Apple Keynote Take Two Redux Theme

Designed for film, tv and video professionals alike, Take Two Redux Theme theme for Apple's Keynote sports resizable media placeholders in four cinematic ratios, as well as fully customizable button and icon objects. It's ideal for a wide variety of presentations. September 22, 2009

An Event Apart

Two An Event Apart Boston 2009 attendees, Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl, designed and developed an application during the two-day conference and took it live during the event. The application, A Feed Apart, was created using Django, django-syncr, and the Twitter and Flickr APIs in order to aggregate all attendee-posted information in one place. August 31, 2009

First Launch Pad: New York

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: WEB 2.0 EXPO NEW YORK LAUNCH PAD is taking place during Web 2.0 Expo New York at the Javits Convention Center November 16-19, 2009. Launch Pad is a program designed to spotlight cutting edge and innovative new companies to the Web 2.0 market. August 22, 2009

Website wireframing gets easier

Independent software developer Dave Taubler has updated his OverSite, the wireframing and interaction design application for Mac OS X, has been updated with new features and functionality. Version 3.0 heavily emphasizes improved usability. The release adds new tools, including zooming and panning, component duplication, and hyperlinking. August 11, 2009

Creating a Web Site

Think you need an army of skilled programmers to build a website? Think again. With this book, in the true tradition of Missing Manual books, you'll learn how to create Web pages using all of today's important tools... Creating a Web Site August 11, 2009

Conficker Eye Chart

If you use Windows, and have not yet discovered the Joe Stewart blog, then perhaps you should. Joe is Director of Malware Research with SecureWorks and writes:
      "I've been working on a few different ways to detect Conficker via a web page load. I originally came up with a javascript method but I decided to go with a simpler approach using only images. Thus, the Conficker Eye Chart was born. It's a simple visual test you can use to evaluate a Windows PC just by surfing to that page and looking at the images."
BRAVO, JOE! (Whew, I don't have the Conficker worm! Oh. I guess I wouldn't, would I? I'm running Macs! www.joestewart.org August 11, 2009

Top Level Domains - ICANN pushes forward

The Second Interim Report of the Board Review Working Group has been presented and ICANN appears to be moving forward to offer huge range of new top level domains -- allow almost any string of letters to be used for a global gTLD!
SEE: This and other news from the world of internet DNS August 11, 2009

DIY: Database Driven Web Site

This practical, hands-on guide will help you learn and use all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a fully functional database driven web site using PHP and MySQL. It's from the folks at SitePoint August 5, 2009