May 8, 2012

Find Neighbors On The Same IP

What other sites share the same infrastructure with your site, or any other? Bing‘s IP search can answer. Do a search by IP number: ip:72.233.127.217 ip:158.136.1.105 ip:72.51.52.15

May 8, 2012

Site Load Performance Benchmarks

The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple compiled the following numbers for the time it takes various tech sites to load in a browser in late 2011: The Loop: 38 requests; 38.66KB; 1.89 secs Daring Fireball: 23 requests; 49.82KB; 566 milliseconds Macworld: 130 requests; 338.32KB; 8.54 secs Ars Technica: 120 requests; 185.99KB; 2.08 secs Apple: 46 requests; 419KB; [...]

May 7, 2012

Is This The Best IMDB API?

IMDBAPI.com

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May 7, 2012

CSS Speech Bubbles

Twitter front-end guy Nicolas Gallagher likes both CSS and speech bubbles enough to want them unadulterated by images and non-semantic markup. The lesson from his many examples is that it all comes down to an :after pseudo element that puts the little triangle in there: More examples on Nicolas’ site.

May 6, 2012

Semantic News Markup And SEO

Schema.org NewsArticle hNews rNews (and the war between rNews and hNews) Google News Technical Requirements

May 3, 2012

Marathon Spoiler Guides

Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal are available as iOS apps. The classic Marathon Spoiler Guides might be good companions.

May 1, 2012

AirParrot Turns AppleTV Into A Secondary Display

From the FAQ on the AirParrot site: What does AirParrot do? AirParrot lets you AirPlay your Mac’s screen to a second or third generation AppleTV. What you see on your Mac’s screen will appear on the AppleTV, wirelessly! How do I use AirParrot? Once you’ve opened AirParrot, click on the icon in your menu bar. [...]

April 30, 2012

SF Police, Fire, EMS, and Airport Radio Monitoring

Listen in with RadioReference.com’s index of live police, fire, EMS, and airport radio feeds in San Francisco.

April 30, 2012

Is This The Best Way To Copy Voicemails From An iPhone?

Instructables tells us to get the files from the iPhone backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/, but “iTunes renames all your files xxxxxxx.mddata. So all you need to do is figure out the original file name extension and you will be able to view the file.” Ugh, isn’t there a better way?

April 29, 2012

HTML5 Form Elements

Mark Pilgrim’s overview of HTML 5 form elements includes the following: Placeholder Text Autofocus Fields Email Addresses Web Addresses Numbers as Spinboxes Numbers as Sliders Date Pickers Search Boxes Color Pickers Form Validation Required Fields Further Reading

April 16, 2012

Configuring Amazon Linux For Web Services (Spring 2012)

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I’ve tested this cookbook against Amazon Linux, but it will probably work just as well with the current version of CentOS. Basic Installation First, get root and update the OS: With that done, let’s get the basic packages and services installed: That gets us Apache HTTPD with SSL, PHP with a number of modules, Memcached, [...]

March 31, 2012

PHP vs. Frameworks

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Six years ago this month the Zend framework preview was released and Rasmus Lerdorf published a blog post titled “The no-framework PHP MVC framework” (italics added). R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah noted irony.

March 19, 2012

Scanwiches

Parisi Bakery: Ham, Swiss, Tomato, Lettuce, Mustard, Mayo, on a hero

Scanwiches: scans of sandwiches for education and delight.

March 18, 2012

Pew Internet Project: “19% of adults own a tablet computer”

gadget ownership among the US adult population

The tablet market, began with the introduction of the original iPad, and in just two years has grown to count nearly one out of every five adults in the US as a consumer.

March 15, 2012

Rob Reid’s Copyright Math

Rob Reid's Copyright Math

Rob Reid’s Copyright Math at TED2012: the claimed effect of entertainment piracy to US economy is larger than value of most of our agricultural output.

March 11, 2012

Pantone Yummies

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Beautiful food art from Emily Griottes.

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