links for 2008-03-02
by Martin Belam, 2 March 2008
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"Don't provide a text-resizing tool which doesn’t save the users preference; this is what will generally be most expected. Furthermore, any text-resizing choice must be global across the site". Plus several other useful points.
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"The Google team released a suite of gadgets available via iGoogle today. I don’t want to be too negative, however, this is the lamest, least functional, most user un-friendly, and most ridiculously ugly thing I have ever seen Google release". Bam!
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"There already is a calendar widget in Apple Dashboard, but there is none with a Star Trek - Next Generation look". Did it not occur that maybe there was a reason for that?
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"If you are looking for some stock videos to add to your blog or Website, Mochila just added about 800 clips from the BBC Motion Gallery, the licensing arm of the BBC". For when typing 'fish' into YouTube isn't good enough...
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"Mippin is the fastest and most elegant way to mobilise your blog. By adding the Mippin widget to your Typepad blog, readers can learn how to access a mobile version hosted by Mippin". Another reason to regret implementing custom templates on TypePad.