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Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
Ajax Spinners in your chosen colours. I'm sure I've bookmarked this page about 20 times before, but I can never find it.
ExpanDrive - Bring your remote files closer to home.
I'm not convinced that it's better than MacFUSE + sshfs, but if Gruber says it's worth a try...
HTML Entity Character Lookup › Left Logic
Handy lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.
MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate
Changes TextMate's slidy 10.3 style drawer into an integrated pane like 10.4's Mail.App. Looks nicer and resizing it makes much more sense. Only negative point is that it can't go on the right hand side.
Google Static Maps API - Google Code
"Static Maps API" - like the normal api but no Javascript and therefore no browsing around. Makes a lot of sense for "contact us" pages where a full embedded map is overkill (but there's no satellite mode!)
Smart Scroll X - smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling
iPhone-esque flick-scrolling for mac.
I don't want e-mail anymore - Grammar Blog
Opinions on punctuation of "e-mail", an issue which has been bothering me lately.
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
Fantastic way of removing "add to x!" clutter
A few more jQuery plugins: crop, labelOver and pluck
labelOver - based on an article over at A List Apart an accessible method of compressing forms
iPhonesque — ala the dialog box on iPhone
iPhonesque is a Growl style imitating the "pop in" dialog box on the iPhone.
James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.
James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.
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Distilleries of Islay
Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of…
Posted on 2nd September 2010
HubPages Marks the Spot
Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and me to join thier expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Posted on 31st August 2010
The Russian Woodpecker
Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian…
Posted on 30th August 2010
Airport Emergency Training Locations
As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred…
Posted on 27th August 2010
“The Buzzer” speaks! (Voice transmission confirmed at UVB-76)
Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years…
Posted on 25th August 2010