Links from 2007

Install the latest versions of your current applications (many are rolling out Leopard updates), clean up your hard drive, uninstall unneeded software, run the Apple hardware test and repair your hard drive using Disk Utility.

A cross-platform viewer that downloads all revisions of a file and lets you scroll through them by dragging a slider.

A tiny jQuery extension that logs the current jQuery selection to the firebug console.

Useful comments on the last100 "Five ways the music industry can prevent its own demise." article

I'm looking for music artists (individuals or bands) who are selling their own music via digital downloads (with some specific qualifications)

A heuristic approach to version control, unit testing, and app deployment.

Can we encourage and direct desire in a way that satisfies people's desire to consume (and therefore allows businesses to charge them money for something and keep the wheels of capitalism turning) without creating endless torrents of new stuff.

"When building a web site with HTTPS pages, one of the annoying tasks is to ensure that those pages make no references to HTTP resources. If they do, then Internet Explorer will pop up alarming messages about mixing secure and insecure content". Great tip

"An open source PHP-based online shopping cart system." Out-of-the-box HTML doesn't look that nice.

Site5 hosting customer wiki.

Provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC.

Version 3.5 isn't a minor upgrade - it offers a ton of new features, improvements and fixes. It could easily have been called TopStyle 4.0

WWF-UK: Get on Board

“We’re going to construct a giant paper boat and giant paper plane and deliver them to parliament. They will be covered in the names of the people who have pledged their support for our call for a strong, effective Climate Change Bill.”

Supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.

Is it Christmas?

Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it easy to share changes. Done right, you can get the best of both worlds: simple merging and centralized releases.

"Most Subversion developers are well aware of the cool new ground being broken by DVCS, and there’s already a lot of discussion out there to “evolve” Subversion 2.0 in those directions. However, [...] the challenge before us is to keep Subversion si

The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.

“intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.”

visualcomplexity.com

xmaschartattack – Groups at Last.fm

“We searched the site and found three up-and-coming bands we know are a million times better than anything Simon Cowell will inflict on us. We want you to decide which one we take into the Christmas Charts this year.”

"HelloTxt was born with the aim of centralizing the insertion of messages in more services with the advantage of getting more presences and more possibilities that is read what is written." Possibly evil.

Interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag.

OXJAM – Oxfam’s biggest ever music festival

“A music festival with a difference. Across the UK, from now until the end of October, people like you will be putting on Oxjam music events to raise money for Oxfam.”

"We should make an effort to create accessible content, because it’s part of our job. And frankly, it doesn’t take much effort; it’s not difficult." First sentence yay! Second sentence wrong. It's hard doing it properly.

The main objective of this group is to collect all the interesting tools related to music stats that are scattered around last.fm

title attribute: just say no, ta.

"Teams are so fluid, project work is chaotic and project management is driven by marketing considerations (read: "get it out", not "enterprise stability") that site performance is seen as a server hardware issue."

Tekkonkinkreet

Anime with a Plaid soundtrack.

"Prague Bar is noted for having London's largest selection of premium czech lagers. Traditional czech bar snacks are available throughout day." Kingsland Road; sounds worth a visit.

30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood.

"The way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of bits is not the same way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of atoms. One cannot seek to replace the other. It simply jostles it about a bit in the mix of avail

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer's Web site is inaccessible to the blind, according to court documents.

"Where do Apple put "#" on their UK keyboards? "alt"+"3"." For some reason this just won't stick in my head between sessions.

If you have pre-ordered or intend to order the download version of Radiohead's new album In Rainbows and are curious to know what price others chose, take part in the survey.

"What's more encouraging about the internet and music are the ways that the smaller bands and less well known musicians can find new ways to have careers and offer their music. One lovely example is this site from Erik Friedlander, promoting his Block Ice

A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music.

Our self-serve solution optimizes your ad space by matching ads to networks that make you the most money.

I’ve discovered a grim-faced resistance movement amongst dozens of tiny record labels determined to hang onto physical packaging and expressive cover art, no matter what.

The future of record labels and why online battle of the band competitions produce “an endless reservoir of shit”.

"NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution. NoSquint also remembers the zoom level per site (though you can disable that).

Getting tired of the S60 calculator? We were, so we made our own. Using some of the concepts that make ControlFreak so easy to use, we removed the need to select on-screen buttons and moved all the operations to the joystick.

Turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier, and fax. * Clean photos of documents, whiteboards and business cards. * Extract any text and contact information * Store, search and share online"

Displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.

"Make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document." Been doing this for a while - had lost the original source.

Asking users to input their email address and password from a third-party site like GMail or Yahoo Mail is completely unacceptable. Here’s why: It teaches people how to be phished.

Five alternative models for selling music, many of which are actually being tested by artists, entrepreneurs, and even the major record labels themselves.