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TimesMachine - printed news from New York Times

TimesMachine is an archive service by The New York Times which archives more then 100 years of the newspaper of record. It is interesting to see how is handled the scanning of printed text - when you hover a column of the paper, you will get a zoomed version of it. The zoomed version is made with sophisticated HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Web design trends - 2008

Web Designer Wall posted a huge list of very creative and inspirational sites, categorized in eleven sections. The article expose the trends in web design for 2008. When I was browsing among them, I realized how much I need a new look and feel...

Movie about computer history

The Machine That Changed The World is a great old documentary movie about  the computer history, easy to understand and well explained story.

It is separated in four parts that cover different aspects of computer history, every part is long about an hour. It's worth to be seen.

New web browser - IETester

I’ve been doing a lot of testing lately as my daily work is mostly connected with front-end development, and testing in all the versions of IE is a pain. But maybe we have a solution now called IETester.

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Congrats for this great idea.

Google Charts API - dynamic generation of charts for your application

Google Chart API gives you the opportunity to build a URL that will dynamically create a chart for your needs.That API is actually and very easy for use, you can get how it works in a few minutes. There's almost no limit to the number of calls per day you can make to the API.

The Google Chart API returns an image in PNG-format.

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?<par1>&<par2>&<parN>

Line charts

Sparklines

Barcharts

Pie charts

Maps