August 2009
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Google Chrome Dev Channel Enables Bookmark Sync →
I’ve been waiting for this. Now you can sync your bookmarks from one Chrome instance to another using your Google Account. You can even view your bookmarks in a new folder that gets added to Google Docs… pretty sweet.
punypng: crushing your images even more →
If you’re hardcore about reducing image file sizes… this is sweet!
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10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites →
Great roundup by Smashing Magazine (from a few months back) summarizing many of the web design traps that corporations can fall into if they’re not careful.
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Google, On2 and open video
Google is buying On2 technologies. Why does this matter?
Open video. Period.
What do I mean? In 2004 the On2 VP6 codec was selected for use as the Flash 8 video codec. So many of the FLV files playing on the web today are compressed using On2’s technology. Since then they’ve also released another generation of codec called VP7 (they need better names). What you have to understand...
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“In tech, three days in personal effort often translates to three months of...”
– Anil Dash
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Playing around with CSS animations in WebKit
NOTE: This will only work on webkit based browsers like Safari or Chrome.
If you mouse over the blue “RSS” button below (which conveniently happens to be a link to my blog feed). You should see something cool.
a#rss_demo_button {
width: 43px;
height: 23px;
margin: 30px 200px;
font-size: 18px;
background: #6498CC;
color: white;
padding: 5px 3px;
...
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YouTube in HTML5
This has actually been online since the Google I/O conference a couple months ago, but it’s a cool demo using the <video> tag for a YouTube video. The <video> tag is an awesome part of the up-and-coming HTML5 spec.
You’ll need either Chrome, FireFox 3.5, or Safari for it to work. It won’t look much different than what you’re used to, but the cool thing is that...