ModalBox IE6 Black Background Fix
Fixing Black Background in Internet Explorer 6 Modal windows are used in lots of online websites today and there are many different types of these modal dialogs. I have used GreyBox with great success but my current preference is ModalBox becuase its based on Protytpe or Scriptaculous which I already use all the time. In IE6, ModalBox makes the background screen all black instead of fading it out with transparency as seen in FireFox ...
Needed Digg Improvements
Great suggestions for digg.com So Digg finally added the greatly requested image section, Great! Here are five more items that I would like to see improved on digg. 1. "Not Safe for Work" button. This has been requested by many people. It would really help for those reading Digg at work. No links or content should be removed, user voting would eventually mark a story, image, or video as NSFW. 2. Extra ...
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Most Interesting Recent Web 2.0 Websites
Here is a quick summery of the recent activity in the web 2.0 world, well, things I found to be most interesting or most significant in this space. Favorit is the answer to the problem of reading feeds without being able to comment. No more! At Favorit you can now read all your favorite feeds and take part by commenting without leaving the site. fav.or.it is also a blogging platform that ...
Lingoz: Vocabulary, Dictionary, and Words
There has been a lot of activity in the Web 2.0 World around Dictionary, word type websites. We have seen user-defined dictionary websites like Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia’s Wiktionary but recently, Lingoz has launched and it's trying to take over this space. Lingoz is another vocabulary website launched by Eyal Barzilay at Babylon which provides a multilingual dictionary where users can participate by voting, commenting, etc. It's a comprehensive resource offering users ...
Picurls displays the buzziest pictures
Picurls is the destination for buzziest pics! After creating redditmedia.com and digpicz.com,today Peteris Krumins' launched Picurls that shows the buzziest pictures from Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Simpy, Furl, Boing Boing, Wired. The interface looks very nice and it's a truly great idea. Check it out and check out his blog to read about the design and development work.
Blocr provides a new interface to Digpicz
I have been real busy but after I noticed digpicz's solution to digg's missing picture section I decided to quickly create another way to display these pictures. Digpicz is awesome but I wanted to just see the pictures and nothing else, so I created Blocr. I added tooltips to provide some information about the pictures and some nice pagination. Currently I am using the domain for another project.