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This article discusses ways for web designers and front-end coders to keep their websites relevant, timely, and accessible long after a site’s launch. This guide goes beyond simple text and graphic updates, common “best practices” for CSS and XHTML.

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a tool to create static and/or animated favicons

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PyThumbnail is a Python script that uses Gecko (Firefox’s rendering engine) to generate a thumbnail of a web page. It is headless, meaning you can call it from the command-line or from another program and it doesn’t require a running X server.

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Hunch is a new way to help people make all kinds of decisions, such as:

  • Where should I go on vacation?
  • What’s the best US college for me?
  • What kind of smartphone is right for me?
  • Which museum should I visit in the Netherlands?
  • What blog should I read?

Results are based on the collective knowledge of Hunch’s users. Hunch already has more than 2,500 possible topics, and Hunch users add new topics every day.


mycrocosm is a web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs


Uzbl follows the UNIX philosophy – “Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”

  • very minimal graphical interface.
  • what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, … are handled through external scripts
  • controllable through various means such as fifo and socket files, stdin, keyboard and more
  • advanced, customizable keyboard interface with support for modes, modkeys, multichars, variables (keywords) etc. (eg you can tweak the interface to be vim-like, emacs-like or any-other-program-like)
  • focus on plaintext storage for your data and configs in simple, parseable formats


Freebase is an open, shared database that contains structured information on millions of topics in hundreds of categories.


Multipurpose converter and generator. Can directly send generated results to any url.

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