So you have Linux and Windows XP dual booting on the same system and you’d like to share files between the two? Ext2 IFS provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full read access and write access to Linux Ext2 volumes.
Fizbang Web Design will help you Improve Your Logo with a few simple tips, then shows how some major corporations have improved their logos by following many of his suggestions!
Nathan Smith has a solution for a Firefox quirk that displays dotted lines around links. In Removing Dotted Links he shows us how to apply some simple CSS to remove this behaviour while at the same time retaining the accessibility feature of the dotted outlines when appropriate.
Swapnonil Mukherjee offers a good explanation as to Why you should right align form labels. He suggests by showing good examples that you eye must travel a smaller distance to navigate from form field to form field when the labels are right aligned.
Google employee Matt Cutts offers some SEO advice on URL canonicalization. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are more than one choice. Home pages are a good example where http://somesite.com/ and http://somesite.com/index.htm are the same pages. Google uses canonicalization when it spiders your sites and attempts to make the best guess at the best URL. However Matt makes a few suggestion on how you can help Google make the best choice!
This is a bit older but interesting nonetheless. Niall Kennedy discovered that Google is about to release a Google Reader API. This is interesting in the fact that you can build your own RSS reader using Google’s API as the backed for your application. Niall has quite a few examples on how to use this API.
The AMFPHP project have posted a number of excellent screencasts that will help you get started using Flash Remoting for PHP. AMFPHP is an open-source Flash Remoting gateway that’s fast, reliable and free!
18 year old Saddam Azad has compiled a HUGE list of Javascript libraries that include a quick summary of the scope of each library and links to project home pages, documentation and support pages. I had no idea there were this many libraries!
Blaine Kendall has created a nice Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet that will help the beginner RoR developer. Although the cheatsheet spans 12 pages it may not be a handy desk reference, but the information is well structured and very complete.
I’ve written before that I’m a big fan of backing up my purchased DVD’s. I have a young son who loves to be independent and handle his own DVD’s. This sometimes results in scratched and even cracked DVD media. Those darn movies are expensive so I really hate to lose one!
My solution is to back up the DVD’s and let him ‘do whatever he likes’ to them (although we are working on best handling practices). Recently however, my favorite backup program, DVD Shrink lost it’s ability to properly backup newer DVD’s due to new copy protection techniques. This was a bummer as I had to let Owen handle the original and expensive DVD’s that we purchase for him.
A new solution that I found is in the form of a freeware utility that helps you backup your copy protected DVD’s. RipIt4Me works like a charm and I am now once again ‘breaking the law’ and backing up my DVD’s.
