Links from 2008

Makes it quick and easy to share your [mercurial] repositories.

Interesting2007 was a conference that happened on the 15th June at the Conway Hall, London. This site isn't so much an archive of the event as a collation of the traces and remains it's left scattered over the internet.

While artists and their handlers devote massive attention to the Web site and MySpace, the Wikipedia page is often overlooked. Recent data suggests they may want to reconsider their priorities.

Handy list.

Useful for the list of frameworks.

When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.

We’ve just published 26,456,448 hListings on Kelkoo. [...] Alongside that gigantic number, we’ve also published 6500 hcards for the details of our merchants and stores; the companies listing the products on Kelkoo.

A jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).

Like someone’s mashed together a Cursor Miner track with a Venetian Snares track then used the results to soundtrack a video starring an ultra-evil version of General Zod. With Game Boys.

Or something.

HUORATRON 2 RULE THEM ALL

jessandnick:

For some reason I know Paul will love this…

Hell yes.

The separation between advertisers and content creators is deteriorating incredibly quickly. It’s this situation that leads people to say things like “recorded music is nothing but marketing material to drive awareness of an artist”.

— Bobbie Johnson

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.

Make mixtapes that play anywhere.

The following is a summary of how I created a dual boot setup of OS X Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4) on a MacBook Pro, keeping the original Tiger installation intact and available through alt/option booting during system startup.

I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

It seems these days there are lots of conversations that have moved to Twitter. Quotably aims to make these conversations easier to follow.

Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.

wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone.

This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning.

Git kicking it OS X style

A free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

The world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information. Everything you ever wanted to know about every handset on the planet.

"Functionality, utility [...] brings a different level of engagement from consumers [...] Because it helps [people] to get something done, they come to them with a different mindset than they do marketing communications that interrupts, whether a TV comme

Legible London

“A scheme to provide better information throughout the capital for people who want to walk.”

Chinwag's monthly snapshot of market conditions, career satisfaction, salary views, and more.

Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. He said: "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me."

I’m particularly looking forward to “Sticking out your leg”.

Thanks, Nick!

Ranty but potentially useful basis for discussing the issues faced with all-Flash sites.

Not a fan of this approach but could be handy in certain circumstances

Lets your friends start downloading your shared files as soon as you start uploading them, making the entire sharing process much faster.

Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail.

What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.

The 10th annual ‘Better connected’ review of every UK council website from the local government Society of IT Management (Socitm), published this month, has revealed an alarming picture of falling standards.