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A Better JavaScript Hack To Get Browser History Urls

2008-02-23T22:10:00.003-08:00

A new hack to get a list of URLs from the browser history using JavaScript (bypasses security permissions). This is better than previous hacks of this nature, which could only detect if the user had been to specific sites.

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A good reciped for BBQ chicken

2008-02-23T22:10:00.001-08:00

This is a recipe for some BBQ chicken that came out pretty well- moist and delicious.

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FeedMarklet: Postmorterm for a web 2.0 product developed in 12 hours

2008-02-23T22:07:00.003-08:00

FeedMarklet is a website that lets users very quickly make an RSS feed. This article describes its development process, which took place over the course of about 12 hours.

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Stories with Longer Titles Get More Diggs (with Graph, from 233K stories)

2008-02-23T22:07:00.001-08:00

Using the Digg API, I collected the titles and number of diggs from 233,570 stories. Then I made a histogram of the average number of diggs vs. length of story title. This histogram shows very clearly that stories with longer titles get more diggs.

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Turns your bookmarks into an RSS feed in 2 minutes (Firefox or Safari)

2008-02-23T22:06:00.013-08:00

This screencast shows how to make your bookmarks into an RSS feed in about 2 minutes, using Firefox.

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The Top 100 Words on Digg

2008-02-23T22:06:00.011-08:00

This is a list of the top 100 words on Digg, based on average data from 233,000 stories gathered using the Digg API.

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How to make an RSS feed in about a minute

2008-02-23T22:06:00.009-08:00

This screencast shows how to make an RSS feed in about a minute.

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How to add a tag cloud to your blog (video)

2008-02-23T22:06:00.007-08:00

This screencast shows an easy way to make a tag cloud for any blog or web page.

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Lets write a game in Flash CS 3 (screencast) - Parts 1 through 7

2008-02-23T22:06:00.005-08:00

This is the first 7 parts of a series of screencasts showing how to write a game in Flash CS 3. The game is Magnet Golf.

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Mac Finder Trick: Expand or Collapse Every Folder With A Few Keystrokes

2008-02-23T22:06:00.003-08:00

This is a trick you can do with the Finder in tree view. Press the left or right arrow keys while a folder is selected to expand or collapse it. You can first select all with Apple-A, then press left or right to expand or collapse every folder.

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7 Free Programs for Mac OS X That I Find Useful

2008-02-23T22:06:00.001-08:00

Here are a few free tools for OS X that I find useful; maybe they will be useful to you as well.

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5 Techniques to Get More Visitors to Your Site

2008-02-23T22:05:00.007-08:00

This blog is a collection of tricks and techniques to get more visitors to your site.

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News Feed Tag Cloud Mashup

2008-02-23T22:05:00.005-08:00

This is a mashup of tag clouds for BBC News, Digg, Google News, StumbleUpon, del.ico.us, and Wired Science, created from their RSS feeds.

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Lumox 2 - A Lumines Clone for Mac OS X

2008-02-23T22:03:00.001-08:00

Lumox 2 is a trippy OS X clone of the PSP game Lumines. It has music-synchronized graphics. There is also a hard 3 color mode.

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12 tag cloud generators

2008-02-21T21:49:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of site that generate tag clouds. Many of these would be useful if you wanted to add a tag cloud to your website.
Each tool has its own way of getting data for the cloud, from RSS feeds, to plain text input, as well as different options to format and display the cloud.

MakeCloud - This is an extremely simple way to make a tag cloud: just give it an RSS feed URL and it generates a cloud that stays up to date with the feed, which can be embedded in other sites.

del.icio.us - del.ico.us is a popular social bookmarking service. It can make a tag cloud from the tags provided with all of the links in a user profile, which can be embedded.

TagCrowd - This site generates a static tag cloud based on word frequency from a web page, uploaded file, or plain text input.

TagMyCloud - this cloud generator allows a user to paste in some text, and it shows a cloud that updates every few seconds. The contents of the cloud were mostly in German, and had nothing to do with the text I pasted in.

Tag Cloud Generator - this site has a fairly slick dynamic interface. It allows a user to enter either a webpage url, from which it automatically extracts tags, or just to enter the tags directly. Then it provides some formatting options, and outputs code to embed the cloud.

Tag Cloud Builder Demo - this tag cloud generator accepts either text input or a webpage, and generates a text (not link) tag cloud based on word frequency.

Tag Cloud Generator - I tried this one, but it said my page could not be converted or did not exist.

ZoomClouds - this site offers a solution for users wishing to add a tag cloud to their website. To make a cloud, sign up, give it a feed, configure the cloud's style, and add the code to your site.

Text Tag Cloud Generator - input some text into a field and specify the some properties for style, then click generate. It shows the cloud and provides code to embed it.

Keyword Cloud Generator - generates a tag cloud that can be embedded, given a page url.

Clusty - Clusty generats a tag cloud based on a short query, rather than a full web page or a body of text. For example, given 'quantum mechanics', it generates a cloud with words such as 'energy' and 'physics'.

TagCloud.com - a formerly popular tag cloud generator that is no longer running.