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Most Inspired:

Exploration Age:
Most people really like the embedded Google Maps, but don’t know how easy it is to add them to any page. I’ve had a few people ask me how it is done. With a little bit of HTML knowledge, anyone can quickly have a map up and running in just a few minutes.

Apple Developer Connectrion: RSS is revolutionizing the delivery of web content. RSS is an XML format for coordinating the delivery of time-based content streams, or ‘feeds.’ This means that RSS can be used to deliver content that changes over time. RSS provides for the inclusion of additional data, similar to email attachments, using the <enclosure> tag.

DV Guru: “I have been researching Podcast helper software as I am in the early stages of starting a vodcast (video podcasting). I would bet that many of you are also getting into podcasting, here are some of the options to consider…”

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources: ⁂

Apple Developer Connection: Simply put, Ruby on Rails is an open source tool that gives you the advantage of rapidly creating great web applications backed by SQL databases to keep up with the speed of the web.

A List Apart: Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance.

Typetester: Preview various typefaces at different sizes, leading, and tracking.

Security Focus: Damien Miller: “We also implemented self re-execution at the c2k4 Hackathon. This changes sshd so that instead of forking to accept a new connection, it executes a separate sshd process to handle it. This ensures that any run-time randomizations are reapplied to each new connection, including ProPolice/SSP stack canary values, shared library randomizations, malloc randomizations, stack gap randomizations, etc.”

SitePoint: “For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.”

Google: “The Google Homepage API provides a way to put third party content onto the Google homepage. The main use of the Googe Homepage API is to create modules that users can add to their Google personalized homepages.”

WebReference.com: Part 1 and Part 2:

• How to navigate through an XML document using XPath patterns
• How to build powerful expressions using XPath patterns and functions
• What technologies come together to support linking in XML
• How to reference document fragments with XPointer
• How to link XML documents with XLink

SEOmoz: This guide provides a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.

Cyber-Geography: Various representations of cyberspace; last updated in early 2004.

macosxhints: Includes a link to a hosts file with a mess of ad sites that you might want to block.

Wired News: “Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars’ gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly… With that recall, the Pruis joined the ranks of the buggy computer.

/* Position Is Everything */ Modern browser bugs explained in detail.

Web Standards Project: Acid2 is a test page, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Please take the Acid2 test!

Ronald Northrip Software Inc.: Tutorial on using Dreamweaver plug-in