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Digital vs ATL.

Several ways to free-up space on your Mac OS X startup disk, also known as your Mac OS X boot volume.

Good intro to SEO for client-types.

Change Your World is asking you to swap just one car trip from 1-7 July and choose something that's better for the planet instead.

Live Long and Prosper

Someone at Islington Council has a sense of humour.

Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?

Even if you can't avoid an eventual login, it is possible to make the user's login process nearly seamless. Too many sites take a ham-handed, completely traditional approach to logins. You can do much, much better than the abysmal login barrier status quo

Online and dashboard widget

3×5 notecards for studying the patterns in the book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

A Firefox extension that works with FEBE* to package any number of extensions/themes into a single, installable .xpi file.

An extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.

How to prevent Little Snitch messing around with Undercover

This Ain’t No Disco {it’s where we work} invites Agencies from across the world to show us their inner sanctum

Post your tunes to Twitter using FoxyTunes, and more...

TwittyTunes is a FoxyTunes companion Firefox extension - it allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter with a click.

A small, lightweight, free, extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Flock, and Yahoo! Widgets which creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else.

A portfolio directory for web agencies and freelancers

The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup.

Dead handy.

Rather, the user's own identity online on Facebook, would become a personalized portal through which to view the constantly shifting relationships that matter most to that individual.

With Agape, users can create causes, take donations, and recruit members. Whenever someone creates a cause or joins one, it shows up in their news feed for their friends to see.

There is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it is noted in their news stream on their profile. Clicking on the item brings you to the app, where you can add and/or interact with it yourself.

Everything you need to get started building a Facebook Application.

Field Day - Saturday 11th August 2007, Victoria Park, London

With proper PNG support in Internet Explorer 7, and some handy JavaScript and CSS tricks to account for older browsers, we can use PNG images to greatly enhance our design vocabulary.

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

Maven is a framework for managing various aspects of a project, providing its own conventions and tools to meet this end and acting as glue for making existing disparate tools work in a tractable and orderly manner.

A facilitators main task is to ensure that 'everyone goes home with a balloon' after a brainstorm - that they all feel that their pointless lives have been made somehow better by this semi cathartic experience and by the lovely little warm up games that they all played. Not to mention that they all got to vote on the most simplistic and incompetent ideas with a little stash of post it notes like some kind of mutant pin the tail on the donkey game. Facilitators like pariticipants to have a nice time more than they like delivering actionable output.

Capistrano is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with Rails. You simply provide Capistrano with a deployment “recipe” that describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically have single-command deployment.

A free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

How [bloat] happens and what can be done about it.

A blind or a keyboard user not being able to learn about the new sports range of a certain brand is less problematic than the same user not being able to do a money transfer or apply for council benefits.

This isn't specifically about brand strategy or campaign strategy, or any other task. It's about how to go about getting a good idea for whatever you've been tasked to do.

"An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation." Looks ok, but shame it's Mootools and not jQuery (making it useless for us).

A fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.