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Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync is a handy extension for firefox that lets you synchronise bookmarks, passwords, history and session tabs across firefox on different PCs. I set up Fedora Core 5 on my laptop last week and being able to have my existing desktop bookmarks and cookies instantly available on the laptop has eliminated an [...]
Links for Monday 29 May 2006
Gabbly: “Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage. ItÂ’s free to use on your personal page or commercial webpage.”
The Nine Minute Waxy Widget. Using Dashcode.
How to backup your mac intelligently. Great food for thought about your backup strategy.
MappingService: an OSX service which takes highlighted addresses and puts them [...]
Links for Wednesday 24 May 2006
The Dojo Toolkit in Practice
Painless Javascript using Prototype
Xcode 2.3 has been released. It’s a 915MB download though.
Links for Wednesday 17 May 2006
Microsummaries. “Microsummaries are better than page titles at labeling bookmarks because they give users quicker access to the most interesting information behind a bookmark and provide sites with a way to notify users of updates and entice them to revisit the site.”
They’re available in the Bon Echo alpha. I’ve also been trying out the trunk [...]
Links for Tuesday May 16 2006
Chickenfoot for firefox: “The goal of Chickenfoot is to enable users to automate and customize web pages without viewing their HTML source. A key step toward this goal is enabling users to identify page elements with words they see in the page rather than the page author’s name for the element.”
TextMate: Setup tutorial and Basics [...]
Links for Sunday May 14 2006
iondb: this is a cross-platform app for consuming all manner of podcasts. The critical difference from existing apps is that iondb also makes it simple to create your own playlists and share them. via Lucas Gonze.
End to end unicode web applications in python.
A Survey of Open Source Apps Available for Mac OS [...]
Links for Thursday May 11 2006
A PHP 4 compatible class for working with Amazon’s S3 web service. Amazon includes some sample ruby and python bindings, and both Matt Croydon and Adrian Holovaty detail their own python-based implementations.
How C.R.A.P is your site design? Mike Rundle walks through the 4 golden rules of site design.
An example of using the canvas tag [...]
Zoomin
At last, a decent mapping application for Australia with street level granularity and a beautiful interface: Zoomin.
It’s nice to see the emergence of an app by antipodean developers who are obviously clueful about the modern web. I say this because the options until now for utilizing map data in Australia have been both clunky [...]