November 2006 Archives

Wabi and sabi are two of the key Japanese aesthetic concepts. Their definitions are not exact, but one can get a sense of them from a short discussion of them. Over time, the two have been combined to form a new word, wabi-sabi, meaning an aesthetic sensi

This is one of the more technical articles on the site, and almost all readers will be interested in "which batteries are best". For those readers, here's the bottom line, the results of over two years of off-and-on battery testing

Inquisitor... it's like Spotlight for the web. Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search. It'll autocomplete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized key

urlmarkr is a personal bookmark manager written in Ruby on Rails. It has support for tagging of bookmarks, RSS feeds of links for each tag, inline editing of bookmarks and tag autocompletion on entering a new bookmark.

5 vs. 8 vs. 13 you tell the diference?

SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder. In Mac OS X, by default, you are limited to sharing only what is in your public folder in your home directory. This program makes

That's right, true believer! You've just stepped into a whole new world of the Classic Marvel Super Heroes RPG!

e is a fast & effective Collaborative Text Editor for Windows. It offers advanced features such as Tabbed Editing and Incremental Search, as well as some unique features like a powerful Visual Undo.

The extensive world of wagashi, traditional Japanese confections dose not merely encompass a single group of confections; the art of Japanese confectionery owes its diversity in large part to its ingredients and methods of preparation.

Technique to build flexible CSS drop shadows applied to arbitrary block elements. Most of the existing techniques for creating element shadows use images, this one doesn't. IT uses plain simple CSS.

Liquifile is a new file management tool for Mac OS X. An alternative Finder, if you will. It is designed for visual thinkers who want to get a bigger picture of their files and feel them more directly.

Platypus is a development tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts, such as shell scripts or Perl and Python programs.

In this paper, we compare the two frameworks from the point of view of a developer attempting to choose one of the two frameworks for a new project.

"It works well because it is dangerous, which is exactly what we want. But it shifts the emphasis away from the Government taking the risk, to the driver being responsible for his or her own risk.

Some sensible rules and regulations to avoid any confusion in a male-female friendship.

Satellite™ is an online application for displaying a gallery of images remotely from your flickr.com account.

MapLib.net turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map in a really simple way. You can maintain markers for it, as well as embed it in your own web pages or blog.

This is a PHP script that will grab the RSS from del.icio.us and add/update the entries in your WordPress blog.

Preview for Mike Judge's new psychological thriller.

Dina is a monospace bitmap font, primarily aimed at programmers. It is relatively compact to allow a lot of code on screen, while (hopefully) clear enough to remain readable even at high resolutions.

Definitve Guide to making your very own FULL METAL Blaster Rifle replica as seen in the Star Wars movies.

This is Dynamic Drive's new CSS layouts section. Here you'll find tableless, CSS based page templates to quickly define the skeleton of your pages. Please help us spread the word by giving it a digg (see right)!

Hawthorn, Wiltshire (also known as Burlington, TURNSTILE or Site 3) is a 35 acre underground city / nuclear bunker that's about 30 metres below the Wiltshire countryside. It has a railway station, BBC studios, government headquarters, telephone exchange,

in order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px.

British Columbia is considered by many as one of the most beautiful places in the world. Vancouver Coast Chopper Tours is offering a new way to catch a glimpse of a small portion of this magical place. Climb aboard one of our Ultra California Choppers and

Why small strobes? Because that's all you really need.

Seymore is an open source Content Management System built on the Rails framework. Rather than having a separate Administration section for managing content, content management functions are available throughout the site so users are able to contextually a

Here’s to making sqlite3-ruby a much better gem.