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Oooh look, the new Cursor Miner album is available from the iTunes store now! The CD is out on June 5th.

Oooh look, the new Cursor Miner album is out June 5th!

Connect with friends and collect funds for a birthday gift, office pool, neighborhood fundraiser or any other group purchase.

"Writing CSS is very much like having sex. Not everyone does it the same way and there is no particular “right” way to do it. I guess for me the similarities actually end there, seeing as writing CSS is something I do every day whereas having sex is

The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"

Simple, proven and low cost water saving device to help conserve water in toilet cisterns. Every time a toilet is flushed the Hippo saves approximately 3 litres of water.

Does anyone know how the development of digital TV will affect the reception of sign language, sub-titling, and audio description services for deaf people and visually impaired viwers respectively?

This report examines the user needs of older and disabled people in relation to digital TV and provides solutions that would make digital TV equipment more suitable and usable for them.

I was not prepared for the amount of responses I got to my last article. There really are two camps - and they sit around fires making pointy sticks.

"What I and many many others have discovered is that using the prototype object on the Array and Object inbuilt types increases the chances that your code will conflict with existing or external code. It makes your code not play well with others, so once

A Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

Hamachi allows you to share your iTunes library with a few mouse clicks (and only with people you know so it won’t destroy your bandwidth).

Second the XBox w/modchip. Easy to use, turns on and off like any device, install as big a hard drive as you like, FTP any video formats over to it (or play directly over the LAN), plays back up to 1080i.

No hotkey, no extra steps, drag and drop the programs on your Windows taskbar by simply... well, dragging and dropping them

Including plugins for ICO files.

I want to get into making electronic music on my PC. What software should I purchase for ambient moody pop stuff? Any help greatly appreciated!

Trying to build a scalable, maintainable, and extendable user experience on bad markup is like building a house on quicksand.

a Ruby on Rails Subversion Browser [making] heavy use of “AJAX” technology to give it that live application-like feel.

The list is not specific to any particular type of development position, but I tried to balance it between both the design/html/usability side of things and the back-end/database/programming side.

"This foundational CSS file offers cross-browser normalization of the default rendering of HTML elements. It also removes common default presentation such as bolding of strong elements, helping to ensure that all style is declared intentionally and that e

A suite of seven web page templates and the ability to nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those templates.

Skip Link Pros and Cons

CSS Formatter and Optimiser (based on csstidy 1.1)

"Using a Definiton List and the DOM to create a nice FAQ page where clicking on the DTs (the questions) "toggles" the associated DDs (the answers)."

"Regularly-updated succinct compilations of the most important information on web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly upda

"A rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly d

Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This site explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you.

Glaucoma Research Foundation has a really well-written accessibility statement.

A live demo of Opera Mini that functions exactly like it would when installed on a handset. Be advised that clicking on the screen does not work, instead use the phone's keypad.

A free software development kit [featuring] the latest versions of the Openwave® Mobile Browser and Openwave® Mobile Messaging Client, as well as documentation and sample code for authoring wireless applications using XHTML/CSS and MMS-SMIL.

An open source PHP Application Framework

"I wanted a robust javascript validation library that was simple to implement and didn't require me do any extra work other than creating the form. My favourite idea for a method of doing this is to utilise the field elements' class attribute to indicate

"While Azureus and µTorrent both have built-in RSS parsing and downloading features, Ted is the most user-friendly, simplest solution I’ve seen for downloading television on a schedule, and since all it does is download the torrent and open it in your

Add your favourite tv shows to ted and ted will automatically download torrents of new episodes!

It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it comes to experience on the web, there’s no better way to create it than to write, and write well.

The production of wine also throws up a number of concerns, with the reality often far from the bucolic idyll of lore.

Digital UK TV spots featuring Matt Lucas.

Television in the UK is going digital, bringing us all more choice and new services. Digital UK, the not-for-profit organisation set up by the public service broadcasters, is here to help.

Ajax accessibility. I knew nothing about it, so I ran some user tests and presented original research.

"For all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.

"Although many of us web professionals just 'kinda know' that AJAX is bad for web accessibility, when pushed many would not be able to say exactly why or how certain screen readers cope with content that's been changed using AJAX (or using DOM Scripting m

"[A] little bit of Perl scripting lets you take the HTML from one page, add the styles of another, and end up with a hideously mutated beast that can sometimes be amusing, sometimes be revealing, but most of the time looks like a fourth generation hillbil

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"Does the attribute/value set rel="external" provide a useful addition to navigation for those who might make use of other instances of the rel attribute? Or is it simply a case that it uses the rel convention without actually adding anything substantial

Top 5 reasons why you should beware of opening links in a new window.

When using PC-native file formats such as PDF or spreadsheets, users feel like they're interacting with a PC application. Because users are no longer browsing a website, they shouldn't be given a browser UI.