Yahoo! Stencils – quickly build mockups

Yahoo! Design Patterns Library has a set of “stencils” available to mock up your next great RIA project! The stencils are available in OmniGraffle, Visio, PDF, PNG and SVG formats. So you can use them with Illustrator or Photoshop / Gimp as well. They have included stencils for: Ad Units, Calendars, Carousels, Charts and Tables, […]

Setting up local copy of PHP manual – with smart lookups

If you are a PHP developer, you probably know that you can type “php.net/substr” to look at documentation for the substr() function. This works for many other keywords as well and is a superb feature. It’s just so convenient, I stopped using my local copy of PHP manual. But yesterday, I wanted it offline. I […]

Team: We need to improve quality of Gujarati translations

Upgraded Firefox for my dad, and that led to this screen. Essentially, it says that “Your Firefox has been upgraded to the latest edition”. But the translation to Gujarati changes the meaning. If I were to translate this Gujarati back, it would read “You have been upgraded/improved to the latest edition of Firefox”. C’mon, it’s […]

National Geographic Photo Of The Day Wallpaper on your Mac Desktop

I love National Geographic photographs. Sujeet linked to a Nat Geo photo on a tweet today, and that led me to setting up National Geographic Photo of the Day as my Mac desktop wallpaper using an Automator action. Interested? Here are some notes: Nat Geo offers free Windows and Mac screensaver applications of their best […]

Who’s following you on Twitter – bots?

Is the last person who started following you on Twitter real? Or just a software robot that’s out to eat every good Twitter feed? My Twitter follower count is growing, but some of them just seem too unbelievable! They don’t have any updates, have nobody (or only a few) people following them, but they are […]