Monthly Archives: January 2009

links for 2009-01-28

By Gary Burge | Published: January 28, 2009
How to Use the Mailto Syntax – Examples You probably know how to use the mailto command for quickly linking to one email address but the mailto syntax actually allows a lot more – you can address the same message to multiple addresses, populate the cc, bcc or subject fields, and even write text inside [...]
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links for 2009-01-26

By Gary Burge | Published: January 26, 2009
Where We Live In 2008, more people in the world lived in cities than in the country side. One third of those people — more than 1 billion — live in slums. Areas of cities that are off the grid, that is, outside the realm of publicly funded sanitation, water, and services. This outstanding Flash [...]
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links for 2009-01-25

By Gary Burge | Published: January 25, 2009
API Documentation The YourStreet API lets you easily display geocoded news articles in your own application. You provide us with a bounding box consisting of latitude/longitude points and we return all the recent news articles we have collected for that location. (tags: news apis geocoding localized hyperlocal YourStreet javascript) AVI / Video Converter Software – [...]
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links for 2009-01-23

By Gary Burge | Published: January 23, 2009
Google Reader (378) Tax cuts won't build schools, or any other public good. (tags: MarkThoma blogfodder taxcuts finance economy) Corpvox WordPress Theme Released Corpvox is the January one. It is a very clean and simple theme, ideal for someone wanting to have a minimum number of elements on his blog. (tags: Corpvox WordPress theme) Economist's [...]
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links for 2009-01-21

By Gary Burge | Published: January 21, 2009
AJAX APIs Playground A test environment for Google's AJAX APIs (tags: Google AJAX API test playground sandbox) clipclipsave Small business, non-profits and others can use this service to create coupons advertising a special price, product or event. (tags: coupons ClipClipSave)
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links for 2009-01-17

By Gary Burge | Published: January 17, 2009
Move Your Web Clippings Out of Google Notebook It may be therefore be a good idea to migrate all your existing data from Google Notebook to another web clipping service or you may save the notebook pages locally. Here are some options: (tags: Google notebook GoogleNotebook export tutorial resources) Put your own Photo in Barack [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am an experieced web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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