Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

January 9th, 2008 | Web by th | No Comments

When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little input box.

Internet Explorer goodies

December 28th, 2007 | Microsoft, Web by th | 6 Comments

Pretty much every web developer on the planet hates Internet Explorer. It’s just simply an amazing piece of **** when it comes to standards support. It’s quite strange that coders of worlds largest software company can’t even read and understand simple markup language specs. Imagine what would happen if these people designed airplanes. Here’s great article on the subject. And here’s IE Voodoo doll :-)

13 Places To Watch TV Online for Free

December 16th, 2007 | Web by th | 2 Comments

Check’em here.

Opera Mini 4 released!

November 8th, 2007 | Opera, Web by th | No Comments

Opera has released Opera Mini 4. I’ve been using Opera Mini with my (old and cheap) Sony Ericsson z530i, and gotta say - I love it.

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Flashearth

July 20th, 2007 | Web by th | 1 Comment

Like Google Earth maps? You’ll like Flash Earth even more! Very cool flash version of world map which can use Google maps, Microsoft’s maps, Yahoo maps, Ask.com maps, OpenLayers and NASA Terra!

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How top bloggers earn money

July 20th, 2007 | Web by th | No Comments

Here’s an interesting article how and how much top bloggers make money. Some of those amounts are just… stunning.

CSS Design tips

July 19th, 2007 | CSS, Web by th | No Comments

Internet is full of CSS tutorials and design tips - Here’s three useful sites to visit:

  1. Learn the basics
  2. Color schemes for design ideas
  3. Optimize your CSS

Cool CSS-based forms

July 17th, 2007 | CSS, Web by th | No Comments

Smashing Magazine has a nice list of extremely cool CSS-based form examples. Check them out and learn how to modernize your web forms.

Launchpad and Storm

July 11th, 2007 | PHP, Web by th | 3 Comments

Canonical Inc, the company behind Ubuntu Linux and Launchpad announced they will finally open source Launchpad. Launchpad is a project management site, like Sourceforge for example. The first component to be open sourced is object relation mapping tool named Storm. Written in python that simplifies development of database-backed applications in Python. Storm has caused quite a bit buzz and hype in Python circles, and no doubt it’s a fantastic tool.

I noticed that Python-trolls attacked OSNews post about Storm already, bashing PHP for not having anything like Storm. Just to point out, PHP has ORM library too, named PHPDoctrine. PHPDoctrine is also Google’s Summer of Code project.

CSS showcase: ten cool websites

June 22nd, 2007 | CSS, Web by th | 6 Comments

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a style-sheet language used to style documents written in a markup language, such as HTML and XHTML. Web developers both love and hate CSS - It is unarguably a wonderful and easy language to present XML documents (Like web-pages), but the most common grief for the developers using CSS is the compatibility problems between the browsers. However, skilled designers can do amazing things with CSS, and here is a little showdown of ten good websites to look for inspiration if you run out of design ideas.

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