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nerd out

posted July 8, 2005 #

Anyone up for a little nerding out? No? Too bad.. it's time to nerd out.

Maniacal Rage - nice layout but check out the search results. Pretty darn nice (and extremely fast from what I can tell).

mp[3]act - Their tagline is "Your Music. Anytime. Anywhere." which kind of sounds like any generic description for a personal audio player but this is a web based application that streams your music to you. While I admit that it would be cool to have your entire collection available online for streaming - why you would want to listen to your music at a dropped bitrate? MP3 compression already loses quite a bit when you encode at 192, listening at 64 just sounds like radio. A good idea but not sure on the practical applications. Oh, and it uses a bunch of AJAX to actually function, so it earns a bunch more bonus points for that.

SAJAX - Simple AJAX Toolkit - good starting point for implementing some AJAX, and a great name.

Exploit Warning - apparently some of the more popular blogging software out there (Wordpress included) has a security hole that can be exploited through XML-RPC. Even if that makes no sense to you, it may be time to look for an upgrade.

CSS Help Pile - I didn't get a chance to browse through this too much but it looked informative to say the least.