A large FAQ about PDFs including tips, tricks and tools.

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A cool site for bird watchers or those just interested in identifying the ones they've seen around them.

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A good, free utility for Windows that allows you to set up synchronization between shares on a network or local folders. It doesn't have auto-sync but you can set it up to run with the Windows scheduler.

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Documentation for the Evernote API, including setting up OAuth and the XML schema used for note data.

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A free service that lets you create maps of datapoints either as markers or to illustrate trends geographically. Allows you to pull in data from various sources and allows collaboration on the maps. Interesting service.

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A tool that will generate browser specific CSS for you and package it all up in a C# HttpHandler (ASHX) so that it will deliver only the CSS for the browser that makes the request. Interesting idea to get around having to use browser hacks and still have all your code in one file for easy maintenance.

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A service similiar to Twitter, but probably more like Pownce, that enables microblogging and filesharing with people.

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A few of these are obvious (in the sense of "why didn't I see that before"), and a few are counter-intuitive (don't overdo accessibility features). Good stuff to keep in mind for user experience design.

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Great list of CSS tools, tutorials and generators. Good resources for web design.

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The end song for the game Portal where the Artificial Intelligence serenades you. Pretty entertaining. Written by Jonathan Coulton.

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Take text from a web page, pdf, Word doc, rss feeds, and several other sources and have it converted to an mp3 read by an automated voice. Interesting option to stay up on things when you are unable to read (during situations like jogging or driving).

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An offering by HP that lets you create a scheduled bundling of RSS feeds you specify into a PDF "fit for printing". One idea - use it as a way to create a daily snapshot of your FriendFeed activity or any other site you want to capture on a regular basis.

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A cool service that will find your geo-location based on the address you provide. A GMaps mashup, useful for tagging photos and other things. Nice, handy service.

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Tutorial demo on how to make containers on web pages that are shaped like triangles and other polygons with regular and irregular straight edges using no graphics. This is an exploit of how browsers render borders to produce straight angles. Cool technique.

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Tutorial demo on how to make containers with irregular straight edges (angles) using only CSS/HTML (no graphics).

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Interesting introductory article about managing creative (not just artistic) people. There will be more articles coming about the different types of motivation.

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Free, handy tool that will convert video from one format to another.

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Several options for capturing thumbnails and screenshots of web pages for use on your own site as link-hover popups or other references to sites.

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"LightCMS is a content management system for web designers. Design sites, upload them to our content management system,and deploy world-class websites your clients can manage themselves."

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Listing site of Web 2.0 applications and services that you might not have heard of yet. Seems a bit similar in purpose to MoMB but not restricted to beta apps.

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A service that prints and mails postcards for you. Based in the UK. An interesting way to bridge the gap between the digitally savvy and the rest of the world (like your grandparents).

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An online text editor plugin built with jQuery for WSIWG editing of web pages. Useful for CMS type sites to allow non-developers to edit the data there. Creates XHTML output.

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A service that attempts to help you contact people by order of priorty of all the protocols that they prefer being contacted by in order to coordinate meetings in meatspace or just ensure that they actually recieve your message. You add contacts with their email, sms, phone and IM addresses and order them so that if the first method tried doesn't work then the next method will be and so on. You receive notification when the contact has confirmed receipt of the message. Good for time-sensitive collaboration.

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A guide of tips and tricks for using the G1 Android phone efficiently.

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A service that will shrink/optimize the size of your graphics for use on websites to give you faster loading times. Supposedly less painful than doing it yourself. Also includes a FireFox plugin so you can do it to images on random web pages and see how much they are bloated, if you are that curious!

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A set of CSS standards for a generic cross-browser rendering of HTML 4 tags. It resets all elements and browser defaults so you can start with a standard base. Separates content from typographical layout and supports W3C standards. Also includes a demo generator with different 3 column/header/footer layouts.

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A domain search engine that shows you how the words you type could be turned into "domain hacks" like del.icio.us with available top level domains (TLDs). Notifies you if the hacks are available for purchase and from which registrars (since not all registrars offer all TLDs).

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"Windows only: Free application Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is yet-another CD and DVD burning utility. Ashampoo handles virtually any burning need, from music CDs and video DVDs (Blu-ray support included) to data discs. It also supports burning compressed and encrypted backup discs. Granted, there are already plenty of burning utilities already available, but for anyone who remembers how difficult it used to be to find a free app to handle this sort of thing (i.e., not Roxio), the more options the merrier."

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A large list of Web 2.0 APIs and web services that you can put together for Mashups. Not as comprehensive as ProgrammableWeb's lists but nice for browsing.

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A FF plugin that builds a list of all the extensions you have installed and exports them in one of 3 formats (text, HTML or CSV) to make it easier to send to devs when you experience a problem with a plugin (to look for conflicts) but also to make sure your have your list for the next virgin computer you encounter.

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A service that lets you specify several timezones and view the current time for each. It also can create a "bookmark" to a specific point in time that can be shared with others to help coordinate scheduling meetings. Nice, simple, clean design and easy to use.

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A podcast by FriendFeeders for FriendFeeders featuring Josh Haley, Mark Wilson and John Worthington, all well-known and active participants on the service. Fun to listen to. Too bad they can't do a video cast, but they live in the US, Canada and Australia respectively.

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Nice tutorial on how to use the animation features in Photoshop CS3 to create animated gifs.

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A plugin for jQuery that makes client side dynamic content templates. Kind of like PHP on the client-side. Great for making repeating content such as displaying an RSS feed pulled from an Ajax call. This is going to come in handy for sure.

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An implementation of the CSS Sprites approach to elements with changing image states that is wrapped in a jQuery plugin. Allows you to choose the transition animation between the states which is a nice enhancement from the standard CSS only version.

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Large collection of javascript tutorials around Ajax and RIA. Some are jQuery based but not the majority. Includes things such as a shopping cart, chat, RSS tickers, client-side repeaters, gCal integration, checking browser history, continuous pagination and more.

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Nice collection of various UI enhancements via jQuery plugins. Probably the most interesting are the background image switcher animation and the list box selection chaining plugins. The file tree and image cropping plugins seem useful as well.

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jQuery plugin for masking regular check boxes and radio buttons with nice graphic versions that will appear the same across browsers/OSes.

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