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Looks like a Firebug for IE 6+.
"MySpace’s Performance Tracker is a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code performance by capturing and measuring possible bottlenecks on their web pages." -
"We will publish articles relating to HTML5 and it’s semantics and how to use them, here and now. We will also be inviting questions, in the form of ‘Ask the doctor’ to help answer people’s queries and questions. Answers will be posted in the form of articles for all to learn from."
links for 2009-06-29
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links for 2009-06-28
June 29, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"Using mainly vector shapes and some gradients, I’m going to create a vector drawing of an iPhone in Illustrator."
links for 2009-06-25
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links for 2009-06-23
June 24, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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An exhaustive definition of barbecue and a great explanation of the myths and facts that surround barbecue
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" This collapsible breadcrumb was developed to deal with deeply nested, verbosely named pages. Rather than limit the amount of elements shown on the sever side, we decided to go with a client side solution for usability and SEO reasons. It also turned out nice to look at and fun to play with.
"It is smart in the sense that it collapses based upon the amount and length of the elements in the set. The breadcrumb uses a semitransparent .png overlay to achieve the gradient effect seen on the elements. Visually, it helps to show a "peek" at what is underneath. "
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" Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on rollover…The goal of Captify is to be easy to use, small/simple, and completely ready for use in production environments"
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A bookmarklet that grabs the background images used on a Web page and builds a single sprite image, which you can use to optimize the page/site.
links for 2009-06-22
June 23, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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Optimizing the performance of CSS selectors by focusing on the rightmost selector to reduce the amount of elements the browser has to check.
links for 2009-06-21
June 22, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"Dasher is a preference pane and background application that work together to automatically activate Dashboard when your Mac is idle. You can choose the amount of time Dasher waits before activating Dashboard and can easily disable Dasher with a handy checkbox."
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"Whether it's to pause the player, adjust the volume, skip a track or rate a song, you can do all that and more with simple customizable keystrokes. That's not all. You can even search your iTunes Library or Playlists with a simple keystroke, all without switching to iTunes! "
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"The RedLaser app lets you search for online prices using Google product search. You can also keep a list of products and send them to yourself or a friend (because sometimes you just need to check things out on a bigger screen.)
"Our latest version, RedLaser 2.0, has a new mode that lets you scan UPCs in realtime"
links for 2009-06-19
June 20, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"Perch is a really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS."
links for 2009-06-18
June 19, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"the relative location of each U.S. Supreme Court justice on an ideological continuum."
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"I’m going to run you through how to create a simple multi-instance widget for adding posts your sidebar."
links for 2009-06-17
June 18, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"ForeUI is a handy UI prototyping tool. It can rapidly create static or interactive, sknnable UI prototypes of your website or software. "
links for 2009-06-15
June 16, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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An excellent collection of infographics and some tips on designing them well
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Mozy and Pi have merged, creating Decho, which is "dedicated to your "digital echo" — helping you protect, manage, and enrich the digital information you care about most. "
Secrets of Simplicity: rules for being simple and usable (Giles Colborne) »
June 14, 2009 - Leave a Comment
Giles Colborne’s presentation discusses strategies for simplifying designs. It identifies two new rules for simplicity.
It also looks at why simplicity has become so important in interaction design, whether simplicity and usability are the same thing and exposes some myths about simplicity.
It’s a version of a highly-rated talk from the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) conference in Portland in June 2009.
I’ve added some ’Post-It’ notes so it all makes sense!
UPDATED 18 June 2009: Fixed some of the builds and fonts to improve the appearance.
links for 2009-06-12
June 13, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits."
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A collection of Web Developer-oriented Firefox extensions to aid in troubleshooting and debugging.
links for 2009-06-11
June 12, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
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"Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery"
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"With jQuery for Designer’s redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it. "
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"This Jquery plugin is an on-demand plugin loader, also known as a lazy loader. Instead of downloading all Jquery-plugins, you might or might not need, when the page loads. Lazy downloads the plugins when you actually use them."
links for 2009-06-10
June 11, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"Allow as many fixed columns to line up across the viewport. Take excess white space and evenly distribute them to each of the columns to complete the full row. This way the columns will always fit perfectly.
"And also, It keeps a default fixed width as the base, so that the columns are reasonably within the intended columns sizes while maintaining enough flexibility to accommodate for the expandable viewport."
links for 2009-06-09
June 10, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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This is a bookmarklet. You go to page that has one or more forms and you click the bookmarklet. It completes the form for you with some random data. The whole thinking was to have a form ready to be submitted and generating as less validation errors as possible.
links for 2009-06-08
June 9, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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A very interesting write-up that covers scanning barcodes of your books and uploading them to Google Library, which will allow you to do full text searches across all of them.
links for 2009-06-05
June 6, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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a plugin to detect if a user has been idle for a period of time.
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'I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year.'
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Fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the front most finder window. This app is designed (including it's icon) to placed in the finder window's toolbar.
links for 2009-06-04
June 5, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"UserVue is a web-based service which makes it easy to get insight into how your website or application is used. Observe, discuss and record real customers giving real feedback."
links for 2009-06-03
June 4, 2009 - Leave a Comment
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"I have compiled a list of font stacks that will both open up more font possibilities for web designers, and hopefully offer more appropriate substitutes"
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"Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite"
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"The ultimate list of tutorials and plugins for jQuery"
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"Preview and test your webpages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand. Adobe BrowserLab makes it easier and faster than ever before to see how your designs appear to your customers and audience. Get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the web."