October 2008
31 posts
smush it! →
Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images -…
September 2008
24 posts
Update Engine from Google →
Update Engine is a flexible Mac OS X framework that can help developers keep their products up-to-date. It can update nearly any type of software, including Cocoa apps, screen savers, and preference…
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Maintainable CSS using IE specific CSS selectors
If you’ve been doing styling for some time, you have probably run the gamet on IE related hacks, browser quirks, and conditional commenting. Allan Jardine created Conditional-CSS to work around browser annoyances while trying to streamline maintenance. More recently, Lu Wang at Ronin wrote 8 tips for “scaling” CSS development, where he extols a number of CSS virtues for...
Fire Vox: A Screen Reading Extension for Firefox →
Open source screen reader for Firefox that works on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
PhoneGap - Accessing the Accelerometer, Geo... →
PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. Including…
WatchI have high hopes for Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche.
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How do you get the news?
Yaletown Kid says:
its a sad commentary when i get my primary news from (equally) the nytimes and jon stewart's daily show.
NICCAI says:
if someone I follow in google reader or twitter doesn't comment on something, I am totally out of the loop - thankfully, others care
Free Quality Fonts from Jos Buivenga →
exljbris is the font library of Jos Buivenga (LJB). It includes 9 free fonts including Delicious, Fontin, Fontin Sans, Tallys, Fertigo Pro , Diavlo, Anivers, Museo and Museo Sans.
The Anti-Theft Lunch Bag
This absolutely killed me…
“if you’ve ever had your lunch stolen, you know the frustration and anger it causes” - via skforlee
FriendFeedBadge by Robert Nyman →
“I took a look at the official ways to embed FriendFeed, but immediately realized that their scripts were just in line with all other crappy document.write badges you’ve seen all over the web.”
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My First Genius Playlist
Based on Mason Jennings’ I Love You and Buddha Too. First impression - not bad at all. (I would have never come up with this on my own, and that I like.)
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Saving iPhone Battery Life
On the eve of the new iPhone firmware upgrade (2.1), I still think it is a good idea to share my thoughts on conserving iPhone battery life.
Sure, if you talk a lot, you are probably out of luck. You could also follow Guy Kawasaki’s Art of iPhone Battery Life, but it’s a little involved for me. For those of us that want an easy solution and seem to use our phones a normal amount (and...
UA Profiler →
“UA Profiler looks at browser characteristics that make pages load faster, such as downloading scripts without blocking, max number of open connections, and support for “data:” urls. The tests run…
Kitsilano Condo Market Softening? →
“There is a 4.2 month supply of condos under $500,000 and a 21.6 month supply of condos over $500,000 and none selling over $1 million.” - via Kitsilano.ca
Web View of iTunes App Store →
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Chrome's special about: pages
Interested in what is going on behind the scenes when using Chrome? Try these about commands in the search bar:
about:memory
about:stats
about:network
about:internets
about:histograms
about:dns
about:cache
about:plugins
about:version
view-cache:[URL]
view-source:[URL]
- via lifehacker
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“One thing that I would love from a browser (Chrome) would be the ability to...”
– Me on Twitter
addSizes.js: Snazzy automatic link file-size... →
Uses Simon Willison’s json-head, a Google App Engine application, to provide file sizes for linked downloads.
Gnip - Making data portability suck less →
Data consumers: Poll for new data the moment it exists. Avoid throttling & decrease latency from hours to seconds. Data Providers: Reduce API traffic by an order of magnitude while increasing…
Google's undocumented favicon to png convertor →
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“Google “they are a freak of a company, the best advertising business ever...”
– Fred Wilson quoting a journalist friend.