Almost daily links
Tasty bits from my del.icio.us links.
- Adjust WordPress Autosave or Disable It Completely
- Dear WordPress developers: Please make it easier to disable autosave. The feature was a noble try. But really, it sucks.
- Typechart
- Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.
- Use Adeona to help recover a lost or stolen laptop
- The nitty-gritty of setting up open source laptop Lo-Jack package Adeona.
- Security: How to Set Up a Laptop Security System
- Tips and tools for physical and data security for your laptop.
- Sarah Palin Pregnancy Decision Map
- Entirely hilarious.
- Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads - NYTimes.com
- "Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain traction."
- TweetDeck
- Adobe AIR-based Twitter client. An alternative to Twhirl and Twitterrific.
- Open Source PHP
- Open Source PHP is a community site dedicated to tracking the best open source PHP projects.
- Sweetcron - The Automated Lifestream Blog Software
- Open source, PHP-based self-hosted lifestreaming application by Yong Fook.
- Opentape
- "Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web." It's based on Muxtape, which has been shut down by the RIAA.
- Using Twitter to advance your brand: A comparison between WordPress and Movable Type — CECILY.info
- I don’t claim to be a social networking expert, but as someone who has spent quite a bit of time thinking about end-to-end user experience and how companies can best use social services like Twitter to their best advantage, I decided to see how two of the biggest names in blogging use Twitter to support their brand identity.
- Doctrine - Free Open Source PHP ORM
- "Doctrine is a PHP ORM (object relational mapper) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful PHP DBAL (database abstraction layer). One of its key features is the ability to optionally write database queries in an OO (object oriented) SQL-dialect called DQL inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative to SQL that maintains a maximum of flexibility without requiring needless code duplication."
- Firefox 3: Useful Firefox 3 Configuration Tweaks
- Firefox 3 comes with several preferences baked into its options dialogs, but there are still a few you can only access by rolling up your sleeves and digging into its configuration manually. Power users have been diving under Firefox's hood to get their browser to behave just how they like since version 0.9, but Firefox 3 offers some new settings that customize its new features. Let's take a look at our favorite Firefox 3 about:config tweaks for customizing your browser.
- Opera Dragonfly
- "Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors—Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone. Check out our second alpha release for increased stability and newly added features. Opera Dragonfly is included in Opera 9.5 and above, and can be activated by clicking Tools → Advanced → Developer Tools in the menu bar. "
- Firebug alternatives
- "Most designers have heard about Firebug for Firefox. But what is you are a designer that does not use Firefox, are there any alternatives for Internet Explorer or Opera? Well there are alternatives for each."
