Links from 2007

"Calibrate the battery in your MacBook or MacBook Pro every month or two to keep your battery functioning at its fullest capacity." Unexpected hassle.

"In this post, we will demonstrate with charts and real data several behavioral patterns related to scrolling." No such thing as the fold - useful background for this POV.

A free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text.

Paste your CSS into the field below, the specificity of your selectors will be calculated for you.

Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren't used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant.

The one-stop resource for tumblelog information, setup, modifacation, themes, or anything else.

Good question but from the responses it would seem not.

Which is better for my shiny new Mac?

Download the self-extracting executable, double-click, and place the resulting 'django' folder in a convenient location. You can even carry it around with you on a USB thumb drive.

"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.

isolatr beta

“Helping you find where other people aren’t.”

"I'm designing a small site for a restaurant, and all my client will really need to do is replace the content on existing pages (menus, reviews, news/events) rather than adding and archiving lots of content. My dream solution would also have a pretty simp

Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.

(via bazookagum024)

Name and design your player, then fill it with videos from your videos or playlists. Once you've generated the embed code and saved the player, you can copy and paste the code to your website or blog.

Viral for Condom Essential Wear's Private Dick Movie.

I created this video last night. The music is a song called “Zukunft” by Estonian band Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot, which I also discovered while surfing around the web last night.

A free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar. Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)

It may very well be that Second Life is over-hyped or ill-conceived for business purposes. Even if so, however, it’s not due to the five provably bogus claims.

The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.

"It was a leap of faith. By mid-2006, Matt Webb and Jack Schulze had been meandering along, doing a few jobs together and talking about "crazy ideas"."

That seems like a future for the music industry, doesn't seem a bad future. Just not a lot of role in it for large record companies.

gelato is a tumblelog CMS built on AJAX, PHP and MySQL.

Ooh, a new album from the Schnauss!

'lori' can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Useful for web developers who are working on profiling, optimizing a web site.

Based on the paradoxical notion that anarchists have to be more organized than average if they don’t want to depend on power structures, and presents some ideas on how to kick the boss habit.

Coke works hard to leverage their brand in the real world and are now opening up the options for their brand to be extended virtually - an importantly - by other people. In a way, this is user-generated NPD.

Following my post yesterday about delaying the loading of avatar images to cut down on HTTP requests I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to resort to a server side solution.

When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...

Over the next few weeks – to celebrate and, yes, promote his new novel Spook Country – we’re planning a range of William Gibson activities in Second Life.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer we've asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation.

A Web-based subversion browser that doesn't suck

When you see your client's pubic bone, something has changed.

Client wants a website, Agency wants a client, but Client wants something for nothing and to see other agencies. What’s Agency to do?

LastGraph is a wavegraph generator for Last.fm. Give us a username and some dates, and our highly-trained rendering servers will crunch away and produce a lovely graph of your listening habits.