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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.

An open source, fast incremental backup program

Every once in a while, you might try something completely off the wall and gain big traction, as long as you find a way to deliver value beyond the hype.

When it comes to creating a successful international website, language isn’t everything. Many other factors come into play, all of which require knowledge about your target market.

A technique for integrating Subversion development with your issue tracking system.

" Popular screen readers use a virtual buffer to allow users to interact with web content. This article uncovers undocumented behaviour in JAWS 7.1 and later, which allows web developers to build Ajax applications that update the virtual buffer without a

Heuristic evaluation is a technique that involves analysing the usability of a website against a set of general usability precepts.

"Spicy, paprika-infused Spanish pork sausages". So yeah, the vegetarian thing is going well so far.

Hurrah, James is blogging again!

The how, what and where of recycling in the United Kingdom.

In a two-part article (Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1), Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2)) published on Digital Web Magazine, Chris Heilmann explains some accessibility mistakes he has encountered and how Web developers can avoid them.

For the visual designer, really understanding web standards means you’ll have to change the way you think about design.

The space between major elements in a composition is “macro whitespace.” Micro whitespace, is [...] the space between smaller elements: between list items, between a caption and an image, or between words and letters.

224 screenshots showing the effects of various CSS rules applied to form controls.

See how your email newsletters look in a wide range of different email clients, and webmail systems.

A full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

We should try and make it a decent resource for planners and brand-thinkers around the world.