For any web developer that’s ever had to build a signup routine, email is the necessary evil that takes pride of place among hated activities. Sure, a simple call to the language’s mail library will send a message through, but the moment the boss wants a HTML email, or users need attachments, everything starts to [...]
Hitwise, an Internet metrics company, has just released the latest statistics in search engine usage for the US and UK. The data was collected from a sizeable sample of 10 million users. As expected, Google is leading the pack, even posting slight increases that help it pull farther away from its main rivals. The four [...]
Gmail recently released Gmail Labs, a plugin-style system allowing users to try out new Gmail features still in beta (yes, for a beta product). Users will find a new “Labs” tab in their settings page, from where they can selectively opt-in to enable particular features built by various members of the Gmail theme. These features [...]
Google Gears is aiming to change the online landscape, and there’s a good chance that it will. If you haven’t heard of it yet, it’s a browser extension that primarily allows web application to work offline. If you use Google Docs, for example, Google Gears will create a database on your hard drive where it [...]
I’m going to give you some advice that will rock your world. If you’re a web designer, you should design your resume. *GASP* All kidding aside, the importance of impressing people with your resume’s visual appeal, especially online, is important. Here are some tips on styling a resume so it conveys your skills …
There’s a buzz spreading through the web design community like a virus. It’s called sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). What is sIFR? Essentially, it’s a technology that replaces short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in the typeface of your choice, regardless of whether or not your users have …
There’s been an explosion of resource, recruitment and tutorial sites, in Part 2 we continue our review of the biggest and the best of them, analyze their brands and make suggestions for their growth. Make sure you read Part 1 before continuing. 05. PSD Tuts (Tie) Founder(s) – Unknown History – PSDTUTS is a blog/photoshop [...]
While recently experimenting with charting for web applications, and the various charting libraries popular among the PHP community, I came across the Google Chart API. I’ve since decided to outsource, as it were, all my charting needs to the API, a service provided by Google to generate just about any graph you could possibly need [...]
It seems the web is always abuzz when another web 2.0 startup releases an API. Everyone starts putting together little mashups; some take off, most don’t. Yet few seem to be familiar with the Yahoo! APIs: with immense power on offer, and with a serialized PHP output option, they’re great for PHP developers. Read on [...]
A few weeks ago, a team of Google researchers presented a project that may just revolutionize image search. See, during the last few years, image search has been rapidly growing in popularity. Development in this field, however, has been slow at best. Right now search results are still dependent on textual clues like filenames, image [...]
