Onfolio 2.0 has just released it’s second beta which is classified as being a “Preview Release”. This is a wonderful application that allows you to collect web pages and emails into organized collections. The cool thing is that when you choose to collect a page or snippet, the actual content is saved to your computer. So, if the page goes away, or you cannot locate it again, you have a local copy to use. You can even aggregate the content in your collections into a single page, which can be useful when writing reports based on your research.

I was interested in Onfolio a while ago and thought that it was a great idea. But the first release of the application only supported Internet Explorer integration, and since I primarily use Firefox, it did not work for me. I am happy to report that version 2 of Onfolio now fully integrates into Firefox.

The feature that I like best is it’s RSS Feed Aggregator. While it’s not as polished as a tool like Feed Demon, it works very well and integrates very nicely into your browser.

10×10 is a very cool Flash based site that presents “The Words and Pictures that Define the Time”.

Every hour, 10×10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10×10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.

Martijn van Welie has a very comprehenisve list of Design Patterns for Interaction Design. His list is very well organized into categories ranging from e-Commerce to navigation to searching.

Neil Turner offers 5 reasons why you should Beware of Opening Links in a New Window then offers a number of suggesting for dealing with this issue.

[link via 456 Berea Street]

Stuart Langridge has a great tutorial that shows you how to Make all your tables sortable. The technique uses the DOM and JavaScript to interactively sort table data by clicking on the table headers.

The Code Project has a great little utility that allows Windows Explorer wildcard selection via a simple shell extension. Simply move to a folder with some files and right mouse click to specify your wildcard. This makes sorting and searching for file in a folder much easier.

[link via FlashAnt]

Simon Willison disects Google Maps to discover that the new search utility from Google makes extensive use of XSL, VML and XSL. I’m sure this is the first of many analysis to come over the next few days.

If you haven’t heard about Google Maps, be sure to check it out as it is really quite amazing.

Cameron Moll has a tip that will produce clearer resized images. His technique is simple – when resizing an image to less than 75% of its original size, apply the Unsharpen Mask filter. The results are really quite amazing.

Tommy Olsson of the Autistic Cuckoo has a great article that explains CSS Float Layouts . It’s a great read whether your a CSS beginner or expert!

If you’ve been thinking of joining in on the Flickr craze, be sure to check out Tips for Flickr Beginners at Lifehacker blog.