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Category Archives: Neat Ideas

Making Web Searches More Fun

The Google Wonder Wheel is an expansion to the Google search that I heard of recently that allows searches to have a different user interface that automatically suggests multiple related searches and displays them in a kind of chart form. You really have to try it out to understand. All you have to do is [...]

Backing Up Your Google Data May Soon Be Easier

Hopefully this story will become more common in the near future with online services besides Google. From webmonkey.com comes a story about letting users have free reign over their own data, an approach that would make sense to most people, but not always companies. The article “Pack Up Your Data and Leave Whenever You Want, [...]

It’s Curtains! (Disguise long image load times with some javascript and CSS that pretends to be Flash.)

If there’s no way around a few large images in your design, but you don’t want the page to load piecemeal, here’s a way to cover them up while they’re loading, with a familiar looking “flash” style curtain. Basically, what this does is use Javascript to cover the page with a styled DIV (the curtain) [...]