Archive for April, 2007

links for 2007-04-30
Monday, April 30th, 2007

Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Breadcrumbs are hiarchical, cost effective and dont hurt
(tags: interaction interface usability design)

Uni-Form
beautiful form design
(tags: accessibility design development technique javascript)

HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web
“HTML5 will be the future of the web” - I have recently taken a turn away from XHTML to HTML (semantically written still of [...]

links for 2007-04-20
Friday, April 20th, 2007

Sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts to your desktop
Being a recent Mac user it would be pretty cool if i can sync my life aka my google calender to my desktop
(tags: mac productivity google)

Unobtrusive connected select boxes - yet another solution approach - Wait till I come!
nicely implemented connected selects
(tags: technique javascript reference howto tutorial [...]

So that was Oxford Geek Night 2
Friday, April 13th, 2007

The second Oxford Geek Night last night went well and was by all accounts a success. We came across various hiccups in setting up but several totally ingenious solutions and a few friendly geeks later we were all set. The talks were great, and in my mind they really made the event what it was. So, [...]

Talks for Oxford Geek Nights announced
Thursday, April 5th, 2007

The talks for the forthcoming Oxford Geek Night event have now been announced. You might already know that Jon Hicks and James Webster are lined up for two great looking keynotes on Typography and Amazon web services respectively, which is very exciting. What you might not know yet is the fantastic line-up we have for [...]

Happy Naked day!
Thursday, April 5th, 2007

As part of CSS Naked day this site is going CSS nude for today only! I encourage you to do the same. Go on … show off your <body>!

links for 2007-04-04
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

New Algorithms from UCSD Improve Automated Image Labeling
Automating labeling of images based on image recogntition of the image itself, neat!

(tags: graphics image metadata photos tagging semantic search)

Advanced Quicksilver guide
oooh
(tags: mac lifehacks productivity guide)

Timing and Synchronization in JavaScript
event grouping and the like
(tags: events javascript reference)

links for 2007-04-03
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Technorati Weblog: Introducing Three New Widgets From Technorati: Top Searches, Top Tags, and Authority
“We took three things on our site which bloggers have been requesting for quite some to include on their own sites, and wrapped them up into nice and tidy HTML widgets”
(tags: technorati widget html tools)

links for 2007-04-02
Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Hack Day 2007 - get your diaries out
“The BBC and Yahoo! are planning to get together to hold 48 hours of hacking madness this summer” … awesome!
(tags: hacks london yahoo uk bbc)

picoformats - Microformats
Syntax for control messages on sms
(tags: microformats mobile)