I made some improvements on the password strength meters available on the web. Using prototype/scriptaculous, I stole some code from ZeBadger (thanks!) and created a new meter which dynamically changes while typing your password.
Click here to see the demo
If you want to use this script, feel free to download the source and use it on your website.
Enjoy.
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When adding this tiny javascript to the onkeyup event of your inputbox, the border will turn green when the email address. It uses scriptaculous' morph function to perform this transformation. See a demo
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The following code (using prototype) prevents bots stealing the emailaddresses used on your website. Instead of including the emailaddress directly, use a div with a classname where the email-address needs to be placed:
Hi Bot! My email address is !! Catch me if you can!
Then, use javascript to replace the email address after the page is loaded:
$$('.email_here').each( function(e) { e.update('willem'+'@'+'ajaxorized.com').observe('click', function() { window.location = 'mailto:willem'+'@'+'ajaxorized.com'; }).setStyle({cursor:'pointer'}); });
Mind the concatenation that is used to prevent stealing from your javascript file. Include this piece of code in your body onload event and no bots will ever steal your email addresses again!
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Interesting Slideshow
A nice resource for some free fonts
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"One place for web typography, leveraging our collective knowledge for the betterment of typographic style and practice." #
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Patrick has just tipped me off that IKEA impresses us with an elastic (em-based) layout. Try resizing text if you're not sure what that means. Nicely done! Now if I could just figure out where this extra hex nut goes… Update: Naz Hamid tells us (via Twitter) that HUGE was behind the redesign. #
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A new project from Flickr will see the photo sharing site showcasing historical imagery from public resources.
“The Commons” is a pilot project between Flickr and the Library of Congress that will tap into the Library’s rich historical footage and allow it to be viewed from Flickr. The first two sets in the pilot are American Memory: Color photographs from the Great Depression, color photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection include scenes of rural and small-town life, migrant labor, and the effects of the Great Depression and The George Grantham Bain Collection, “Photos produced and gathered by George Grantham Bain for his news photo service, including portraits and worldwide news events, but with special emphasis on life in New York City.
Flickr said that as well as bringing these historical photographs to the masses, the project will also “facilitate the collection of general knowledge about these collections, with the hope that this information can feed back into the catalogues, making them richer and easier to search,” in other words, they want to tap into Flickr users to tag these images.
The Library of Congress has more here.
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WebCream has been renamed and a new version launched as AjaxSwing 2.0, a framework that “does all server communication via asynchronous JavaScript and uses partial page updates to reflect changes in the browser.”
New Features
Fancy writing your apps in Swing? If so, check out the demos, and download away.
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New York based Drop.io launched a dead simple “drop box” for files last November. The service is online storage on the back end, with a very simple/clean user interface and upload features on the front end.
It is similar to box.net and a number of other startups. Users can upload files via a Flash tool or by simply emailing files to a designated address. Files an also be uploaded via a widget (see example here in the right sidebar). The page itself (example) can be open or password protected. The pages can be anonymous, and each one, called a “drop,” has 100 MB of free storage (you can upgrade to 1 GB for $10/year). There are also RSS feeds and email alerts for drops, although they do not contain enclosures. You have to link through to get to the actual file.
All in all, it’s a fairly generic service with a better-than-average but hardly revolutionary interface.
Today, though, they added a very nice niche feature called, simply, Voice. Every drop page has a phone number and extension associated with it. Call the number, dial the extension and record an unlimited length voice message (subject only to the overall 100 MB file size limitation). The file will appear momentarily as a MP3 file on the drop page.
This is an easy way to record a voice note, or even a simple podcast message. For now you can only have one person on the line, so conference calls aren’t a built in feature. Of course, you can always simply three-way dial the drop.io number as well as another person and record a call, or add drop.io to Skype to record a conference call there.
This reminds me of Dave Winer’s TwitterGram project that he created with BlogTalkRadio last year. There are also basic web-based recording functions that turn your voice into a MP3 (see Daft Doggy), although those do not tie into an actual phone number.
I like the service because it’s very, very easy to use and has no real restrictions. It would be perfect if they simply added the file as an enclosure to an email or RSS feed as well, but for now that isn’t an option.
cb_widget_report_widget("cb_widget_1200424040"); cb_widget_report_element("cb_widget_0_1200424040","drop.io"); cb_widget_report_element("cb_widget_1_1200424040","box.net");
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