Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Shazou is one of the most fun extensions lately on the Mozilla Addons section. It’s not a solution to a real problem, but it can add a lot of fun to your daily browsing habits. Based on the Google Maps API, Shazou lets’ you view the hosting and registration address of any website you are in. According to the extension creators, this is not only fun but also:
Shazou will show you the details that you need to make better decisions about what sites you want to register or purchase products.
More details about it:
Shazou now provides Whois data for the server, so that you can compare where the server is physically located to whomever registered the domain.
* Whois data now shown with a separate B Marker.
You can now Shazou a server before you click the hyperlink, simply right mouse click over a link and choose Shazou this Link from the popup menu.
Now Compatible with IE Tabs
By popular demand and to speed up your Shazouing, Shazou has been added to the Right-Click Context Menu
Now using Google Maps Version 2
* Utilizing Google smooth zooming
* Mouse scroll wheel zooming
Error Handling for Bad Geocode and Whois Data
You can click on the Geo IP and Whois markers to re-center map on respective locations
As it is, is a great extension but I wonder what the developers understand by “Keep an eye out we have some other things coming in the near future.” Well, I’ll defently keep an eye on it, especially because it works like a charm in my default browser, Flock.
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Rand from SEOmoz has an excellent article on the costs and steps of a SEO campaign.
In a field full of “misteries” and NDAs this will be quite a discussed article and I won’t wonder if it makes the front page of Digg and Technorati Discover in no time.
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Yahoo! Travel and Trip Planner are 2 pretty decent services that in time will get a good market share in their field. Unfortunatelly for me one of their ways to add user created content is simply broken. Both services, allow you to add to your reviews or trip plans, pictures from your Flickr account. At least that’s what they say. In reality, you cannot use pictures that you have already uploaded and only uploading to Flickr starting from the travel websites will allow you to do that.
Come on, I have 2-3 years old pictures already uploaded. I am too lazy to delete them and reupload them. And 99% of the users are as lazy as me. In an era where user created content makes the difference between services, not allowing users to use already uploaded photos is just a dumb mistake.
And since we are there why just Flickr and not also Yahoo! Photos that is larger in size?
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google’s user experience … all ยป team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google’s many products. A founding member of Google’s UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site. In the past, Jen has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google’s Internal Systems engineering group. Jen joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer Science.
ABSTRACT
Focus on the user and all else will follow. From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. Jen Fitzpatrick will take you through the art and science behind Google’s design process and share examples of how design, usability and engineering come together in Google’s unique culture to create great products.
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
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TuneXP is the single most easy and featured XP tweaker, you’ll ever find. Designed with easy-to-use dropdown menus, it will make your Windows installation go from its sluggish state to a red-blooded, optimized mode. All for free.
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With Streber Freelancers and small teams can easily setup projects and keep track of tasks, issues, bugs, efforts etc
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activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
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Aaron Wall from SEO Book launched a pretty neat SEO extensions. Unfortunately at this moment page is not available
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
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