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Links for September 2004:

13 links found

  • BrowserCam
    An excellent service for those of us without infinite money. BrowserCam takes snapshots of a URL in a variety of browsers on different operating system. Fast and useful.
     
  • Design Drool
    An insight into the mind of the programmer.
     
  • DMCA Notifications Resource
    I found this article very useful for dealing with plagiarism of an article from ILoveJackDaniels.com. It is a guide to having material copied from your site removed from major search engines.
     
  • Eyetrack III
    Essential reading - a study of eye movement over web pages.
     
  • How to Get a Job in the Web Industry
    An article exploring what you should do if you want to actually get a job on the web industry.
     
  • Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
    Why metadata is never going to be quite as useful as we all would like. This bears on SEO in a major way - things will not improve, they will get worse. Ultimately, no decent search engine will pay any attention at all to meta tags. Let them go ... they deserve to be laid to rest.
     
  • Microsoft Download Center
    If you use a browser other than IE, you will find that you are unable to use the automated Windows Update site. Worry not, though, because the Download Center has all the security patches and updates you need. Check it regularly.
     
  • Password Generator Bookmarklet
    This really is an incredible tool. It's a bookmarklet that, when clicked, generates a password using the URL of the site you are on, together with your master password, to generate a unique password for each site it is used for. Anyone that hacks into a site you are a member of will be unable to access other sites you use. Inspired.
     
  • Spread Firefox!
    A site dedicated to spreading the word about Firefox. Currently, the aim is 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days (and at the time of writing, with 8 days to go, they're about haflway!). Support the cause!
     
  • Talk Like A Pirate Day!
    Arrrrr!
     
  • Ten Easy Steps To Protect Your Content Online
    A guide to preventing, and dealing with, copyright infringement.
     
  • The Delusion of Expertise
    Eric Raymond talks about programming and why Terry Pratchett (one of my favourite authors) is a hacker.
     
  • The Future of Accesskeys
    XHTML 2.0 has made provisions for far more useful and far less problematic keyboard shortcuts. This article explores the future of the Accesskey.
     
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