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Category Archives: Websites

I Have No Friends

So I signed up for Facebook the other day. I haven’t done much with it beyond search for a few people, so I can’t really comment on it yet. So far it looks pretty cool, though. I noticed, on my profile screen after signing in for the first time, that Facebook declares I have no […]

Digital Music

I’ve always been a far of buying CDs over downloading music. It is partly because I’m often not very good about backing up my computer files and I fear loosing my music collection, partly because I haven’t wanted to give up valuable space on my computer for storing those files, and partly because I’ve always […]

Quickly See How Your Pages Will Look on a Mac

I came across the SafariTest tool yeasterday and thought it was worth a mention. Pretty simple to use—give it a URL and the site renders your page in Apple’s Safari browser and sends you a screenshot. At work I have access to Macs to test my sites on, but when I do freelance work at […]

If I Were a Lego

A while ago I posted a link to a Comedy Central South Park character creator that I used to design what I would look like if I were on South Park. Today I discovered another great time waster that lets you build yourself as a plastic model, simila to the Lego people that we all […]

TinyMCE is a great little editor

I just discovered a cool new WYSIWYG editor for web browsers called TinyMCE. It is entirely driven with JavaScript—no special plugins or applets required—and it replaces <textarea> tags on teh page at runtime, so it integrates seemlessly into existing apps while non-compliant browsers continue to show the textarea. With about 5 minutes of work I […]

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