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iusethis.com is a new way for you to organize your applications as well as discover new ones. You can also use it to check if your apps are up-to-date. We believe that iusethis.com uses a much more democratic way to rate apps, by counting the number of us

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its' primary role is to make web designer's life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

Plenty of new and interesting revisions to the original Fahrner Image Replacement technique sprouted up in late 2003. This is an attempt to consolidate them, so that perhaps we can decide on the official replacement.

What is this? It's a challenge, an experiment, an exploration, a rough map of where we haven't been. It's a search for new ways to approach Web-based design. It's a cry for creativity, and a stab at innovation. It's a playground and a proving ground. It's

Mapstraction provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.

1. Rich Text Editor (beta) 2. Base CSS 3. YUILoader Utility (beta) 4. ImageLoader Utility (experimental) 5. Color Picker Control (beta) 6. YUI Test Utility (beta)

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.

There are two popular approaches to positioning with CSS: float and absolute positioning. Both approaches have their pros and cons. My teammates and I have developed a new positioning approach that gives us the best of both worlds. After quite a bit of experimenting and testing, it's time to share the technique with the rest of the world and see how we can work together to improve it. I'm calling it "faux absolute positioning" after the faux columns technique that simulates the presence of a column.

It's exciting that you can now enjoy the 3D Google Earth experience in the browser, and you can create your own custom interactive apps on top of it. This new API lets you use JavaScript to programmatically interact with the Earth browser, changing camera views, loading KML or 3D models, or even creating KML objects from scratch.

One of the most important activities we do in the software industry is service our customers through software updates. Like any other binary software, ActiveX controls often need to be updated with bug fixes and new functionality. So what is the best way

A short screencast demoing some of favorite features of Firebug - some new in 1.0 Beta, and some there since the beginning.