Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available. Most noteable in this release is that the default theme has been tweaked (for the better in my opinion) and of course is much more stable.
Google Related Links is a neat new way to add links to related content on your sites or blogs. The related content is context sensitive (much like Adsense) and is organized into links, searches, video and news. Sure it may lead some traffic away from your site, but it can also add extra value to the existing content on your site!
Mike Arace shows us how to create a CSS Crossfader Demo using CSS, the Scriptaculous JavaScript effects library and a bit of semantic markup!
Shorty is a simple web-based tool for creating shorter links from long URLs. The short urls you create can be urls on your site or urls to external resources. Shorty is installed on your server and requires Apache, PHP and MySQL.
Dimdim is a free and open source web conferencing solution that hopes to compete with WebEX and ASAP. Although still in alpha, this product shows a lot of promise. The software is easy to setup and manage and serves up meeting content from the system that you install it on. The conference manager application runs in a web browser (MS IE only at this time but Firefox exensions are in the works) and the conference manager can upload only PowerPoint presentation at this time. The attendee only needs to have a web browser with Flash. We tried it out in our office recently and it worked very well.
Sidepath provides a simple user interface for easily adding .htaccess redirects to a folder on your domain. This redirect enables you to give out simple addresses to complex URLs. The script that you install on your server, gives you an excellent web based interface to create these redirects from any page on your site. Sidepath requires Apache, MySQL and PHP.
Inline Search for Internet Explorer is an add-on for IE that mimics Firefox’s inline search. If you use IE (but of course if you read this blog you must be using Firfox) this is a great add-on as it makes finding text on a page much easier.
Low Pro is an unobtrusive scripting library build ton top of Prototype. It provides a bunch of neat methods that ease DOM manipulation and methods for easing the creation of nodes in the DOM.
Ryan Tomayko documents How he explained REST to his wife…. I’m not too sure why his wife was asking about REST, but this is one of the easiest reads on REST out there.
I’ve been a little quiet on this blog lately as I have been busy working on a new small project. PopWebDev is a single page aggregator that aggregates the popular links that are relevant to web developers and designers from sites like Digg.com and del.icio.us and meme trackers like TechMeme. So check it out, and if you like it, please add it to your del.icio.us bookmarks or give it a digg!
