Andy Budd has opened my eyes to the evil world of booksellers and publishers! In Guerilla Book Marketing he discovers that to have your book’s cover exposed on the retailers shelves, the publisher pays a fee! Andy suggests that the next time you are in a bookstore, expose a few covers of your favorite books!
The latest nightly build of Safari now includes a JavaScript debugger. There are not alot of details about how the debugger works, but the partial screenshot looks promising.
FreeMind is an interesting piece of free mind-mapping software that is open source and cross platform. Mind mapping is a process of record your thoughts and ideas and representing them as a diagram. FreeMind is a tool that easily faciliates this process. If you are unsure as to whether or not mind mapping might be useful to you check out this long list of What FreeMind is good for.
PhotoShop may not be free, but these 10 Free Plug-ins to Enhance Photoshop reviewed by ExtremeTech certainly are! OK - one or two of them may be a bit dorky but the others look quite interesting.
Angela Colter, Kathryn Summers, Cheri Smith from the University of Baltimore’s School of Information Arts and Technologies have authored a great paper titled Exploring User Mental Models of Breadcrumbs in Web Navigation.
Breadcrumbs are a common Web site navigation element, yet little is known about whether users notice, use and understand what they are. We surveyed 4,775 sites to determine how many use breadcrumbs and what conventions exist, then conducted usability tests to explore user mental models of breadcrumbs.
Garrett Dimon has authored a great article for Digital Web Magazine regarding issues and techniques for Architecting CSS. Some topics covered include:
JAHAH is an AJAX-like technology for ‘mashing’ web pages together. The technique claims that it becomes easier for web page authors to include other documents into the current page and removes the cross-domain restriction of most AJAX like technologies (no HTTP proxy script is required).
I recently experimented with creating a torrent file to distribute a video I made. This tutorial on How to create a torrent was extremely useful and helped demystify this great peer-to-peer technology.
Selenium is an automated web application testing utility that runs your tests directly in a web browser. Selenium uses JavaScript and Iframes to embed a test automation engine in your browser. The engine uses JavaScript that you can write by hand, but the makers of Selenium, have also created an IDE extension for Firefox that make writing your tests much easier. If you would like to try out Selenium and the Selenium IDE, you should check out this tutorial (complete with screencasts) that will get you up and running in no time at all!
Drag and Drop Upload is a very useful extension for Firefox that lets you drop files from Explorer or Finder onto a file upload box. W00t! No more clicking the browse button!
