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A better Twitter search

If you've not noticed already the search in Twitter has been downgraded to 7 days history. In fact, that changed some time ago. I've had the good fortune to be able to ask Twitter employees directly about the history via attending Devnest and I've been assured the history is being kept. That doesn't solve [...]

Twitpic API for getting pictures out

I've been using Twitpic either via TwitterFon on my iPhone or Tweetie from my desktop for Twitter, but one thing struck me last night: Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out. So here's my fix: http://twitpicapi.appspot.com/

Full Frontal JavaScript Conference

Today the Full Frontal JavaScript conference site goes live: full-frontal.org. It's one day JavaScript conference hosted in Brighton, UK in the World's first purpose built cinema: The Duke of York's. I specifically wanted to provide a conference that was affordable, and not up in the reaches of £300-400, which is why the tickets are set initially at [...]

JS Bin for Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

The weekend before last I blitzed through an idea I had on the shelf for about 6 months and put it live under the name JS Bin.

Autocomplete & even better twitter keys

So I've been going a bit greasemonkey mad of late, and with the recent release of Twitter Keys I quickly found myself wanting something like tab completion for the twitter keys. A few hours of weekend playing later, I've got automatic Twitter keys (or optionally tab completed). But I've also decided to take it a [...]

The Silky Smooth Marquee

As we abused the Internet back in the 90 with tags like <blink> and <marquee> the last 10 years have seen the gradual extinction of these proprietary tags until we did full circle and the marquee effect appears in CSS 3. There's actually a very strong business case and requirement for the marquee tag - since [...]

How to detect if a font is installed (only using JavaScript)

In the pursuit of an idea I had recently, one tiny feature of the web site would be to detect whether the user had X font installed. I've looked at flash solutions, since a SWF had access to enumerate the fonts, but ultimately if it could be done without flash, it would/should be faster and smarter. So [...]