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Webmonkey Turns Another Page 
Scott Loganbill via webmonkey on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
We don’t have to tell you there’s some sort of economic troubles affecting our industry. We at Webmonkey knew it was only a matter of time before it would affect monkey_bites. Unfortunately, we were right and that time was this week.
Henceforth, Webmonkey has updated from 2.0 beta to 2.1 beta. In this update, the si
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Mozilla Mulls Adding a Third Beta to Firefox 3.1 Schedule
Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
The second Firefox 3.1 beta release is past due, but already Mozilla says that working out the remaining kinks in the next revision of Firefox will likely require a third beta before the final release arrives.
In a message to the Mozilla
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Mashups Are Dead, But the Web is Alive
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Mashups, web apps which merge two or more data sources, essentially arose from the introduction of the Google Maps API in June 2005. APIs for easily accessing data existed before then, but a way to visualize it geographically was a huge tipping point.
Due to the popularity of map mashups, Pro
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Handbrake Still the Best DVD Converter, Now Handles Any Video Format
Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
HandBrake, our favorite way to convert DVDs to iPod-ready video formats, has released a major upgrade that adds support for just about any video source format, not just DVDs. The new features come courtesy of the libavcodec and libavformat
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Lunascape: All Three Major Browser Engines in One
Michael Calore via webmonkey on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Yet another example proving the coolest things always come from Japan.
Lunascape is a web browser that incorporates all three major web rendering engines — Firefox’s Gecko engine, WebKit, which is used by Safari and Chrome, and Trident, the engine used by Internet Explorer.
The Windo
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New Tools Help You Build Better Maps
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
What’s cooler than Google Maps? Tools built on top of it. Developers from the Netherlands have released some helpful libraries to make more usable, interactive Google Maps.
Googl
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Create Image-less Graphs And Charts
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Adding beautiful charts to your site does not have to require a hefty server-side process or a third party service. With CSS and a little ingenuity, you can have the lightweight, easy to create visualizations of your data.
The design mavens over at Six Revisions have put together
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How To: Watch YouTube Movies in Full 720p HD Glory
Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Psst. Hey, wanna know secret? YouTube is offering 720p HD streaming on select videos.
We’ve already showed you how to hack YouTube URLs and embed codes to get higher quality video. While those tricks work on most videos, they only
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Make Your Site An iPhone App
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
You can get most of the benefits of an iPhone application without writing a single line of Objective C. An open source project called PhoneGap lets your wrap your website in iPhone App goodness. And you can even charge for your creation.
Even more
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Let My Maps Be Your Geo Database
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Toss out that MySQL book. The only thing you need to store location data is Google Maps.
My Maps is a feature that lets you create your own mashup on a map. Once a map is created, it can be shared with a link, or in Google Earth with a KML file. And now, it is also available via RSS–GeoRSS, to be more specific.
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Microsoft to Offer Free Virus Protection Software for Windows
(unknown author) via webmonkey on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
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Microsoft plans to offer Windows users a new anti-virus package designed to protect the OS from viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. The new software is tentatively code-named Morro, and will be available for free to Windows XP, Vista and 7 users
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Xobni Puts the Social Web in Your Outlook Inbox
Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Those of you stuck using Microsoft Outlook for e-mail will be happy to know that the Xobni Outlook extension has been revamped with new integration tools for Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype and Hoovers.
Xobni (that’s “inbox” backwards and it’s pronounced “zob-ne
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Why Adobe ‘Configurator’ Will Revolutionize The Way You Use Photoshop
Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
For newcomers Photoshop can seem like a labyrinth. The photo editing app is very powerful, but with great power comes great complexity — figuring out how to do what you want can take longer than actually doing it.
To help make Photoshop more flexible and bit easier to work with, Adobe has ju
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Google Makes Life Magazine Photo Archives Searchable
Scott Gilbertson via webmonkey on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Looking for a time suck? Google has put the entire catalog of Life magazine photographs online and (of course) made it fully searchable. More than a million historic Life images are hosted on a special section of the Google Images site, which you can b
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category Images
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Side Project to Startup: Shizzow Q&A
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Shizzow is a new location-based social service, most similar to BrightKite. The bootstrapped startup is also a side project. The four team members have full-time jobs outside of Shizzow.
Webmonkey got together with Shizz
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‘Choosy’ Gives Mac Fans More Control Over Web Browsers
(unknown author) via webmonkey on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
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nem rossz, jöhetne windowsra is ;)
If you’re like us, you probably use several different browsers in the course of a day — whether it’s testing websites or just because each browser has its unique strengths. The problem is that most operating systems have a “defaul
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Adobe and Google Announce Flash Analytics
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
For developers using Flash, integrating stats has been a chore. Coders had whipped up solutions previously, but now there’s an official package released jointly by Google and Adobe at Monday’s MAX Conference.
Flash and Flex developers can use the components and libraries to track pageviews
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Top 5 Favorite Bookmarklets
Scott Loganbill via webmonkey on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Bookmarklets are the JavaScript-enabled links you can pull into your bookmarks that interact with whatever page you find yourself on. The best bookmarklets act as you would typically expect a toolbar to, by extending your browsing experience. However, since they’re written in JavaScript, they all by working wi
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Terms of Service Changes a Wild Goose Chase
Adam DuVander via webmonkey on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
The Google Geo Developers blog has a friendly heads up that the Google Maps terms of service have changed. Missing from the post is any mention of what actually changed. It points to
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What HTML 5 is and What it is Not
Scott Loganbill via webmonkey on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
An update by the working group behind HTML 5 defined what HTML 5 will not do this week, both putting a limit on HTML 5’s seemingly endless ambitions and also suggesting we may someday see a final version of the standard.
When you think of standards, typically you think of a universally agreeable rulebook that st
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category HTML
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