Buddypress

“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.”

Firebug 1.2b3 for Firefox 3.0

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 quest for every beard type

“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 …

Firefox 3 RC2 and Internet Explorer 8 beta 2

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 … …

Phototype, a client/server-side image manipulation library

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 …