A good article explaining the browser Quirks Mode by Jukka “Yucca” Korpela.
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Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight by Tim Sneath
Published April 30th, 2007 in Web and Technology. 0 CommentsTim Sneath, a developer at Microsoft in the UK Developer & Platform Engineering group, giving us a brief introduction about Microsoft’s Silverlight, cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.
Get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist from LyricWiki.org
Published April 30th, 2007 in Music and Entertainment. 1 CommentA free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads. And it’s available in couple of languages
Global Internet TV Portal
Published April 26th, 2007 in Music, Entertainment and Technology. 1 CommentI found a very useful Internet TV Portal. It has free access to 6856 TV-Stations from nearly all states over the world. The listed stations are checked daily for availability and made available in ranges from 24Kb/s to 2048Kb/s. Whether Entertainment, News or Online shopping - here you find all topics.
Here is the link Global InternetTV Portal
I thought to share Firefox Add-ons I used and I hope these will be very useful for you people as well. Most of add-ons are relates to web design and development stuffs.
I’m maintaining my Firefox Add-ons list in public tadalist, you can check it back for later if there are any new additions.
- CSS Validator
CSS Validator is a Mozilla Firefox extension which Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated. For example it will work with http://www.w3.org/ as the URL has a CSS file. - del.icio.us Bookmarks
This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web. - DownThemAll!
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time! - Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. - Gmail Manager
Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. - Gmail Skins
Skins and other extra features for Gmail. Like, Change the colour/skin of your inbox, Integrate your Google homepage alongside your inbox. This allows you to view weather reports, rss feeds, news headlines, flickr recently added, Google calendar module etc from your inbox, Easily insert images from your Picasa web album in to your emails, Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails, Insert HTML tables and other complex HTML in to your emails, Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal, Fix the navigation in place so that you don’t have to scroll to the top of the page to see it, Zebra stripes on mailbox… etc - Google Reader Notifier
This Firefox extension shows you how many unread items you have in your Google Reader account. - Greasemonkey
Allows you to customize the way a web page displays using small bits of JavaScript.Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Mark Pilgrim’s definitive Greasemonkey guide, diveintogreasemonkey.org will show you how. - Html Validator
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. - JavaScript Debugger
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers. - PDF Download
Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it! - RankQuest SEO Toolbar
RankQuest SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations. - Save Image in Folder
Easily save images in personally customized folders. - Screengrab!
It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images. - SpiderZilla
Spiderzilla is an easy-to-use website mirror utility, based on Httrack from www.httrack.com. - Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows. - View Source Chart
Draws A Color-Coded Chart of a Web Page’s Source Code, Graphically Displays HTML Tag Boundaries, Graphically Defines Tag Nesting Order, Structure and Hierarchy, Adds A Simple but Powerful User Interface *TO* Source Code - Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. - wmlbrowser
Simulate WAP browsing by viewing WML (Wireless Markup Language) pages in Mozilla, SeaMonkey or Mozilla Firefox. - Yahoo! Mail Notifier
This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox. - Stylish
Stylish allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at userstyles.org, you don’t even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately. - Gspace
Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface. - GTDInbox
GTDInbox is a Firefox extension that integrates the highly effective methodology of “Getting Things Done” into the popular email service Gmail.
Above Add-ones are very helpful for me to make my work very easy in my day-to-day work.
If anyone have some useful Firefox add-ons please let me know.
Watch ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Highlights
Published April 25th, 2007 in Miscellaneous, Events and Sri lanka. 0 CommentsNow you can watch ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 highlights. Check the link below.
A List Apart - The Web Design Survey 2007
Published April 24th, 2007 in Web Standards, CSS, Design, Web and XHTML. 0 CommentsALA hosting The Web Design Survey 2007
Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?
The Education Taskforce Curriculum Survey
Published April 24th, 2007 in Web Standards and Web. 0 CommentsThe EduTF curriculum survey launched by WaSP and it will available until June 18th.
This is only for educators teaching at schools, higher education (colleges and universities) and trainers (such as for continuing education, tuition or evening classes) to respond. EduTF like to get an international view as much as possible.
Click here for the survey link.
Welcome to Chamara’s blog, a Web Designer / Information Architect from Sri Lanka. At the moment I’m working for a UK based company, Proporta. This will be my new blog & hope to continue with this
Finally I made this blog with the help of Dilantha aka the Civilunrest guy. Thanks Dilantha to forcing me to start this & setup WordPress for me.
And thanks Chathu for the name Apramana the word, which derived from Sanskrit.
Apramana means not knowing the dimensions
Thanks again Dilantha & Chathu.
And of course Mat’s The Salted Solution, Jahufar’s blog, Venushka’s Adahas, Prabath’s Nidahas, Lakshan’s LakTEK, Dave Shea’s mezzoblue, Veerle’s blog, Snook.ca, Jeffrey Zeldman’s Daily Report, Andy Budd’s blog, Molly’s blog and indi.ca are some of blog which inspired me a lot.
At Apramana all dimensions are unlimited… So let get started ![]()






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