Freeware
http://www.irfanview.com/
A great little image viewer that has a lot more power and features that are worth exploring.
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/index.html
3 very useful Windows programs. In particular, PINs and MWSnap. PINs is a password and info manager. No bells and whistles but does its job well. Totally portable (ie: flash drive). MWSnap is a no-nonsense screen capture program. Simple, Useful.
Quotes of the Day
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Flattery is a form of hatred.
Choice strengthens all.
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
ABC News - Breaking Stories (AUST)
Inmates involved in the stand-off that ended yesterday at Port Augusta prison have been transported to Adelaide.
The US stock market has posted its eighth straight day of losses as investor fears persist about the financial crisis triggering global recession.
After a marathon sitting week, the Victorian Parliament has finally passed legislation to decriminalise abortion.
What do you a give a man who has everything?
The United States has acknowledged it must bridge gaps with its partners over a plan to verify North Korea's nuclear disarmament before it strikes Pyongyang from a US terrorism blacklist.
Ajaxian (Web Design Related)
Ruven Pillay has updated the JavaScript image viewer that we posted on awhile back. We asked Ruven what he has done and he told us: Well, I’ve just released a new version which updates the libraries to Mootools 1.2 and adds a whole bunch of useful features like navigation buttons, a draggable nav ...
Steve has found a new tidbit that has him excited. The feature at hand comes from Opera Primarily for low bandwidth devices, not well-tested on desktop. Ignore script tags until entire document is parsed and rendered, then execute all scripts in order and re-render. Steve explains how you he is a ...
Remy Sharp gives us a blast form the past for the some Friday fun. First, he shows his Marquee plugin that gives you the marquee effect. Why would you do this when the marquee tag itself is widely adopted? Funnily enough, the marquee tag is pretty well supported amongst the browser, but the actual ...
Sameer Chabungbam of Microsoft posted about the new JScript profiler the includes the following functionality: Provides performance data for JScript functions in two views: Functions View – a flat listing of all the functions Call Tree view – a hierarchical listing of the functions based on ...
Dave Minter is obviously frustrated, which lead him to write You are not alone. None of the rest of us can fathom CSS either. He goes on a little rant that covers: Curvy corners Vertical floats Formatting for forms Floats within elements Graphical Buttons Column support Order Independence Widths on ...