Plurkr – Technology Step by Step

Do you have a list of sites that you access often? For example accessing your Facebook account or browsing Amazon, and so on…

Well – now you don’t have to type in the address bar each time the URL because Site Launcher will do all of this only by pressing a key combination.

SiteLauncher is an add-on for Firefox that gives you a super-quick way to to open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the Launcher, followed by a unique key to launch a site.

SiteLauncher is especially useful as a super-fast method for opening websites you use often throughout the day, for example, many people would probably want to add Google, Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter to SiteLauncher – what sites to include is entirely up to you.

Compared to the alternatives (standard bookmarks, the address bar, etc) the Launcher is the fastest, and most convenient way to navigate to your frequently needed sites (at least, that’s what we think). SiteLauncher also minimizes clutter, because the Launcher only appears when you press the hotkey.

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• DZine made a list with 45 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers
• DD_belatedPNG says it’s the perfect IE6 PNG fix – it has support for: the background-image CSS property, background-position and background-repeat. Also, you can use PNGs for <img/> elements, which is nothing new, but you don’t need a 1px by 1px clear GIF image, which is new.
• Need a background quick? No problem – BgPatterns.com allows you to generate your custom background in 4 easy steps ;)
• Need a Lightbox effect for your website and don’t know which lightbox script to choose? No problem – The Lightbox Clones Matrix helps you. [developed by Ozh]
• eGallery is an excellent WordPress Theme. It’s not free, so if you want it go and buy it :)
• David Walsh learns us how to create in PHP a tinyURL link and an Is.Gd link
• Download Blog made a list with the best new Windows programs of 2008
• Flapi is an open source Flash image gallery that uses the popular Flickr photo service to manage the images. Seen on WRD
• Do you have problems converting from PX to EM? Then PXtoEM is your solution.

Hello there everyone. Happy New Year.

It’s January 2009 and most of us like to have on the desktop a nice calendar that will help us remember the current date [I always have this problem :D]

Smashing Magazine did a nice list [like they do every month] with some January 2009 Calendars:

Read the article ‘till the end because it contains some extra wallpapers that aren’t in Smashing Magazine’s list ;)

Here are some examples [my favorites]:

Think New

[author] | [preview]

• with calendar: 1280×960, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200
• without calendar: 1280×960, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

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Kyle Downes made a great video with a short visual history of videogames.

We all know all about the great PSP, about WII, XBOX and many other consoles, but how many do we know how all these videogames consoles appeared?

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These days some people talked about Xuheki – Open Source Ajax Webmail that supports IMAP.

What is Xuheki exactly?

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Are you a jQuery fan? Or already programming in it / with it? Then this jQuery cheat sheet will be a gold mine for you :D

[download] – made by Color Charge

If you are a Google Maps fan, then you probably know about the reviews made there, right?

For example let’s search for Paris Indian Restaurant. The result will look like this:

If we click on the A point from the map we’ll see the following popup:

As you can see for this location there are 19 reviews. Click on the reviews and you will see them:

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Wow… I’m rich, isn’t it? :))

Well, actually I’m not. So… do you want to fool your friends? Tell them that you make over $1.000 per day from Google AdSense?

The solution is quick and simple. Access Fake Google AdSense Earnings Generator and enter how much money do you want to display on the Google AdSense Earnings screenshot for Today and Yesterday.

Now click Make Money and that’s all :) You now have a fake picture to show to your friends…

They will envy you from now on, that’s for sure :D

[seen here]

Free Logos… Free PSD Sources for them… Hard to imagine, isn’t it? Well LogoInstant really does this.

Here is the text from their About page:

We create logo when we’re bored, and share it when we’re in the mood daily :p

You can use all the logo design accessed from this website as inspirations, using it on your website or your project or even using them for your clients.
You don’t have to spend big bucks anymore for designer, because this service is 100% free.

And it’s not a lie :D

You can browse for any logo [for the moment they only have 26 logos], see the top rated list or the most downloaded logo designs.

The logos can also be searched by their category:

When you click on a logo you will see what the Logo Download Package includes:

So… enjoy the free logo designs offered by LogoInstant.

I like using tinyMCE, I really do. But lately they added to many functionalities – too many I can say.

It’s true, you can disable them, but the package is bigger day by day [actually version by version] – for example, now the tinyMCE package has around 2.8 MB – so its pretty big :|

Today I found a simple & clean solution made by Corpocrat. They offer 2 scripts – one for the BBCode [demo] and one for HTML Markup [demo].

The interface and simple & clean:

total size is around 5KB and you can do enough with it :)

Features:

• No iFrames
• Fast loading and lightweight (code just under 2kb)
• Works in IE and Firefox
• No popup html window for inserting hyperlinks.
• Easy to integrate
• Images [B / I / U / link / …] can be easily changed
• Inserts quick html code

I didn’t had time to look at the code, but if it’s simple to extend you can add nice functionalities to it [eg: add a button for inserting YouTube videos]