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Find out your connection's speed, useful when on the go and using free wi-fi hotspots.
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A fun puzzle where you have to try to find a word in his source
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A Google video on US coverage of the middle east and their coverage.
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There are new 1 dollar coins coming out. The first ones to not have a woman on them since the giant Eisenhower ones in the 1970's
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Apparently Microsoft bought out Sysinternals. Anyways Sysinternals contains a great deal of system tools, most which are portable for your computer.
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This is a pretty un-orthodox site where companies pay money to advertise on it and people click there links. Each link enters them in for a chance to win a million dollars.
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Page lists pretty much every W3C icon there is. You will notice that my site uses the html and css icons to validate pages. (not that they are valid but just a quick way for me or others to check them.)
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A site where people submit reviews of web hosting companies. It's weird to think that there are actually this many companies out there that host sites. I have been a bit dissapointed with 1and1 lately.
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Quantcast gives really interesting reports on websites. I have no idea how they come up with these reports but even if they are wrong it's interesting.
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Page allows you to build your own MLA or APA citation with an online form. This is much easier than doing it the old way!
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A site that gets you top placement in Google for free. Basically if you have things online that you wish employeers wouldn't find first, this site allows you to create a profile that will appear first in searches on your name.
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Site allows you to save videos from YouTube to your computer. This is really usefull when you need to show a video in a class and it has low bandwidth such as Lakeland. Also nice to have some videos locally and take them wherever you want.
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A calculator to see how long you might live. It was featured in USA Weekend. I haven't taken it yet but Emily has.
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Starting Jan. 1, 2008, all U.S. households will be eligible to request up to two $40 coupons to be used toward the purchase of up to two, digital-to-analog converter boxes, while the initial $990 million allocated for the program is available.
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A site that allows you to send text messages to others online. All you need to know is their cell phone number and their carrier.
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Site allows you to create background images for websites. While it looks fancy I'm not sure if I would use this or not when creating a new site. Worth looking at though.
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An interesting list of the top tech products of all time. This list is more fun if you expect certain products to rank high, then finding out that some other product ranks above it.
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This is pretty funny. A guy named Justin wears a webcam on his head 24/7. You can watch him at anytime of the day and see what he is doing. Lets hope he is getting paid for all of this!
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A Yahoo! news article of the school shooting where 32 people and the gunmen were killed. The highest number of deaths in a shooting in American history. The gunmen was a 6' Asian.
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Ah yes, not more than 24 hours after the shootings at Virginia Tech and people have already registered domains of the shooters name. choseung-hui.com & choseunghui.com are both taken already as well.
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Taken from JS Online - "In an effort to promote the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a racially diverse campus, university officials digitally inserted a black student's face into a photograph of white Badger football fans that was used on the cover of their new undergraduate application."
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A new flash type plugin for browsers. Personally I think it's about time that there is some alternative to flash since they have pretty much been the only game in town for quite some time now.
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A website made by a good friend of mine who is currently attending Fox Valley Tech for web design. This is his first website which is actually really good compared to many of my original websites.
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Windows Live Map now has a super zoomed in version (bird's eye) of the fox cities. I found Kate's house (I think) on here now. Kate does this one look like your place?
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US 41 in a few years is going to become an interstate. To become one many upgrades need to be made to our favorite highway. Unfortunately they need to redo every single interchange in the city of Oshkosh, and they need to redo the Butte Des Morts bridge. Apparently the road will be 6 lane wide in Oshkosh and the bridge will go to a whopping 8 lanes wide! Which would be the widest that I know of north of Milwaukee.
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Go to this website and enter in your phone number(s) to enter your phone onto the national do not call registry. It's really easy to do and worth getting your number off of the telemarketers list.
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The Oshkosh city assessor's office web site allows people to look up information on other houses in the city and see how much their fair market value is. It's a really great tool if you're looking to buy a house because you can see how much the previous owners bought it for and also how much it is currently worth. With this information you are better informed on what to offer them for the house if you want to buy it.
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A University of Purdue project that plotted CO2 emissions around the US. It's really interesting to see where all the smog is coming from. You can even see how highways are contributing to CO2 emissions.
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A web form that generates mailto: links automagically. I've always found the documentation for this difficult to read so have a form that creates it all for me is really nice to have.
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Purdue scientists have released a high-resolution map of American per-capita carbon dioxide emissions to Wired.com. It shows the amount of carbon dioxide produced in one-hundred square kilometer regions of the
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Taken from the website "Thematic maps (data maps), and reports of United States Census data from 1940 to 2000. Explore thousands of maps from race, income, education, housing, employment, occupation, poverty, foreign born, place of bith and other categories of census data."
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The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated in parody using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of Lego bricks. The project began as a website in October 2001 that featured six stories from the book of Genesis.
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Powerset is a website that allows you to search Wikipedia articles. It then returns results with links to those same articles (on it's own domain). Within the articles it also links to other articles (also on it's domain). In a way it's almost like a new front end and search for the entire Wikipedia site.
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A rather funny look at things that were invented or are younger than John McCain.
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Julian Beever's does pavement drawings that look life like and almost 3D. Really cool stuff, check it out.
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Probably every sane web developer will scoff at using anything from here, but they can be useful especially when trying to work around IE6 shortcomings.
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From Website: "The state Department of Public Instruction collects and posts online salary, experience and other information for more than 100,000 Wisconsin school administrators, teachers and other employees."
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splendAd.com is a database of commercials along with their respective videos and music that goes along with the commercial. I was curious about a song in a commercial and found out who it was by via this website.
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An article from Slashdot basically stating that with all the co2 we are putting out, more and more plants are growing because of it. Perhaps the plants can keep up with our co2 production and it will all sort of work out on it's own.
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I saw a news article on this device, which you can basically plug into your wall, between another device you use, say a computer, to determine how much power that device uses over a given amount of time. I think I may buy one of these.
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Our company is looking to hire a web developer. Looks like the salary is from 40,000 to 55,000. Anybody interested? The position would work in my department as well.
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I've always been annoyed when Firefox extensions feel the need to mark up my right-click context menu. With this extension (for extensions) you can get rid of all that clutter.
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From the website: "In an effort to return to my roots, I spent the majority of the day compiling what I believe to be the mother of all technical SEO cheat sheets. The recommended viewing format of this cheat sheet is as a PDF rather than the traditional blog post (I found the blog posts inconvenient to print)..."
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Zillow, is an assessment website for the entire US. It allows you to zoom in on a city down to the neighborhood level and see the value of houses.
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An interesting chart showing the stock prices of Freddie Mac And Fannie Mae. We can see how the US housing market is slipping and how the stock prices of the two mortgage companies is struggling as well.
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Yahoo! BOSS allows developers to create their own version of Yahoo Search. I am considering using this on my own websites, rather than using the Google search features which feels the need to advertise and brand it with all things Google.
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Get stock prices via RSS. I am personally using this to track oil prices out of curiosity.
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Winnebago County Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) service center
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It's fun to read about the origins of different phrases you hear every day which don't really make any sense by themselves.
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A "photoshopped" picture that ended up making it in National Geographic for the best photo of the year.
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I was watching TV and was put through some of the worst songs ever - "Time Life, Ultimate Love Songs". Featuring Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, and Rod Stewart.
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The popular Olympics theme song is written by John Williams, the guy who came up with the music for the majority of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movies.
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The main Olympics theme song that just about everyone recognizes.
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A listing from Wikipedia on world records in sports. Keep an eye out for summer olympic records.
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APPLETON - Choosing which NFL game to show other than the Packers just got a lot easier for cable stations and bars.
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A listing from the W3C on XHTML media types that can be used. This is basically just more ammo for my grumblings about XHTML and serving it as text/html.
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John McCain tapped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, to be the Republican vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.
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I found this while trying to fix my secondary computer. It has really helpful flowcharts especially when computer hardware isn't your favorite activity. Regardless I haven't been able to fix my computer.
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Takes a number of RSS feeds, mangles them together to form one feed, and then spits out a single RSS feed combining the others. I used this to help someone because they wanted to import two Lakeland RSS feeds (news/events and blogs) to their Facebook profile, but you are only allowed to add one feed for some stupid reason.
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A free computer emulator based on QEMU. Seems like a pretty good free replacement for VirtualPC/Parallels/etc. Apparently can run guest programs as standalone windows in your host OS.
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A great example of serving xhtml to browsers that do not support it, and also why you should serve xhtml as xml and not text.
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A list with the common fonts to all versions of Windows and their Mac equivalents, useful when creating websites.
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An horizontal showcase for horizontal scrolling websites.
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Apartments on the side of town I currently live on, most which are a bit nicer and closer to highway 41 and my job.
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Connecticut software developer Jake Luciani has run 10k items on Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit and Mixx through the API of popularity ranking engine AideRSS to analyze the connection between ...
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Whoa, the goldmine of maps! Essentially what region of the US is the most straight-edge...sweet!
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Mint.com imports (magically) all your information from your online banking accounts. It then tags each transaction and then gives you awesome charts on how much you spend in each category each month. It's great for figuring out "where did all my money go?"
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Interesting graph showing the net job loss for 2008. We can see when layoffs starting picking up, which appeared to start happening in August and September.
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Haha, I guess we can see who wears the pants in that marriage. Good luck Barry.
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A lot of the new music that comes out now days labeled as punk I don't really like. This Wikipedia article is a quick and easy to pin-point a time period when the genre was better.
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While I may not agree with many of Barack Obama's policies I have to admit that whoever is designing his web sites is extremely talented in design. A quick search yielded a few results as to who may be behind it.
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Lyrics from the song 2nd Best by the band Pulley. The song was on an old CD of mine and I didn't even know the song was by Pulley. I can related to the lyrics a lot lately, unfortunately.
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G2P is a website that basically searches Google for mp3 files hosted on various websites. A much safer method to find mp3 files where the RIAA isn't watching.
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A nice reference for the Microsoft.XMLDOM Document Object. I use this quite frequently for retrieving XML/RSS in Classic ASP. This is the first I've seen these all listed on one page. The annoying thing is Dreamweaver has no autocomplete for these so it's hard to remember them.
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How did I miss this? I've always favored Fireworks because of this handy tool.
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Examples of 5 different methods of vertical centering using CSS. It's nice to refer to this as they are all assembled in one central location.
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From the site: "There is only one original note for your mortgage that has your signature on it. This document proves you owe the debt and they should be required to produce it." Often your lender sells your mortgage to a third party which trades it on the stock market. Because of this it is difficult for them to find the note stating you owe them money and buys you valuable time to find a job.
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Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link that he or she claims is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "Rickrolled" (also spelled Rickroll'd).
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I noticed several of my MP3 files contained MD5 hash values in the "comment" field of the file's meta data. I immediately suspected foul play going on. This article seems to validate that.
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A great tool to use for market share statistics. This draws from a large pool of websites so the data is pretty accurate.
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Comparison of Javascript Scripts to display images, flash objects, and more.
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Apparently there are several websites now days with easter eggs 'aka hidden things, because programmers were bored'. A famous code 'Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start' is now appearing on several websites. Facebook and ESPN are a few of those websites. I didn't feel like searching through Facebook's 1mb+ of JavaScript to see how they did this, but I image it uses JavaScript key listener.
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Online tool for uppercasing or lowercasing all inputted text. I had a 1000 row Excel file that I was going to read rows from for an email campaign. Unfortunately the user's first and last names were all uppercase.
Using this site I first lowercased all the names, then used a second tool on the site to uppercase the first letter of every name, essential making the names Camel Case.
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Determine which version of Adobe Flash you have installed on your computer. I was having trouble with flash the other day and needed to know if I had the most recent version. This is also useful for troubleshooting if you need to know a customer's version of flash.
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A list of new features in Firefox 3.5 which will be available to download next week.
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A cool examples of what can be done using CSS transforms in Firefox 3.5
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It seems like I've had to look up zip codes before only to find websites wanting to charge me for the information. Today I searched another time and found a site that gives you the information for free. I'm sure I'll be using this open link again.
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I've noticed over and over again in Firefox 3.5 when I drag tabs, they randomly pop open in a new window. Since I pretty much hate new windows and fully embrace tabbed browsing I found a nifty FF addon that disables this 'feature'.
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A site that gives the average sale price in Oshkosh, WI. It also list recent sales that have occurred in the area. Another tab shows foreclosed houses which I find interesting.
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A guy thinks his computer is heavier because he has installed/downloaded more programs to it. Lol. Originally found here - encyclopediadramatica.com
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"User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern." This site is basically a gallery of common web design elements that we see every day. For instance, my current site design has a giant background. This might be considered a design pattern on UI-patterns.com that has a more 'official' name to it.
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I always find it amusing how companies feel the need to endlessly merge and buy each other out. My own company might even look a little like this (but not as bad). The funny thing with this chart is, the govt. originally broke up AT&T to stop it as a monopoly, and 25 years later, there's only 3 companies left, with one of the AT&T spin-off companies (SBC) actually buying AT&T, the original company. I've been trying to find a similar chart for the TV/Movie studios since their as bad, if not worse than this chart but I've had no luck.
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RSS Mix allows you to combine multiple RSS feeds into a single feed. I'm currently using this on Craigslist searches on used cars. It helps keep your RSS feed subscription list tidy rather than having 5-10 separate feeds for the same purpose.
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A nice look at how HTML, CSS & Javascript have evolved since they were first created. It's also interesting to see how they overlap even though each should be it's own distinct entity.
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I found this site when searching for how much should balancing a tire cost. I also found the site useful for other car related things. Gives you a good starting point when you need to get something repaired.
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The Brick Testament is a website which tells stories from the bible using LEGOs. In theory this sounds un-interesting but after you read a couple it can be interesting, and even funny in some cases. It apparently doesn't stray far from the scripture either. I found the Deuteronomic Code ones to be the funniest.
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Hmm, I was always under the impression that foreclosure hurt your credit score a lot more than 85-100 points. I guess this is straight from the horses mouth, so to speak.
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It seems the Post Crescent likes creating tools for stalkers to use. I saw this in my RSS feed today. I've always appreciated the "Teachers & Administrators Salary Search" since I know a lot of teachers.
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I found this while checking out tomorrow morning's weather forecast on a news website. I have an interview tomorrow morning and wanted to know how the roads are before I left. The site also has webcams setup that shows you road conditions and if there are any traffic jams.
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I noticed this through a friend I follow on Twitter. It's a pretty cool effect using multiple backgrounds.
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For whatever reason there isn't a button I can click (similar to one I place in my quicklaunch toolbar in Windows) that will minimize all windows on Mac OSX. I did a quick google search and found this program. I found window management to be a bit complicated on the Mac.
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This is hands down my new favorite site when it comes to looking for an apartment. First of all, it has more listing than most of the traditional sites. Second, it has only the necessary features and not all this garbage the other sites have. Finally the rental price feature is really slick.
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I was creating a bookmarklet recently and found myself constantly removing line breaks from my code to make it form a single line of text. After a quick search I found this site which saved me a lot of time.
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Something I think many web developer forget is that you can chain together Javascript's built in methods. This can reduce the amount of code you write and perhaps make it appear less complicated.
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This jQuery plugin creates a really cool content spinning effect. Would work great for a photo gallery.
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An interesting article on using PNG8 images in Internet Explorer 6.
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WhatTheFont! is an online service that determines what font types are used in an image file. When I switched computer a year or two ago, I lost many of the font types I had on it. One of the fonts I lost was the font type used in my logo! Using this service I was able to determine what I font I used in my logo.
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Reflection.js is a simple Javascript library that creates reflections on your images. Looks pretty simply to use and is only 5kb in size.
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"Font Effect plugin for jQuery, add nice effects to regular html text, outline, drop shadow, gradient and mirror"
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The LCD monitor calibration site has a series of test which you can check to see how well your monitor is calibrated. I often find LCD monitors using their factory settings to be extremely bright, almost to the point of hurting my eyes.
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Firefox apparently has the ability to determine user's location. This will only work if users give the browser permission first.
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I ran into this when a Facebook friend posted a link to their map comparing Grocery stores to Bars using Google Maps. The site posts interesting maps weekly on random things which look interesting to me.
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Having just purchased an original Xbox I was curious as to what year the last game was made for the console. This Wikipedia page lists all 950 games released for the original Xbox. You can also sort by release date. I ended up finding out that the last game was released in 2008 (pretty recent considering the 360 came out in 2005-2006). I'll probably end up buying Half Life 2 and Call of Duty 3 since those are both fairly new games that I think I'd enjoy. Currently I'm playing Doom 3 and XIII (one of my favorite games of all time)
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After all, a year is just some arbitrary number based on how long it takes the earth to revolve around the sun (what an earth-centric point of view). I'm roughly 13.2 years old on Mars.
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I was looking for a PHP HTML parser and ran across this. An added benefit is it is capable of grabbing external web pages, and parsing them for specific elements using jQuery-like selectors. While the syntax could be improved I'm quite impressed with the functionality of the script. This can be used on external sites or your own.
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Having recently bought a new TV set I'm becoming somewhat of an A/V nerd. I ran across this page on Wikipedia when doing some research. Like pretty much everything on Wikipedia it gives an awesome overview over the numerous A/V connectors in existence.
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These guys ran a test on some audiophiles to see if they could tell the difference. We all know how expensive the Monster Cable brand is which I can attest to having just bought some super chea.p HDMI cables which work just fine.
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Commander Keen beaten in just under three minutes! I know that someone on this site likes Commander Keen ;)
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A group calling themselves "Goatse Security" (LOL, Neal, you'll like that one) recently obtained 114,000+ email addresses and ICC-IDs (somehow related to the SIM card's ID #, if I understand correctly). These belong to the early adopters who bought an iPad 3G model, including military people, congressmen, prominent mayors, etc.
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Head of Internet Explorer group claims his job is to get IE6 market share down to zero
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The Microsoft Javascript Debugger Console is great for pinning down errors in Internet Explorer. Often times IE doesn't give very helpful messages when a Javascript error occurs. With this, it will pop open a window and highlight the code in question.
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If you've ever had to access YouTube video data this is a great place to start. Essentially builds a RSS/JSON feed for your to dynamically pull whatever data you need from YouTube.
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This demo shows of all the capabilities of YouTube's video javascript API. I ran across this at work while attempting to track YouTube videos with Google Analytics.
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Apparently IE6 & IE7 support data URIs but can only be done using a proprietary Microsoft method.
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This neat graph shows historical browser market share data, but with a unique twist: because of the way the data is laid out, it winds up looking like the Firefox logo :)
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I was looking for a way to resize one folder to another in Photoshop and ran across this forum post. Thought somebody else might find it useful.
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It seems like there's a million secret parameters for embedding YouTube videos. I found this documentation in their help section listing out all the known parameters.
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CleanCSS will automatically organize your CSS files based on several pre-set properties. You can add proper code formating, indentation, and organization of CSS properties within a selector. Very useful when editing somebody else's file that was a bit chaotic.
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It appears the classic GoldenEye 007 will be ported to the Nintendo Wii. Perfect Dark, of course has already been ported to the Xbox 360 (which is a really awesome port by the way). Apparently Rare was in development to port GoldenEye to the Xbox 360 as well but couldn't cut through the red tape of licensing.
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This site gives several test cases for containing floats in CSS. Works great to view this site in multiple browsers to see what works and what doesn't.
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A great article on developing jQuery plugins. I followed this one recently to develop one of my own. In the past I'd usually just copy and paste another one and edit it. This time around I wanted to learning how to do optional parameters and this properly taught me how.
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This jQuery plugin allows you to get the height and width of elements in jQuery even if they are hidden (display: none). I'm not sure if this is a bug in jQuery or intended to work this way but this solves the problem.
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A list of CSS properties and selectors supported in Internet Explorer 9.
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A list of words Wordpress uses to combat comment spam with.
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Useful when wanting to cache specific file types on a website. At work this was set to a full week which seemed a bit liberal to me especially when files change a lot.
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Dafizilla is a Firefox Addon that allows you to copy individual columns from HTML tables online. Typically this isn't possible unless you copy the entire table out into an external editor.
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A list of chrome URLs in Firefox. Chrome URLs are sort of like shortcuts to many of the underworkings of Firefox. I created a shortcut to my error console as a bookmark to work around Mac OSX lousy window management.
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Some interesting information about UI design and HCI theory. Found someone making reference to the "infinite edges" part of it in a discussion thread, and I was curious about what that meant.
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The W3C's CSS 2.1 test suite results between the major rendering engines Gecko vs Presto vs Trident vs WebKit. They created a test system which any user can vote on to quickly test various rendering engines.
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A list of new CSS, HTML & Javascript Features In Internet Explorer 9 set to be released this year.
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A random Wikipedia article I stumbled into the other day.
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Google Books Ngram Viewer is a web page that allows you to query books over the last hundred years for key phrases. It's helpful to see how trends in topics have changed over time. In my example I'm comparing cats and dogs.
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I was unaware of this method to get file extensions in PHP. Works much better than grabbing the last XX amount of characters.
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Learn how to parse YouTube's XML/RSS API using PHP's SimpleXmlElement. This tutorial also shows how to parse the namespace elements within the XML.
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MediaQueries.com is a collection of responsive web designs. Responsive web design is a website that adapts to the device a user is viewing the website with. Rather than serving up a completely new website, the same website is used for all devices and styled appropriately.
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Having used OSX for the past year now, something that's always annoyed me is when filling out forms I can't select dropdown menus with the tab key. Apparently this isn't an issue with Firefox but is due to it adhering to defaults from OSX.
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An interesting graph of internet usage over the last 20 years. I'm sure this is an over-generalization but it's still an interesting take on the subject.
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37signals always has an interesting view on things. In this article they propose that internal IT departments are eventually going to be going away due to cloud computing and their poor customer service. I wonder that in the next 50 years companies will be run by a single employee while they outsource their entire company to some other company. Sounds logical to me. [sarcasm]
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Unless a US company is hell-bent on selling the most low-cost goods, manufacturing at home makes more sense than it has in a generation.
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See how much of your taxes are going to various areas of the Federal Budget by entering your salary.
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Many browsers are supporting features of HTML5 including much related to forms. This is research on what browsers are doing what with those new features.
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SpamCop, I believe is a software package that blocks spam in emails. With this they are able to track spam over time.
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A list of the top 50 poor performing addons for Firefox. Many of the addons in here are ones that I regularly use.
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Snippets are Google's custom meta description that appear under you page's title in their search results. This page gives a meta tag you can use to over-ride their custom snippet.
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The national debt by U.S. presidential terms. Similar to the graph I made of Wisconsin, here's a similar one but on a national level.
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Using their web crawlers which already analyze the entire internet, Google decided to analyze various performance based metrics about the sites they were crawling. With that information they compiled this report showing the average size of a page on the internet and other useful pieces of information.
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ColorZilla, the maker of the popular eye dropper Firefox addon also has a CSS Gradient creator which emulates Photoshops quite well.
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I randomly did this with a friends photo on Facebook and I was pretty impressed with how it turned out. I have absolutely no idea how they do this programmatically but I think it's pretty cool.
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I remember one of the first programs I tried to create in VB.NET was a program that would take letters and convert them to ASCII art letters. After a quick Google search the other day, I discovered somebody had already accomplished this for me and even went out and created different font types.
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Because I've never trusted the values Dreamweaver gives me with autocomplete.
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Google Analytics recently released a new feature that allows you to track page download speeds. In order to use it you'll need to add a line of code to your tracking code and also use their new dashboard.
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Occasionally I'll see some weird numbers in Google Analytics. To check on the overall health of the service Google created a page to check the status of the service.
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A developer created a page twice, once with CSS3 and again using background-images. In the end, you'll save time and overall page size by using CSS3.
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I needed a way to add .phtml files in Dreamweaver so that syntax highlighting would occur. Using this tutorial I found that it wasn't all that hard to do.
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Even though this uses Flash (Gasp!) it works quite well for multiple uploads. The HTML5 version of multiple file upload still doesn't appear to have much support so this isn't a bad alternative.
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Town Line New York is apparently the last town to re-join the Union after the Civil War. Apparently they left the Union during the Civil war and never bothered to join again until World War 2.
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CSS Lint is sort of a CSS critique site which gives advice and best practices for writing good CSS.
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A trick often employed on webpages is to use a seamless background that can tile both vertically and horizontally. If your website gets alot of traffic and you
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I had asked a friend of mine who is interested in web performance if anybody in the community cares about the memory footprint of a web page (as seen in the Google Chrome task manager). He found this interesting article showing how a leak occurs on Facebook resulting in 400mb of memory for a single tab.
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PVI is an index showing how congressional districts are favored to vote in upcoming elections. It is based on previous election results. Its sort of interesting to see how the country is split up by political party.
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BuiltWith.com tracks web technologies such as Javascript libraries usage on the internet.
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A list of smartphone spec like processor speed, memory and storage capacity.
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This is an alternative to Font Squirrel which takes font files and converts them to the varies needed file types for different browsers.
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A resource for developers looking to put HTML5 to use today, including information on specific features and when to use them in your apps.
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Using a link tag in your head element, you can prefetch pages and resources in HTML5. Currently this is supported by Chrome and Firefox.
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Ceaser is an interactive CSS easing animation tool. It lets you build any kind of ease you want, and comes with many of the Penner Easing Equations.
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Scout is an Adobe AIR app that allows you to run Sass without having to setup Ruby and all the other bothersome things required to get Sass running. It also doesn't require you to have knowledge of the command line to us Sass.
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Improve resized images rendering in browsers with this handy CSS property.
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The Network information API for Javascript would allow developers to test the bandwidth of their users and serve up different content.
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Google gives a report on the speed of websites around the world with mobile vs desktop
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I used to play a game with friends trying to find the shortest path between any article and the World War 2 article on Wikipedia. (I chose WW2 because its huge in scope). I was never aware that other people did something similar to this. This site allows you to find the shortest path between any two articles.
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By default cache manifest files will cache any page that references them in their HTML element. Here's an interesting way to stop that from happening by using a blank iframe.
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Ting is a Mobile phone provider that offers plans with no contracts. They allow you to adjust your plan month to month with no overages. Probably my favorite thing about them is you get to pick your plan ala carte style. The other thing I like is I can get a smart phone without a data plan.
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Believe it or not, my own site nealgrosskopf.com is on the internet map! I'm located near jQuery.com, CSS-Tricks.com and Facebook.com.
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WhoSampled is a cool site that shows what songs sampled beats from other songs. I've found many songs that have sampled songs that have also sampled another song (three generations) which is pretty crazy!
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CSS3P allows you to export Photoshop layer's properties to their equivalent in CSS3.
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The Covers Project is a site that cataloged all of the bands that have covered other band's songs. Often times I have songs that are covers that I wasn't aware of. This site helps me find them.
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Opera announced that they will be switching to using Webkit and V8 for Javascript. This essentially makes the browser more or less the same as Google Chrome.
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The results are in. Here's what you came up with to solve the problem of conditional loading with CSS.
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Chrome Status tracks new features being added to Google Chrome. I've often wondered what the Chrome team was working on and this helps.
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Track prices on Amazon.com with this site. Also includes a browser plugin.
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FindTheData is an objective comparison engine that allows you to find a topic, compare your options and select the best choice for you.
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Congress is on track to beat its own low record of productivity.
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When one employee needs a service dog to work and another employee is allergic to dogs, what%u2019s an employer to do to remain within the law?
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Jeremy Keith linked to an animation I created at work. Sort of cool!
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This Income Rank Quiz Might Change How You See Yourself
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