Safari Bookmarks Extractor is a simple application that extract your bookmarks form Safari. It read the Safari XML-PList file and create a HTML links file with your bookmarks.
This tool can be used to migrate your bookmarks from Safari into the new (and in my opinion better) browser called Firefox
Some wise words from Google on the effectiveness of Search Engine Optimizers (SEO’s). The infomation they provide offer a few tips that may help you distinguish between an SEO that will improve your site and one that will only improve your chances of being dropped from search engine results altogether.
Some of the simple tips include:
Creative Commons has just announced it’s new 2.0 licenses. Some new features of the license can include:
Now I’m off to create a new license for this blog!
CollyLogic, a new web design blog by Simon Collison, has a really cool way of dealing with visited links. His tutorial titled – Ticked Off? Visited Links How-To – shows off his technique of placing check-marks next to links that you have visited on his site.
The technique uses CSS and image positioning to create this really cool “link” UI.
Here is a great tip from Forever Geek that promises to help your computer Load Acrobat Reader Faster! Amen.
An Interactive CSS Box Model Demo is available at redmelon.net. The demo is inspired by the recent work of Jon Hicks.
Basically, drag the scrollbar, and you get to see the padding/margins in faux-3D.
Here is a nice Firefox Extension called Context Highlight 0.1 that allows you to quickly and easily highlight all instances of your current text selection within the current page.
iSQL-Viewer is an open-source database GUI written in Java. It works across multiple platforms (Windows, OSX, Linux). It performs all it’s tasks through a single interface.
iSQL-Viewer works with most database platforms, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and Informix. The program provides a variety of tools and features to carry out many common database tasks.
Running a personal website on Apache HTTP server on WinXP is a good tutorial that will get you up and running in no time at all.
The tutorial gets you going with:
Although Apple has patched Safari for the recent security vulnerability in OSX, all other browsers for Mac still have problems. Daring Fireball has a nice article that will show you how to Disable Unsafe URI Handlers with a free preference pane called RCDefaultApp.
This appears to be a very good method to secure your OSX system until the other browser vendors fix this major hole in the OS.
