, he sees an effortless and much more elegant execution in half as many lines. He wonders when he’ll be able to write solutions of that quality on his own, straightforwardly. However, after a bit of thought, he’s searching his files. He knows he has to rewrite that piece or he won’t sleep well that night. He won’t be copypasting it..”

  If one really knows his stuff and understands what he does (or tries to by looking stuff up and experimenting along the way), stage 4 is inevitable (and by that defines an excellent programmer).

  Wha makes the article great is that I actually do know people that got stuck in the “YouKnowSh*tAboutItAndDontEvenRealizeIt” stage (stage 1) and – as the stage’s name describes – don’t even realize it. Pity.

• iPhone Cell Stickies (0)
  “Cell Stickies is a small booklet of plastic sheets with ego-stroking text messages printed on them.” – schizophrenia/loneliness rocks!
• Typosonic Machine (0)
  Typewriter music mod. Refreshing sound!

March 19th 2009

• Microsoft Super Preview (0)
  Just like IETester, Microsoft Super Preview (pre-release of the free product. Several features are missing and the usual beta software warnings apply) lets you view sites in IE8, IE7, IE6, Safari, Firefox, etc. at the same time in one interface. Handy! (via)

March 14th 2009

• Google release Jaiku Source (0)
  JaikuEngine is a social microblogging platform that runs on AppEngine. JaikuEngine powers Jaiku.com. &emdash; Always wondered what they were up to with Jaiku.

March 13th 2009

• Gmail filters (0)
  Something definitely worth checking out if you use Gmail: Ten must have Gmail Filters

March 11th 2009

• New iPod Shuffle (0)
  New iPod Shuffle: Even tinier than the previous one, more capacity (4GB) and some clever voice-over stuff. Be sure to watch the video :)
• Safari 4's UI vs multitouch (0)
  Gruber already stated all that is oh-so-wrong about Safari 4 beta. But what if the UI was designed with multitouch kept in mind? Clever thinking! (via)
• About Tweetie getting rejected from the App Store (0)
  “Apple’s created an impressive business out of the App Store; it’s time to stop acting like it’s being run out of a garage.” (via)

March 9th 2009

• THRU YOU, Kutiman remixes YouTube (0)
  Take some samples from Youtube, chop it and badabing. Very neat, and available as a download too. (via)

March 8th 2009

• The Road to HTML 5: contentEditable (0)
  “The feature of the day is contentEditable, by which I mean client-side in-browser “rich text” editing. All major browsers support this now, including Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer (since 5.5). Of course, the devil is in the details.”

March 6th 2009

• New Math (0)
  This is pure genius: terms/words/situations explained via math, viz. claustrophobia = you / space
• My Drobo Experience (0)
  A tiny post to point to the full post where I’ve jotted down my Drobo Experience (which didn’t get caught by my main feed due to a silly mistake I made) ;)

March 5th 2009

• TinyMCE 3.2.2 released (0)
  Although only a minor version increase, lots of stuff has changed. Most important (internal) change: now sports Sizzle! Another one I do like is the ability to host your TinyMCE on an other domain, hinting at a CDN hosted version :) – Download

March 4th 2009

• The Time Loop Theory of Lost (0)
  Any Lost fan must read the time loop theory: “All of the “werid” things that we see happen in seasons 1 & 2 of LOST are a result of the Losties now existing in the year 1996 on the island. This is why Locke can walk, and why Rose is Healed — their bodies are now existing in a time prior to them contracting their illnesses. This is also why some characters, such as Walt, have extraordinary perception — because they’re technically from the future.” (via) … can’t wait ’til tomorrow’s episode!
• Observations, Complaints, Quibbles, and Suggestions Regarding the Safari 4 Public Beta Released One Week Ago, Roughly in Order of Importance (0)
  Now this article with initial feedback on Safari4 illustrates exactly why I read DF: well-written, extensive, and spot-on!
• The Flickr Panda, now API compatible! (0)
  Remember the Flickr Panda? Well, the kind folks at Flickr have given us two API calls to fetch the panda pics! Huzzah!
• Twelve Animals Made From World Map (0)
  Neat! Be sure to check the interactive version

February 26th 2009

• Adobe Photoshop CS4 Disable Canvas Rotation Via Trackpad plug-in (1)
  This one’s been bugging me ever since I installed CS4: “On MacBook Air and recent MacBook Pro systems, Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 can use a multitouch gesture to enable rotation of the document canvas. Some customers find that the canvas gets rotated accidentally through inadvertent use of the gesture on the trackpad.” → the.fix (note that this plugin also disabled trackpad-zooming, something I actually do use quite a lot)

February 24th 2009

• Windows iPhone Browser Simulator (0)
  Shaun over at BlackBaud Labs has knocked up this iPhone browser simulator which lets you browse the web as if you were using an iPhone. Darn handy for both testing and presentation purposes if you’d ask me!
• [vid] How Benjamin Button got his face (0)
  “Many of you have seen the movie or heard of the story, but what most of you don’t know is that for nearly the first hour of the film the main character is completely computer generated from the neck up.”

February 23rd 2009

• Breaking: Techcrunch are full of shit (0)
  Last.fm HQ strikes back after those false rumors about them teaming up with the RIAA
• IE 8 still does not resize text sized in pixels (0)
  * sigh *
• Is The Real Shaq on Twitter really The "Real" Shaq? (0)
  Read and smile :-)
• Quickr Flickr Greasemonkey Script (0)
  Dustin Diaz knocks up this darn handy GreaseMonkey Script which extends the Flickr Experience :-)

February 22nd 2009

• Meanwhile, on Twitter (0)
  Nerd fact: Tweet 1234567890 has passed yesterday (one week after epoch time 1234567890). Just so you know.

February 21st 2009

• Dinner with a stranger (0)
  Beautiful in many ways: Dinner with a stranger (via)
• RE: Digg Finally Admits the Auto-Bury Exists (0)
  Some guys out there really are on crack imo (ooh, it’s all a conspiracy) … it’s not because Digg stopped a user his/her posts from hitting the homepage (due to violating some stuff) that it proves they have an auto-bury algorithm. Think about it: stopping a user from hitting the hp, merely is setting a flag on that user his profile “No matter how many digs, don’t show” and has nothing at all to with “auto-bury” nor – now, we’re not throwing in fancy terms to mislead the readers, are we? – an “algorithm” … #wnkrz :-D

February 11th 2009

• Search jQuery API Docs from Spotlight (0)
  Productivity FTW: Search jQuery API Docs from Spotlight. No need to install some extra stuff, you just have to extract one zip file :)

February 9th 2009

• CSS Animations (2)
  Ooh, the horror (animation does not belong to the presentation layer of your project!)
• Reusable Imageless Google Custom Buttons (0)
  Doug Bowman on how the new buttons in Gmail (and others) have come to what they are now.

February 5th 2009

• Kottke Goodiness (0)
  Kottke.org is one of the sites I’ve been following for the longest time. This week – as usual – some extraordinary stories have gotten the pleasure of pleasing me: Kanye West and his entourage, Coke not Classic anymore & NYC’s maple syrup smell mystery solved

February 3rd 2009

• John Resig on The DOM (0)
  The jQuery author talks about the DOM: “Nearly every method is broken in some way, in some browser”
• jQuery 1.3 Cheatsheet (0)
  As all cheatsheets: handy! ;)

February 2nd 2009

• The history of Twitter (0)
  How twitter was born: I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type something and send it. (via)

January 29th 2009

• Quote of the day (0)
  “Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God.” (via)

January 28th 2009

• Offline Gmail (0)
  Thanks to the power of Google Gears, Gmail now sports an offline mode.

January 27th 2009

• IE8 RC1 Released (0)
  It’s official, it’s out. Go try and play.
• [vid] Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection (0)
  A must see!

January 23rd 2009

• Inauguration Panorama (0)
  Impressive High Resolution (and interactive) pano of the inauguration. (via)
• Google API Playground (0)
  Environment for us to play with some Google API’s and run ‘m immediately :-)

January 22nd 2009

• SUMO Paint 1.0 (0)
  Impressive Flash based online image editor … impressive! (via)
• jQuery 1.3.1 released (0)
  A bugfix release. Go download :-)
• Inauguration, the pics (0)
  Great set of photos from the (first) inauguration. (via)
• World of Goo Soundtrack (0)
  The excellent soundtrack of the excellent World of Goo (a must play, only $20) has been released. Go download! (via)
• QuadCamera iPhone App (0)
  Refreshing new iPhone App: QuadCamera takes 4-8 serial shoots and creates one image (example). Neat icon too!
• Windows 7 tips and tweaks (0)
  Five page long article filled with tips and tweaks for Windows 7. The first page only is pure gold: shortcuts, shortcuts & shortcuts!
• Zipdecode (0)
  Neat visualization of how the US Postal Service’s code system is distributed across the nation.
• [vid] Wingsuite basejumping (0)
  W*I*C*K*E*D !!!!
• Accessing data saved in the class property of DOM-elements with Prototype (0)
  Storing data as classes, and manipulating them in an easy way (PrototypeJS)
• It's not Lupus ... (0)
  It’s not Obama either

January 14th 2009

• jQuery 1.3 (0)
  Congratulation jQuery on your 3rd anniversary! And thanks for bringing us 1.3.New features include: Sizzle, Live Events, jQuery Event Overhaul, HTML Injection Rewrite, Offset Rewrite, No More Browser Sniffing! Nice!
• Queries of the Lost Ark: timeBetween (0)
  Found these SQL snippets in a text file I was destined to lose. Hereby, for me to remember: [sql]# Difference between 2 timestamps (intial): TIMEDIFF(FROM_UNIXTIME(t.end_timestamp), FROM_UNIXTIME(t.start_timestamp)) AS timeBetweenInHours # Difference between 2 timestamps (better): SEC_TO_TIME(t.end_timestamp – t.start_timestamp) AS timeBetweenInHoursBetter # Difference between 2 timestamps in days: ROUND((SEC_TO_TIME(t.end_timestamp – t.start_timestamp) + 0) / 240000, 2) AS timeBetweenInDays[/sql]

January 11th 2009

• WordPress Tweetbacks Plugin (0)
  Tweetbacks (tweets linking to your blog/site) detection, now available as a plugin for WordPress
• Official Windows 7 beta (0)
  Go grab it. Beware of that MP3 glitch though! ;-)
• Google Chrome 2.0 dev preview (0)
  Google Chrome 2.0.156.1: Improved rendering, user interface enhancements, and preliminary support for Greasemonkey scripts (src)
• Google's favicon (0)
  Google’s got a new favicon … I feel like quoting now: “so .. when is Google going to fire that favicon designer?”

January 8th 2009

• YTB: The Twitter Hack (0)
  Videoproof of the Twitter Hack of last week.

January 7th 2009

• Tweetbacks (0)
  Tweetbacks are trackbacks but for Twitter: it detects links made to your site from within a tweet. Nice!
• Skype 2.8 (Mac) to sport screen-sharing (0)
  If it’s anything like the screen sharing as seen on GotoMeeting.com, then I’m in for this nifty feature :-)

January 6th 2009

• Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard (0)
  Haha, hilarious stuff: “Apple’s philosophy is “create products that are simple to use” and nothing’s more simple than a single giant button!” (via)
• Spoon Library 1.0.0 (0)
  Yay, my favorite PHP library – which is Spoon Library – has been blessed with a 1.0.0 release! Go grab it, play with it, and build some wicked stuff!
• jQuery 1.3 beta 2 (0)
  Getting closer to a final 1.3 release :-)

January 2nd 2009

• jQuery UI 1.6rc4 (0)
  “rc4 isn’t simply a bugfix release on top of rc2, but really a whole different level of code. Using a our new interaction design processes, we build up the foundation of many widgets from the ground up, and refactored widgets multiple times until we finally reached the look and feel we were confident with.” – Can’t wait for a full release!
• Antipatterns for sale (0)
  Now this is why I never enter some service it’s credential at another site!

December 31st 2008

• jQuery Alert Dialogs (0)
  Something I’ve been wanting to write myself, but never got to: Alert, Confirm, & Prompt Replacements in jQuery!

December 29th 2008

• DMFail - When ppl fail at direct messaging (0)
  DMFail is hilarious: it grabs tweets from which the sender thinks it’s a direct message but actually isn’t, mostly due to the wrong suffix (dm instead of d). Some great (and painful) results pop up :D (via)

December 22nd 2008

• jQuery 1.3 Beta 1 (0)
  In Short: Rewritten Selector Engine, rewritten .offset(), extra DOM Manipulation methods, Event Namespaces and Event Triggering. BOOM!

December 18th 2008

• Shiny Happy Buttons (0)
  Great post on 24ways today: Create one very shiny button purely by using CSS. Best part of the whole article: “Yes, it does look different in different browsers, but we all know the answer to the question ‘do web sites need to look the same in every browser?’.” – Totally agree!
• FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension (0)
  Great work by John and Jan: “FireUnit provides a simple JavaScript API for doing simple test logging and viewing within a new tab of Firebug.”

December 17th 2008

• Inline Code Finder Firefox Extension (0)
  Robert Nyman takes his Obtrusive JavaScript Checker Firefox Extension to the next level: “The result is Inline Code Finder, which looks for inline styling as well as what the Obtrusive JavaScript Checker offered, and it comes in two versions!” – Announcement
• Photoshop's Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide (0)
  If you master it,t he Pen Tool is great indeed. Don’t know how to work with the pen tool (yet), then read this extensive tutorial on how to work with the photoshop pen tool.

December 16th 2008

• Delicious adds Bulk Editing (0)
  A feature I’ve been wanting for quite a while: Bulk Editing in Delicious :)

December 15th 2008

• Mastering your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin area (0)
  Great collection of tips & tricks in order to master WP 2.7. Both themes and the admin area are covered (via) :)
• Seadragon goes Mobile (0)
  Most likely the most downloaded iPhone App over the weekend: Seadragon Mobile by which “you can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or your Photosynth collection (or anybody else’s).” Don’t know what Seadragon, Deep Zoom or Photosynth is then be sure to watch the original Seadragon & Photosynth video (dd June 2007!) ;)
• Kickbee, most likely the youngest Twitterer ever! (0)
  Guy creates waistband that monitors his unborn baby’s kicks. The waistband then automagically sends out a tweet when such an event occurs. Ingenious!

December 12th 2008

• Google Chrome breaks out of beta (0)
  “The update system has been used for 14 updates of the beta product so far. This 15th update will be the first non-beta release.” – src – download. User-agent-string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.36 Safari/525.19

December 11th 2008

• WordPress 2.7 (0)
  As predicted, WordPress 2.7 beta 2 made it to WordPress 2.7 final, codenamed Coltrane. Go download and upgrade :)
• 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks (0)
  Yay, a list! But this one actually is handy: 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks (you might know some tricks, yet not all)

December 10th 2008

• The Evolution of the Mona Lisa - Genetic Programming (0)
  “This weekend I decided to play around a bit with genetic programming and put evolution to the test, the test of fine art: Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons?” – Apparently one can. Be sure to read the follow-up FAQ too.
• Delicious Mobile (0)
  Umpf, now Delicious Mobile is something I’ve been waiting for quite a wile! Go go Power Rangers!
• The T-Shirt History of Mozilla (0)
  “I thought it would be fun to document all the Mozilla t-shirts throughout the years (with a few Netscape ones thrown in for historical context). After some detective work, here are the 53 shirts I’ve collected so far (arranged in rough chronological order so you can see the progression)” – It actually is fun indeed to see all those shirts :-)
• WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 2 (0)
  WordPress 2.7 RC2 is out; Will most likely be promoted to the final 2.7 release: “We feel this release is pretty much exactly what we’re going to ship as 2.7, barring any final bugs or polish tweaks that you report or we find.”

December 9th 2008

• YUI Doc (0)
  “YUI Doc is a Python application used at build time to generate API documentation for JavaScript code.” – Indefinitely need to check it out.
• Firefox 3.1b2 (0)
  Firefox 3.1 beta 2 is out for testing, including “Porn Mode” & Trace Monkey (new JS engine) amongst other features. Go download! :)

December 5th 2008

• Google Labs for your domain (0)
  Yay, Google Apps for your domain (which I’m using) now sports the Google Labs features! Hurray!
• Flickr Mobile, now with 50% more shiny! (0)
  “For the first time you can now comment on, and favorite, photos from your mobile phone. And it’s also wonderfully simple to add, find, and manage your contacts.” … and best of all: “you can now view Flickr videos on your iPhone and iPod Touch!” – BOOM!
• Google Reader redesigned (0)
  Next to the changed UI (which I like), some more features got rolled out :)

December 1st 2008

• 24ways, 2008 (0)
  The end of the year is near, which means that the advent calendar for Web Geeks is back to bring us 24 new volumes of pure web geekery and tips :-)

November 21st 2008

• Boundaries (0)
  After Flickr/Yahoo released their shapefiles (? definately worth reading) Tom Taylor knocked up this sweet app/tool called Boundaries, allowing us to browse the shapefiles in a visual way. Neat! (via code.flickr)
• Niceforms 2.0 (0)
  ALthough I thought this project was dead (Jan 07 since last update), all of the sudden Niceforms 2.0 lands upon us: “Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. You can either use the default theme that is provided or you can even develop your own look with minimal effort.” – kewlio :)

November 20th 2008

• Get a free PDF Copy of The Art & Science of CSS (0)
  Sitepoint does it again and knocks us up with a free copy of The Art & Science of CSS. Not only can you request it by mail, they’ve also jumped on the twitter bandwagon.

November 15th 2008

• Accuray of Javascript Time (0)
  John Resig does some extensive tests after noticing some odd behavior in JS speedtests and notes his findings: “Effectively these browsers (IE, Opera, Safari, and WebKit Nightly – all on XP/Vista) are only updating their internal getTime representations every 15 milliseconds. This means that if you attempt to query for an updated time it’ll always be rounded down to the last time the timer was updated” and “Any test that takes less than 15ms will always round down to 0ms in these browsers. It becomes impossible to determine how much time the tests are taking with consistently zeroed out results.”
• Start drooling, g-speak mimics Minority Report's UI (0)
  Pretty sure you remember that wicked computer interface from the Minority Report. Looks like we don’t have to wait for it that long anymore: g-speak by Oblong Industries does exactly what MR showed us. Wicked!
• How people really use the iPhone (0)
  Very interesting Report by Create with Context

November 3rd 2008

• Google Search Coupon (1)
  Friends and Colleagues know I use the Googlebon (Dutch) every now and then. Today I’ve created the English version of the darn handy thing ;-) Like it? Digg it!

October 29th 2008

• A boy meets girl story ... in emoticons (0)
  A O}-< meets Q<= story. It put a smile upon my face :)
• The Unfinished Swan (0)
  Very simple, yet very refreshing game: The Unfinished Swan is a maze game set in an entirely white world and you use a gun that shoots black paint balls to navigate your way around. Be sure to watch the demo video! (via)
• RE: FlickrDown lets you archive all your Flickr photos (1)
  Someone got FlickrDown onto Digg. Too bad he didn’t do his research that good, as FlickrDown is considered rubbish when compared to Downloadr ;)

October 18th 2008

• The Visual Design of WordPress 2.7 (0)
  luv it
• New Bravia Ad (0)
  Color.Like.No.Other! – Great to see they got back to the atmosphere of the first ad.

October 9th 2008

• Post Holiday Geekinees, continued (linkzbag) (0)
  

  Still catching up on some stuff, here some more things that caught my attention:

  • Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines – or when Generation M starts going to highschool ;) (via)
  • Radiohead Blip Tribute – Idioteque! (via)
  • Rabbit in your Headlight cover – Great cover, by the multi-talented Shaun Inman
  • HTML 5 demos from September 2008 – A series of demos intended for showing implementations of HTML5 in (non-final) browsers available in September 2008.
  • Air traffic worldwide – Mindboggling YTB vid showing the air traffic all over the world during one day.
  • TinyMCE 3.2.0.2 released – I think one of the fixes in there fixes a bug that slipped into bramus_cssextras. Need to take a peek into that one (when I find some extra time for it)
  • Apple dropped the iPhone NDA shizzle and some of the first iPhone SDK tuts are popping up. I like! And ooh, apparently there’s a metatag to trigger MobileSafari to go fullscreen :-)
  • The new ABConcerts website launched, the last project I worked on whilst working at Netlash. Great to see it go live (and to know what’s under the hood – if you understand Dutch this article will be extremely interesting ;))
  • Hovis Bakery Ad – be dazzled! (via)
  • English Spelling Inconsistencies – 102-year-old Ed Rondthaler on the English language’s spelling inconsistencies (via)
  • CopyPasteCharacter – Handy list of ascii chars to copy to the clipboard and then use somewhere else (think Twitter, as I’ve been doing for a few months now ;))
  • We’re Googling less – There’s a major swift in how we Google when compared to a few years ago. Eyetracking never lies
  • Google Search 2001 – Google exists for 10 years, so they dugg up their oldest archive for us to search in. Great to see that I back then was playing/modding GTA (GTA Hawaii), Half-Life (Jumbot), coding in VB6.0 and that my site back then was bramus.f2s.com (as they offered FTP and PHP3) before moving bramus.has.it. Haha, what a laugh I’m having now :-D

  Most likely more to come later on ;)

• Firebug 1.3a4 released (0)
  Find it at the usual spot: firebug.com/releases ;)

October 6th 2008

• Empty boxes, a business idea (0)
  Ingeniously wicked businessplan: Empty boxes (via)
• Why does open source software lack documentation? (0)
  “Brilliant, thanks!” :-D

October 1st 2008

• Prototype 1.6.0.3: A long-awaited bugfix release (0)
  “Yesterday we released Prototype 1.6.0.3, the result of some much-needed bug fixes, and a stopgap release on the road to 1.6.1. It’s a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all users of Prototype 1.6. We’ve fixed 30 bugs and made 25 other improvements to our already-rock-solid library.”

September 29th 2008

• Crossover Chromium : Google Chrome for OS X :-) (0)
  “Jeremy White, the CEO of Codeweavers, decided to take matters into his own hands: On September 4th he summoned his army to get Chromium (which is the open source project behind Chrome) ported to Linux and Mac ASAP. Long story short, they achieved that in only 11 days!” – Yeah, go download!

September 26th 2008

• My Name is E vs. Password Anti-Pattern (0)
  Jeremy Keith wraps it up nicely: “I blame Facebook. I also blame Digg. And LinkedIn. And Plaxo. And Twitter.” :)
• Punctuation: Interrobang and Serial Comma (0)
  Never heard of the Interrobang, nor the Serial Comma before (although I use the latter every now and then). Thank you National Punctuation Day for bringing this up! (via)
• Top 15 things you should never do on Facebook (0)
  Top 15 things you should never do on Facebook – 15 times yes! (yeah yeah, rule #0: “Don’t join” would be a valid reply on this post)

September 25th 2008

• Post holiday geekiness (linkzbag) (0)
  

  Was on vacation for two weeks and my feedreader was exploding; Managed to collect some links that caught my eye though ;)

  • History of the browser user-agent string – Hilarious!
  • Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? – Single Serving Site that is ;)
  • Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD – That’s just … NUTS!
  • Sam Brown: Why I love being freelance – Read it!
  • VMWare Fusion 2.0 got released
  • Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions – IE8 goodieness
  • The Totem Fridge – Although the compartments small, this seems like an instant hit to me!
  • Typography for Lawyers – and not only for lawyers!
  • Photoshop CS4 Top new features – Dazzling; Too bad the pricing is totally off!
  • TV Calendar – Reposting this as the new television season has started in the states (House MD, Heroes, CSI, …) ;)
  • Vimeo Homepage Sketch – Neat!

  Probably some more (outdated?) links might follow ;)

September 5th 2008

• FancyZoom, meet jQuery (0)
  Yesterday I mentioned that John Nunemaker from orderedlist.com rewrote Cabel’s FancyZoom to use Prototype as a base. His colleague Steve Smith (mostly known from the WordPress Feedburner Plugin) did a rewrite too … this time for use with jQuery. Huzzah!

September 4th 2008

• FancyZoom, meet Prototype (0)
  Remember Cabel Sasser’s FancyZoom? John Nunemaker (orderedlist.com) took the liberty of rewriting the thing. Next to basing the rewrite upon Prototype it also features some neat improvements. Be sure to check out the demo :)
• Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) to be announced September 23 (2)
  Apparently it’s hip to make an announcement about an announcement you’re about to make.
• Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 (0)
  The Developer Tools in IE8 are getting more mature (and more Firebug alike): “Beta 1 introduced a JScript debugger that lets you easily debug Jscript within Internet Explorer. In Beta 2, we’ve made a few great improvements: it now supports Console.log, just-in-time debugging, and has better usability through changes like an improved file chooser.” … and … “While Beta 1 supported live editing of only HTML attributes, Beta 2 brings this functionality to all of HTML and CSS. With live editing of CSS, just click a property name, value, or selector, type a new value, and press ENTER.” Kewlio! (src)

September 2nd 2008

• [pic] Geek 2.0 (0)
  Geek 1.0 vs Geek 2.0. Luv the pocket protector :D (via)
• Please Dress Me - T-Shirt search engine (2)
  All shirtlovers rejoice (and hide your creditcard), Please Dress Me is a t-shirt search engine! Too bad you can’t add shirts yourself (some sites I’ve found aren’t indexed)
• Google Chrome (0)
  Google Chrome, web browser, by Google. Uses Webkit. Comes with a nifty comic too. See Hicks’ writeup too.

September 1st 2008

• Conditional-CSS (0)
  Check this snippet out: [css]/* Conditional-CSS example */ a.button_active, a.button_unactive { display: inline-block; [if lte Gecko 1.8] display: -moz-inline-stack; [if lte Konq 3.1] float: left; height: 30px; [if IE 5.0] margin-top: -1px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; [if IE] text-decoration: expression(hideFocus=’true’); }[/css]Ever wanted to write CSS like that? Then seek no further! Conditional-CSS is a little script which preprocesses your CSS to target the browser visiting the site. Neato! Available in PHP, C and C# flavors :)

August 30th 2008

• Updated Internet Explorer VPC images available (0)
  New set of VPC Hard Disk Images for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista … keeps us save ’til January, 2009 :)
• [pano] View of Barack Obama’s Speech at Invesco Field in Denver (0)
  View of Barack Obama’s Speech at Invesco Field in Denver … dazzling!
• Death to JavaScript Rock Stars! (0)
  jquery.com redesigned yesterday. Now, one day later they dropped that futt-bugly rockstar thingy. Great! (no, that’s not sarcastic … I’m glad to see they dropped it as it was rather adolescent-targetting imo; Not quite appropriate for such a professional package).

August 28th 2008

• jParallax (0)
  “jParallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.” – Neat javascript indeed!

August 27th 2008

• IE8 Beta 2 (0)
  “While Beta 1 was for developers, we think that anyone who browses or works on the web will enjoy IE8 Beta 2” * BOOM *
• Introducing Ubiquity (0)
  Whoa, Ubiquity is just ingenious! Go check the video and be amazed (and don’t forget to close your mouth aftwards + clean the drool that dripped onto your desk :-P)! See it as a sort of Quicksilver for your webbrowser … the shortcutlover in me rejoices! (via)

August 26th 2008

• Opentape (0)
  Opentape, self-hosted muxtape :) (via)

August 23rd 2008

• Firebug 1.2.0 (0)
  “Firebug 1.2.0 is available on http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug. It will be up on addons.mozilla.org on Monday.” (src)

August 22nd 2008

• The Diver's View (0)
  Sweet interactive pano, take on the 10-meter platform at the Water Cube.
• Regarding OpenClip (0)
  You’ve most likely heard about OpenClip, the app that brings copy-paste to the iPhone, sometime during the past few days. Excited you were? Sorry to say then, but don’t get your hopes up.

August 21st 2008

• Photosynth goes public (0)
  Whoa, Photosynth (which has caught my eye a few times already) goes public and now lets you create synths yourself. Still need to test it (working on my mac right now – which is unsupported unfortunately)
• [YTB] The ultimate unboxing vid : Samsung Omnia (i900) (0)
  Sweet vid of the unboxing of the Samsung Omnia!

August 19th 2008

• Easy Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer ... without images (1)
  Technically it’s possible to have rounded corners in IE5, IE6 & IE7 by using a big chunk of CSS and some extra markup thanks to an ingenious idea by Mr. Snook (demo). The size and maintainability of the code are different aspects though ;)

August 16th 2008

• Phelps-Cavic photo finish (0)
  Don’t know about you, but I was in full suspense watching it! Who did win? Can we trust those timing systems? Kottke did some research and gives us the answers! (Be sure to read that part about the precise-ness of the timing systems)
  
  Update: some more lucid photo’s of the finish over here

August 15th 2008

• Secrets of the Javascript Ninjas (0)
  Jeff Atwood on Javascript API’s/Libraries (Prototype, jQuery, YUI, …): “The JavaScript Ninjas have delivered their secret and ultimate weapon: common APIs. They transform working with JavaScript from an unpleasant, write-once-debug-everywhere chore into something that’s actually — dare I say it — fun.” (source) Yup, you got that right :)
• Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty (0)
  Change the conversation on Oct 15 (be sure to watch the vid).
• [vid] Oktapodi (0)
  Hilarious short film Oktapodi (via)
• Email Standards Project (0)
  Most likely “Acid test for e-mail clients” rings a bell ;)

August 14th 2008

• YUI 3 Preview Release (0)
  The YUI 3 Preview Release 1 is out. And they’ve refactored the thing quite a bit! (Did anyone say chaining?)

August 13th 2008

• IMG·2·JSON - Get Image Metadata via a simple Ajax Call (0)
  Nice one: “IMG·2·JSON is a simple Google App Engine python application which extracts metadata from images and returns the results as a JSON string.”
• Border-image in Firefox 3.1 (0)
  You gotta luv ‘m, those CSS3 implementations. Next up to make into Firefox 3.1: border-image. I like!

August 12th 2008

• [Javascript] Using Progressive Enhancement to Convert a Select Box Into an Accessible jQuery UI Slider (0)
  Now this is most likely the most inventive piece of Javascript – except for my code, of course :P – I’ve seen lately: Using Progressive Enhancement to Convert a Select Box Into an Accessible jQuery UI Slider (scroll down for the examples). w00t! (@netlash: I want this in Fork, yesterday!)
• Firebug 1.2.0b10 (0)
  Don’t know why this version isn’t over at the addons.mozilla.org (where it should be), but looks like Firebug 1.2.0b10 is out :-)
• jsProgressBar Tutorial (0)
  The guys from teamtutorials.com have whipped up a tutorial on how to implement my jsProgressBar(Handler). Kewlio! :-)
• [Design/Furniture] Blood Drip Table (0)
  The Blood Drip Table … makes some drool drip from my mouth!

August 11th 2008

• [pic] Small talk with a webdesigner (0)
  This one is so *SPOT ON*: Small talk with a webdesigner (via)

August 9th 2008

• Walking with Dinosaurs, the Live Experience (0)
  Now this is really mind dazzling! A *real* dinosaur (as in no CGI/Special effects) from “Walking with Dinosaurs, the Live Experience” in between the crowd. Wow wow WOW! (hmmz, looks like this one didn’t get published about 2 weeks ago. *blush*)

August 7th 2008

• The Vader Project (0)
  The Vader Project, a “reimagining of the iconic Darth Vader helmet by some of today’s hottest pop and underground artists”
• House of Cards ... in Lego! (0)
  Someone took the data from Radiohead’s House of Cards and visualized it … in lego! Neat! (via)

July 31st 2008

• Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here (0)
  The new delicious is here, finally!
• Unnecessary Knowledge (0)
  Did you know that “More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.”? More useless facts over at Unnecessary Knowledge. Love it! (via)
• Twitter As News-wire (0)
  “Twitter was first on the scene again when an estimated 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Los Angeles today.” (source / graph)
• Webkit Transitions (0)
  Shuan Inman knocks up a nifty example to show off what could be done with Webkit Transitions. Of course to be viewed in the latest Safari.

July 30th 2008

• jQuery Documentation (0)
  Yea yeah, the jquery docs are down. Over at Learning jQuery you can find some “>alternative jQuery documentation sources ;)
• MySQL: Get next AUTO_INCREMENT value from/for table (5)
  Note to self: To get the next auto_increment value from a table run this query: SELECT AUTO_INCREMENT FROM information_schema.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = $dbName AND TABLE_NAME = $tblName. Don’t forget it (again).
• Leo's Song (0)
  Put a smile on my face :) (via)

July 29th 2008

• Pixar Short : Presto (0)
  Always fun, those Pixar shorts: Presto :) (via)
• Fireplays (0)
  Lightpainting + Stopmotion + Music by MGMT = Fireplays :) (via)
• Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 out (0)
  Developer release, use at own risk ;) What I like most about it is the new tab switching system (already available through an add-on) and the improvements to the location bar: You can restrict the search to your history by typing “^”, or bookmarks with “*”, or tagged pages with “+”. To make what you’ve typed match only in the URL type “@”, and for title/tags only use “#”.. Neat!
• Lightroom 2 released (0)
  Time to upgrade, Lightroom 2 is out :) Be sure to read this Lightroom 2 Vs. My Lightroom 2 “Wish List” blogpost too ;)
• Welcome to the fourth screen (0)
  A must see vid that gave me goosebumps: Welcome to the 4th screen (via)

July 24th 2008

• Idée Labs : ingenious way of searching for images (0)
  Idéé labs holds several tools which let you find images in an ingenious manner. Via the Multicolor Search lab you can define up to 10 colors and it’ll search its database (or Flickr) for images with those colors. An other way of searching the by uploading (or referring to the url of) a pic via the BYO Image Search Lab. A third way is the Visual Search Lab where you combine a visual search (click an image to see images with the same color) along with tags (limit the resultset to a specific tag). What impresses me most is the speed of it all. Neat neat neat!

July 22nd 2008

• Iran's Missile Launch Photoshop Forgery - Now we can panic! (0)
  You might have read that the photographs of the Iranian missile launch were forged. And *boom*, the big crowd jumped on the bandwagon. Do not underestimate the power of the interwebs!

July 21st 2008

• Vector Magic, Desktop Edition (0)
  Remember Desktop Magic, that online tool which easily creates vectors from images you upload (and that even better than Illustrator!)? Turns out they have an offline version (viz. Desktop Edition) now. Windows only though, Mac version will follow so they say :)

July 18th 2008

• [YTB] The Process (0)
  “What if there were no stop signs… and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?” – Now that is SPOT ON! (via @postback)
• John Resig working on Firebug (0)
  John Resign (creator of jQuery) has a little mini-announcement: “Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla Firebug team. I’m, understandably, quite excited about this proposition.” … whoa!

July 17th 2008

• iCall enables seamless GSM to WiFi switching on iPhone (0)
  Now that‘s nice! “Put simply, it enables iPhones to switch from GSM to WiFi (when WiFi is nearby, of course) on-the-fly in order to save cell minutes and bypass the hassle of manually changing over.” (via manu, via IM)

July 15th 2008

• The 10 Commandments of Web Design (1)
  List of 10 commandments of web design knocked up by some great brains out there. Number #1 practically summarizes Wolf’s most recent article
• WordPress 2.6 Released (0)
  WordPress 2.6 is out! Changes are “you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5” Be sure to watch the video ;) And oh, in case you were wondering: the post revisions stuff is powered by Text_Diff ;)

July 14th 2008

• Radiohead - House of Cards (0)
  By now you’ve probalby heard about Radiohead’s new music video wasn’t filmed by a camera but shot by lasers. Not to sure what to expect from it, today I found that we can watch the “video” over at Google Code. Sweet interactive video (click and drag whilst playing!). Reminds me a bit of the raw Photosynth data flying by ;)

June 30th 2008

• Reverse Graffiti Project (0)
  Reverse Graffiti Project: Take a pressure washer and (un)tag our surroundings. “It’s just a cold realization that the world is really really dirty” Reminds me of this NYC pic.
• WordPress 2.6 Post Revisions (0)
  Great WP2.6 feature: Compare one version of a post to another version … sweet!

June 27th 2008

• The Paper Version of the Web (0)
  Sketches of user interfaces :)

June 24th 2008

• BBC Removing Microformats from Programmes Listing (0)
  “All broadcasts use the hCalendar microformat to add start times, end times, broadcast channels etc. Unfortunately there have been a number of concerns over hCalendar’s use of the abbreviation design pattern.” – Highly interesting read (via)

June 23rd 2008

• jsClass - Object Oriented Javascript (0)
  Some more Javascript delights: “jsClass is an extensible Javascript Base Class. It allows you to organize you javascript code, using Object Oriented Programming (OOP).” me.likez!

June 19th 2008

• Work on ACID4 has started (0)
  “Acid4 will be primarily a visual test, not especially scripted. Focus will probably be on SVG, CSS, and mixing namespaces, probably with the main document being an XML file with an SVG root element. Work on Acid4 will begin when three of the four top rendering engines have builds that pass the test, and will be finished and announced after four of the top four rendering engines have announced that they have fixed all the bugs found by Acid3” (src) Be sure to read the list “LESSONS FROM ACID3″. Lolz!
• MultiFirefox 2.0 (2)
  MultiFirefox 2.0 is “a little launcher app that, when copied to your Apps folder along with the accompanied Firefox3.app file, will let you create and/or select an additional profile, as well as the version of Firefox that you wish to use. It’s clean, it’s simple, and it works.”
• Gecko's Reflow Process (0)
  “Video visualizations of how the HTML rendering engine underneath Firefox’s hood renders mozilla.org, a Wikipedia page, and Google Japan.” Great find by Kottke!

June 18th 2008

• [YTB] Darwinism at work: How to not shoot a gun (0)
  Little compilation on how to not shoot a gun, starting with the already classic footshooting cop :-P (via)
• [YTB] Floppy Disk playing The Imperial March (0)
  Whoa, this makes me want to have a floppy drive again (it’s been 7 years by now I guess?): A floppy drive modded so that it plays the Imperial March. All geeks rejoice! (via)
• [YTB] Requiem For A Day Off (0)
  Requiem For A Day Off = Re-cut trailer for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off + the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack. Neat! (via)

June 17th 2008

• TinyMCE 3.1.0 released (0)
  “This release fixes a few more bugs and issues one of them is a bug with Opera 9.50 final where the paragraph generation would be done in reverse. We also resolved an issue where the paste as plain text would encode the contents before inserting it but it also encoded br and paragraphs. Most of the other bugs where not that critical mostly small things here and there.” – Announcement – Changelog – Download
• Javascript Super Mario Kart (0)
  The same author who brought us Super Mario in Javascript, whipped up an 11kb weighing JS file (compressed + some external sprites) bringing Super Mario Kart to the browser. *BOOM!* Go Play!

June 16th 2008

• rainbow4firefox - Javascript Syntax Highlighting for Firebug (0)
  Discovered this sweet little plugin for Firebug which brings Javascript Syntax Highlighting to Firebug! Sweeeet!
• The cost of a bug fix (0)
  “Every fix doesn’t call for a blog post, but this one deserves it”: The cost of a bug fix
• Larger Images in Flickr Feeds (0)
  Take a Flickr Photo Feed, run it through Yahoo! Pipes and *boom* Larger Images in Flickr Feeds
• The IE8 meta tag will be there, but with a twist (0)
  “In response to the great IE8 Beta 1 feedback we’ve received so far, we are introducing the “IE=EmulateIE7” tag. EmulateIE7 tells IE8 to display standards DOCTYPEs in IE7 Standards mode, and Quirks DOCTYPEs in Quirks mode. We believe this will be the preferred IE7 compatibility mode for most cases. Support for IE=EmulateIE7 is available now as part of the IE June Security Update for IE8 Beta 1. Installing this update will enable you to verify you’ve applied the EmulateIE7 tag to your site correctly.”
• Outage (0)
  bram.us was out of the air for about a week … turned out that some config setting was saved over 700 times into the WordPress DB, fuxx0ring things up. Whilst I was at it, I updated to WP 2.5.1 (was still running some old 2.3 version here) :)

June 11th 2008

• WWDC 2008 Keynote in 60 seconds (0)
  In case you missed it (like I did) and don’t want to watch the full 107 minutes: WWDC’08 in 60 seconds :)

June 9th 2008

• jQuery Coverflow (0)
  Neat jQuery Coverflow plugin made by the lead jQuery UI developer, using Webkit’s CSS Transforms (viz. check it in Safari 3.1). Kudos Paul!
• jQuery UI 1.5 Released! (0)
  jQuery UI 1.5 hits the net … details in the extensive announcement :)
• When Twitter is down ... Twiddict is there to help! (0)
  “We love Twitter. We hate when it’s down. If you’re addicted to Twitter as well, tweet your heart out through Twiddict and avoid life-changing withdrawal symptoms during Twitter downtime. We’ll make sure your tweets end up where they belong.”
• Buddypress (0)
  “BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. Basically, it is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.”
• Rent-a-kitten (0)
  Feeling lonely? Need some playful love in your live? Get a kitten! Really, it’ll help. – Hilarious! (via)
• Am I On Myspace.com? (0)
  AmIOnMyspace.com? is a Firefox Addon which alerts you if you accidently stumble onto MySpace.com, and take you back to the site you came from. Hilarious! (via)

June 7th 2008

• Firebug 1.2b3 for Firefox 3.0 (0)
  Update to the beta version of Firebug, containing bug fixes for issues 736, 750, 256, 734, 707, 709, 56, 455, 623 (See the release notes). Go update! (as getFirebug.com is down, the original Firebug author Joe Hewitt has moved the download location of the extension to the Firefox Add-ons site. Go grab your copy on the new location)

June 5th 2008

• The quest for every beard type (0)
  “I’ve been growing a beard every winter for some years now, and every spring, I try to see how many facial hair variations as I can check off from the chart of facial hair types. Listed below are descriptions of the 34 facial hair types from the chart, including examples of the 24 variations that I’ve been able to attain so far” Can’t help it but I find this one hilarious! (via @postback)
• Firefox 3 RC2 and Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 (0)
  As announced earlier, Firefox 3 RC2 has been released. “It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.” Go download my friends :) Above that, IE8b2 has been scheduled for a release in August which makes me wonder if the full version will make it out this year … wildly guessing at November here.

June 4th 2008

• Phototype, a client/server-side image manipulation library (0)
  Phototype, a client/server-side image manipulation library, supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image, on the clientside Prototype is used. With Phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images. One could compare this to swIFR, but then redone with PHP/GD instead of Flash :)

June 3rd 2008

• Firebug 1.2b2 for Firefox 3.0 (0)
  “In this release we are trying to address the problems of enabling Firebug that users raised with 1.2b0. We now include the console as a disabled-by-default panel and Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko has implemented a multi-panel enablement. We’ve also worked on the default settings and text to try to make the enablement smoother and simpler.” – Announcement – Install
• Firefox 3.0RC2 (0)
  Gentlemen (and the ladies too, I know), mark June 5th in your agendas: “As discussed at today’s Firefox 3 meeting, we’ve decided that there is sufficient need to produce a new Release Candidate of Firefox 3 before shipping. Due to the time required to complete some other external dependencies, we don’t expect that this will significantly impact our shipping date, and still estimate a mid-June release date.” (src). Hoping to see some improvements to the magic new location/url bar as it sometimes tends to hang (maybe this bug is related?)

June 2nd 2008

• TinyMCE 3.0.9 Released (0)
  “This release focuses on issues with the drop down menus and list boxes running the editor in IE and inside frames. There have been many reports where this combination didn’t work as expected. We have also added better keyboard support for the list boxes and drop menus so you can now use the arrow keys up and down to cycle though the items in the select boxes. There has also been quite a few fixed for the table plugin many where contributed by the community.” – Announcement – Download – Changelog

May 31st 2008

• CSS Cacheer (0)
  Shaun Inman is at it again: “What if the server could detect data: protocol & base64 capable browsers and automatically embed any images referenced in the CSS it was serving?” … resulting in CSS Cacheer. Neat!
• Firefox 3 and input elements ... Genuine ajax file uploads around the corner (0)
  “>In Firefox 3 you can access the contents of a file input via the files attribute and its items. Each of the items have the following attributes and methods: Attributes: fileSize and fileName. Methods: getAsDataURL, getAsBinary and getAsText”

May 28th 2008

• Google hosted Prototype, script.aculo.us, jQuery, Mootools & Dojo via the AJAX Libraries API (0)
  Google now offers a cached compressed copies of Prototype, script.aculo.us, jQuery, Mootools and Dojo on its high-speed content distribution network via the AJAX Libraries API. Inclusion can be done directly (viz. <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"></script> or via Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method. Neatest part of google.load() is the smart versioning feature. Very nice!

May 27th 2008

• The ultimate getElementsByClassName, anno 2008 (0)
  Update to a classic javascript function (anno 2005, if not earlier) in order to take advantage of the native getElementsByClassName function or XPATH (if available, with fallback mechanisms in place) :)
• Google Maps without Javascript (0)
  Now this I did not know, it’s possible to get static versions of Google Maps maps, with markers and all you want. Mike Tuupola covers it very nicely! *Droolio*

May 24th 2008

• Two Hidden Features New in Firefox 3 (0)
  The title is a bit misleading, yet these 2 new CSS features in Firefox 3 (amongst the other CSS improvements) are more than welcome!

May 22nd 2008

• Firebug 1.2b1 (0)
  Firebug 1.2 has been released in beta! Too bad the alpha version I was running (1.2a30X) didn’t notify me automagically. Ah, at least one can install it manually ;)
• Alice in Wonderland "Remix" (0)
  Alice by Pogo is great! 90% of it are samples from Alice in Wonderland. Genious, and it sounds nice too (reminds me a bit of Blockhead’s Music By Cavelight)! Go watch, or go download ;) (via)

May 21st 2008

• jQuery 1.2.5 (1)
  Looks like the 1.2.4 build (released yesterday) was bad (as in missing all new features and throwing exceptions). Therefore jQuery 1.2.5 has been released :)

May 20th 2008

• Chaining Your JavaScript Methods (0)
  Ah, definately need to read this one carefully: “The method chaining technique was made popular in several libraries, but none more so than jQuery. In this straightforward tutorial, I will show you how to implement method chaining with little effort.”
• Firefox Web Developer Extension 1.1.6 Release (0)
  Version 1.1.6 of this very handy Firefox Extension has been released, adding support for Firefox 3 as well as fixing some minor issues. Doesn’t show up in the autoupdate, yet you can download it manually over at its home/projectpage ;)
• jQuery 1.2.4 (0)
  It’s out, go download and read up :)

May 17th 2008

• Firefox 3.0rc1 (0)
  Firefox 3.0rc1 is out! Hopefully a lot more stable than 3b5 :) Go download!

May 16th 2008

• jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu (0)
  “This drilldown menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels. The entire menu sits within a fixed-size area, and when a node is selected, breadcrumb links appear above the menu options to both deliver feedback and allow quick access back to nodes higher up in the hierarchy.” – Seeing some great potential there, mainly as a replacement to “the bunch of select elements that could be hotwired to eachother” (where a selection in the first one would manipulate the second one, etc.).

May 15th 2008

• Google Doctype (0)
  “Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.”

May 14th 2008

• LiveHTTPHeaders Firefox Extension and Firefox 3 (0)
  Version 0.14 of LiveHTTPHeaders has been released. No fixes this time, but a (full?) rewrite to make it Firefox3 compatible!

May 13th 2008

• Reading EXIF data with Javascript (0)
  Kewlio!
• CSS (in)Efficiency (0)
  As I suspected the performance of the proposed CSS qualified selectors would put a massive load on your browser. Dave Hyatt (he’s involved in Webkit) gives a great insight into this. Be sure to read this Mozilla Guideline on how to write efficient CSS too. Stuff to think about!

May 9th 2008

• Processing.js (0)
  John Resig has ported the Processing language to Javascript! Jaw.drop!
• TimeTube (0)
  TimeTube is an cool looking YouTube mashup which lets you search Youtube and get the results placed on a timeline. (tip: search for nike or sony) (via)

May 7th 2008

• RAID for Dummies (0)
  RAID for Dummies :D (via)
• Opera Dragonfly (0)
  Opera Dragonfly basically is Firebug for Opera: “Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone” (still in alpha though)
• Frickin' Cool Wikipedia Shirt (0)
  “Citation Needed” :D (via)

May 6th 2008

• IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (0)
  Overview of what happens to IE when installing XP SP3. In short: - IE6: no problems there; All security fixes will be applied. - IE7: no problems there; Yet you won’t be able to uninstall it anymore. - IE8b1: “we strongly recommend uninstalling IE8 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Windows XP SP3 to eliminate any deployment issues and install IE8 Beta 1 after XPSP3 is on your machine.”

May 5th 2008

• jQuery UI 1.5b4 released, with integrated jQuery Enchant! (0)
  jQuery UI 1.5b4 gets released with integrated jQuery Enchant (which was the missing part of ui: a library completely devoted to rich effects.)! Great to see this, as the role of jQuery UI now can be compared to what script.aculo.us is to prototype, but then to jQuery of course. Above that the jQuery UI site has been revamped, and now features a download builder, just as ExtJS has :) (BTW: jQuery 1.2.4 to be released on May 15th ;))
• CSS Qualified Selectors (0)
  Shuan Inman writes about what he calls CSS Qualified Selectors, something that comes up in a discussion quite often. Basically it’s a way to select (for example) all a elements that contain an img. Although the functionality already can be found in jQuery (and I’m pretty sure in other JS Libs too) John Resig jumps the bandwagon and provides us with the syntax Shaun proposed as a 2 line jQuery plugin :)
• TweetWheel (0)
  Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other via TweetWheel. Here’s mine (via)

May 1st 2008

• TinyMCE 3.0.8 released (0)
  “Yet another release of TinyMCE this one fixed a few bugs and issues here and there there.” – Announcement – Download – Changelog
• Firefox3 Delicious Plugin (0)
  Although I’ve returned to Firefox2 at work (as FX3b5 crashes very often) I’m glad to see that the Delicious Bookmarks plugin made it to Firefox3 (as at home I’m running FX3b5). Huzzah!
• [vid] Facebook in Real Life (0)
  Facebook in Real Life is just hilarious (and oh so true)!
• Take it to the next level, a must see Nike ad (0)
  Very nice new Nike ad: “Take it to the next level”, a first person account of what a top level football star goes through! Directed by Guy Ritchie. (via)

April 30th 2008

• Color Profiles in Firefox 3 (0)
  John Resig on Color Profiles in Firefox 3. “There is a noticeable difference between the rendering of the image in Firefox 2 compared to both Photoshop and Firefox 3 (in which they are rendered identically). All of this is due to the fact that Firefox 3 and Photoshop use the additional color profile information to get a better mapping of the resulting colors. There’s one tricky point, however: Color profile support is disabled, by default, in Firefox 3. However, it can be quickly enabled by installing the Color Management Add-on or by twiddling some options in about:config.”

April 29th 2008

• CSS Reflections (0)
  Get your drool ready: Webkit now supports CSS Reflections :)
• Twitter Mashups: Twistori and Twistory (0)
  Some cool Twitter mashups (coincidentally with likewise names) surfaced the past few days, yet they differ quite a lot: Add Twitter to History and out pops Twistory a “Twitter mashup allowing you to easily subscribe to your backlog using your favorite desktop or web calendar tool.”, created by Tijs Vrolix. My Twitstory Page can be found right here :) “twistori is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs.” (you might know Thomas Fuchs as the creator of script.aculo.us ;))

April 25th 2008

• WordPress 2.5.1 released (0)
  WP 2.5.1 is out, containing some security fixes, bug fixes and performance improvements.

April 24th 2008

• IT Comics (0)
  Hilarious IT Comics (via goOve_ via MSN)

April 23rd 2008

• Twist - See trends in Twitter (0)
  Twist lets you see trends in Twitter. Very neat! (via)

April 22nd 2008

• Firebug and Firefox 3 beta 5 (0)
  Having troubles with Firebug 1.1.0b12 (currently the latest official beta release) and Firefox 3 beta 5? I know you are (it tends to hang, the console doesn’t work properly, etc.). Solution is to grab the lastest 1.2 beta release from http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.2/ (current version I have installed and verified working is firebug-1.2.0a21X.xpi).
• Create your own Crest (0)
  ScionSpeak lets you easily create your own Crest. Only took me 5 minutes to make this del.icio.us 2.0 pun thing (boy do I wish the preview gets pushed live really really really soon)
• A List Apart Issue #257 (0)
  A List Apart Issue #257 is out, with 2 articles on the how and why of Ruby on Rails.

April 21st 2008

• iPhone MySpace Web Application Preview 002 (0)
  The iPhone MySpace Web Application looks great. So great that I wonder when (if ever) they’re gonna implement it as the main MySpace interface.
• Javascript Ninja Job Listing (0)
  John Resig launches Javascript Ninja Jobs, a Javascript job board :)

April 19th 2008

• The Memory Project - Life in London captured digitally (0)
  “The Memory Project, which is reminiscent of a Victorian cyclorama, is recording a 360-degree panorama each minute over three days.” Not that spectacular, but this here makes it all wow: “Members of the public can control the circular, time-slip viewing gallery, which will display about 47,000 photos. ” and this via a thermal camera inside the cyclorama! Neat!

April 18th 2008

• Flickr Code (0)
  Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community

April 17th 2008

• Future Of Web Design '08 Notes (0)
  FOWD ’08 was great. Jeremy Keith provides us with a great set of notes of all the presentations (at a first glare it looks like I wrote down pretty much the same stuff :)). A must read!

April 16th 2008

• The case of the 500 mile email (1)
  wtf?
• [YTB] New sony Ad - Like.no.other (0)
  Must say I like the new “like.no.other” ad by Sony (foam.like.no.other), as it has the same atmosphere as the first colour.like.no.other one (where the second and third really sucked at imo)
• [YTB] Arm Wrestling + Tetris = Tresling (0)
  Hilarious game dubbed Tresling which combines arm wrestling and Tetris :) (via)
• Young me - Now me (0)
  Interesting set of picture pairs of people when they where young and right now (via)
• I will possess your heart Lyrics (Death Cab For Cutie) (0)
  

  From Death Cab For Cutie‘s I Will Possess Your Heart

  How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me. It’s like a book elegantly bound, but in a language you can’t read just yet. You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. There are days when outside your window, I see my reflection as I slowly pass. And I long for this mirrored perspective when we’ll be lovers, lovers at last. You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. I will possess your heart. I will possess your heart. You reject my advances and desperate pleas. I won’t let you let me down so easily. So easily… You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. You gotta spend some time love. You gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love. I will possess your heart. I will possess your heart. I will possess your heart.

  Awesome song if you’d ask me! Be sure to watch it on YouTube!

April 15th 2008

• Turn your iPod Touch into an iPhone (0)
  SIP VoiP or Fring + TouchMod Mic and badabing, you’ve got one :)
• Trapped (0)
  Timelapse video of a man who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours (via)
• [YTB] I Will Possess your heart (0)
  I Will Possess your heart, new Death Cab For Cutie single from their upcoming album Narrow Stairs, due out May 13. – “How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me. It’s a like a book elegantly bound but in a language that you can’t read. We gotta spend some time, cos yet, you’ve gotta spend some time with me. And I know that you’ll find love, I will possess your heart.”
• MoxieCompressor (2)
  “MoxieCompressor is some PHP classes for compressing JavaScript and CSS files using gzip. It will compress multiple files into one big minified and gzip compressed request. It will also set a far future expires header so it remains in browser cache for a long time. This will dramatically improve site performance since the download size will reduced by 50-75% it will also reduce the number of requests needed.” – tossed onto the tocheck/toimplement list :)

April 14th 2008

• Bert Simons Paper Sculptures (0)
  3 dimensional photo-realistic paper portraits and sculptures by Bert Simons. Nice!
• [YTB] How to create a viral video (0)
  9 tips on how to make viral videos
• Burning the Midnight Oil (1)
  Burning the Midnight Oil is so familiar: So I just finished up my last piece of development for today, and it’s now 1:18 in the morning (last night I was up to 2:30). After roughly a day and a half of solid coding, I have come up for air momentarily to consider an issue of interest to me: Why am I so freakin’ productive at night?
• TinyMCE 3.0.7 Released (0)
  “This release mainly fixes bugs and other small issues but it has one new feature that will generate version unique URLs for all the parts of the editor this to avoid issues where the user hasn’t cleared the cache and reports a bug to us or some third party system like WordPress etc. We also added a new table selection feature. This enables you to more easily select whole tables by simply clicking on it’s border. It will make it easier to delete the table or add classes to it. This was also added to normalize the browser behavior. We also fixed a new type of memory leak in IE” – Announcement – Download – Changelog

April 11th 2008

• [YTB] Air Bear (1)
  This is sweet: hook up a paper/plastic bear over the vents of the metrotubes and watch it growl as a train passes by :)
• Updated W3C DOM Compatibility Tables (0)
  PPK has updated the W3C DOM Compatibility Tables to include IE8b1 :)

April 9th 2008

• [vid] Running Man - A must see music vid (1)
  Fuck Tecktonic, the eighties called and they want the “Running Man” back! :D (via) (edit: after doing some research, the video apparently is “Something Good ’08” by Utah Saints)
• jsTimeMachine (0)
  jsTimeMachine, a javascript TimeMachine-alike interface :)
• Why is editing not a focused area in browser development? (0)
  A valid point/remark indeed by the TinyMCE developers; Hope they get some positive response to it!
• Stranger Photos Have Happened (1)
  “Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I’ll be back later this evening to pick it up.” and here a the results (via)
• DomAssistant 2.7 Released (0)
  “Better, faster, slimmer + new features!” (note to self: must give it a spin)
• Google takes HuddleChat Offline (0)
  No more HuddleChat after some allegations that it was a one by one copy of Campfire.
• jQuery Database (0)
  “A relational database using <table> tags and jQuery”, letting you do stuff like $('.users').join('.photos').where('.photos.user_id:eq(.users.id)').and('.users.id:eq(1)').select('.photos.url') which could be compared to SELECT photos.url FROM users, photos WHERE photos.user_id = users.id AND users.id = 1 (via)
• OpenID for Google Accounts (0)
  Thanks to the recently launched Google App Engine, you can now use your Google Account to log into any site that supports OpenID!
• Twitter offering badges (0)
  New or just overlooked? I don’t know, but fact is that Twitter offers badges to inject into your site :)
• Flickr now supports Video! (0)
  “If you’re a pro member, you can now share videos up to 90 glorious seconds in your photostream.” Where? There!

April 8th 2008

• TwitterHolics (0)
  For all those Twitter fans, list of services built on top of / related to Twitter. (via Twitter, of course)
• A List Apart Issue #256 (0)
  Issue #256 lands upon us: “Bring your data to visual life with web standards, and roll you own Google-style maps.”

April 7th 2008

• Yahoo! replies to Microsoft's open letter (2)
  Oh this soap is great! Yahoo! responded to Microsoft’s open letter. The opening line alone creates a great atmosphere: “Dear Steve”. Be sure to read the last paragraph, basically they’re saying: cough up more money and we might consider your offer. Can’t wait to see what’s next :-D (edit: forgot the link, tnx to Manuel for pinging me!)
• Shirts For Coders (0)
  Show the world your love for XHTML & CSS. Like the “I <3 Webstandards" one (the rest - except for display : none; - doesn't really please me though).
• Logo Trends 2008 (0)
  10 trends that will define logo design in 2008 (via)
• Mixwit - Create your own mixtapes (0)
  Mixtapes are in again! Thanks to Ardi XIV I’ve discovered Mixwit, a nifty way of creating your mixtapes: search ‘m on skreemr/seeqpod, tuck ‘m into a nice layout and you’re set :-)

April 6th 2008

• Vista Source Code Leaked (1)
  Hilarious! And oh, there’s a bug in the code ;) (via digg)

April 5th 2008

• Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors (1)
  As Gruber puts it: “The white collar equivalent of Steve Ballmer showing up at Yahoo’s door with a baseball bat in his hand.”
• Space Shuttle Assembly Pics (0)
  “Great set of photographs showing how the Space Shuttle gets ready for takeoff, from the Vehicle Assembly Building all the way to the launch pad.” (via)

April 3rd 2008

• CSS Naked Day, soon! (0)
  April 9th this year, not April 5th! (See offical CSS Naked Day site why it has moved)
• [vid] Server Room in Rain Shower (0)
  Omg, this serverroom is just flooded! Wonder if the servers still were running. (via Digg)
• [flickr] Classics in Lego (0)
  Sweet: Reproductions of famous photographs, in Lego (via)
• TinyMCE 3.0.6 Released (0)
  “This release focuses on bug fixes but a few small options here and there have been added the memory footprint is also a lot smaller now when you add/remove editor instances on the fly.” – Announcement – Download – Changelog

April 2nd 2008

• Firefox 3 beta 5 (2)
  Time to update :)
• Lightroom 2.0 beta (0)
  “Unbeatable Photoshop CS3 Integration, Selective image editing that rocks and Other goodness” Go download (via)

April 1st 2008

• Classy Query (0)
  Classy Query, a library that sits on top of jQuery enabling one to use the class-based approach, something I – as an ex prototyper – have been waiting for. The code looks valid when taking a first peek (heck, that Simple Class Creation and Inheritance code is included) so not quite sure if this one’s April Fools’-related or not :P (UPD: code header of classy.js reads “Happy April Fools Day 2008 – The code is good – read for inspiration, but please don’t use this :-(, having me caught into it indeed. Nonetheless, I want this!)
• Google Maps, for browsing Magazines (0)
  Google Maps as an interface to read a magazine online. Let’s just call it “FlashPaper à la web 2.0” ;)
• jQuery File Tree (0)
  The jQuery File Tree is a very nice implementation of a tree for use with jQuery. Already has some Ajax magic alas no drag and drop (yet?). Seeing some great possibilities for this one, yet won’t be using it right now (imo it needs to evolve a bit more and head towards the work the Ext/YUI teams have done – see my comment (#13) at the blogpost itself)

March 31st 2008

• Passive SERP Tracker Pepper for Mint (0)
  “The SERP Pepper allows you to easily track search engine referrals, and report on which page they’re coming from.”

March 29th 2008

• WordPress 2.5 FINAL (0)
  Final version of WordPress 2.5 has been released. Go read up and go download :)

March 28th 2008

• Opera Public Build which passes ACID3 (0)
  Two days ago Opera reached a 100/100 pass rate on the Acid3 test for the first time and we published a screenshot on the Desktop team blog to back up the claim. I am pleased to announce the first public build with a 100/100 pass rate and pixel-perfect rendering! The build can be downloaded here: Windows, Linux. (src)

March 27th 2008

• [YTB] Such Great Heights (The Postal Service) Cover by Ben Folds (0)
  Sweet cover of The Postal Service’s Such Great Heights (via Johan via Twitter)
• Webnode, sweet website building (0)
  Forgot to post this one apparently (summoned back up whilst discussing with the colleagues): “Webnode brings you a brand new innovative way of creating and editing advanced websites by just using a web browser. The system is very easy to use and is fully interactive. Real-time fast editing as you see it in the browser. By using Drag-and-Drop from the toolbar you can add new content such as polls, forums, articles, catalogues, widgets such as PayPal and much more. Webnode contains more than 40 beautiful templates or you can make your own.” Be sure to try the demo!
• Typewriter Typefaces (0)
  Typewriter Typefaces. Sweet!
• Safari EULA and Windows (1)
  “Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than “a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.” This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you’re violating the license.” Funzies! (via Digg)
• [YTB] BigDog - Beta Footage (0)
  Hilarious, that premature BigDog Footage (ROFLMAO! :D)
• Opera and ACID3: 100/100 (1)
  Opera posted this one an hour before the Webkit-team did, yet Webkit already is available for download. So who won? They both did imo! :)
• Manuel Redesigns (0)
  Manu has redesigned mm.com and … it’s awesome imo!
• WebKit and ACID3 : 100/100 (0)
  BUYA!
• Online Photoshop arrives and is named Photoshop Express (0)
  Photoshop Express lands upon us, Web 2.5 style! Love the fact that I’m seeing HTTP-requests to api.photoshop.com, opens up some positibilities I think :) And oh, they should do something about the cropping interface: in PS Express you’re dragging the crop, in Lightroom you’re moving the photo in the crop. Total opposites.

March 26th 2008

• Opera overshoots Safari/Webkit in the ACID3 race (4)
  “Safari has been making great gains in its Acid3 score in recent weeks, currently residing on 96%. Opera however has come out of the chasing pack and moved from 77% in the latest weekly release of Kestrel, to 98% in the latest internal builds” (src)
• WordPress 2.5 RC2 (0)
  WordPress 2.5 RC2 has been released, accompanied by a screencast of the new dashboard and gallery system. Go download.
• Asaph Microblog (0)
  Asaph – a small blogging system, that allows you to instantly post links and images directly from any page on the web.. Kind of like ffffound meets tumblr et all. Extremely handy (and which got me interested) is the included bookmarklet, shown in the demo movie, which makes blogging very easy.

March 25th 2008

• Luxor Highlighter (0)
  Ingenious: “Hightlight what’s important”

March 24th 2008

• Quotably - Follow Twitter Conversations, threadstyle (0)
  With Quotably you can track Twitter conversations in a treaded way (example). Nice! (via)
• 960 Grid System (0)
  “960.gs is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.” – Sweet domainname :)
• Web 2.0, meet Javascript 2.0 (0)
  Stuff to expect in Javascript 2.0, extracted from the proposed ECMAScript 4 (ES4) specification.
• Dolphin, Open Source Smart Community Builder (0)
  “Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly develop your very unique and successful website.” – tagged as 2check (via)

March 23rd 2008

• [YTB] ABC3D Book (0)
  Found it fun to watch the ABC3D Book :) (via)

March 22nd 2008

• Lightroom Flickr Export Plugin (0)
  The Lightroom Flickr Export Plugin does what its name says: export to Flickr from within Lightroom. Neat! Alternatively you can use this little trick by creating an Export Action (see comments for Windows instructions).
• Webkit and ACID3 (0)
  A whopping 95/100 by now :)
• Google Ajax Language API (0)
  With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. The language API is designed to be simple and easy to use to translate and detect languages on the fly when offline translations are not available. We plan on adding more exciting capabilities to the AJAX Language API in the future, so stay tuned. . Hola!

March 21st 2008

• The Programmers Bill of Rights (0)
  The Programmers Bill of Rights, yes yes yes YES! (via Don via Twitter)
• [YTB] Lego Darth Vader Canteen Incident (0)
  Hilarious: Lego Darth Vader Canteen Incident:

  Clerk: “You’ll need a tray” Vader: “Do you know who I am?” Clerk: “Do you know who I am?” Vader: “This is not a game of who the fuck are you, for I am Vader. Darth Vader. Lord Vader. I can kill you with a single thought” Clerk: “Yea, but you’ll still need a tray”

  (via Bert via IM)

March 20th 2008

• Evaluating the WordPress 2.5 Interface (0)
  Very nice comprehensive post which evaluates the WP 2.5 interface. Great to see Stan replying to the post; Really builds up a great set of comments :)
• Kick ass Creative Logos (0)
  The list over at Kick ass Creative Logos really holds some kick ass creative logos imo. True beauties!
• Luvd By Less - Open Source Social Network Platform (0)
  “With new social networks launching everyday most start with the same basic features. Bloggers have wordpress, mephisto, typo and other open source solutions. Yet there isn’t an open source social network platform, until now.”

March 19th 2008

• [typeface] nudist - SFW (0)
  The nudist typeface, with extra pun inside! (via)
• [typography] OSF, LF, and TF Explained (0)
  Not this is really intrigues me: Oldstyle Figures, Lining Figures, Tabular Figures & Proportional Figures. Maybe that course of calligraphy I once followed has to do something with why it gets my attention. (via)

March 18th 2008

• WordPress 2.5 RC 1 (0)
  WordPress 2.5 has been announced (with one week delay) and RC1 is available. Already had my hands on it and must say that it runs smoothly! The new admin works for me, although I had my doubts when initially seeing some screenshots about a month ago.
• Safari 3.1 (0)
  Go get it! See update notes too if you’re interested in what has improved :)
• Tweet Scan (1)
  Tweet Scan is awesome: type in a keyword and it’ll show you all tweets where it appears in. Yes that’s right, it’s like Google but then for Twitter :)

March 17th 2008

• The WordPress plugin you don't want to install (0)
  “Next of Kin is the plugin we don’t want to install. It handles what happens after we die. It monitors your own visits to your WordPress system, and will send you a warning email after a number of weeks (of your choice) without a visit. If you fail to visit your blog even after that, the system will send a mail you wrote to whoever you choose.” – Creepy, but useful nonetheless :)
• Visualizations and Infographics (0)
  Sweet overview of visualizations and infographics (via)
• Webkit and Acid3 - 2 more down, 8 to go (0)
  Two more issues have been squatted, pushing Webkit to 92/100 … only 8 left to go! Kudos!
• [flickr] Bottle Caps (0)
  Great inspirational set of bottle caps on Flickr. (via)

March 16th 2008

• Proximedia, Internet has no name (0)
  Daar, daar & daar. Need I say more? Stuff to think about…

March 15th 2008

• WordPress Fluency Admin (0)
  Fluency Admin is an awesome admin panel theme for WordPress. By the looks of it, it’s for WordPress 2.5, which should be out somewhere next week.
• Eye Tracking: Newspaper (0)
  “This Newspaper has already been read. The eyes’ movements while reading were recorded, digitalized and then reproduced as a print-out. What emerges is an intimation of something that is actually an invisible process, namely reading; what remains behind is a trace of the intake of information. The result is a daily paper which has already been read – a complete and completely read Frankfurter Allgemeine, as it were.” – I can clearly distinguish a face on that front page!
• Mac Mini Pro Case Mod (0)
  Heh, this one’s nifty: A Mac Mini case mod so that it looks like a (mini version of) Mac Pro. (via)
• Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code (0)
  Combined and minimized JavaScript and CSS files; CSS Sprites; and Lazy Loading FTW!

March 14th 2008

• Ten years of fine hypertext products (0)
  Today, Kottke’s been blogging for ten years. Cheers!
• The importance of the page fold (0)
  And there you have it, the importance of the page fold :-P
• Javascript search & don't replace (0)
  Sweet piece of code by John Resig, using some clever tricks. Ingenious!
• Down for everyone or just me? (0)
  Down for everyone or just me lets you check whether a site is down for everyone or just you. Clever.

March 13th 2008

• The Peoples Mario (0)
  Super Mario, Soviet Style. Great animation!
• Write a well structured CSS file without becoming crazy (0)
  Ha, just the thing I’ve been doing :-) Great minds think alike (or was it Fools never differ)?

March 12th 2008

• TinyMCE 3.0.5 Released! (1)
  Again an update for TinyMCE: “This one adds some new things like modal dialogs for the inlinepopups plugin a new skin contributed by Stefan Moonen and a bunch of bug fixes.” Worth mentioning is that “some of the fixes are new ones that wasn’t fixed in the earlier 2.x branch so basically the new version is more stable than the older 2.x versions” – Announcement – Download – Changelog
• iPhone 2.0 Firmware already jailbroken (0)
  … and that before it even has been released! :-D
• ProtoFlow 0.5 - Prototype & Script.aculo.us Coverflow (0)
  Coverflow alike interfaces in Javascript has been done before, yet this one here – cleverly named ProtoFlow – is for use with Prototype & Script.aculo.us :)
• VIRB° 2: Beta, Beta, Bing! (2)
  Hmmz, something rumbling over at VIRB°: “Starting next week, we will be posting the sign up process for the first phase of the Virb 2 private beta. I’ll forego all the details at this moment and will post them alongside everything next week.”

March 11th 2008

• Seek - Extremely nifty Thunderbird extension (0)
  “Seek adds faceted browsing features to Mozilla Thunderbird and lets you search through your email more effectively.” – Nifty extension imo! Will be installing that one!
• Firefox 3.0 beta 4 released (0)
  It’s out! – Announcement – Changelog – Download

March 10th 2008

• Javascript html_entity_decode (0)
  Dirty, but it works :-P [js]function html_entity_decode(str) { var ta = document.createElement(“textarea”); ta.innerHTML=str.replace(//g,”>”); toReturn = ta.value; ta = null; return toReturn }[/js]
• LOLspeak Translashun Dictionary (0)
  Awesome: LOLspeak Translashun Dictionary :-D (via)
• Gone, Without a Trace (0)
  “When something is thin enough to fit into an envelope, light enough to sit on your lap for a couple of hours without discomfort and so compact that it doesn’t even bulge in an airline seat-back pocket, wouldn’t it make sense that one could lose track of such a thing? Even if it is a computer?” Oh yes, this guy lost his MacBook Air! – Reminds me of the few times I misplaced my keys and found them in my closet (amongst the socks), on the front door, in the toilet, … :-P

March 7th 2008

• TinyMCE 3.0.4 Released! (0)
  TinyMCE 3.0.4 has been released, only a week after the 3.0.3 release! “This release fixes some minor bugs and adds some new functionality it’s mainly some small fixes here and there that we wanted to get out to the public” – Announcement – Download – Changelog
• Safari and ACID3 (0)
  Although Safari3 scores a mere 39 out of 100, by now they’ve managed to score 90/100. Sweet! Also see this full browser list to know how the other browsers score :)
• iPhone SDK : Scorecard (0)
  A little set of questions which rates the iPhone SDK. Interesting.
• iPhone SDK & Enterprise (0)
  $99 will get you the Iphone SDK, and then there’s the iPhone Enterprise Beta Program which is a “unique opportunity for IT departments to try iPhone 2.0 software before general release”. Also see Gruber’s First impressions and questions.

March 6th 2008

• Javascript in Internet Explorer 8 (0)
  John Resig elaborates: “CSS coders got some love with Internet Explorer 7 – us JavaScript folk got absolutely nothing. In fact, at last count, all we got were a couple new bugs to deal with. Internet Explorer 8 is our release.” (full post)
• Wasn't IE8 Supposed to pass Acid2? (0)
  The IE Team explains why : “IE8 passes the official ACID2 test hosted on http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html. There are also a number of copies of this test around the net. One popular copy that I’ve seen of late is http://acid2.acidtests.org/. IE8 fails the copies of ACID2 due to the cross domain security checks IE performs for ActiveX controls.” (src)
• [YTB] I'm getting bored of Facebook (0)
  Muha, gonna place this I’m getting bored of Facebook on my Facebook page :-D (via)

March 5th 2008

• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download (0)
  The IE8 Readiness Toolkit Pages are up, yet the downloads ain’t working yet … keep on checking those links (EDIT: Download links are working now ;))
• No more IE8 Meta Tag (0)
  “We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.” (src)

March 3rd 2008

• TinyMCE 3.0.3 (0)
  TinyMCE 3.0.3 has been released, mainly being a bugfix release! Announcement – Download – Changelog
• [YTB] What if Saul Bass did the opening title sequence of Star Wars? (0)
  “If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it might look like this…”

March 2nd 2008

• Lupe Fiasco - Superstar (0)
  “If you are what you say you are, a superstar then have no fear, the camera’s here and the microphones and they wanna’ know oh oh oh oh – If you are what you say you are, a superstar then have no fear, the crowd is here and the lights are on and they want a show oh oh oh oh, yeah”, from Lupe Fiasco’s Superstar
• YouTube in High Resolution & MP4! (0)
  All hail the fmt URL-parameter! (via)

February 29th 2008

• Making Bridges Talk (0)
  Making Bridges Talk is just ingenious! Scrape some data that’s publically available, mash it up, and pass it to Twitter. Before you know it the Tower Bridge is on Twitter!
• Piwik - open source web analytics (0)
  “piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak … and so much more.” (via Bart, via e-mail)

February 28th 2008

• 9 Signs You Shouldn't Hire THAT Web Guy (0)
  9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy. Muha!
• The Silverback Icon (0)
  Jon Hicks describes how the Silverback icon was created and even posts some sketches and intermediate versions! Sweet!
• Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 released to qualified beta testers only (0)
  “We are nearing the launch of Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and we will be making it available for the general public to download and test. We have identified you as a qualified beta tester and we would like to offer an opportunity to join our limited technical beta program for Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.” – Now, where can I download a leaked version? :D (src)

February 27th 2008

• AJAX Queue/Synch/Abort/Block Manager (0)
  $.manageAjax is a sweet jQuery extension which “helps you to manage AJAX requests and responses (i.e. abort requests, block requests, order responses)&rduqo;
• Tutorial: Extending Firebug (1)
  “Honza has a great new tutorial on extending firebug, starting with a HelloWorld extension and then building up to adding to the toolbar.” (via)
• TinyMCE 3.0.2 Released (1)
  “This release fixes many of these small issues and it also adds a few new features.” My favourite is body_id, a little something I used to implement manually by invoking a inst.contentDocument.documentElement.id = "my_id"; within the init_instance_callback (which still can be used for 2.x). Announcement – Changelog – Download

February 24th 2008

• The first Photoshop icon (0)
  Geek fact: The first Photoshop icon :)
• The Forgotten Delicious (0)
  A must read: The Forgotten Delicious: “There’s been a lot of talk about the so-called “Delicious Generation.” The essence of the criticism boils down to two main issues: First, some believe that these applications are not only pretty for the sake of pretty, but they also sacrifice functionality in the pursuit of form. Second, the developers of many of these Delicious apps seem to follow a fairly consistent pattern of huge amounts of pre-release hype, 1.0 release with lots of fanfare (and sales), followed by not a whole lot else.”
• [presentation] Getting serious with Freelancing (0)
  Interesting presentation by Martin Ringlein, co-founder of nclud.
• Commenting and Real Names (0)
  iA states to Use Your Real Name When You Comment (or a name that identifies you).
• Yahoo! Updates A-Grade Browser Chart (0)
  The A-Grade Browsers Chart got updated: “There are three main changes in this update: Safari 3 begins receiving A-Grade support on Mac 10.4 and 10.5; Safari 2 stops receiving A-Grade support; Firefox 1.5 stops receiving A-Grade support.”

February 22nd 2008

• The Internet Explorer 8 User-Agent String (0)
  There you have it: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0) (For a Vista box that is. For XP it’ll be Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1) ;))

February 21st 2008

• TinyMCE 3.0.1 Released! (0)
  “This release mainly contains fixes for bugs and issues that was found in the last 3.0 final release most of them are pretty minor or very isolated but it’s always nice to fix bugs and getting the 3.x branch more stable.” – Announcment – Changelog – Download
• StrawPoll : Polls on Twitter (0)
  StrawPoll, a tiny polling application for Twitter. Info and site. (via)

February 20th 2008

• A List Apart Issue #253 (0)
  As Stan put it so cleverly: “A List Apart: Issue 253, Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. Jeffrey Zeldman says the default seems wrong but is actually right. Read, discuss, decide”
• Keming (0)
  Keming, a new typography term – Hilarious! (via)
• Single Serving Sites (0)
  Single Serving Sites is the Internet Phenomenon of creating websites with a dedicated domain name, that do one thing only. The term was coined by Jason Kottke. A list of examples can be found at the site alistofsites.com, which is itself a single serving site. (via via)
• YUI 2.5.0 Released (0)
  “YUI 2.5.0 Released - Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more”
• Can your website be your API and real life (0)
  Extremely interesting presentation by Glenn Jones, entitiled Can your website be your API and real life. Be sure to check out the mentioned ufXtract too; That really made my jaw drop and even produced a little bit of drool … *slebber* :-D
• iPaper (0)
  “iPaper is a document format built for the Internet. Like a YouTube video, iPaper documents are Flash widgets which you embed in your existing web pages. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and many other document formats can all be displayed on the web using iPaper.”

February 18th 2008

• Nieuw in Gent (0)
  Nieuw in Gent, dagboek van Bram Van Damme (ik dus :P)
• [vid] Google Maps (0)
  Original and hilarious vid on Google Maps. 5 out of 5! (via)
• [YTB] Lost in 8 minutes (0)
  For those who missed season 1 to 3 : Lost in 8 minutes (via)
• Piclens (0)
  “PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing and viewing images on the web will never be the same again.” Best of all: it works with Google Image Search, Flickr, Picasa, etc.

February 14th 2008

• jQuery API (0)
  Boy oh boy, that jQuery API Browser is darn handy!
• 10 Mistakes in Icon Design (0)
  Well written comprehensive post summing up 10 Mistakes in Icon Design (via)
• Hangover symphonies on sweaty Sundays (0)
  “Hangover symphonies on sweaty Sundays. DJs and moped races in the hallway. This is your invitation, we like to see you move! And this is how we’re gonna work it. And this is how it goes in… our house!” – Originally by International Pony, yet overheard on a live version of Timecode by Justus Köhncke

February 13th 2008

• From PrototypeJS 1.5 to 1.6 in no time (0)
  “If you’ve put off the task of upgrading your old code to Prototype 1.6, now you’re out of excuses. Core team member Tobie Langel has developed a script that will warn you of any deprecations or API changes.” – As usual, more info on deprecation.js on the Prototype blog.

February 12th 2008

• Planklovers behold : Wooden Grunge Backgrounds (0)
  I’ve got this thing for wood/wooden textures and tonight I saw the plankheaven light over at Flickr in the Wooden Grunge Backgrounds set. *droooooooooooool*
• Bleeding Cowboys Font (0)
  Bleeding Cowboys Font. Me.likes :)
• Good Design (0)
  “To turn your room lights on, you dock the keychain in a little slot by the door. Inserting the card turns the main lights on. Removing the key card turns them all off. It’s a natural place to keep your key, while doubly reminding you (or forcing you) to turn the lights off when you leave.” – Ingenious!
• WordPress Security : Five tips to keep you a wee bit safer (0)
  Improving WordPress Security In Five Easy Steps has some nice tips to protect your WordPress install. Although wel written I think I’ve read this somewhere else before. Can’t remember though. I do remember!

February 11th 2008

• [YTB] Massive Attack - Teardrop (Minilogue Remix) (0)
  Massive Attack – Teardrop (Minilogue Remix). Best part starting at 5:50 :)
• Valentine (0)
  Valentine’s coming up; time to link to the dick-in-a-box instructions (again) :P
• [YTB] How to stick a post-it note onto the wall (0)
  Post It Notes Lay Flat Tip – Sweet tip! (via)
• actionscript3 and getURL (0)
  Keep on misplacing this one too: [as] function as3GetURL(url, target) { try { navigateToURL(new URLRequest(url), target); } catch (e:Error) { trace(“Error occurred!”); } } [/as]
• Embedding fonts in Flash : Extended characters (4)
  Note to self (I keep on misplacing the textfile with this): when embedding a font in Flash, embed these characters too (next to Uppercase, Lowercase, Numeral and Punctuation): éèëêáàäâíìïîúùüûóòöôñ&@"#'(§^!ç{})°[]%£€ÉÈËÊÁÀÄÂÍÌÏÎÚÙÜÛÓÒÖÔÑÇ

February 10th 2008

• [YTB] Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven - That's Alright (0)
  Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven – That’s Alright, from her upcoming album “Here we go again”. If you’re in Ghent, be sure to catch her together with Red D in the Make-Up Club or Charlatan ;)
• [YTB] Rodney Carrington - Show them to me (0)
  Rodney Carrington – Show them to me – “Oh it seems to me this whole world’s gone crazy. There’s too much hate and killin goin on. But when I see the bare chest of a woman. My worries and my problems are all gone No one thinks of fightin’, when they see a topless girl. Baby if you would show yours too, we could save the world. …” :D
• javascript strftime for Prototype (0)
  strftime for Prototype. Can easily be ported to any library (or standalone) ;)
• Wall-E extended trailer (0)
  Wall-E extended trailer. Johnny Five is alive!

February 8th 2008

• Event Delegation Made Easy In jQuery (0)
  Dan Webb is on a roll! Next to creating low pro for jQuery, he now has whipped up some nice code to easily delegate events in a real sweet manner. Very nice!
• [flickr] Midas Project (0)
  Useless graffiti or art? I.like! (via)
• Twitter Stats with TweetStats (0)
  TweetStats lets you generate your Twitter Stats. Here are mine :)
• Native CSS selector system to look up DOM nodes hits Webkit/Safari (0)
  “Many javascript libraries have implemented functions to use the powerful CSS selector system to look up DOM nodes. Continuing the trend of standardizing and speeding up commonly used functionality from these libraries, WebKit now has support for the new W3C Selectors API, which consists of the querySelector and querySelectorAll methods.” – Sweet! :)
• Twitter : The Case of the Missing Updates (0)
  Since Twitter moved their infrastructure, some Tweets didn’t get delivered. Twitter is aware of the issue and investigating it: “The updates are in our database so they’re not actually missing – the problem is in the delivery” (edit: apparently solved by now)
• Javascript Lightbox : FancyZoom 1.0 (0)
  WP Maczoom + Highslide = Fancyzoom 1.0 (although released only now, Panic were the first – if I recall correctly – to have scripted a lightbox/imagezoom to which – in the end – WP Maczoom and Higslide led). Now if only the script were wrapped in a Namespace and/or Object
• [geek/design] Magnetic Curtains (0)
  Holy crap, those magnetic curtains are sweet!
• The Evolution of Tech Companies' Logos (0)
  “You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish?”

February 7th 2008

• Frozen Grand Central NYC (0)
  Great find by my pal Manuel: Over 200 people freeze (stop moving) on cue in Grand Central Station in New York.. Sweet vid!
• XHTML 2 vs. HTML 5 (0)
  Mike Malone gives a comprehensive overview of the history, differences and even provides some examples. (via)

February 5th 2008

• A List Apart Issue #252 (0)
  New ALA out with articles on a nifty JS file that brings support of some specific CSS3 selectors (:only-child, :last-child, etc.) to all browsers and one looking at ways to collaborate, communicate, and manage conflict in virtual space.
• CSS3 ::selection pseudo-element trick (0)
  Some guy worked out a script to hide images using the CSS ::selection pseudo-element. “Oh my god” pops up in my head. (via digg)

February 4th 2008

• Geometry of the Mint Logo (0)
  Wow, this just blew my socks off! Neat!

February 1st 2008

• Javascript isArray() : Check if an element/object is an Array (2)
  

  The isArray() function over at BreakingPar.com looks great at first, but unfortunately does not work in Safari. This one here does work ;)

  [js]// X-Browser isArray(), including Safari function isArray(obj) { return obj.constructor == Array; }[/js]
• [Photoshop] How to create your own Chroma Wallpaper (0)
  Nice tutorial over at WDW explaining how to create your own Chroma Wallpaper. Neat!
• GTA4 Marketing Campaign: "Wanted" posters (0)
  “And the viral marketing has begun. Apparently, several Wanted posters have been spotted in New York bearing the face of GTA IV protagonist, Niko Bellic.”

January 31st 2008

• Twitter leaving Joyent (1)
  Twitter and Joyent are no longer working together; Explains why Twitter has been up and down all day.
• Low Pro for jQuery (0)
  Dan Webb has begun work on developing a Low Pro for jQuery. What I like most about this development is how Dan has implemented classes in jQuery (see lines #26 to #81). Would be neat to see this hit the main jQuery trunk as the methods proposed by John (the main author of jQuery) are a bit biased/confusing to me. Or am I – as a Prototypee who recently started using jQuery too – missing something?
• [YTB] LOST - What will happen next? (0)
  LOST – What will happen next? (via)
• TinyMCE 3.0 final Released (0)
  Huzzah! – Go Download. And yes, bramus_cssextras works with TinyMCE 3.0 ;)

January 29th 2008

• Javascript Pretty Date (0)
  John wrote a superb JS function to convert a datetime to a “time ago” format. Yes indeed the serverside can do this for you but it might come in handy when – for example- parsing an RSS feed (over XHR) through JS :)
• [YTB] Thermo (0)
  “Thermo is a new tool that lets designers create Rich Internet Applications in a very visual manner. You can convert artwork into working components in a single click.” – The last 3 minutes of the vid will make your jaw drop! Looks neat! (via)
• PrototypeJS 1.6.0.2 Cheat Sheet (0)
  The new version catalogs the full Prototype API, but marks in red those methods that have been deprecated in 1.6. (src)

January 28th 2008

• PrototypeJS 1.6.0.2 Released! (0)
  “Prototype 1.6.0.2 is a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all 1.6.0 users. We’ve fixed 28 bugs and made over a dozen improvements to the code base, including performance improvements for CSS selectors in Safari 3 and for the Element#up/#down/#next/#previous and Event#findElement methods in all browsers. We’re also now officially supporting the Opera browser, version 9.25 and higher.” – Download – Changelog – Announcement

January 25th 2008

• IE8 Mode? (2)
  A lot of fuzz on the interwebs after an announcement concerning compatibility and IE8 on the IEBlog and an article in the most recent ALA issue (got some time to read up?): #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13 and – my favorite – #14. *phew* (FYI: I’m pro this decision; might knock up a writeup some time later Did knock up a writeup)
• Vlaamsche Communicerende Koterijen (0)
  There’s this phenomenon in Belgium which I’d like to call Vlaamsche Communicerende Koterijen (Quite literal: Flemish Communicating Shacks) and it goes like this: You have a house. Then you build a shack against it. When that shack is too small, you build another one against that and then later on another one and another one … finally leaving you with 20m of shacks, all built next to each other and depending on each other. Here’s what happens when one decides to tear one down (not a shack, but hey, you get the idea). (via)
• Google Reader New Favicon (0)
  Just spotted that there’s a new icon in Google Reader … I want the old one back (or change the Blue to the blue of the old icon) :-(
• Last.FM, my hero! (0)
  Music (R)evolution: As of January 23rd, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website and they’ll be paying artists directly based on the number of plays. Brave! Very brave! (Hoping it’ll stick around)
• Monkey See Monkey Do? (0)
  Matt from photomatt.net moved to ma.tt as domain … * flashback of me switching from bramus.be to bram.us Q2 2005 * … monkey see, monkey do? :D :P (jk) Now if only I were to raise $29.5M too :P

January 21st 2008

• [YTB] Travis Barker Remix Soulja Boy "Crank That" (0)
  Ex-Blink182 Drummer Travis Barker doing his thing on Soulja Boy’s Crank That … damn nice!
• Widescreen Firebug with Widerbug Firefox Plugin (0)
  working in fullscreen and not that keen on Firebug taking up quite a big heap from your (precious) vertical space? Widerbug fixes this by opening Firebug on the side instead at the bottom.

January 18th 2008

• How To Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site (0)
  “The trouble is, most sites don’t specify an icon. Whilst the thumbnail screenshot is a pretty neat trick in place of an icon, they soon all look the same and become useless. Wouldn’t it be great if you could specify the icon you wanted to use when adding a site to your home screen?”
• AirMail : Manila envelope laptop sleeve for MacBook Air (0)
  Yes, it does exist: “The AirMail laptop sleeve is handmade out of durable upholstery-grade vinyl, and lined with fuzzy, soft fleece. All AirMail sleeves have the same dimensions as standard interoffice manila envelopes, which will serve to remind you — and everyone around you — that your new MacBook Air really is the thinnest laptop in the world!” Only $29,95 :P
• [YTB] MacBook Air Ad (Parody) (0)
  “Better yet, make a W shape with your fingers and wiki-wiki-wiki like your favorite DJ. Why not?!” :D
• TinyMCE 3.0rc2 Released (0)
  “This release focuses on more bug fixes but it has also some new cool features.” – Huzzah!
• AOL/ICQ adopting XMPP/Jabber (0)
  “You can try to log in to ICQ with the username icqnumber@aol.com on server xmpp.oscar.aol.com on port 5222. TLS is required.” – Could this mean the re-rise of ICQ, one of the first IMs ever? (via) (Wow, sudden flashback to 8th-wonder.net // icq.bramus.be // allicq.com // mirabiliz.com // icq-4u.com // headstrong.de // mazafaka.ru // … )
• Actionscript3 and Flashvars (0)
  Simple, but you gotta know it (and I didn’t): [as]var flashvars:Object = LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters; var myVar:String = flashvars.myVar;[/as]
• LOLinator: i can haz websiet? (0)
  http://lolinator.com/lol/www.bram.us … LOL indeed! (via Wolf via IM)
• Yahoo! does OpenID (0)
  “When you are on a web site that supports OpenID login, simply look for a Yahoo! login button. Or if you see a text box with an OpenID icon, simply type in “yahoo.com”. You will be sent to Yahoo! to verify your Yahoo! ID and password, and then you will be able to continue on.” Huzzah!

January 17th 2008

• Pimp your Google Reader - gReader 1.4 (0)
  Jon Hicks releases a new version of his Google Reader Skin dubbed “gReader” which now works with the new Friends Shared Items feature introduced last year. Neat!
• Pimp my latrine : Artwork for your toilet! (0)
  Cooooool! (Full listing including shirts and wallets by the Author over at Etsy ;))
• [YTB] Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds (0)
  In case you missed it (like I did) or didn’t bother watching: Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds. More on iTunes Movie Rentals here ;)
• Ramones Name Generator (0)
  The Ramones Name Generator is dry; Very dry. :D

January 16th 2008

• Design Police (1)
  Hilarious! Design Police, Bring Bad Design to Justice. Where can I order some stickers?

January 15th 2008

• Eric Meyer's CSS Reset, reset. (3)
  Eric Meyer “has been pondering reset styles over the past few months, and came to a bit of a shift in his thinking.” The result can be found over at his blog. Just ingenious I must say! *updating reset.css*
• jQuery 1.2.2 Released (0)
  New jQuery version released, celebrating the 2nd anniversary, including a 300% speed improvement to $(DomElement) amongst many other things. Huzzah!
• Google Weather Maps - Google Maps and The Weather Channel (0)
  Google Maps now sports data from The Weather Channel. In Google Maps, click on “My Maps” and select “The Weather Channel” from the list. (via)

January 14th 2008

• Lightview - Prototype/Script.aculo.us based Lightbox (1)
  Lightview, yet another lightbox spinoff hits the net. Animation could be smoother on the box itself, yet the little arrows are very sexy!
• WordPress Theme Test Drive (0)
  Theme Test Drive is a handy WordPress Plugin if you’re implementing a new WordPress Theme: it enables you to activate a theme for Administrators only, while visitors will remain to see the selected one (as they did before).

January 11th 2008

• [YTB] The IT Crowd - How to break the internet (0)
  Long time since I’ve seen this clip of the (more than awesome) IT Crowd. Where? There!

January 10th 2008

• Solutioneering (0)
  “In order for anything to be designed well, we must first identify the problems we are trying to solve and the goals we are trying to reach.” → Solutioneering, or putting solutions before problems by Jeff Croft.
• [YTB] Thundercats (1)
  The Thundercats Intro; my life at the age of 7 flashes before me. Nostalgia? Yep! :-)
• Mommy, why is there a server in the house? (0)
  “Mommy, why is there a server in the house? – Helping your child understand the Stay-At-Home server” is on hilarious piece of Windows Home Server Propaganda: “When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift. So he buys her a ‘stay-at-home’ server” Yeah right :-D
• [YTB] Plankton Invasion (0)
  Plankton Invasion is an 3D-animated mini series of monthly episodes where you can decide what the script of the next episode will be. The trailer looked awesome I must say :-D (via)
• [javascript] DOMAssistant 2.5.5 released (0)
  Robert Nymand has released DOMAssistant 2.5.5 , with “improved event handling, replaceClass and end methods.” Anyone know if this end() function is available in jQuery? If not, then I suggest it’s added; looks handy to me! Yes, end() is available in jQuery
• [lyrics] De Portables - Vegetarian BBQ (0)
  Again in my playlist: dé portables! “I saw you first On a vegetarian barbecue Mission impossible: My quest for meat Then you made my quest complete Saucy situation Carnal Love in Bikini Blue Meatball Magic Belgian fries ‘cuz French are fake Rumpsteak Lover Make my meal complete”
• Cross-Site Ajax (0)
  John does it again, and gives a nice writeup and demo (FF3 only). Best part of it all: nothing on the client side needs to be changed! Olé!
• [Photography] Matt Stuart (0)
  Matt Stuart shoots photos of visual puns and coincidences. Some real hilarious shots! (via)

January 9th 2008

• Pixel: A Photoshop Alternative (0)
  Pixel, a Photoshop Alternative rolling out for USD 39 … on to keep an eye out for imo – screenshot – download (via)
• The Shaun Inman (M)interview (0)
  Interesting interview with Shaun Inman, author of Mint
• Frikandon (0)
  Buy or create one. Put in the oven for about 30 minutes per kilo on 180° C and prego … let’s see how that goes.
• Future Book : Untold secrets of Javascript : Table of Contents (0)
  John compiled a Table Of Contents for a book he’s about to write on Javascript after asking some feedback to the scene. Wow baby, great TOC imo! Covers about everything! If that proposal actually makes it into a book, I’ll buy it!

January 8th 2008

• The $27,000 Apple computer (0)
  The new Mac Pro, with some extra options … :D
• Design Bookmarklet : Grid, Ruler, Unit and Crosshair! (1)
  “Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.”
• TinyMCE 3.0rc1 released! (0)
  This release is the first release candidate. We think that the 3.x branch is now stable enough to be switched from beta to RC we will probably release one or two more RC before going final but we are focusing on having the final out by the end of this month or the beginning of next month. – Changelog – Download
• Javascript substrings : the difference between substring() and substr() (0)
  As I tend to forget this all the time, a note to myself (again): substr() takes 2 parameters: start and length. substring() takes 2 parameters: start and stop. Subtle difference, yet a great impact.

January 7th 2008

• De Redactie ... pwnd! (0)
  Naar aanleiding van m’n eerdere De Redactie post … pwnd!
• Free Photoshop Brushes: Flowers (0)
  “There are 28 flowers in this set so you can call it half-mega-pack :D They were made with Photoshop 7.0 and they’ve got some reasonable resolutions. Of course you can use them for free in your commercial and non-commercial designs.”
• Deredactie.be is spuuglelijk (1)
  Neh! (via) … misschien dat ze even een oerdegelijk webbedrijf moeten contacteren? (On a sidenote: Canvas.be kan er nog mee door, maar toch niet volledig)
• IE7.js version 2.0 (0)
  Dean Edwards does a magnificent job and releases IE7 2.0 (a set of javascripts which addresses (most of?) the CSS issues in IE7). Next to the merging into 1 file, the most important change is that “IE7.js includes only fixes that are included in the real MSIE7 browser; All other enhancements are moved to IE8.js.” which is more than ingenious imo!

January 4th 2008

• Wii Fit (0)
  Balance board for the Wii … wow!
• script.aculo.us 1.8.1 released (0)
  script.aculo.us 1.8.1 hits the net, holding an updated Prototype and fixing some bugs.
• First Look: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 (0)
  First Look: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008
• Google Reader : Drag & Drop ftw! (0)
  Hat tip: Whilst clicking around in Google Reader I noticed that Google Reader now sports a nifty Drag & Drop in the subscriptions pane! Now we can finally re-order our subscriptions. Olé! (turns out this has been possible for over a month, but hey, I’m always late)

January 3rd 2008

• Javascript Panorama Viewer (0)
  A jQuery-based spherical panorama viewer as an alternative to Java and QuickTime technology.

January 2nd 2008

• JavaScript Libraries By Comparison (0)
  Very interesting comparison of the various javascript libraries out there. Not the typical Libary X is better than Library Y, but just the facts ;) Yet, one cannot conclude which one is better by counting the checkmarks, as they differ quite a lot …
• Twitter Stats (0)
  Neat script by Damon Cortesi for generating Twitter stats (Tweets per day, per hour, etc). Yoz Grahame extended it by proving a version that works with Google Charts (untested though).
• Firefox and Cloud Computing (0)
  Introducing Weave, where all your browser metadata gets pushed onto the cloud making your settings, favorites, etc. portable to anywhere you want (the cloud is all around us).

December 26th 2007

• Arranging an Array of HTML Elements in a Cascade, Circle, or Grid (0)
  Javascript Power: Arranging an Array of HTML Elements in a Cascade, Circle, or Grid! Uses Mootools.
• WebKit gets Native getElementsByClassName and does ACID2 (0)
  WebKit gets Native getElementsByClassName and does ACID2. w00t!
• PINT is looking for a CSS ROCKSTAR/NINJA/PIRATE/JEDI (0)
  Now this is the kind of job I’d apply for if I were to live in the US :)

December 24th 2007

• [YTB] Trailer : The Dark Knight (Sequel To Batman Begins) (0)
  “Why So Serious?”
• [YTB] Trailer : Lost Season 4 (0)
  January 31, where areth thou?!

December 21st 2007

• Achmed the Dead Terrorist sings Jingle Bombs (0)
  Hilarious shit! (via)

December 20th 2007

• Firefox 3 beta and Firebug (0)
  Apparently Firebug 1.1 beta exists. This versions contains a few enhancements and bug fixes John J. Barton (IBM Almaden) and Max Stepanov (aptana). Most important is that this version works in Firefox 3 (beta).
• WordPress.com Stats Plugin (0)
  Automattic (the company behind WordPress) created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface. Installing this WordPress.com Stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic. (src)
• fValidator : MooTools Form Checker / Validator (0)
  “fValidator is an open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation.”

December 19th 2007

• Internet Explorer 8 now passed ACID2 - w00t! (0)
  As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode. – it was about frickin’ time :D
• [YTB] Star Wars Mistakes Compilation (0)
  Short overview of a few of the mistakes in Star Wars : A New Hope. The last 2 seconds are just hilarious! :D

December 14th 2007

• [YTB] Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote (0)
  Johnny Lee created a multitouch whiteboard, using the the Wii remote! Fricking awesome! (via)
• New Google Analytics Features (0)
  “Today, we’re adding several updates to Google Analytics including the ability to graph multiple data points at once, ga.js tracking, and six new languages.” (src)
• 360° Video - Video Panorama (0)
  Wow, massive 360° video posted over at Internation. Click play and move around as if it were a regular pano. Neat!

December 13th 2007

• This shirt is updated every time you think about unicorns (0)
  Awesome Shirt by my good friend Manuel!
• Tweet for sale (1)
  My “boss” Bart is selling his 3000th tweet … go nuts! :)
• [YTB] The Carlton Dance (0)
  Yes, you know what I’m talking about! (via@work)

December 12th 2007

• Yarrgon (0)
  Last night’s inspiration: “Yarrgon (noun): The language, esp. the vocabulary, related to Pirates” – Swab the deck mateys!

December 11th 2007

• Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? (0)
  Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? – *strike*

December 10th 2007

• IE6 VirtualPC Image : Update Released (0)
  Microsoft has (silently?) released an update to the IE6/IE7 VPC images, which expired on Dec 7, 2007 (three days ago). The new versions will expire on April 1, 2008. Go Download :)
• Google Charts API (1)
  Generate charts (pies, lines, bars, etc.) on the fly with the Google Charts API. Might save some or your server’s CPU load :P
• [flickr] The Place I call ... (0)
  “home”

December 6th 2007

• [YTB] Here comes another bubble (0)
  Hilarious Stuff! (via Twitter)
• Easy Javascript Charts with Flot (jQuery based) (0)
  “Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side.” – examples
• iPhone iSync (0)
  Now this looks interesting I must say: sync a folder on your Mac with your iPhone over Wifi.
• Google Trends API Coming Soon (0)
  “Google is planning to release an application programming interface for its Google Trends program, according to Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google.” – I think there’ll be some sleepless nights up ahead …

December 5th 2007

• Hilarious "Emoticon Transforming Stamp" (0)
  Nerd or Geek or nothing at all, I like the Emoticon Transforming Stamp :D
• Edit your Flickr Photos ... on Flickr! (0)
  Flickr launches a new service in cooperation with Picnik which lets you edit your photos online! Very nice!