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Bookmarklet lays out topography of a webpage
Joseph Pearson of Make Believe has coded a topographic page layout bookmarklet that shows the layout of a webpage. Basically, it recolors the elements of a webpage, giving more deeply nested elements a lighter color. The effect is that you can see the "topography" of a webpage, which makes it that much easier to detect unclosed divs or for those situations where something is wrongly positioned but you just don't know why. Another of those must-have web development bookmarklets.
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1GB of email with Gmail? SpyMac already has it
Now this is nice stuff here. SpyMac, a community for Mac users (as its name would suggest), is offering "the Internet's first free Gigabyte email service". Of course, Google was theoretically first by running beta trials with Gmail, but pretty much SpyMac is the first to roll out such an offer to the world at large.
Spymac agrees with the staff at Google that a 1 GB e-mail account makes sense.
It's just POP3 and webmail at the moment, but IMAP access is in the works (which is crucial, btw, if 1GB of e-mail is going to make any sense, unless you use webmail or choose to leave your messages on the server).
Besides this, there are also some added free services, like 100MB of web space, 250MB of picture storage, RSS feed aggregator, and even blog hosting.
I couldn't resist and signed up. At this moment, I've been getting errors at the final registration page (seems like the sendmail program on the server's getting a little too busy). Haven't got a confirmation email yet. If you're willing to tolerate the lack of credibility (relative to Google), I think SpyMac offers a very sweet deal that's hard to resist. Pats on the back for the SpyMac staff for providing this for free. Smart move too, considering the amount of free publicity they'll get over the next few days. Oh well, you can't fault them for doing so - Google did it first.
I won't trust SpyMac with my essential emails, but it's interesting enough to take a look-see. Gmail? I'd trust it with my list of passwords that I store in a spreadsheet - aforementioned password spreadsheet existing hypothetically, of course. Google has gained that much clout and trust, at least in my eyes.
Source: Gadgetopia
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Smarter referrer spam?
Ugh more referrer spam innovation. Check out these sites [1] [2].
Notice this bit over at both sites, where there is a link back to this website:
If your just looking to relax take a look here. It's a good site and recommended.
Just a hyperlink pointing to the referrer, so it seems an innocuous enough (and legitimate) backlink. What's more, the style is randomized, so if you refresh the page, you get a different-looking site.
Blocked with mod_rewrite in my .htaccess
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Jack I'm so jealous!
Wrapping up my final year of study at NUS pretty soon - final thesis defence/presentation on Monday, last examination paper on April 16. Getting a job has always been there on my mind but I never really bothered about it and have been somewhat noncomittal in looking. Well, I did apply to several companies, went to 2 tests, but no interviews yet. The thesis issue is somewhat blocking everything out, because goddamnit I want to get First Class Honors. Not that I'm certificate-driven or anything, but just that since I'm in the position to get it, why the hell not? Will it even have an effect on my job prospects? I don't really know. Probably not, you know.
Oh Jack why didn't I do better for the aptitude test?
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Google's GMail is for real
If you haven't yet heard of it, Google's upcoming e-mail service, Gmail, has been under contention for one of the biggest April Fool's jokes ever. People all over have either first believed it (reservedly) and then laughed it off when they saw the press release on April 1st (like good old Simon Willison, or were thoroughly suspicious and wary of being conned yet again (like me).
The verdict? Yes, Gmail is for real. The Straits Times (local print newspaper) even published an AP article on Gmail today.
I won't inundate you with the details on what Gmail offers, but it is interesting to note that e-mails will come with targeted ads a la Adsense. Google says "no humans read your email to target the ads".
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