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a jQuery plugin for creating modal dialogs. Has some pretty advanced features despite the SimpleModal name.
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Presentation by the creator of Ruby on problems with the language. Interesting browse.
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A javascript plugin that will track specified sites that a user has visited by checking to see whether CSS changes the link color. Interesting possiblities here for showing/hiding links to services that a visitor uses (like Digg) but there are some priv
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A reasonably priced service to store files for off-site backup. Comparable prices to Amazons3 and comes with a WebDAV interface. But just doesn’t give me the warm fuzzy of longevity that Amazon does.
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A free, opensource, software app that keeps track of your accounts and passwords for an unlimited number of services. The problem is that if you use multiple computers all your passwords don’t come with you…
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Advice to college-age students about what to do while they have the chance and lack of obligations/tie-downs. Hindsight is 20/20, of course. This blog also has some other interesting articles on life as a traveler.
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A very interesting idea implmented as a FireFox plugin. It’s a platform for being able to create views of a web page (shifts) for communication and collaboration about the content, adding to it or slicing and reorganizing it. There’s also a facility for
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Comparison of the paradigm changing nature of the Apple IIe with the possibilities of using Greasemonkey to control your user experience of the web. Introduction to ShiftSpace, an application that allows you to create your own views of the web. Thought
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A tool, currently in alpha, which allows you to test a web page in several different versions of IE (5.5 - 8 beta) at once, something you couldn’ t do previously since the versions are incompatible and can’t live on the same box together. It’s not perfec
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A semantic web project that is a structured database of pieces of knowledge linked to each other. Searching on bits of that knowledge returns back hits with the missing details filled in. Context is applied by the links. A lot of potential here.
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A list of useful Yahoo Pipes. It always feels like that is a service that’s missing it’s potential.
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A CSS framework that promotes standard print typographical rules. Base on the 960 Grid System. It allows easy user resizing of text because it’s standardized on EMs. It also supports “vertical rhythm” ensuring that all lines of text line up horizontall
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How to meet interesting people, forge friendships and build communities despite being an introvert. David does a great job of describing the situation for introverts and explaining how he learned to get over those hurdles and meet people.
