from Find Misspelled eBay Auction.
A standard way of saving money when buying on eBay is to find auctions that come with misspelled titles and descriptions. Someone selling a Playtation 3 will probably most likely earn less than someone who is selling a Playstation 3.
Auction Bloopers is a website that will search for misspelled auctions on various eBay marketplaces including eBay.com, eBay.co.uk and eBay.com.au. The standard search requires you to enter the correct spelling of what you’re searching for. The site uses common misspellings to build and run a search query against the selected eBay site. For example, using Playstation found over 80 auctions at eBay.com.au.
There’s advanced options that can be used to exclude search terms from the results. Only the title of an auction is searched, but because the result is given to you as an ebay web page, you can easily extend the search to include the description.
Christmas comes, but once a year…. Kongregate have recompiled Doom 1 in Flash, from the original source code. Since it’s from the original source, it plays just like the original, right down to the old cheat codes: in case you’ve forgotten, IDDQD activates “degreelessness” and IDKFA will enable all weapons, keys, and ammo, and boost your armor to 200%. Not that I’m saying you’ll need to cheat…..
You’ll need Flash 10 to play, and a non-PowerPC computer to run it.
One of the problems with using the Greasemonkey extension for firefox is knowing what scripts are available for the site you are visiting. Greasefire is a companion extension designed to help you customize your web browsing by finding user scripts for any page you’re currently visiting.
Once installed, the extension automatically searches the Greasemonkey script repository Userscripts.org for scripts related to the site you’re visiting. If a script is available, the Greasemonkey icon in your Firefox status bar will display a fiery background to indicate that it found matches.
From 24 ways to impress your firends:
It is the destiny of one browser to serve as the nemesis of web developers everywhere. At the birth of the Web Standards movement, that role was played by Netscape Navigator 4; an outdated browser that refused to die. Its tenacious existence hampered the adoption of modern standards. Today that role is played by Internet Explorer 6.
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JavaScript genius Dean Edwards wrote a script called IE7. This amazing piece of code uses JavaScript to make Internet Explorer 5 and 6 behave like a standards-compliant browser. Dean used JavaScript to bootstrap IE’s CSS support.
Because the script is specifically targeted at Internet Explorer, there’s no point in serving it up to other browsers. Conditional comments to the rescue:
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<script src="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.0(beta3)/IE7.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<![endif]-->
Standards-compliant browsers won’t fetch the script. Users of IE6, on the hand, will pay a kind of bad browser tax by having to download the JavaScript file.
CreateHDR is an online tool that lets you easily add High Dynamic Resolution effects to images without using Photoshop or any other HDR software. HDR images show greater range of tonal detail, than your camera could capture. This site emulates HDR effect so you can play with it with no Photoshop or other software. You can enhance some pictures really well and produce stunning results.
This is an example of a photo I took at the local beach one day (
the original is on flickr)
It is also worth looking aqt the High Dynamic Resolution Gallery, for examples of before and after shots .
This is my first xtra normal video.
Very basically, the tool takes what you type, for one or two characters, and creates a video of your selected characters. You can control pretty much everything in the video, from background music to camera shots, and character appearances and actions, by dragging icons and dropping them into the dialog. You can share the videos and grab copies of other people’s videos (this is probably the best way to start out).
There’s a youtube video over at Chris Pirillo showing how to create xtra normal videos. I didn’t use it (it probably shows), but for an example of how easy it is, the kids (one 10 and two 8 year olds) are already building their masterpieces. Unfortunately, they didn’t have time to finish tonight (school tomorrow) and they’ve topld me I’m not allowed to ‘show everyone their unfinished stuff’ (their words not mine !!).
I am was a great fan of gmail. Lots of storage (I haven’t deleted anything since June 2004), excellent spam filtering, accessible from anywhere that has a ‘net conenction (including my phone).
Unfortunately, I loved it so much that its entrenched in all my Social Nets, personal contacts, domain registrations etc. Unfortunate, because google have introduced emoticons into gmail.
I can only think is that this is in response to some huge groundswell of demand. On the other hand, the thing I love about gmail (and most Google products) is the simplicity and cleanness of the screen. Yes, emoticons are content, not user interface, but if I wanted pretty little icons, I’d go use
AOL mail.
CSS allows you to create multiple styles styles for a single page or document. This is how WordPress themes are implemented. You can see it at work in the last.fm paint it black or simply red screen formats. Developers are used to styling for the screen. However, using it on other media STILL isn’t a habit yet. The result is that, for many developers, our thinking about printing or about displaying on mobile devices has been limited to recreating a document in a different way.
Why bother, when the power to offer your readers a more appropriate view of your material is no further away than a well-structured document and a media-specific style sheet?
You can take any (X)HTML document and simply style it for print or iphone or other mobile device out having to touch the markup. Worries about version skew between the web and print versions suddenly become a thing of the past. Best of all, it’s simple to do.
Here’s a link to an article by Eric Myer on CSS Printing. And to make it even more user friendly, take a look at this one that uses a printer preview to let the user see what they’ll get.
Want to quickly find out if your website loads fast enough? Use www.site-perf.com to get an accurate estimation of your website’s loading speed.
Just type in your URL, press go, and Site-Perft will present you with a loading chart for your website. The chart displays the elements of your page and their load times, to enable you to identify the elements that take longer to load.
- You can specify different physical locations from around the world to check a site’s loading time
- Run against as many websites as you like.
- Check the loading speed of any website.
- No registration required.
BTW, to compare loading speeds of different websites try WebsiteSpeedTest.
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