VMTN - Browser Appliance Virtual Machine

browse the Internet with Firefox in a virtual machine

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

A list of some useful free utilities including anti-virus software.

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

24 Ways to Impress Your Friends

The 24 ways site appears to be posting a cool web development article a day that you can use to impress your friends.

Day 1 was on the Prototype Ajax library.

intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

Here's some possibly useful CSS Templates
intensivstation :: CSS Templates :: Templates

Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

Don't know if I'd dare try this but we've got HP printers at work.
Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

10 Useful JavaScript Functions

Here's Dustin Diaz's list of the top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time. They look like they could be useful.

Dactyl Fractal Zoom

A flash animation of Fractal Fingers.

PromptSQL: SQL Intellisense for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET 2003, Management Studio and VS 2005

PromptSQL: SQL Intellisense for MS Query Analyzer, VS.NET 2003, Management Studio and VS 2005: "PromptSQL provides SQL Intellisense style word completion for various Microsoft SQL editors, and UltraEdit."

Fractal Food

Fractal Food: "Romanesco (as I'll refer to it henceforth) is a member of the species Brassica oleracea L., which includes cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens, kohlrabi, and numerous other 'cultivars' (cultivated variations)."

Cool looking fractal relative of broccoli and cauliflower.

Update: Found some Romanesco links on Metafilter.

Inside Outlook Express

Inside Outlook Express: "Help, tips, FAQs and technical information to help you use, understand, and repair Microsoft Outlook Express for Windows"

Google Logo Maker

Logogle converts the text you enter into Google logo style.

Here's an example that crosses the Whole Wheat Bagel site with Google to produce Whole Wheat Baagle.

Context Free

Context Free: " Context Free, an environment for editing and rendering CFDG design grammars."

Design grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules that produce images.

Doskey

To my surprise Doskey still exists in XP

To create a batch program named Tmp.bat that contains recently used commands, type:

doskey /history > tmp.bat

Removing the Dotted Border From Active Links

I've got some pages that use link based CSS tabs and I've finally stumbled upon a method for preventing the dotted border from showing up on active links in IE.

hideFocus: "use the HIDEFOCUS attribute to prevent a focus rectangle from appearing "

Spring Flowers 2005

Here's some pictures of some of the flowers that bloomed in my yard this spring.


Spring Flowers 


Spring Flowers 


Spring Flowers 


Spring Flowers 

Amaryllis 2

This is the second flower stalk that my amaryllis plant grew this year. This one only produced three flowers and was leaning to the side so I propped it up on the railing between the living room and the kitchen.


Amaryllis stalk 2 

Revert to Saved

Revert to Saved: "Most other word processors and layout programs put a Revert to Saved command right on the File menu. This allows for a quick return to the last saved version of a file. This hack shows you how to add this feature in Word"

Amaryllis

Here's a picture of my amaryllis plant. I took this picture a few weeks ago of the first flower stalk of 2005. Currently stalk number two is about to flower. I'll probably post some pictures of that one after it opens since this experiment in photo blogging seems to have worked out well.


Amaryllis 

Greasemonkey

mozdev.org - greasemonkey: "Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ('user scripts') to any webpage to change it's behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a webpage's design or interaction."

Miscellaneous Symbols

Miscellaneous Symbols - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers: The Miscellaneous Symbols page from Alan Wood's Unicode Resources - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers.

Regular Expressions Site

This site on regular expressions looks like it could be useful and has a fairly cool site design.
Regular-Expressions.info - Regex Tutorial, Examples and Reference - Regexp Patterns

JavaScript Shell

JavaScript Shell: "A command-line interface for JavaScript and DOM."

20 Questions to a Better Personality

Here's an interesting personality test I found via Whole Wheat Blogger

My results were:

Wackiness: 10/100
Rationality: 72/100
Constructiveness: 40/100
Leadership: 34/100

You are a SRDF--Sober Rational Destructive Follower. This makes you a Fountain of Knowledge.

You are cool, analytical, intelligent and completely unfunny. Sometimes you slice through conversation with a cutting observation that causes silence and sidelong glances. You make a strong and lasting impression on everyone you meet, the quality of which depends more on their personality than yours.

You may feel persecuted, as you can become a target for fun. Still, you are focused enough on your work and secure enough in your abilities not to worry overly.

You are productive and invaluable to those you work for. You are loyal, steadfast, and conscientious. Your grooming is impeccable. You are in good shape.

You are kind of a tool, but you get things done. You are probably a week away from snapping.

Addendum, 2004/07/19: this fits me 99%, there is a slight inaccuracy however. We are not necessarily completely unfunny. If we have a sense of humor (I do) it surfaces on the occasion with well-timed, completely dry, very sarcastic, wit. - Chase

Of the 84172 people who have taken this quiz since tracking began (8/17/2004), 7.5 % are this type.

A List Apart

A List Apart : "A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards."

Huygens Pictures of Titan

Here's some links to pictures of Saturn's moon Titan from the Huygens probe:

ESA - Cassini-Huygens

NASA - Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn

Update: The Onion has a list of Huygens discoveries.

More Character Entity Info

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

A Simple Character Entity Chart : evolt.org, Code

A Simple Character Entity Chart : evolt.org, Code: "Character entity references in HTML 4"

The IFRAME+SSL Problem

One of the common causes of the "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" message is the IFRAME+SSL problem.

If you're using SSL and have an IFRAME without an SRC attribute, the frame will start out displaying a nonsecure blank page which causes the warning. To get rid of the message you need to supply your IFRAME tags with SRC attributes that display secure content from your site.

If you don't know ahead of time what page the frame should display, just make a file that contains an empty html page and use that.

<iframe src="empty.htm"/>