Best Practices for Designing Faceted Search Filters
Great post with some very clear guidelines on designing faceted search filters.
“Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There’s a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But creating sprites is hard, requiring arcane knowledge and lots of trial and error. SpriteMe removes the hassles with the click of a button.”
“Browserscope is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers.”
Hit this page to get a series of phonetically-friendly random passwords.
Convert Office documents from DOCX back to DOC
The strings required to configure poEdit to handle plurals in all sorts of languages
“The PHP OpenID library lets you enable OpenID authentication on sites built using PHP. It features the OpenID consumer, Store implementations, and an OpenID server.”
How to make a bracelet out of paracord that contains around 3m of cord.
HyperMac External MacBook Power
“Power your MacBook for up to 34 hours HyperMac External Battery for MacBook comes in 4 different sizes (60/100/150/222Wh)”
Allows you to set up an internal social network that integrates functionality from tools like Twitter and BaseCamp/Highrise. Includes task tracking and a lot of “live updates” type stuff.