Monthly Archives: September 2009

Opacity supports “Export to Canvas”

Looks like I may be able to soon replace Adobe Fireworks as my image editing tool of choice for the web. Ajaxian recently featured a new tool called Opacity, and if you follow through to their website, you’ll find a … Continue reading

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Daily Tip: Chrome for OSX

If you can’t wait to get your hands on Chrome for OSX, go download a Chromium nightly build, unzip, and copy to your Applications folder. At first glance, it doesn’t appear much different from Safari, which isn’t too surprising since … Continue reading

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The Reason RSS Cloud Can Work Now

Rogers Cadenhead recently wrote a post “The Reason RSS Cloud Failed to Catch On“. In this he argues that RSS Cloud is not sustainable when it begins to scale to thousands of users needing to receive pings every time a … Continue reading

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Cloud Enabled

Today WordPress.com announced RSS Cloud support for all their hosted blogs. Not to be left out of the party, I also installed the RSS Cloud plugin on this blog. RSS Cloud is an ancient RSS element (in web 2.0 years) … Continue reading

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Auto-versioning JavaScript & CSS files

As JavaScript becomes a more integral part to the core functionality of websites, ensuring that a user has a fresh copy of the latest code is as important as ever. Normally a browser will cache certain filetypes (CSS, JS, JPG, … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing Music Videos

I just came across one of the coolest music videos I’ve ever seen, and the beauty of it? It was made by a fan, just for the fun of it. Incredible. Link: Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew. … Continue reading

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