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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.

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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 …

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

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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)

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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.”

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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 …

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Great chart by @steffest: How to be a full time Tech Blogger

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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!

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