1. Founders Talk

Founders talk is a really good because it interviews really interesting and influential people from the world of the web. Some of the notable people interveiwed include Drew Wilson (the guy who made Pictos & Screeny) & Vitalty Friedman (The editor-in-cheif of smashing magazine).

Average Duration: ~ 60 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

2. The Javascript Show

The Javascript show is a great round up of all the newest Javascript goings on in the Javascript world. It’s a great source to find out about new libraries & Javascript news. The key reason I love this show is because they cover a wide variety of useful tools & I always start using the libraries and tools they mention.

Average Duration: ~45 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

3. The ExpressionEngine Podcast

I’m not a massive fan of ExpressionEngine (I am a much bigger fan of CMS’s such as Perch or WordPress), however their podcast is really well put together & really high quality. While it does have a big focus on creating websites in EE, most the stuff they talk about can be applied to working with any website.

Average Duration: ~35 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

4. The Changelog

The Changelog podcast is great , it covers web and desktop development & the hosts appears to be quite well connected (So they interview some pretty interesting folk).

Average Duration: ~30 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

5. SitePoint

SitePoint is a really great resource of materials to get stared in the world of web development. Their podcast is really well put together & really informative.

Average Duration: ~40 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

6. Think Vitamin

Think Vitamin is well known as a sound information on web development. Their podcast does not disappoint.

Average Duration: ~40 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

7. Wired.co.uk

Wired is fairly well known technology & geek culture magazine, their podcast is a 40 or so minute summary of the weeks technology going ons with an in-depth interview. It’s really well edited, they stick to their release schedule & the quality is fantastic.

Average Duration: ~30 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

8. The ATX Web Show!

While this podcast is mostly based around the going ons in Austin, Texas, it’s a really good for finding out some of the cool things happening in web development.

Average Duration: ~45 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

9. Click

BBC Click is a really good TV show which has a excellent sister podcast which is really informative of the changes in the technology industry.

Average Duration: ~30 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

10. Forrst Podcast

Forrst is pretty well known among most web designers, their podcast covers the going on in the forrest community & also discusses whats happening in the rest of the web.

Average Duration: ~45 minutes
Release Schedule: Weekly

The best way to remove stickers which aren’t easy peel is nail polish remover (I used Nails Inc Nail Polish Remover 250ml). Here is the method I use:

Step 1 – Wipe the remover over the stickers

Grab your nail polish remover and put it on a piece of cotton (or kitchen paper). Then wipe the remover over and around the stickers. This should help lift the stickers up a little (Making them easier to peel off).

Step 2 – Peal off the stickers

Take off the stickers. Some metal stickers will leave a little extra glue (Don’t worry, you can deal with this in step 3).

Step 3 – Clean up

Odds are there will be a few glue marks where the stickers were. Just wipe a little more nail polish remover where the marks are and eventually all the marks should disappear.

Hopefully you will find this useful
Note: Make sure you don’t use too much nail polish remover, as it can stain.

This talk by John Underkoffler at TED shows that the technology is available today:

Dr Peppers Chatroulette cheerleader prank

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This is why Dr Pepper is my soft drink of choice. It is by far the best April fool’s day prank in this year.

xkcd switches to terminal

The web comic xkcd made quite a nifty terminal based website design.

Google UK’s Translate for Animals

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Google always goes all out for their April Fool’s day jokes (In fact most of the Google product team’s done something). This year, I think the UK translate team’s was the most creative and that you can download the application on the Google Translate for Animals website.

Train Signal announces Windows 3.1 is the Future of Computing

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The amount of time and effort that went into this video is crazy! Each time I’ve re-watched it I’ve noticed something new. It’s defiantly worth a watch if you have creative block (or you want to see what Windows 3.1 looks like).

4chan adds Facebook Connect

4chan tweeted that they are introducing 4chan 2.0 (beta), which now includes facebook connect.

Wikipedia’s features “Wife Selling”

Wikipedia featured an article about Wife Selling.

The Guardian reported about “Google Canoodle”

The Guardian reported that Google is mapping British water ways with a canoe. This strangely seems like quite a good idea.

Google Wave’s Human Notifications

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Google Wave announced you can now have Dr Wave, Ashton Kutcher or a Puppy notify you when you have a new wave.

The Independent – Hadron Collider planned for Circle Line

Lastly, The Independent reported that a Hadron Collider was planned for the Circle Line in the London Underground.

The best way to summarize what I found would be:

For every 246 human users clicking a link on a page, 1 would be clicking a tag link.

Also, if you have made some Widgets and would like them listed on the Widget Sets page, contact me.

Click here to go to the original source of the video.

Video Stream Caching

One of the big annoyances I have with streaming video files (normally on websites such as YouTube & Megavideo) is whenever I go to jump to another section of the video I lose what I currently have already loaded. It would be really useful if I could quickly go back to the section I’ve previously loaded.

This is a mock up I done, the video I used is from RayWilliamJohnson

I’m quite sure this would need to be implemented by the software, but I can’t see how it would be difficult to add.

Facebook – Pop-up chat

Pop-ups are a double edge sword; on the one hand they have been used incorrectly and become an utter annoyance. But on the other, they also can drastically improve a users experience with a website. For example the Facebook chat system is very inconvenient as I have to be looking at a Facebook page to talk to people. On a big screen this might not be a big issue, but on a small screen this makes it surprisingly difficult to  multi-task.

Oh noes! I can’t see the chat & watch the video

However, if Facebook make the chat system as a desktop application or just available in a pop-up I suspect that would solve issue.

JavaScript Library Integrated into browsers

It seems silly that I have to keep re-downloading the same file (A Javascript Library) to make a webpage more exciting. I would love to see not just jQuery, but most JavaScript libraries integrated into browsers (maybe as a add-on or something?) to speed up the download times of webpages.

On the other hand, it could be time to consider a new browser based language which is designed to make surfers & developers lives easier. For example adding a new attribute to html forms which allowed for browser specific (so people with screen readers will not be disadvantaged) validation.

<form>
<fieldset>
<label>Phone Number:
<input name="price" type="text" value="090 111 050" /></label>
</fieldset>
</form>

OpenID/Facebook Connect – More widely adopted

I hate having to sign up to websites, especially when I could just as easily use a login details from a single source. It would be really cool if more websites allowed for a “one click registration” option.

Adobe Flash – Video Player Standardization

One of my biggest pet hates is going onto a nice website just to find features I expect to find, or actions I believe are normal are just not present on the video players. For example I think it is normal for a click on a video to mean “pause” and a double click to go to full screen mode. I think this is just something Web Developers need to consider.

Big thanks to Dan for showing me this ^^

To add Zebra Strips to a list, all you need to do is adding the following pseudo-class to the end of the CSS element you wish to edit:

ul#example_list li:nth-child(odd) {
 background-color:#FFF;
}

In this example, I’ve used an unordered list element. The data in the brackets refers to the “nth” number to affect, for example putting “(even)” will affect every even <li>. You can also put number in, for example “(3)” would affect every 3rd <li>.

Below is a link to a working example of the code in action (Feel free to copy & share).

If you want to read a bit more about the nth-child pseudo-class I recommend the sitepoint CSS reference.