links for 2007-05-24
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Thursday, May 24th at 1:20 pm
If you’ve got a kid heading to college (I do!), you know that buying books is a huge investment. The web to the rescue! Booksnag helps students find each other to buy and sell used text books on campus.
Recently I got some amazing responses from all of you in Ask the Readers: What are your financial tools? and I wanted to share some of the best tools I’ve found from that thread. They’re free!
This is a long post but it’s worth the read. In short, Google and Dell have teamed up to install some software on Dell computers that borders on being spyware. I say spyware because it’s hard to figure out what it is and is even harder to remove.
This is a demo document for the technique described in the article Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS. Please refer to the article for details and context.
I had the amazing opportunity to supply some words of advice to an eBook that Drew McLellan put together. Drew is an amazing guy – always pooling resources. I was so thankful to be a part of this. PS: The advice is really great for anyone!
Here’s how to share your knowledge and your preferences with the world: check out our ten Webware 100 categories. There are 25 services listed on each. Vote for one service in each category.
The Draggable Tab widget allows tabs to be dragged (and dropped) between one or more modules. (related blog post)
Technorati discusses the new UI which I got to preview (thanks, Technorati!). But they got rid of the only measurement I really grew to appreciate… Rank. I don’t give a hoot about authority, I want to know how I’m ranked! Bring back rank!
When there’s a gap between someone doing her job and doing the right thing, then management has failed.
