During the development of our WebPageAnalyse project we wanted to give users the ability to find WHOIS information for any domain they like. I tend to do WHOIS for a domain on a regular basis to check who is the owner of a site, i.e. if I need to contact them if they put up […]
Ever needed to examine a response for a given request? Here we go! hurl is a neat and simple web based service which allows us to initiate a customized HTTP request and presents the resulting response in a nicely formatted manner. Free, responsive and several configuration options. This is how Chris and Leah – the […]
Today I found what I was looking for quite a while now: A magazine-like feed reader. Tabbloid (from HP!!!) is an online tool which lets you subscribe to your favorite feeds and delivers them bundled as a PDF magazine right to your mailbox. Its up to you if you want it daily or weekly. The […]
Observu is free service which informs you if one of your sites is down. Simple register all your websites with them and receive an email notification if one of them is dead. Nice!
If you want to know what’s new in Rails 2.1 or think that you may have missed a new feature, you should check out the e-book “Ruby on Rails 2.1. What’s new?“. There are all new features described with an example. It’s quite amazing to see how rails evolves. btw: did you know that there […]
Did you ever wanted to take a look at cookies or even tweak them? Having access to your cookies as a developer is crucial but even as a user it might be useful to take a look sometimes. But what about querying them with sql queries? Picture this: Show me all cookies from localhost and […]
Did you ever run a popular website or serivce/product? If yes, then you know how hard it can be to discover which new features your users want. Collecting all the requests, giving response and analyzing which requests are most popular. All those tasks require a lot of organization and take some time. UserVoice offers a […]
As usual the guys at google have been busy and released a nice new feature for their (quite new) google chart api. It support 2D bar codes also known as QR codes. Whats more, they even offer a free decoding library for it (Xzing). Big respect googlers to your free APIs
Did you ever wanted to stay up to date with websites/pages which actually don’t offer any feed(s)? Yeah me too! page2rss.com/ is our life saver. It let us subscribe to any webpage and thus monitor all its changes. I love it! my sleepless nights are gone now, cause i know i won’t miss anything anymore […]
Many of you already know that the FamFamFam icons are probably the most famous out there. At least i know plenty of apps using it – including me. Today i have found a new great icon set from pro theme design including 117 icons: Get Circular Icons here