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Google Chrome's story
Like Firefox before it, Chrome is a clean attempt to create a browser for today's Web
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Shadows coming to Firefox
CSS-based box and text shadows should appear in Firefox 3.1
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Drag and drop with canvas
Clever demo of dragging and dropping using a textarea
Topics: JavaScript, HTML
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Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
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Mobile Safari doubles usage
The launch of the iPhone 3G pushes the mobile Safari usage to 0.3%
Topics: Browsers, Telephone/VoIP
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Google Chrome
Google's browser means there's a good chance one more test case will have to be run on future Web sites
Topics: Browsers, Search Engines
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Seattle tech start-ups
A list of more than 60 of Seattle's tiny companies
Topics: Seattle, Web Technology
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Toronto-area tech start-ups
A comprehensive list of almost 90 of the GTA's tiny companies
Topics: Toronto, Web Technology
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Ubiquity in depth
Examining the interface of "Quicksilver for the browser"
Topics: Browsers, User Interface
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Mad Men Twittering
Fan-created Twitter accounts were shutdown until AMC realized the accounts actually was great advertising
Topics: TV, Web Culture
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DIY Bumbershoot schedule
The Stranger has a simple and clever schedule maker for Seattle's annual music & arts fest
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jParallax
Impressive jQuery plugin for creating a dynamic parallax effect
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Fostering creativity
Pixar founder writes an insightful (and long) article on Pixar's secret sauce
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Bullets over Osssington
My old 'hood (and new hipster central) was the location of a four-car gun battle
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Dube leaves CBC for ABC News
CBC may have been a farm team for Jonathan Dube as he returns to ABC as a Vice President of its new site
Topics: Online Journalism, Canada
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Experimental rounded corners
Based on Snook's example, rounded corners with VML, CSS or SVG
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EveryBlock in eight cities
The hyper-local site is now covering Seattle (and Boston and Washington D.C.)
Topics: Online Journalism, Seattle
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The Better Way
TTC's new site has competition from a site build by some people who attended TransitCamp
Topics: Toronto, Web Design
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How to cover breaking news
Good analysis of how Toronto's media online covered an explosive news story
Topics: Online Journalism, Toronto
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08/08/08
The crazy 8s
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jMetronome
A script that helps a page maintain its typographic rhythm
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
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Flick navigation on the iPhone
Some very simple CSS can create the flick navigation in Safari on the iPhone
Topics: CSS, Telephone/VoIP
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Creating great search results
Advice on making a search result do what it needs to do
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Box office for 2008 visualized
Similar chart as seen in NYTimes infographic, but this is interactive and in HTML
Topic: Web Design
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Implementing canvas
There looks to be a simple way to get the CANVAS element to work on Internet Explorer allowing for a lot more interesting design effects
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iPhone events
Not, not the marketing kind, the JavaScript kind
Topics: Browsers, Telephone/VoIP
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The new "delicious"
Delicious has dropped its Web 2.0 spelling and has under went a radical makeover
Topics: Web Design, Web Culture
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How to Show Telephone Numbers On Letterheads
Ladislav Sutnar's 1960 booklet demonstrating letterhead design
Topics: Telephone/VoIP, Web Design
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Canadianizing film posters
Some very clever cultural plays in the Canadian Film Festival posters
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Buid your own font
FontShop's Web-based tool allows you to build simple, modular fonts quickly online
Topic: Web Design