It started with the fuss last October over Srybe’s supposed offline features, continued with the announcement of the Dojo Offline Toolkit in January (Dojo is an JavaScript library for creating AJAX applications), and with today’s announcement on the Google Web Toolkit blog, it’s certain: offline applications are coming soon!
This means that your favorite web apps [...]
I’ve been recommending that people planning a visit to an unfamiliar location search for photos in flickr ever since I saw Gridskipper’s Flickr Guide to the Planet over two years ago.
It occurred to me this morning that if we can so easily travel through space, why can’t we travel through time? And then space and [...]
I have to admit that when I first heard about Twitter, I really didn’t get it. I joined, poked around, and promptly ignored it for a few months. For those of you aren’t immersed in the trendy web tech culture, Twitter is a microblogging site where millions of people use the web, IM, or SMS [...]
Today I discovered Google Browser Sync. I can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before!
Browser Sync is a Firefox extension that allows you to easily share your tabs, history, bookmarks, passwords, and cookies between computers. Yes, you do store all of this information on Google’s servers, but you can choose to encrypt it and you [...]
We all know and love the child selector hack to use one set of margins in IE6 and one set in Firefox. Naturally, IE7 came along and broke it!
If you define your margins properly and they still have extra whitespace in IE7, check to see if you are using the XHTML Transitional DTD.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC [...]
I just fell in love with Sloog, a system to tag locations in Second Life. The first question that people ask after they learn to walk and adjust their appearance is, “Where do I go?”
Sloog is one tool to answer that question. You can tag places with your own notation, and search through other people’s [...]
I often hear from designers and client-side developers who are interested in adding more dynamic content to their sites, but have not yet learned server-side coding skills. That’s why I think that apps like Instacomment fill an important niche! With Instacomment, you put a PHP file on your site and a JavaScript snippet in your [...]
I just acquired an awesome new Lenovo Thinkpad on which to play with Second Life (and do demos and presentations, of course :). The machine came with Vista for Business, which appears to actually work rather well in spite of seeming like the unplanned love child of Windows XP and OS X.
The only application that [...]