Saturday, January 28, 2006

Canvarticles - amazing canvas particle generator

From beautifulpixel comes an amazing and simply visually stunning canvas particle demo generator. Not only can you tweak the settings to create some very cool effects, you can then save the url and share with other folks.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Dom Scripting: HIJAX

I've been pushing this idea for over 6 years now, and it looks like finally it's time may be finally coming. Imagine if you load a page, then click on a link. Instead of fetching a new page, it just replaces the part of the page that's "different" via AJAX. See also another older page which I helped inspire with this idea...

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Z's not dead!

This is a great article about how to use z-index to good effect with your css layouts.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Amazing LED keyboard

If this is not a hoax, then it's gotta be one of the peripherals of the year. Imagine if you merged an LED screen with a configurable keyboard. Once you see it you wonder 1) why its not already out and 2) why you dont already have one.

popTart - new Firefox extension for Digg

With so much attention to Digg.com now it was only a matter of time before it began to spawn browser extensions. This one lets you stay at digg.com while still being able to visit the sites at the same time.

Companies and Products on TechCruch - Web 2.0 Who's Who

This is a great way to get the 60 second view of Web 2.0 related sites (as well as other web-based services) as viewed by TechCrunch. If you want a quick way to see what is "state of the web" this is a good place to start.