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Interesting. Sort of like a peer-to-peer cvs or svn.
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Even if you don’t use the downloading utility, they also have a conversion utility that can convert avi and mpeg to the Tivo format.
links for 2006-03-25
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A location tagging social network service using Google Maps. Or something like that.
links for 2006-03-24
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Here’s a pretty good technique for vertical centering in CSS. My problem right now is that I can’t get it to play nice with the footerStickAlt technique that nails a footer to the bottom of the page.
links for 2006-03-23
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The third generation of the Nifty Corners technique. Groovy.
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Clothing with pre-pixelated logos, so that TV producers don’t have to pixelate them in video production.
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Another nifty javascript library, based on Behaviour.
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I want one of those!
links for 2006-03-18
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This might be good to have around to help our kids study for tests.
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Cool electronic components for DIY projects
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I once suggested to the Slashdot guys that they should do something like this. They could mitigate the Slashdot Effect somewhat by seeding the distributed cache, then link to the cached version of a page. As far as I know, they haven’t done it, though.
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Dynamically change your web site’s favicon.
links for 2006-03-17
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Favelets live
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Interesting… Create macros to automate actions in Firefox.
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A collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download
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More CSS templates
links for 2006-03-16
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A Firefox extension that can detect and display microformats used in a web page
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It’s going to be very interesting to see what other services start hooking into this. It’s not free, but it’s affordable enough for developers to play with it.
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How to tunnel SSH over HTTP, which can bypass even Layer 7 firewalls.
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Every week, there’s a free audio download from iTunes. This blog tracks them all and gives you an easy link to the current free tune.
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I would *so* love to have one of these! I miss playing my trumpet, but I’m afraid if I tried to practice at home these days, the dog would commit seppuku. However, it doesn’t look like the mouthpiece works like a real trumpet, so it might not be as useful
Linkitude
The previous post was the first on this site that was auto-generated by the del.icio.us “daily blog posting” feature. Geof has been doing this for a while, and I was already planning to do something like this on my own eventually, anyhow. But I hadn’t gotten a round tuit yet, and since I ran across a couple of links reminding me about this del.icio.us service yesterday, I decided to try it out. I’ve had a list of my most recent del.icio.us bookmarks in my sidebar for a long time now, but using the daily post feature will accomplish two positive things for me: it brings those bookmarks to my readers’ attention better, and it creates more frequent postings for my blog, even when I don’t have time to explicitly write something up.
There are two additional features that I wish it had. First, it would be nice if you had some control over the title of the post. As it is, it uses something like “links for 2006-03-15”. This is redundant, because the date is already on the post, and I’ve got them going into a category named “links”. It would also be nice to be able to have more control over the semantics of the links. For example, I’d like the links to use the rel-tag microformat. I might just need to whip up a plugin for that…
links for 2006-03-15
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This service helps you grab local copies of streaming videos.
Zeldman on WordPress
Web guru extraordinaire, Jeffrey Zeldman, has spent the last 11 years hand-coding his web site and RSS feeds. No more —Zeldman has switched to WordPress. Now I’m even more miffed that I won’t get to attend AEA Atlanta.
So, why did Zeldman choose WordPress? Not because it’s open source. Not because it’s free. He chose WordPress because it lets him write his content without getting in the way.
To the extent that a content management system can, WordPress thinks like a writer. The workflow is intuitive enough not to trip me up when I’m halfway into an idea. It stays out of my way, giving me only the tools I need, and only when I need them.
In WordPress, it’s easy to create and edit categories, easy to write themelines for all my categories at once, and even easy to tell when I’m writing too many words for the page — because WordPress also thinks like a designer.
He also cites the “live preview” and XHTML compliant output as features that he finds useful. I think that all of us who have ever worked on WordPress have our chests stuck out a little more than usual today. Hey, Matt — say hi to the Z-man for me at SXSW, okay?