xhtml | css | DesignThe republic of Jens Wedin (with me as the president)

I’ve been using Microsoft’s Live’s startpage as my default startpage for almost a year now. I had my main feeds there which worked quite well. This weekend I tried out Netvibes and I am really impressed with it. It has so many great features and is really quick to "work" with.  Not only can you have your feeds there, you can also have your notes, Google calender, weather and to-do lists. You  can also have multiple tabs with different areas of choice, this way you don´t need to have everything on your frontpage. It is also easy to import RSS feeds by uploading an OPML file.

If you haven´t tried Netvibes out should really check it out.

• Netvibes
• Microsoft live

Mon.itor.us is a external website monitoring service which provides commercial grade distributed monitoring services absolutely for free. While big companies are paying big moneys for similar service, mon.itor.us is targeting small and medium size businesses with a limited IT budget. Website and network downtime is expensive for almost any business today. Mon.itor.us external monitoring service helps to be immediately informed about the problems and allows quick restoration of online services.

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Last time I wrote about Safari for Windows (Win32) it was when a real port of WebKit was released. The problem was that the project quickly died, I think the main developer for the project did not have the time to work on this. After a tip from Troels I now see that there is a version 0.2 of Swift, I am not sure if it is the same people who is working on porting WebKit aka Safari for Windows or if it is them same developer. Does anyone have info on this?

• Swift aka Safari for Windows
• Screenshot of the browser (new window)

Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!’s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. Matt explores the concepts of semantic markup and separation of content, presentation and behavior for modern web browsers, showing examples of best practices.

• Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time

This years 24 ways starts off with ‘Tasty Text Trimmer’ written by Drew McLellan. I think that last year was a succes for 24 ways with many great articles, hopefully it will be the same this year.

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