Archive for December, 2005
The Firefox Hacks You Must Have
Firefox Hacks You Must Have. I’m always on the look out for new and interesting firefox add-ons. The newest one for me (which I’m sure has been around for a while) is DownThemAll.
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BBC Opens Their Archive to Mashups
The venerable BBC has opened portions of their vast video archive for consumers to not only download, but create new video projects. What’s taking so long for advertisers to release components of their campaigns, such as jingles, graphics and more to citizen marketers? If the BBC can do it, so should marketers.
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StructuredBlogging.org is officially launched
Marc Canter announced the launch of StructuredBlogging.org, a non-profit initiative supporting the development and deployment of micro-formats in blog posts. The idea is pretty simple (but the implementation across all industry players is far from easy): as opposed to publishing a review of say, a movie, in a text format, a micro-format defines a [...]
How King Kong was made…the first one
Unmuseum.org has a great history of the first Kong movie including how it was made "Released in the spring of 1933 Kong, the story of an oversized ape captured on a remote island in the Pacific and accidentally released on New York City, was an immediate hit. The quality of special effects exceeded [...]
Designers: What to charge
One of the most often asked questions by new designers, part-time freelancers and those wishing to make a go at freelancing full time is what to charge.
It’s a tough spot. Charge too much and you don’t get the work, charge too little and you end up with a bad taste in your mouth from eating [...]
Yahoo Teams with Movable Type
Yahoo and Six Apart have partnered to pre-install Movable Type on Yahoo’s small business hosting. Yahoo’s hosting customers will now be offered Movable Type pre-installed. This should help Yahoo move a few more hosting units, and will certainly expand the playing field for Six Apart. It’s a good deal for both companies, particularly Six Apart.
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Cheap electronics - Goodwill online auctions
I didn’t know Goodwill had eBay-like auctions, but they do. Make reader zw suggested that the "Cameras & Electronic Equip" section has a lot of good deals and interesting equipment. And it’s true, there are a ton of weird and cheap electronics, most of them under $50. I also saw a new 4G iPod for [...]
Cross-platform Portable Firefox 1.5 available
Get your Firefox fix anytime, any place, and on almost any machine. Portable Firefox 1.5 now has the cross-platform goodness, and you can get it from theplaceforitall.com. One little trick to getting this to work on OS X: you have to manually type the exact name of your removable drive in a text file. The [...]
