The Man in Blue has created a neat Google Rank Calculator. Simply type in your URL and a search phrase to find out where your site ranks within the popular Google Search Engine.

Boxes and Arrows has a nice article on a technique known as Card Sorting. Card sorting is a great, reliable, inexpensive method for finding patterns in how users would expect to find content or functionality.

This technique is used by many information architects as a means to define the structure of a site or product.

An informative article at kernalthread.com lists and describes the various Mac OS X Filesystems that the operating system supports. The article also explains the differences between the filesystems.

Enabling Virtual Hosts on MacOS X is a tutorial at Evolt.org that will show you how to create a virtual host using the built-in Apache web server.

BluePhoneMenu is a small application that adds Caller ID functionality to your menu bar and desktop using your Bluetooth enabled phone.

Noted is a very nice replacement for Windows Notepad. The program is very small and has a few great features that are missing in Notepad, like:

• editting text files of any size
• loading and saving files with Windows, UNIX or Mac line breaks
• full toolbar search and replace
• line number labeling and jumping

The Quick Reference Site offers a very long list of Quick Reference Cards in PDF format.

The cards cover the following topics:

• PHP
• JSP
• CSS
• XML
• Apache
• mySQL
• UML

And a whole bunch of others!

A nice article titled – 5 Rules of Data Normalization – can be used to improve the design of your databases.

SleepLess is a cool little utility that can be used to prevent your Mac from going to sleep without changing system settings. The program offers a one click, menubar solution to disabling Sleep mode.

Although it is not recommeded for laptops, the app can even disable sleep mode when the screen is closed.

Zend.com has a nice article that outlines Using MySQL Full-text Searching. The article includes topics such as:

• How to modify your current database to accommodate Full-text searching
• How to use a simple Full-text search to quickly gather relevant responses
• How to execute a more complex Full-text search with Boolean capabilities
• Tips on what to do, and what not to do, as well as the security implications of some of the example scripts presented.