Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-29:

• Tooltip.js
• PHP: mysql_insert_id - Manual
• VoiceOver and Safari: Screen reading on the Mac
  One of the most interesting features of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, the newest version of Apple’s operating system, is VoiceOver, a built-in screen reader.
• A web professional can never stop learning
  Just in the last couple of days I have read no less than three articles that all bring up something I have felt for a long time: Web professionals who refuse to update their skills and insist on using outdated methods can no longer be called web professio
• IE 5 Mac: CSS bugs and oddities
  css bugs and errors in IE5 for macintosh
• Read/WriteWeb: Do Entrepreneurs Dream of Electric XML?

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-28:

• evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups
• IFILM - Music Videos: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Into My Arms -
• QuirksBlog: The New Amateurs (Part One)
  Basically the idea is that any web developer who refuses to learn CSS and modern, unobtrusive JavaScript, either from ignorance or from a refusal to break old habits, is no longer worthy of the name "professional".
• QuirksBlog: The New Amateurs (Part 2)
• Turn a Client Site into Saleable Software [Work Smarter]

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-27:

• Tantek’s commentary on CSS hacks
• A List Apart: The Perfect 404
• NPR : NPR Live Concert Series
• tvtorrent.info
  bittorrent downloads of television programs

So friday night there was a fire in downtown Annapolis. Andrea and I found out about it on saturday morning, but it explained all the helicopters and such we had heard the night before. A five-alarm fire broke out in three attached historic buildings on main street after an electrical short in the walls of one of them. There were two things about this that I found interesting.

The first is that the story got coverage on WashingtonPost.com, the Baltimore Sun’s website and MSNBC, but NEVER made it to the front page of the Annapolis local newspaper’s website (caution java applets and no redesigns since 1999 ahead). Who even right now, after they’ve declared that one of the 3 buildings is condemned and needs to be torn down today is featuring this as the top story on their homepage: “Santa is sailing into town!”

The second is that by the next morning, there were already photos of it on Flickr in the Annapolis photo group. Not in that “things get on flickr fast” kind of way but in that “wow, some people here really do use technology” way.

Update: A couple more pieces about the fire…

• WUSA: Investigations Continue Into Historic Annapolis Blaze
• Firehouse.com: Annapolis, Maryland Five-Alarm Fire Damage May Be in Millions
• WBAL video piece (page only works right in IE)

Update Two: Bruce Godfrey has posted Annapolis Main Street Fire - A Personal Account over on his blog.

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-26:

• Root.net
• Create graphics the smart way with PHP
• Fire Spread Quickly In Downtown Annapolis - News - MSNBC.com
• RSS directory, viewer and resource site
• TagCloud
  TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.
• TechCrunch » Root.Net’s “Lead” Market

A couple pieces fround via The Chutry Experiment, specifically his rundown on Mobile Video stuff from the other day.

• TV [Networks] consider legal action against TiVo
• PaidContent: TV Networks Mulling Legal Action Against Tivo For iPod Service
• Buy your video iPod… preloaded

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-25:

• Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days - Table of Contents
• REST/AHAH
  AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS.
• Graflex Graphic 35
  One of my great-grandfather’s cameras my parents gave us when Andrea and I went over for thanksgiving.
• Howto CAMERA/Graphic 35
  Basic operations with the Graflex Graphic 35
• CSS branching techniques

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-24:

• freesound
  The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.
• Mixxx
  Mixxx is an open source tool designed for DJ’ing for both professional and semi-professional users.
• PHOCOA - PHP Web Application Development Framework
• TagTools
  TagTools is a simple Ruby library for managing folksonomy tags within Rails applications. It supports tagging of any number of database tables.
• Squelly
  Watching and working with new Web “memes” working with Web2.0, RSS and social aspects of the web.
• JpGraph - PHP Graph Creating Library
• Dipsie dCloak
  dCloak is Dipsie’s first commercialized product focused on improving search engine technologies as a whole. It’s dedicated to making information available for search engine users, regardless of where they want to search, and identifying what words mean an
• The Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley Foundation, Inc.
• O3: The Open Source Enterprise Data Networking Magazine
• trend sweet trend - SterryIT.com
• SurfAnnapolis.com - Your Guide to Annapolis, MD
• Visit Annapolis - Annapolis, Maryland - Annapolis and Anne Arundel County CVB

I know you’ve always said the “signal was weak” here in our apartment, and used that as an excuse whenever there was a problem with our cable modem. So why is it that periodic outages (as in, about every hour the internet will cut out for about 5 minutes) based on our “signal strength” have just started in the last three or four days?

It seems I’m having a lot of “No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out” errors, just like in this thread from broadbandreports.

Dear (what I assume to be mostly Mac-based) Web/CSS designers.

I really do agree with the groups of you out there that like Helvetica, I think it’s a wonderful font family. However, I think you should all be aware that it renders like ass poorly in Firefox and IE for windows regardless of the “font smoothing” settings I choose for my system.

So, seriously, consider giving something a little more “mainstream” (and/or designed for screen use instead of print) a shot. I know, Arial is lame, but have you tried giving Verdana or Tahoma (at an equally small size) a shot lately?

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-23:

• OpenID: an actually distributed identity system
  This is a decentralized identity system, but one that’s actually decentralized and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business.
• Kevin Marsh | How to Succeed In The Web 2.0 Days

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-22:

• Essential GIMP for Web Professionals
• Transferring Personal Video from PC to TiVo DVR
• Galleon
• Photo Maps based on Google maps -
  Pixagogo users create private Photo Maps with an unlimited number of Photos.
• voo2do : simple, beautiful web-based to-do lists
  Unlike ta-da list (and clone bla-bla list), voo2do tracks priority, due date, and time estimates for each task. There is no notion of "lists" in voo2do— tasks can be grouped by project, but you can view and edit a bunch of projects together.
• Welcome To Dropcash
• GiftBox
  GiftBox is an online gift manager. Gain control over all the gifts and holidays in your life.
• MeetWithApproval.com — A great idea for meetings, parties, friends, reunions, weekends, corporate events
• openomy
  Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer.
• PHPit - Totally PHP » Ajax & PHP without using the XmlHttpRequest Object
• Plazes
  Plazes is a grassroot approach to location-aware interaction, using the local network you are connected to as location reference. Plazes allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you.
• Using prototype.js v1.3.1
  "If you tried to use this library recently, you probably noticed that documentation is not one of its strongest points. As many other developers before me, I got my head around prototype.js by reading the source code and experimenting with it. I thought i
• Something Awful
  kalocin started up a thread a little while ago asking people for songs that he would then cover using a synthesizer based on the classic nintendo entertainment system’s psg audio system.

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user nifkin on 2005-11-21:

• Bokardo » Blog Archive » Podcast of Web 2.0 Talk
• NPR : Be Cool to the Pizza Dude
• pee and poo!
• system7designs :: Phoogle Maps 2.0
  Phoogle Maps (pronounced like Foogle Maps) is a PHP class that integrates itself with the Google Maps API and with the geocoder.us database to make an easy to use interface to display Google Maps on your site.
• TipMonkies » Blog Archive » The Ultimate Guide to Google Services

The good folks from FeedBurner bring us How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed

…In early 2003, it was probably accurate to say that almost all blogs had feeds and almost all feeds were derived from a blog. Today, however, while almost all blogs still have feeds, there are innumerable feeds that are unrelated to blogs. Commercial publishers have embraced feeds wholeheartedly; most web services and many search engines now provide subscribed results; and podcasts and videocasts are entirely feed-based while not necessarily tied to blogs…

Hat tip and further commentary: Read/Write Web

TiVo to allow iPod, Playstation downloads

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. on Monday said it will begin testing a feature to let subscribers transfer recorded television programming to Apple iPod digital music players or Sony’s PlayStation portable devices, sending shares up 11 percent in premarket trading.

Now, how long until we can get downloaded content from the computer onto the TiVo? Cuz watching your daily stash of videoblogs on the TV would be pretty sweet.