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Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

The New York Magazine agenda page looks great. Good calendar example

“Thirty-six percent of American consumers use their mobile phones as entertainment devices, says a new survey from Deloitte & Touche, up from 24 percent eight months ago.” Crazy growth.

“By default, Firefox only spell checks textareas, and if you want it to check all fields – such as the daily entry notes – simply follow these steps”

panel of judges looking for the best natural looking light from high efficiency bulbs

Details on Leopard’s screen sharing tools

Hilarious video

Internet and mobile statistics

“Has the Internet been overhyped?” – August 10, 1994

13 years of web statistics at University of Virginia

More internet statistics year over year

The original survey of web demographics and usage patterns. Good history here even though a lot of links are broken.

“Plug it in to your internet connection and it will instantly provide shared access to other users up to 50 metres away. Put several Merakis together in a neighbourhood and they will instantly form a “mesh” network, giving internet access to anyone in the

Alternative to Ruby on Rails

Great summary and empassioned testimony about the stranglehold that carriers have on mobile innovation.

Good overview of GSM vs. CDMA.

I’m still trying to discern where this fits (if at all) in the w3c or ecma specifications. Is it a DOM attribute? A javascript attribute? An iphone only attribute?

Interesting ecommerce and hosting solution

“It is a mobile phone service in Japan where anyone can register and fill in the kinds of skills they have available, say window-cleaning or washing dishes or loading boxes at a warehouse, etc. Then those who are near that location, who have indicated tha

Investing $500,000 instead of $5 million. Makes a lot of sense in today’s technology.

These are great questions to ask about a business idea.

Alternative to sharethis plugin

Reminder to look at expression engine in more detail.

Very neat screen casting and screen shot tool.

Marshall provides a good highlight of dapper which appears to be the winner in the rss scraper tools.

user supplied list of mobile apps with good designs

Another promising open source cms.

Article on FDD agile methodology applied to web development

This is a beautiful way to hang photographs

Open Source Calendar Server to use with Leopard’s iCal. Supports CalDAV.

Alternative to amazon s3 and ec2 services

“RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to.”

Another good explanation of SimpleDB

Open source pbx solutions