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Jonathan Snook launches FONTSMACK only to realize distributing fonts in Flash for sIFR may be illegal, and mean sIFR users are violating their font licences, too.
Topic: Web Design
Ingo Chao (whose site is simple, and elegant) has dissected the cause of many of IE’s layout problems.
ChicagoCrimes shows a disturbing concentration of arrests around, ironically, Humbolt Park.
Veen’s second book, which outlined today’s Web design philisophy when tables and font tags ruled the Web, is now available as free download.
Topics: Web Design, Web Resources
The Globe and Mail has published Stephen Williams’ correspondence with the killer — the cuteness her letters is macabrely ironic.
The news aggregator entry into Canada should make some media companies worried.
Topic: Online Journalism
Broken Social Scene play Dundas Square courtesy of Toronto Unlimited.
The Gecko-based Web design program (based on the old Mozilla Composer) has officially hit the 1.0 release and is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
Topics: Web Resources, Web Design
Google has released an API for its GoogleMaps product, opening the door to a whole bunch of oppurtunities like ChicagoCrime.org.
Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines
Dean Edwards (again) releases his very borad syntax highlighter for code examples on Web pages.
Topics: Web Design, JavaScript
Dean Edwards has a pretty efficient JavaScript compressor available at his site.
Topic: JavaScript
Written in the second person (difficult to pull off) the intro sucks you into an enagaging profile review of the author and his work.
Nathan Weinberg reports on some of the features in this program which once cost a bundle.
Topics: Technology, Search Engines
From a Slashdotter comes a helpful tip for a big pet peeve.
The new brandmark for Toronto is unbelievably awful.
Sure, the wikitorial failed by using a wiki to collabratively do the grunt work of investigative journalism could be interesting.
Topic: Online Journalism
Eight DVDs containing searchable electronic reporductions of every New Yorker from February 1925 to February 2005 will be available in September.
Not sure when they launched it, but its one of the few Canadian mainstream media properties to have RSS.
Topic: Web Technology
Worthy of praise even were it not for my rant a few weeks back!
Topic: Web Standards
How that iconic photo of murdrer Karla Holmoka came to pass.
Topic: Journalism
If you know the name, visit, elsewise you probably won’t get it.
Learn the ways of the Farm from Obi-Wan Cannoli.
Clive Thompson nailss the reason why the L.A. Times wikitorial experiment failed.
Topic: Online Journalism
The Toronto busking legend and perennial mayoral candidate has died — and just a few days ago I was wondering how much longer he would be around.
Will I be rushing to see Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Great Big Sea, Tom Cochrane, and Motley Crue in Molson Park on Canada Day weekend? No.
Your one-stop shop for microformat specifications (including such hits as XFN and hCard).
Although targetted for those writing Greasemonkey-like scripts, it has some good tips for normal scripts.
Topic: JavaScript
Sure for CHUM it may be sour grapes, but the point about a lack of exposure to Canadian music rings true.
Cineplex is buying up the Famous Players movie theatres — can you spell monopoly?
Seems to cover a lot of items designers and developers are starting to need.
Topic: JavaScript
Keeping track of the various ways Canadian politicians insult one another from the perspective of a Canadian watching his country's election while living through an American election.
Ironically, I never saw the Toronto band name-checked in the…
Recently Canada’s public broadcaster urged the CRTC to “reject old…
Sure, there are some new applications to download, but the…
Tomorrow, Canada will get its first legal iPhone, but, as…
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