18 month ago
jimray : Google Gears - a browser plug-in to enable offline web apps - Get your Gmail on the plane! Kinda usurps the offline functionality that was supposed to be part of Firefox 3.0...
Rod Begbie : Google Gears (BETA) - Firefox and IE extension from Google which enables offline webapps. Currently works with Google Reader, but not GMail yet. [via] #
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18 month ago
jimray : Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design - With handy tips on cross browser support
Cameron Moll : Digital Web: Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design - Jeff Croft's chapter from Web Standards Creativity, Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design (republished at Digital Web Magazine), looks like a great primer on PNG usage.
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18 month ago
gleuschk : Helix: a one-floor skyscraper - fantastic
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19 month ago
jimray : Beware the 'blogola' - Since most media organizations have rules around accepting gifts from those looking to curry favor, Hollywood has aimed its spin zone at bloggers. This should be fun to watch.
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19 month ago
jimray : Foreign country + household item = deviant sex act generator! - You can even send in your own definitions of such favorites as the "Haitian hand mixer"
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19 month ago
jimray : Transmedia newspapers - "Print isn't bad, it's fantastic with huge staying power but you've gotta produce something I'm gonna want to keep around." I, frankly, don't really buy the premise that newsprint can ever be anything but disposable, but I do like the compariso
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19 month ago
jimray : More on branding of the VaTech shootings - This was a definite low point in broadcast news
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19 month ago
jimray : El Pais' citizen journalism page looks sharp - Yo! Periodista!
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19 month ago
jimray : Predictions of the Year 2000 from the Ladies Home Journal in 1900 - Some of these are brilliantly prescient, some are sadly off the mark ("There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits.")
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19 month ago
jimray : Digg releases their official API - "Determine whether a story, identified by its URL, has been submitted to Digg and, if so, get details like the number of Diggs and comments it has received" - pretty awesome
deusx : Digg API - "The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg."
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20 month ago
jimray : 'Most E-Mailed' list tearing New York Times' newsroom apart - So. Best.
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20 month ago
jimray : Paleo-Future - a look in to the future that never was - What people in the past thought the future would be like
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20 month ago
jimray : Paul Ford rethinks Harpers.org - 157 years worth of archives, clever topics system, all yours for the low low price of $17/yr, plus you get a dead tree edition
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20 month ago
jimray : Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes - "What I want from my local newspaper"
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20 month ago
jimray : We don’t talk about citizen carpentry - Really excellent feedback to all the "OMg!! newspapers is dying!!1!" wankery of late
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20 month ago
Simon Willison : Modest Maps - Modest Maps. Flash draggable maps library, BSD-licensed. Use it with tiles from OpenStreetMap / NASA / Google / Yahoo! etc or run it against your own tile set.
jimray : Modest Maps - Flash based maps - Pulls in tiled map data from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, NASA, etc. Wicked, wicked cool
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22 month ago
jimray : Google Book Search now integrates maps - See places mentioned in the book on a map.
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25 month ago
jimray : Frog Design has started a blog - Interesting both in the subject and the fact that they're just now starting this
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25 month ago
jimray : Season Shot - Ammo with flavor. - Is this for real?
deusx : Season Shot - Ammo with flavor. - "Season Shot is made of tightly packed seasoning bound by a fully biodegradable food product. The seasoning is actually injected into the bird on impact seasoning the meat from the inside out."
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25 month ago
jimray : Footnote: The place for original source documents online. - Original source documents and tools to use 'em. Nifty.
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