The newest buzz is all about the new Google Gears Beta. As I was talking about in a recent article about JavaFX, the big challenge for the moment has been making web applications viewable off-line, but not in the way that JavaFX wants to. The…
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There is a new design competition started by the Weblog Tools Collections that has stirred up a little curiosity. This is design, ala CSS Zen Garden style, will ask designers to create styles for the new version of the WordPress Sandbox theme from PlainText.org. That…
Codswallop created a list of 100 web applications that are useful for Freelancers, something that’s being called the Freelancer’s Toolkit. It’s a great resource. The list begins at 100, but if you peek into the comments on the page, you’ll see users who have added…
WordPress 2.2 was released a few days ago, and in that time I’ve been looking at the new system version to see what may have been done that will affect all the designs I have running on WP. In the last couple of years, WordPress…
One of the phrases that seems to be on peoples lips during the last few days has been the new JavaFX. In a nutshell, JavaFX is a new method to create rich internet applications. There is an article on Internet News praising JavaFX and declaring…
You know which I mean – "The Survey". If you don’t know what I mean, you haven’t checked your feed reader on recent ‘A List Apart’ posts 😉 Ok, enough silliness. A List Apart has decided to do their first survey (to be repeated annually).…
Digg has been at the forefront of a pretty significant controversy in recent days, and there were two obvious ways to react for them to react — amusingly enough, they did both. It all started with someone who posted a series of HEX numbers and…
According to recently released numbers from XiTi, Firefox use in Europe has jumped another 5 points in the last year (since April 2006). From 19.4% in the week of April 8 to 14, 2006, Firefox’ use rate in Europe increased to 24.1% in the week…
This may be the height of geekiness, and it is a bit random, but I ran across this notice in my WordPress dashboard today: Rod McFarland came up with a Commodore 64 theme for WordPress. Now before you start laughing at why I find this…
If you have visited the blog lately, you may have noticed that the design has changed rather significantly. It’s not entirely done, and I’m tweaking things as I come across them, but I’m rather pleased with how it’s coming along so far. The theme is…