You can now (or soon will be able to) add pictures to your Gmail Contacts. Gmail chat can now play sounds when a chat message arrives, provided you have Flash installed. This is a welcome addition, since I commonly Alt-Tab over to Gmail to discover that someone sent me a message three hours ago. (Via [...]

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Not that big a deal, but you can format your Gmail Talk Statuses in Gmail and include some special characters. Bold and Italics Get bold or italics using Textile-like commands. Surround text with underscores “_” for italics, or asteriks “*” for bold. For example, enter _Really_ Busy to display Really Busy. Update: you can now [...]

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It’s kind of old, but somewhere I stumbled on Ned Batchelder’s article on deleting code. At first glance it looked to be a trivial subject, but it actually turned out to be an interesting read. I have been guilty of leaving dead code lying around, but on the other hand I have clipped stuff that [...]

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C Source Search is a new tool that makes it easy to search for pre-written open source code that can help you do your project without re-inventing the wheel. Most of the code is GPL, so you won’t be able to use it in commercial applications (unless it is for internal use only). Also, the [...]

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If you are creating a web application and you need to have the ability to schedule resources (people, machines, Precious Moments figurines, etc) it can sometimes be a cumbersome task. With this drag and drop schedule you won’t have to worry about the end user making typos in an html form and causing more trouble [...]

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One of the top reasons Firefox (or Opera, for that matter) took off was that it squashed popup ads — grrr… I hate those things. But over the past few months, I’ve started looking down at the taskbar and wondering “when did I open three extra Firefox windows?” Nope, they’re popups. I thought Firefox was [...]

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del.icio.us now provides linkrolls via javascript. All you have to do to use it is copy the following script to your editor (it’s all one line, so remove any line breaks): <script type=”text/javascript”src=”http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/techrageo.us/tech?tags;extended;count=14;title=my%20del.icio.us;bullet=%C2%BB;icon;sort=alpha”></script> Then adjust the querystring to your needs as follows Modify “techrageo.us” to whoever’s del.icio.us links you want to monitor Modify “tech” to [...]

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