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Firefox 2 Tabs Add-on FaviconizeTab

November 25, 2006

FaviconizeTab is one of the best Firefox tabs add-ons among Aging Tabs and Tab Mix Plus. It resizes the width of the specified tab smaller up to the size of favicon. You can setup how to resize the tab, for example with a double click, or you can add the URLs you want to resize [...]

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Flickr Camera Finder

November 21, 2006

So simple yet so interesting: Flickr Camera Finder. Flickr Camera Finder indexes the camera models used in the images uploaded into the Flickr. It is effective and truly objective way to measure the popularity of the different camera models. Well, of course it is only the popularity among the Flickr members and considering that: The [...]

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Minimal Free Fonts And Typography Resources

November 19, 2006

Free Fonts Search Free Fonts – over 13,000 free fonts available for download dafont.com Better fonts – over 10,000 fonts for free! Download Free Fonts – Urban Fonts: Free fonts and dingbats. Vitaly Friedman’s Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts Typography Typographica. A Journal of Typography. Articles – Know Your Type | iStockphoto.com Typographic Collaboration [...]

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Minimal Web Services with XFire, Spring and PHP

November 13, 2006

If you have a Java web application implemented with Java 5 and Spring Framework, it is really easy to expose your POJOs as web services. In this example I use XFire and JSR 181 annotations for that. I’ll also make a small web service client example with PHP. The goal is to add web services [...]

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Easy Screen Capturing with FastStone Capture

November 12, 2006

FastStone Capture is one of many screen capture programs. It is for Windows and free for home users. It can capture windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has some integrated functions like resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing and more. You can save the captured images in many different [...]

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PageAddict Firefox Add-on for Internet Addicted and Statisticians

November 9, 2006

PageAddict is a Firefox extension, wrote by two neuroscientists, that monitors your Internet browsing and displays a summary of the time you’ve spend time on each web site for the day and shows graph of your web surfing habits history. You can be surprised about results. PageAddict add-on is actually Greasemonkey script and it stores [...]

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More Advertising!

November 8, 2006

Last updated: December 5, 2006 Who wouldn’t like advertising. Here are some old and new, some clever and funny, sites and blogs and lists and tools related to advertising… and something more. The list is updating. Ads of the World | Daily Advertising Fix Added 2006-12-04 AdverBox Advertising and Marketing Blog Added 2006-12-05 The Ad [...]

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How to use Unicode, JDBC and Solid Database

November 6, 2006

It is not always so straightforward to use Unicode throughout your application layers. Let’s say that your Java application’s default character encoding for file I/O operations, JDBC requests and so on is Unicode. In other words you start you Java application on command line for example with: java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 If your Solid Database’s string types [...]

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Web Application as Desktop Application with Bubbles

November 5, 2006

Use your web applications, like Gmail and Google Calendar, just like desktop applications. Bubbles is simply but clever way to use web applications or sites just like desktop applications. You just add your favorite web sites in Bubbles settings and after that you can use them in their own windows and they sit in the [...]

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