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  • 29Mar

    Styleneat online tool - it organizes and standardizes your CSS - selectors, sub-selectors and properties, in a structure that makes it easier to define page areas and see how they relate to each other.

    You can directly enter the CSS code you would like to format, upload the CSS file or provide the URL of the CSS file.


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  • 29Mar
    Google China has recently released an experimental version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer that includes a lot of interesting features, but it's only available in Chinese.

    The most exciting new feature is an integration with Google Translate that allows the toolbar to translate web pages that use AJAX extensively and even web sites that require SSL.

    The screenshot below shows how Google Toolbar managed to translate all the text from Gmail, a web application that uses JavaScript to display the text messages. I didn't change Gmail's language to Chinese and all the messages are in English.


    And here's an English-to-French translation for Google Docs. As you can see, Google Toolbar translated the navigation bar, the sidebar, the list of documents and even the contextual menu. When you use the interface and select an option, Google Toolbar detects the changes and translates the new messages almost in real-time.


    When you use this feature for Google Reader, the toolbar translates all the posts as they are loaded.


    Another interesting feature from the new experimental version of Google Toolbar is a sidebar for Google Bookmarks that brings many of the features that are already available in GMarks, a popular Firefox extension.

    If you speak Chinese and you use Internet Explorer, try Google Toolbar, Labs Edition while keeping in mind that it's not a finished release. It's an interesting experience to use a software in a language you don't know, so you could try the toolbar even if you don't understand Chinese. For now, the toolbar is only available in Chinese, but the translation feature works for all the 41 languages supported by Google Translate (the main challenge is to find a specific language name). This is certainly the most advanced use of the Google Translate API and it shows that automatic translation is a feature which becomes even more powerful when it's integrated in the browser.

  • 29Mar

    If you find 100 comments on a blog post or 100 reviews of a new book or 100 tweets about you...

    and two of them are negative, while 98 are positive...

    which ones are you going to read first?

    If you're a human being and you're telling the truth, the answer is pretty obvious: you want to know which misguided losers had nasty things to say and you want to know what they said. In fact, if we're being totally truthful, it's likely you're going to take what the critics had to say to heart.

    That's a shame. The critics are never going to be happy with you, that's why they're critics. You might bore them by doing what they say... but that won't turn them into fans, it will merely encourage them to go criticize someone else.

    It doesn't matter what Groucho or Elvis or Britney or any other one-name performer does or did... the critics won't be placated. Changing your act to make them happy is a fool's game.

    Here's a surprising thought, though. You should ignore your fans as well.

    Your fans don't want you to change, your fans want you to maintain the essence of what you bring them but add a laundry list of features. You fans want lower prices and more contributions, bigger portions and more frequent deliveries.

    So, who should you listen to?

    Your sneezers.

    You should listen to the people who tell the most people about you. Listen to the people who thrive on sharing your good works with others. If you delight these people, you grow.

  • 29Mar

    Creating games, although being another discipline, is nothing far from web designers & developers with the increasing number of easy-to-use & familiar tools in this area.

    PushButton is an open source Flash game engine, that helps concentrating on the details by saving the time spent on coding.

    PushButton - Open Source Game Engine

    It provides the core functionality: resource manager, logger, debug monitoring, serialization, time management, globally named objects, etc. And, any preferred external library can be used too.

    PushButton has ready to use components like:

    • Physics based on Box2D.
    • Gameplay components: health, teams, state machines.
    • Sprite-based and SWF-based 2D rendering.
    • Tilemap system.
    • Advanced networking library for multiplayer games
    • Pathfinding library & more

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  • 29Mar

    I know that a lot of folks have been caught doing strange things on Google Street View, but what are the chances of the infamous street view car immortalizing multiple people peeing all at the same time on the side of a highway? Probably slim to none. Some of you might consider the second picture as NSFW, so we’re putting it after the jump.

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  • 29Mar

    ThinkDesign bring us some always useful halftone vectors in .eps format.

    28 Halftone Vectors - free halftone vector set (2500px size), contains 28 vectors total, with both a clean and grunge version.


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