Category: Bookmarks

Why is this taking so long? Why aren’t we done yet? And it turned out we weren’t done because we hadn’t listened.

Flash-based barcode scanning using the camera.

Another way of handling barcode scanning

Another barcode scanner in flash

UPC code database and lookup

Barcode database for upc data

Open source project using UPC database

Open source barcode library for scanning

Roundup of the rumors regarding Google’s Mobile Phone

Both the YUI compressor and Packer use scoping wisely so that variable names are substituted with “a”, “b” and “c” etc all the way down. This produces patterns that lead to more optimal gzip compression rates.

Rates various javascript compressors

Bought this book today. Looking forward to reading up on mobile web development.

Good explanation of sender auth and how to use it in Campaign Monitor

Google Web Toolkit is out of beta.

“Once this period is over (October 1st), we should call the specification final, pending final IPR clearance from contributors.”

Resources for corporate identity and styleguides

Beautiful photograph

Eye-tracking studies on how to put secondary actions on forms with minimal problems

Aggregation service. Similar to Planet Planet.

iPhone hacked to run on other networks. Voicemail system is not the same because AT&T enhanced voicemail for the iPhone.

Nice list of videos to inspire or enlighten

Recommend by Lyza for finding good books.

I never thought before about the many different designs of watches.

Slide templates for alternative to way to present wireframes.

Great new blog focusing on typography

Search twitter for users or updates.

Screenshots of great designs

The study which sponsored by iProspect and conducted by JupiterResearch revealed that 67% of online searches were driven by offline channels and 39% of these searches results into purchase conversion.

More improvements for flex and air. Flex and AIR are very compelling.

Interesting collaboration suite

Bookmarking for references to storage industry bloggers.

Resets rendering of html so all browsers start from the same point

This is the best of the Common Craft videos so far. Great explanation of delicious.

Rich text editor that works in Safari

Service to scan sites to make sure that Google Analytics is set up correctly.

Statistics on word of mouth influencers.

Nice slides showing the path of visitors to conversion depending on source

Grid design template. We’re finally starting to apply the rigor we used for years in print.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was consulting a customer on how we really don’t have to worry about the fold now because people know how to scroll. This article provides research to back up that assertion.

Test for browser and server performance

The best presentation from WebVisions 2007.

Create pdfs from any web page.

Adds lines to a page to make sure that you’ve got the text lined up on your grid

Great story of an undocumented “feature” in IE.

Talks about Portland comics becoming movies and how comics are out-performing other sources of movie material.

More moneyball-like analysis of NBA teams

Cross-browser implementation of the WHATWG Web Forms 2.0 specification. Includes test suite.

Echoes my thoughts on OpenID.

Video showing how to set up visitor segmentation in Google Analytics

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”