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IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine

December 1, 2006

Microsoft has done a surprisingly cool thing – they have released a virtual machine for VirtualPC that has Windows XP pre-activated to make testing your design in IE 6 & IE 7 on the same machine even easier.

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‘One Small Step for a Man’

October 1, 2006

Wired News reports that “An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing “a” from [Neil] Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’” He did indeed say “That’s one small step for a man” (emphasis [...]

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It’s a small world

June 28, 2006

The Size Of Our World is a great visual comparison of Earth, the other bodies in our solar system and some stars within our galaxy. While the site is far from polished, this simple page does a great job displaying the enormous scale of the larger planets and stars compared to our rock and each [...]

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Remote Buddy

June 6, 2006

Remote Buddy “gives you control over the rest of your [Mac] via the remote control and also improves the available functionality in those apps that already supported the remote control by themselves.”

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Right-click in XP on MacBook Pro

May 31, 2006

Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro – This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.

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Floating books

May 6, 2006

Adding a small stack of books to the invisible bookshelf hides the hardware, creating the illusion that the books are floating in place. Look ma, no hands!

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Hi-Res History

March 8, 2006

The National Archives provides an amazing resource in their new site the Charters of Freedom. High-resolution images of key U.S. historical documents have been made available to the world, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

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Animated Live Search

February 17, 2006

Animated Live Search is a great tutorial written by Steve Smith, which discusses how he has built his site-search. The cool thing is that the search presents its results immediately in a handy container within the current page instead of a new page. Tasty demo included.

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Mixilator

January 26, 2006

The Mixilator
– The David Embury Random Cocktail Generator, provided by CocktailDB (The Internet Cocktail Database) is a great tool for those who want to mix a unique, or custom cocktail. Simply answer a few questions and the site will provide you with an individual cocktail recipe.

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Vertical-Align Misuse

January 22, 2006

Nick Gagne has posted a great explanation of the vertical-align
property which is a must read for every front-end Web developer. The examples wrap it up beautifully. Good stuff!

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