Simian Design

June 6, 2005

Link Dump, part 1.

I’ve been out on vacation for the past week, and really busy the month before that. So I’m apologize for the lack of posting to all three people that read this site.

In an effort to clean out some of my back-log, I’m gonna be posting a couple of big link dumps. Here is part one.

• Scott Andrew nails why Google Maps is so perfect. Hint, it’s not really Ajax, nor scrolling. It’s much more usability related.
• Pinki is an OS X menu bar utility for quickly creating icon thumbnails. (via)
• An Easter Egg on Incredibles DVD. (via)
• Document Palette is a pretty neat OS X utility. It will create new documents directly into open folders. Much cooler than the previous sentence sounds, trust me. (via)
• Alessandro has a massive post links-article about javascript that is really worth reading. Tons of good links in there about JavaScript. (One of these days I’ll have to pick up my sorry ass and start posting over at web-graphics again.)
• Here is a fun little JavaScript DOM for you to play with. It’s a complete Drag & Drop Library which adds Drag Drop functionality to layers and to any desired image. Fun to play with. (via)
• An amusing post by Tim Bray on the Microsoft XML Patent. (via)
• If you have a LinkSys anything, this is the place for you. (via)
• Interesting Idea: Having forms in your RSS Feeds. Russell Beattie did it recently, and it worked well for getting comments back quickly. It’s an interesting idea. (via)
• Good article by Dave Shea about semantic markup. Read it, and be sure to check out his markup guide.
• Really tiny houses. (via)
• What Pixel Artists use when creating icons. (via)
• How to prevent JavaScript memory leakage. This script stores events and removes them on unload. This really helps out IE, since it has the worst memory leakage with JavaScript of all the browsers.
• To find out if IE is leaking memory, run Drip, the IE Leak Detector. Drip is a standalone app that lets you open an HTML page (or pages, in succession) in a dialog box, mess around with it, then check for any elements that were leaked. (via)
• XHTML2 looks interesting. Wonder if it will ever see the light of day. (via)
• Google Sitemaps. This could be very cool. Have to play with it some more.
• Trixie is Greasemonkey for IE. Anything that makes IE more like Firefox is improving IE in my opinion. Except I’m hesitant to install any extra for IE. Old habit I guess. (via)
• A bunch of iCal resources. (via)
• A good Ajax blog. Lots of good links and examples in here. (via)
• Firefoxy is a Platypus script to make Kevin Gerich’s fancy Firefox widgets quick to install. If you’re running Firefox on a Mac, you MUST install the Fancy Widgets. It makes things so much better. (via)
• Create additional MoveableType DB Fields. I’ve been thinking about dropping MovebleType and trying out WordPress, but nonetheless this look intruiging. (via)

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