YSlow,
which was created by the developers at Yahoo!, is a firefox plugin that
analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on
the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox
add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development
tool. Below is a google tech talk session explaining all
about it:
A great lesson to be learned by this video comes at the
20 minute mark with the discussion on "CSS Sprites". This is a brilliant idea, and
extremely simple to implement.
One of my favorite
new (at least new to me) internet applications is Google Docs. There are
quite a few reasons why I like it so much. The following
are just a few of the main reasons why:
Office!? We don't need no stinking
Office! For those non-windows users out there
(which now includes me), you won't need MS Office anymore.
Google Docs allows you to create documents, spreadsheets,
and presentations. You don't have to download any software
either.
You've been saved. Any document,
spreadsheet, or presentation you create is automatically
saved. Any changes you make get saved as well without ever
having to hit the save button.
It's polite to share. You can share
any document/spreadsheet/presentation with anyone. This is
extremely valuable when you are not the only one working on
the document.
Let's talk about this for second. If
the person/people you are sharing this document with are
viewing it at the same time, you can chat with them in real
time about the document. This comes in very handy when
making changes that will need to be agreed upon. I honestly
didn't think this feature would be too valuable until I used
it. It's especially valuable when you are working with
spreadsheets. Being able to tell someone to look at Cell
'C16' in the very same window that contains the spreadsheet
proves very useful.
They're Everywhere! If you were
working on a document using your work computer and couldn't
finish up, there is no need to worry. When you go home, all
you have to do is get on your computer and there it is, in
your Google Docs
repository, just waiting for you to finish working on
it.
So if you're a Mac user, or if you like having more
freedom with your documents, I highly recommend using Google
Docs to manage all you documents. I promise, you won't be
disappointed.
Someone please tell my why this Twitter crap has become so
damn popular all of the sudden?
Do people really care what other people are doing? Why
would I waste my time typing out a message explaining what
I'm doing?
What's the deal with twitter?
UPDATE (04.27.07): Okay... So I signed up for twitter
to see what the deal was. ummm... and ummm... I must
ummm... admit, I'm addicted, and I can't even explain why.
So, I guess the question in the title of this post is still
legit: What's the deal with Twitter? I've been converted
www.twitter.com/trick
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