Links from 2007

A beta release of the new GUI of the ContactOffice Virtual Office

Twingly screensaver is visualizing the global blog activity in real time.

Synchronizes your contacts between your mobile, pda, home pc, work pc, and third party applications.

"Enter your last.fm and upcoming.org usernames and we'll keep track of the artists you listen to and let you know if they're coming to your town." Shame it's broken.

The application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken.

Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform. Build on Amazon's suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications.

Let others view your office documents on the web without using Microsoft applications

ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off.

May have been the poor presentation but I'm having trouble getting excited about quotations.

BT Contact is in private beta and is currently limited to BT employees only. If you enter a non-BT.com email address you will be invited to join the public beta when it becomes available.

The Future Of Web Apps 2007 kicked off in London today with a host of speakers from various startups, bigcos, media outlets and associated businesses."

For quite some time the methodologies of how best to deal with acronyms and abbreviations on the web have been discussed by developers the world over. We seek the best practices and hope to serve all of our visitors with something of use.

Use BaseJumpr to export your Basecamp project data and files and host them on activeCollab, an open source project management solution similar to Basecamp.

allows you to select rectangular areas on <DIV> or <IMG> elements, calculate selection coordinates, display them or send them to the server.

This document will summarize the level of support for web standards and maturing technologies in popular web browsers. It covers the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera web browsers, with focus on the HTML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript technologies.

"Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Nicely done.

A smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more.

Visual decoration had to be kept to minimum. For me, this mean forgoing any heavy visual treatment of the header or inclusion of a mark or logo. [...] I would have to rely on typography, the grid, and whitespace to create an aesthetically pleasing experie

Have you ever wondered how much it's costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 users to 100, or 1000? Applying patterns that help coordinate peoples' efforts and guide the growth of content can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.

The Aerogarden. How noisy? How hackable? Any alternatives that are also "easy" enough for my non-specialist friends?

Instead of going here, there and everywhere to see all the content you create on the web, combine it all into one master feed using with the newly-launched Yahoo! Pipes.

Applying a number to page loading speed is always suspect, and I’ve generally applied the metric of making sure that people can continue their task within 10 seconds on a reasonable connection (56k+). That doesn’t mean the page has loaded, but that en

Creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.

Aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

"For years, 'Dr' Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in." Nice one!

Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.

A social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations.

Take the best features from applications like Trac, Collaboa, and GForge, then sprinkle in a few features from Mephisto and Typo.

"People ask me, "How can I get our employees to be passionate about the company?" Wrong question. Passion for our employer, manager, current job? Irrelevant. Passion for our profession and the kind of work we do? Crucial."

assesses the browser support for various markup-based embedding methods. It includes information on parameters including support for different Flash publish settings, streaming, and scriptability.

We provide everything you’ll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow.

There’s one aspect of URL design that is often ignored. Good URLs should be unambiguous. By that, I mean that any logical piece of content should have one and only one definitive URL, with any alternatives acting as a permanent redirect.

Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed

This lets google crawl the page, lets me access the whole site without a password, and lets my client access the page WITH a password. It also allows for XHTML and CSS validation! (w3.org)

"Having just turned 50 - and with my last visit to a doctor somewhere in the 1970s - I thought that getting some checks like this might be a very good idea. My NHS GP agreed, although explained that, as I wasn't displaying any worrying symptoms, I would h

Phone contract from Friends of the Earth and Woodland Trust.

I’ve done my best to migrate away from traditional documentation methods and find ways that actual help others visualize what the end product should look like.

How do you get people to use the company's internal blog?

Adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of the application that will be switched to.