Minimize the Software Installation Burden by Automating

November 1, 2006

Automate you software installation by making software list and let the InstallPad do the work for you. InstallPad is an easy and smart program. It is a little like apt for Windows. You just make a list of your favorite programs with InstallPad or straight in xml format and InstallPad will download and install silently [...]

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Minimal How to Order Windows Taskbar Buttons

October 30, 2006

Keeping Windows taskbar buttons always in a same order helps to minimize the effort needed to find the right button. Lifehacker mentioned Windows program Taskbar Shuffle. I Downloaded and installed it and it’s great. It is easy to use and it it feels a natural way to order buttons just by dragging them. I have [...]

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Minimal Firefox 2 Add-ons

October 28, 2006

Last updated: November 24, 2006 Useful extensions for Firefox for web browsing and web development. There are thousands of add-ons for Firefox. In this list I have concentrated on those extensions that minimize and cleans Firefox user interface and makes web browsing easier and more effective. Last part is for extensions for web developers. Web [...]

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Visualization of Complex Networks

October 28, 2006

VisualComplexity is a resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. If you are interested in data visualization, visualization of complex networks and especially beautiful data maps, VisualComplexity is a great resource. It has a list of maps around web with introduction and maps are categorized by subjects like art, business networks, [...]

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Minimal CSS

October 26, 2006

Last updated: December 6, 2006 Updating list of CSS resources. Color On Color: Online Color Tools Five Simple Steps to designing with colour, part 1 and part 2: Not exactly css but web design related and excellent. Design Templates Free Templates Layout Gala The CSS Tinderbox Design Showcases & Galleries Collection of Web 2.0 Navigation [...]

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Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer on Windows

October 26, 2006

For web development testing purposes it would be very handy to have multiple verisions of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows. Luckily it is possible. It is possible to run multible versions of Internet Explorer in standalone mode. First Joe Maddalone introduced this in Multiple Version of IE in Windows XP Pro. Manfred Staudinger perfected the [...]

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AlexaRadar – Movers And Shakers by Country

October 24, 2006

AlexaRadar’s Fast Traffic is an automatically generated listing of websites getting rapid increase of daily reach in a given geographic area. AlexaRadar is a great way to have a live view and the trends of the web. Visually most interesting part is AlexaRadar’s Worf Map of Innovation. It plots the movers and shakers on the [...]

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Firefox 2 Is Here

October 23, 2006

Mozilla has released earlier than expected final version of Firefox 2. Just a couple days after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7, Firefox releases Firefox 2. As Ars Technica notes, it is available earlier than expected as a ftp download. Firefox 2 offers some visual and usability improvements, like enhanced search capabilities and improved tabbed browsing, and some useful new [...]

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Fullscreen Slideshow With Flickr AutoDownloadr

October 22, 2006

While Flickr is lackin the fullscreen slideshow, luckily there are other programs to do that. Flickr’s own slideshow is fine, but it definately lacks the fullscreen option. It is quite a diffrence between 500 pix and fullscreen slideshow. After noticing that Safari is having a plug in for that (Windows version coming soon) and browsing [...]

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Minimal How to Use Google Maps API With PHP

October 21, 2006

The goal of this how to is to easily add multiple markes into the map on your own site using Google Maps API and PHP. Google Maps API key If you don’t already have, sign up for the Google Account. Sign up for the Google Maps API key. Read at least the higlights from the [...]

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