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Patterns in Interaction Design
Disregard the dubious spammy-looking presentation of the links in this awesome resource full of design patterns for all kinds of interaction situations. This has some freaking sweet content. Check it out: www.welie.com — patterns in Interaction Design Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/02/14/patterns-in-interaction-design/
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Ethnio – Remote Usability Software
Neat usability testing service that is well designed and seems like a pretty useful service… Ethnio makes usability testing easy, quick, and accurate. Ethnio is a simple moderated usability application that allows you to easily conduct usability test sessions right from your desk or anywhere you have an internet connection and a phone. It’s made…
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DOM Scripting: Hijax – allow non-Ajax browsers to still use your site
There seems to be an inherent paradox in saying that you need to think about your server-side architecture but you should just be building old-fashioned page by page submissions before hijacking them with Ajax. But the paradox can be resolved if you think about Hijax this way: * Plan for Ajax from the start. *…
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What are the officially supported browsers that Yahoo supports?
Ever wonder what browsers Yahoo! supports and how much it supports each one? This chart tells you exactly how much. “You never got fired for supporting the same browsers that Yahoo! supports…” 🙂 This table shows the grade of support that each browser receives. For more information, see Graded Browser Support. Yahoo! Developer Network: Graded…
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Audacity crashed and all I got was this useless dialog message
Man. So I was working editing the levels for the latest Christian Science podcast for Lafayette Square Christian Science Society when Audacity crashed. Save early, save often, have to remember that again with Audacity. Anyways, it spit out this oh-so-helpful (NOT) error dialog message: Warning Audacity found temporary files that were not deleted or saved…
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Yahoo! UI Library – Free BSD licensed DHTML widgets
Yahoo! User Interface Library The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to important elements…
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Subversion tips: working with branches
Good article on branching techniques for Subversion. Subversion is great software, essentially a major upgrade of CVS. Its branch support is stellar, for a few reasons: * Visibility: Branches are physical copies, you can see all branches, stored by convention in the /branches folder. This is unlike CVS (or VSS) where branches are placed in…
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PNG support javascript for IE
PNG for Win32 IE5.5 / Mac IE5 / Moz Each of the flowers below is the same PNG format graphic with an alpha channel on four different colored backgrounds. Note how the backgrounds shine through the alpha layer. new document Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/02/14/png-support-javascript-for-ie/
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youngpup.net – TransMenus – neat free Javascript menu script
This is a cool animated Javascript menu script that used to cost $150 and is now free. Cooool! 🙂 These menus are a slightly cleaned up version of the ones I wrote for Media Temple back in the day. youngpup.net – TransMenus Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/02/14/youngpupnet-transmenus-neat-free-javascript-menu-script/
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unpaper 1.1
Open source scanning software that corrects skewed scans so they align properly. unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be…