Selenium
“Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just like real users do.” Easy automated Web site testing — cool, and something I’ll for sure use the next time I make a major site update
Via Web405
May 1, 2008 in Da WebDa WebDa WebDa Web | Comment
RMS on Browsing the Web
“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.” Holy gamole! I guess this explains a lot.
Feb 4, 2008 in Da Web | Comment
Spokeo
Semi-creepy service that lets you track all of your friends’ updates on various social networking services. Also finds other services that said friends uses. Seems to be bad at finding blogs, tho, so I’m a pretty boring person to have on there.
Jan 12, 2008 in Da Web | Comment (1)
Mixable.net
“Upload your music… Arrange your tracks in the perfect order. Fix the tags so the artist and title are flawless. Add your own artwork to truly personalize your mix… Enter your friends’ emails to send each one a download link… Every mix will play perfectly on you and your friend’s iTunes or iPod.”
Via Carly
Dec 28, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?
Ahh, the lengths all us Web designers go to get our pages ranking high on Google searches. What if Google had to rank its own site high on its own searches? It would look very different than it does today.
Via Slashdot
Oct 17, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Does a top level domain make a nation?
“One address that hasn’t been retired is “.su” - assigned to the Soviet Union in 1990. It is still operating despite the country no longer existing, and despite the “.ru” TLD assigned to Russia in 1994. There are currently 9648 sites under the domain. And apparently it is getting more popular - this time last year there were only 7206. Add to this the fact that the body operating “.su” has cut prices in response to an ICANN request to freeze new registrations…” I would totally dig a .su domain name!
Sep 20, 2007 in Da WebDa Web | Comment
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
“…an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between. This site contains excerpts from some of the book’s patterns.”
Aug 27, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Blueprint
“Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.” Brilliant — a useful, precisely-aligned, reasonably cross-browser layout grid!
Aug 8, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
One Line of Code
How to make your site look good on the iPhone. Cool little thing to notice — and interesting design decision by Apple. Making it possible to make an iPhone-optimized Web site so easily is definitely a smart way to encourage Web tools for the device, while making the code used so useless in other media may make the iPhone more of an environment people think about optimizing for.
Jul 25, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Safari for Windows!
Now Windows users can run Apple’s excellent browser as well. If you want something efficient, secure, and user-friendly, then there’s now a good alternative to Firefox out there. Hopefully this will drive people away from the deeply crappy IE7.
Jun 12, 2007 in Win StûffWin Stûff | Comment
Disable Snap.com Previews Permanently
I hate those snap.com previews — you know, you mouse over a link and they show you a thumbnail of that link? Well, that’s super unless you’re, you know, reading the page that you’re currently on; then the thumbnail obscures the content you’re actually reading, instead showing content that you might read later but haven’t yet decided to or not. I don’t grok who thought this was a good idea, and I’m glad to see it gone!
Via Lifehacker
May 18, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Ruby Learning Test #1: Are You There, World?
Learning Ruby by writing unit tests for everything. Heck, when you’re learning a new language, you test everything anyway, so why not learn about writing and testing at the same time, and use the testing to learn all the details anyway? Clever and convincing approach.
Via Daring Fireball
May 14, 2007 in Da Web | Comment (1)
74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials
Linktastic.
Via xBlog
May 4, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
We're green.
The folks who host this site, Dreamhost, bought carbon credits to offset the pollution caused by their activities. Pretty cool, and, from the sounds of it, pretty easy!
May 3, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Going
Social networking from my b-school friend Geoff! Figure out who’s doing what near you and find things to do with your friends. Cool stuff, can’t wait for it in LA!
Apr 27, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Attach icons to anything with CSS
(Ignores the question of “should we” and just says “how to.” If I had a “potentially dangerous” tag, this would take it. In fact, I think I should think about tags!)
Via xBlog
Apr 13, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
Ooo, things can look consistent and professional on the Web! Now that would be something. I wonder if I could do this to my Myspace layout?
Via Daring Fireball
Apr 11, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
15 Javascript Snippets You Can’t Live Without
I can live without most of these, but they might come in handy one of these days.
Via xBlog
Apr 6, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
ChangeDetection.com
“Every day ChangeDetection will check to see if the web page you are monitoring has been changed. If so, you will receive an e-mail to let you know.” Free!
Apr 2, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace
“One of MySpace’s greatest features is its ability to let you skin your own home page. Unfortunately, 99% of the customizations I’ve seen are chalkboard-screechingly awful, but what could a MySpace home page look like if some actual design thought went into it? That is the question I sought to answer.”
Mar 27, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Via Evhead
Feb 9, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
Psychic Whois
Want to know what domain names are available that start with a string? This’ll tell you, interactively. Cool, cool stuff.
Jan 30, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
Maybe not “couldn’t live without”, but definitely “couldn’t look all Web 2.0 without.” Some really good stuff in there.
Via Daring Fireball
Jan 24, 2007 in Da Web | Comment
ObscureTags.com
“A museum of strange and rarely used HTML tags.” It’s amazing all the tags out there that even a skilled Web dev would never think to use.
Via xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
Dec 15, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
How to structure large CSS files
“Everyone that has built a bigger site has had to deal with the mess CSS so easily become. There are ids and classes all over the place, and to find where a certain class is defined you usually need to use some search feature in your editor. Matching the other way, from the CSS to the HTML is even harder; you don’t even know what file a certain class is defined in. It’s a mess. The Tree method tries to structure the CSS into logical blocks; blocks taken from the HTML. It also aims to be easy to understand for anyone. “
Via xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
Dec 1, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Open Source Web Design
“Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place. Currently 1694 free designs!”
Via Daring Fireball
Nov 30, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
I was a big fan of AJAX until I read this. Is it really good if we need a couple hundred lines of javascript just to make a link? Hopefully this will be rolled into libraries like Prototype and become easy-to-use. Or, maybe some functions aren’t AJAX-appropriate?
Via evhead
Nov 18, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
sitemaps.org
“Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling… Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.” Supported by Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft.
Nov 17, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Blogging Your Way to the Top of the Search Engines
“Getting high rankings with a blog is child’s play — with the right mentor by your side and tools at hand. With a few hours of SEO training, my 15-year-old daughter cracked the code on making money while she sleeps! How…?”
Nov 11, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Top 10 Signs You Have an Insecure Web App
“They are ugly mistakes that are far too prevalent. If you have any of the issues mentioned below in your own web application, it’s time to sit down with your developers and have a chat. If these mistakes are being made, dig deeper.”
Via xBlog
Nov 11, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Actual Browser Sizes
How big is that browser window in which your user is looking at your site? This here site fits in 85% of all browsers.
Via xBlog
Oct 31, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Optimizing Page Load Time
Via Slashdot
Oct 30, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Web design is 95% typography
“95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.” The site has the same font-size as my “too large” type on this page; take that, critics!
Via Daring Fireball
Oct 30, 2006 in Da Web | Comment (2)
Scrybe
Ridiculously sexy Web calendaring and to-do application that works online and off and appears friendly to many of the most common productivity approaches out there. Can’t wait for it to get out of beta. Droool.
Oct 20, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Fake MySpace Profiles
Who creates those annoying fake MySpace Profiles and, best of all, what to do about them.
Via Melissa
Sep 25, 2006 in Da Web | Comment
Pin In The Map
A useful Google Maps mashup, which lets you put pins in Google maps and then mail links to your map to your friends. Despite the initial screen, not Europe-only.
Websites as graphs
A fascinating way to visualize, and understand, Web sites.
CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death
Grids CSS
Flexible templates from Yahoo!
Explorer Destroyer
“You already want people to switch to Firefox. Now’s the time to get serious about it. Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer. This is pretty amazing. Now you can advance your ideals, save people from popups and spyware hell, and make some serious money. Millions of people have heard about Firefox and are ready to switch—all they need is a friendly push.”
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
“Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.”
Toread
Ever look at a site and think, I’d better read this later? Most people’s bookmarks are too full and disorganized to stash the site there; with toread, you can e-mail the page to yourself and handle it in your e-mail workflow.
Gonzales calls for mandatory Web labeling law
“Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday.” I have no idea what this will mean for me or other small-time content producers.
KittenAuth Test
“KittenAuth is a new system for human-checking that forgoes all the useless random string crap that people cannot read, and replaces the whole lot with pictures of cute animals.” Read all about KittenAuth here.
Microsoft IE ActiveX Update (for Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media, etc.)
Yes, Virginia, movies and games shown in the browser window will now be much more difficult to interact with, thanks to patents. This means you and your ordinary version of IE, and every Web developer and their site using rich content (sadly, this won’t turn off those annoying Flash ads; instead, it will make them even more annoying to deal with).
Protecting Your Images with PHP Watermarks
Scenes From the MySpace Backlash
“The spate of MySpace-related sexual predation stories undeniably has the feel of an epidemic, and it stands as the most persuasive evidence for the ‘parent’s worst nightmare’ viewpoint. But put in context, it’s also the most overblown. ‘There have been more articles on MySpace predators than there’s been reported predators online. It’s a hyped up fear, and it scares the shit out of parents.’”
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
An Apple-written tutorial, with good screenshots.
Things you don't want Google to find
“‘You almost get bored finding all these password files. It used to be fun in the old days when you found a password file. Now you just go to Google and find thousands of them,’ Kurtz said.”
1&1 Domains
Domain names for $5.99! Looks like a great service.
Google Buys MeasureMap
Measure Map makes potentially-cool blog visitor statistics analysis tools. Guess too many of us were using Analytics for our blogs, huh?
Yahoo! User Interface Library
“The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX… The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file.” Also see the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, which “describe an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.”
Gmail for your domain
“This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google’s webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.” Maybe it’s time to put together a domain for my friends/family/etc.?
Typetester -- Compare fonts for the screen
“The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.”
How Would Two-Tier Internet Work?
“The word is out now that residential ISPs like BellSouth want to provide a kind of two-tier Internet service, where ordinary Internet services get one level of performance, and preferred sites or services, presumably including the ISPs’ own services, get better performance.” How such a thing might (not) work.
They're Baaa-aack!
Yay! My old reliable, HomeGrocer, is back in business! I like my neighborhood stores, but it was sure great to get my groceries delivered, and I always thought the model could be made to work, if (Webvan) just hadn’t tried to grow so quickly.
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
“Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you’re viewing in Firefox and even make your own blog post about it, all without leaving the page you’re on.” Cool!
timbl's blog
Who is TimBL? Why, he’s the guy who invented the Web. When he wrote the first Web browser, he made it able to not just view pages but also edit them, in some ways presaging the ultimate growth of blogs and wikis. “So this is for all the people who have been saying I ought to have a blog.”
Instant Domain Search
Looking for a domain name? Just start typing, what’s available shows up straight away.
Search Engine Ranking Factors
“This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a web document’s rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase. Although it is impossible to say for certain which of these items affects which search engine or how important the factors are individually, I’ve created an estimated ranking importance scale…”
In search of the One True Layout
A CSS-only method to create a flexible layout, with multiple, equal-height columns, and relatively precise vertical placement of items within columns. Something to keep around for the next redesign!
Play Infocom Adventures Online
Including Zork, H2G2, Planetfall, etc. Relive one’s youth!
Webmasters who didn't think when they registered their URL
Something to think about when you get your next domain name!
Risk via Google Maps
Google Maps used to play Risk in the real world!
Google Analytics
“Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.” Free! Supposedly integrated with AdWords, although I don’t see it in my account (yet).
I'll never get caught. I'm Popular.
The true story of a guy who figured out how to create the world’s very first cross-site-scripting (XSS) virus, deploying it on MySpace to make over 1 million people become his friend.
footerStickAlt
“The examples linked from this page expand upon a technique… that allows for the footer of a Web page to appear either at the bottom of the browser window or the bottom of the Web page content – whichever is visually lowest.”
Oct 7, 2005 in Da Web | Comment
The Origin of the Smiley
The 1982 newsgroup thread in which the smiley was invented. See about halfway down the page.
Sep 17, 2005 in Da Web | Comment
more .htaccess tips and tricks
Brilliant, simple intro to URL rewriting in Apache.
Sep 5, 2005 in Da Web | Comment
Fun With HTTP Headers
The funny things Web servers say in secret (but your browser always hears).
Sep 4, 2005 in Da Web | Comment
Talk Digger
Metasearch for Blog Search. What’re people saying about you?
Sep 3, 2005 in Da Web | Comment
Now They've Gone Too Far
Eric Meyer tells of how he was spammed in person.
Blogger for Word
Blog from Word, rather than a crappy textarea. If they had such a thing for MT, I’d probably use it, it’s a great idea!
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
“So I placed a backorder through GoDaddy for $18.95 thinking that was all I needed to do. During the week that followed, I learned a lot about the domain expiration process. Two and a half months and $369 later, I am the proud owner of a shiny new domain. A really really good one.”
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
“So I placed a backorder through GoDaddy for $18.95 thinking that was all I needed to do. During the week that followed, I learned a lot about the domain expiration process. Two and a half months and $369 later, I am the proud owner of a shiny new domain. A really really good one.”
Google Hacking Mini-Guide
“Using search engines such as Google, “search engine hackers” can easily find exploitable targets and sensitive data. This article outlines some of the techniques used by hackers and discusses how to prevent your site from becoming a victim of this form of information leakage.”
Canadian ISP blocks subscribers' access to union Web site
All customers who get their internet access from Canadian telco Telus have had their access to the Telecommunications Workers Union Web site blocked. The TWU is currently striking against Telus, and TWU members haven’t recieved a general wage increase in over five years.
AIMFight
Who’s more popular on IM? You or your friend? Find out now!
Google Moon
“In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing.” Make sure to zoom all the way in!
dontclick.it
An experimental interface.
Web Color Schemes
“Get inspired by these web-smart color schemes, taken from a variety of sources and updated regularly.”
Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights
“[A] growing number of marketers are using new technology to analyze blogs and other ‘consumer-generated media’ — a category that includes chat groups, message boards and electronic forums — to hear what is being said online about new products, old ad campaigns and aging brands. Purveyors of the new methodology and their clients say blog-watching can be cheaper, faster and less biased than such staples of consumer research as focus groups and surveys.”
Phisher Tales: How Webs of Scammers Pull Off Internet Fraud
“Explanations about the source of the Internet’s phishing epidemic often involve exotic tales of Asian gangs or the Russian Mafia. It turns out, though, that your average phisher is much more likely to be someone like “C-Power,” who is probably a teenager somewhere overseas with a computer in his bedroom and a lot of alarming friends in his buddy lists.”
Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
“The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now — their winning strategies are not.”
Google Search: click here
Sure, it’s easy to say click here for more information. But why not use a more meaningful phrase?
Online Consumers Window Shop More than Impulse Buy
“His study showed the average time delay between a consumer’s first visit to a Web site and the first purchase was just over 19 hours. About 35 percent of all tracked shoppers took more than 12 hours to make a buy decision, while 21 percent took more than three days, with 14 percent taking more than one week to decide where to buy.”
How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist
“Facing an online extortion threat, Mickey Richardson bet his Web-based business on a networking whiz from Sacramento who first beat back the bad guys, then helped the cops nab them. If you collect revenue online, you’d better read this.”
Guess-the-google
See a montage of images. Guess the Google search term that gave these images as its result. Strangely addictive.
Mozilla Link Prefetching
Web designers can anticipate what pages you’ll see next and have them pre-loaded for you! Yay faster browsing!
Consumating
Tags + dating!
Spammer Says Suits Drove It Bankrupt
“‘It’s the legal fees that are battering the company,’ said OptInRealBig.com lawyer Steven Richter… ‘OptIn is profitable but for these lawsuits.’” Hint: if your business model involves you getting regularly sued for many times the value of your company, your business model probably sucks.
Netdisaster
Take it out on sites you hate! (Non-destructive).
Dropload
“Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time.” Free, and up to 100MB!
Ajaxing the Rails
Ruby on Rails now supports AJAX out-of-the box, in all browsers. This means that developers can build great apps like GMail easily and quickly. Probably means a dramatic increase in the quality of “small” Web sites ASAP, and a dramatic increase in Rails’ popularity.
Nifty Corners: Rounded Corners Without Images
“Rounded Corners with CSS are a hot topic in web design: I think that there are hundreds of articles on them. This page is intended to present the solution I came up, that doesn’t requires images, extra markup nor CSS.” (Technically it requires CSS and javascript, but it’s a single drop-in script.)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Details Begin to Leak
“Will Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 have tabs? Will it comply with the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) 2.0 standard? Exactly how will it make browsing more secure? Will it ship in 2005? Microsoft’s answers? No comment.”
BlogAds Surveys Blog Readers' Demographics
Huh, blog readers are about 30, relatively well-to-do, relatively high-ranking in the organizations for which they work, and spend big bucks. Whod’ve known?
Yahoo! Netrospective
“10 years, 100 moments of the Web.”
A Vernacular Web
The visual vocabulary of the early culture of the Web.
Surprisingly, I miss it.
CAPTCHAService
If you’ve ever used, say, one of Yahoo!’s services, you probably had to type in the text from a graphic to get past the sign-up form. That, technically, is known as a CAPTCHA and it’s designed to prevent automated “bots” from signing up. CAPTCHAService gives you the power to have CAPTCHAs on your own site!
Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps)
XMLHttpRequest is how GMail and the new Google Maps work, and probably how a lot of future Web tools will work in the future. This tutorial makes it easy-to-understand.
Making Simple Work of Complex CSS Layouts
A quick-and-easy walkthrough of the creation of a pretty complex site!
Google Movie Reviews
OK, this might actually change everything.
Canada: Business E-Mail Address is Private Information
Canada thinks it’s a good idea to protect people from spam at work. Imagine!
Maxpedia.org
Get the content from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia on your cell phone!
The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004
On-target with basic mistakes that limit the potential success of your Web site. Remember, your corporate Web site is just another way to make money.
Asbestos News
“Asbestos” is one of the top-paying keywords on Google AdSense. Does it make sense to make a blog about Asbestos just to get the Google revenue? Can such a thing be done in a way that actually provides value to the reader? Here’s an experiment.
Panic T-Shirts
Good t-shirts, even better interface.
How Google Maps Works
Now I’m starting to get impressed.
Google Video Search
“Our mission is to organize the world’s information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content…”
Get The World's Longest E-Mail Address
Why not?
The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)
“With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents’, too. (Your children in college are already using it.) It is polished, as easy to use as Internet Explorer and, most compelling, much better defended against viruses, worms and snoops.”
Spammers Ordered To Pay $1 Billion
That’s gonna take a lot of clicks to pay off!
Map Of Sex Offenders In CA
As per Megan’s Law, a Web site that lets you look up sex offenders in your neighborhood. None in mine!
How Google Suggest Works
Super-133t Google Suggest suggests common search-terms as you type: common in desktop applications, but something a lot of people thought the Web couldn’t (or oughtn’t to) do. This is how it works.
Amazon.com's Customer Service Number
If you’ve ever struggled to talk to a real person at Amazon, here’s how to have done it, from the Seattle phone book.
Google Suggest
“As you type, Google will offer suggestions.” Find-as-you-type for the Web!
100 Oldest .com Domains
Dating back to 1985!
Catch-27
“You meet a bunch of new friends, you get tired of them, you trade them for better friends.”
MSN Search Does Algebra
Look at the top of the page, right under where it says “Web Results.” Is 10th-grade math done forever?
The MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test
Phishing is an enormous source of fraud. I’m a pretty savvy guy, but I only correctly identified 80% of the e-mails in this test. Can you tell which are scams and which are real?
Texterity
Miss thumbing through magazines now that you read them online? Texterity brings back that comfortable, fun old experience. Check out an issue of Business 2.0!
Follow the Bouncing Malware
If you’re running an unpatched, antivirus-free, stock install of Windows, this is what’s happening to you. If you’re running a properly secured install of Windows with antivirus and spyware removers, or if you’re running a good operating system, then this is a fun story about what would have happened to you if you’d not been so prudent. Also check out part II
An Unsolicited Commercial Love Story
The romantic odyssey of a woman, as told through her role in spam.
BugMeNot Registration
The site that gets you around mandatory registration and log-in requires you to register if you work for a site that has mandatory registration and log-in.
Notes On The Technical Implementation Of Blogger's New WYSIWYG In-Browser Editor
At last, a standards-compliant, reusable WSYIWYG in-browser editor?
David Hasselhoff Worship Site
Including a frightening picture with Shar-Peis and some of the best e-cards ever!
F'n Google It
You. Yes, you! Google it before you ask me, huh?
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
An oldie but a goodie: the social effects of multi-way interaction on the Web.
New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful
Tim Berners-Lee says: no new top-level domains. I agree; things like .biz and .info and .aero are absurd. .name is not so bad but let’s face it there’s tons of Joe Smiths. .xxx makes sense because it allows simple access control. .mobi is, I agree, absurd as well. But, then, nobody said that ICANN was smart.
Fight! For The Right! To Be The #1 Search Engine Result!
Fight one search term against the other.
Strangely enough:
American Women: 2,020,000
Whores: 2,020,000
VisitorVille
Tired of Analog’s bare-bones graphs? WebTrends too static for your preferences? VisitorVille changes your Web site logs into a virtual SimCity, with little people walking to and fro, some coming in off of luttle busses named “Google” and “Yahoo”.
New Ad Technology Overcomes Pop-Up Blockers
Because the best way to sell to people who have actively tried to avoid your sales pitch is to force them to see your ad.
Use A Better Browser
You! Yes, You! Download Mozilla! Or at least something that’s not as crappy as IE!
Run Multiple Versions Of IE On Windows
For years it’s been common wisdom that the only way to run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on Windows was VMWare (of course, this could be done on a Mac by just, um, installing multiple versions of IE, but I digress). Now, a new page on how to do custom browser installs to get the versions of IE you want on one machine!
Open question: in the past, there have been rendering differences in different builds of one version of IE in the past. Is it possible, using this scheme, to have different builds of one IE on one machine? Sounds like no.
20 Great Google Secrets
“But Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google’s search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers.”
Safe Personal Computing
“I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually ‘Nothing; you’re screwed.’ But it’s really more complicated than that.”
Listamatic
“Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple lists..”
PocketPC Web Browser Emulator
MoinMoin
“MoinMoin is a Python Wiki clone…”
3-col layout via CSS
“No tables, no absolute positioning (no positioning at all), no hacks(!), same height of all columns”