There are numerous services popping up to help you keep track of your favorite browser bookmarks. From what I can tell from Alexa traffic, the top three are Digg, Technorati, and Delicious.  It seems like there are new services popping up every day and it can be hard to keep with with how to let users add your bookmarks to their bookmark service. AddThis.com looks like it's trying to help. Read More...

Where can you find some photos without paying an arm and a leg?  Here are some helpful sites to try for inspiration.

Flickr Creative Commons

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Despite the best developer tools, sometimes having the ability to see what the browser sees can be invaluable in troubleshooting a CSS layout issue, or a performance or load issue.  Firebug, Fiddler and the IE Developer toolbar are supposed to help see the HTML, CSS and JavaScript that the browser sees.

• Firebug
• IE Developer Toolbar
• Fiddler

Comparison of Firebug and the IE Toolbar features. Read More...

There seems to be a growing trend in the web community to remove spaces between words.  The fact that domain names cannot have spaces further complicates the matter.

Take a look at 20 more unfortunate domain names and you can see the kind of confusion and unanticipated consequences that occur as a result.  By the way, domains can have the dash character (-) and subdomains allow the period (.) character, sometimes for interesting stylish effects (del.ico.us now delicious and script.aculo.us). Read More...

Microsoft announced August 11 availability of the following new downloads.

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

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After looking at Web Applications On The iPod Touch, I thought I'd share some of the patterns used in designing an application for a 320 pixel x 240 pixel Windows CE 5 device.  These same design patterns and apply to designing for the iPod Touch and the iPhone as well. Read More...

I recently did some research to see how a web based application developed for another mobile device on Windows CE 5 could be ported to the iPod Touch.  The application ran initially, but showed up very small on the iPod Touch browser display.  Clearly a bit of work would be needed. It wasn't as painful as some ports, but it wasn't totally pain free either. Read More...

The limitations of your tools are your limitations. Choose your tools wisely. Read More...

Shakespeare may have thought All the world's a stage, but Julian Beever thinks all the world (or at least the sidewalk) is his canvas. Mr. Beever has some interesting artwork he calls pavement drawings.  I don't think he actually digs up the sidewalk (pavement if you live in the UK), but it sure looks like it.

Visit Julian Beever's site to take a look at his portfolio of interesting chalk drawings.

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NASA has a list of several (over 100,000) visible earth pictures at NASA Images. Many of these images are quite stunning as is this one titled The Blue Marble.