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RCDefaultApp (via) Useful app for disabling help:, disk: and disks: among other things.

# 20th May 2004, 6:45 pm

Creating colour palettes (via) Simple, smart trick for coming up with a colour palette.

# 20th May 2004, 12:39 am

Design Eye for the Usability Guy. Jakob Nielsen gets the makeover of a life time.

# 19th May 2004, 3:31 pm / jakob-nielsen, usability

Curiosity is bliss: Video streaming over HTTP. VLC + DivX can jump to points in a file as well.

# 19th May 2004, 3:33 am

Writing The Code is the Easy Bit. Why writing a CMS gets harder with experience.

# 19th May 2004, 1:27 am

Random access to Web audio. Standard MP3s can be randomly accessed using HTTP’s range header—without any extra server software.

# 18th May 2004, 10:03 pm

Mac OS X URI Handler Arbitrary Code Execution (via) Very nasty: affects all web browsers, allows compromise by malicious web sites.

# 18th May 2004, 3:39 pm / macos, security

Childless couple told to try sex. But of course, abstinence only sex education is the way to go.

# 18th May 2004, 5:51 am

Why Windows is a Security Nightmare. The pain of Windows Update over a 56K modem.

# 18th May 2004, 5:50 am / security, windows

The Fishbowl: Type Inference and Java. Why Java’s implementation of static typing is stupid.

# 18th May 2004, 5:45 am

indieWIRE BLOGS: Morgan Spurlock. The director of Super Size Me has a blog, updated daily.

# 18th May 2004, 5:31 am

RTFM: A Guide to Online Research. An oldie but goldie from Steve Champeon. Watch out for the intrusive ads though (and bemoan the demise of WebMonkey).

# 18th May 2004, 3:19 am

Joho the Blog: “We are legal”. Dave Weinberger reports from Massachusetts.

# 18th May 2004, 3:11 am

Eurovision Contestants. RealPlayer videos of every song!

# 18th May 2004, 1:11 am

Kisstory in action (via) Indiana has a law on the books that makes it illegal for a man with a moustache to “habitually kiss human beings.”

# 17th May 2004, 12:42 am

Testing Page Load Speed. Dave Hyatt on browser benchmarks and how browsers handle page layouts.

# 17th May 2004, 12:08 am

Bitkeeper after the storm (via) How the commercial BitKeeper has helped increase Linux Kernel productivity.

# 16th May 2004, 11:42 pm

Freedom 0. Mark Pilgrim switches to WordPress.

# 14th May 2004, 10:45 pm / mark-pilgrim

LugRadio Episode 7 (via) I wish they had permalinks for each episode.

# 14th May 2004, 12:15 am / podcasts

Why the W3C wants Atom. Matt May explains all.

# 13th May 2004, 11:45 pm

Google Groups (Beta) (via) Now has Yahoo! Groups style “create a group” functionality, mailing lists, Atom feeds and more.

# 13th May 2004, 7:37 pm

Google Image Ads. Hopefully these are only for AdSense and won’t show up in Google’s search results.

# 13th May 2004, 6:01 pm

W3C proposes an Atom working group. Can you smell the flames yet?

# 13th May 2004, 5:56 pm

Google Blog (via) Currently lacking a human voice (no name on some posts). Let’s hope they fix that.

# 11th May 2004, 5:20 am

Bright Creative (via) Dave Shea’s consulting business gets a great looking redesign.

# 10th May 2004, 10:48 pm

Years

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