What’s the best way to annotate a section of text on a web page? There is no perfect solution yet, but lab.arc90.com offers a nice color coordinated text/sidenote solution. Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs. It even [...]
Wednesday Web Links
Mac OS X and MySQL. Apple developer connection has a good article on using the open source MySQL database on OS X. Google Calendar Tips Many of the tips are Mac-specific, ranging from news that the Calendar will soon support Safari to how to smooth the font used for dates. All of them are useful. [...]
CSS Cheatsheet
In one printable sheet, (PDF or PNG) you can have a list of CSS selectors and properties. Very handy. Here’s the link to the CSS Cheatsheet
Secure login information storage for the Mac
When dealing with modern websites it’s necessary to maintain multiple sets of login information. There’s the site FTP address and password. There’s typically a server control panel. If you use any server based applications like a bulletin board, photo gallery or CMS, there can be separate logins for each. Then there is database connection information [...]
Ajax homepages explained
Zdnet has an interesting review of Ajax hompages that gives a little background on what’s going on and short reviews of current offerings.
iWeb Templates
I’m surprised that’s it’s taken this long but people are finally offering iWeb templates for sale. iLifeStuff has there nice looking ones for sale.
Wednesday Web links
Placeopedia connecting Wikipedia articles with Google Maps. A Guide to CSS Support in Email Widget Building Tutorial Did you know that Widgets are little web pages? How not to blog it’s not about stealing other people’s content/ Make your podcasting Audible Audible now offers content producers the infrastructure for circulation control, paid subscriptions and advertising [...]





