A music store in New Jersey has a catchy policy : "Customers can buy a used or new CD, take it home, listen and, if they want, burn a copy to a computer. Within 10 days, they can return the CD for 70% store credit.". It seems to meet some demand. Full story.
Month: September 2005
Web Developper's Handbook : collection of hand picked links on CSS, HTML, Color tools, SEO, and many more. A must-bookmark, if you haven't already.
Warning : Adsense Falling
I'm testing a few things regarding ad positionning
GMail : 2,5 GB of mail storage. Not enough ? Sign up for Mail Nation, which gives users one terabyte (1000 GB). Right. Just in case you want to send 1505 divx movies to some friend by email.
Your regular gadget blogs (Engadget, Gizmodo) bore me beyond description. I've found much more fun over at this gadget blog : Strange New Product. Stuff you won't buy, but at least you'll smile a bit. (via)
Here is something I may have a look at someday : how to use WordPress's Blog By Email feature with a GMail account. And for the Cron part, for those not having shell and crontab access, I suggest either Skippy's WP-Cron or PHP crontab replacements.
Paranoiac bloggers, rejoice : have you ever heard of Copyscape ? It searches the web for website that may have stolen and republish your content ("may" : 5 results found for planetOzh, but all false postive)
WTF of the Week
Google owns really weird domain names.
Troll of the Month
From an interview of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, by Business Week : "We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web."Β Muahahaaha. Wait a minute, just to be sure : define:troll. Hmmkey, that's what I thought. Won the desktop, for sure. Inβ¦
Type Tester: superb tool from the underestimated web designer Maratz that allows easy font screen comparison while you tweak styles (size, alignment, line and word spacing…).