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Preservation Briefs
The first Preservation Brief was published in 1975. Since then, over 40 more have been added to the series. For over 25 years, Technical Preservation Services has helped home owners, preservation professionals, organizations, and government agencies by publishing easy-to read guidance on preserving, rehabilitating and restoring historic buildings. More than 2 million copies of the Preservation Briefs are in print and the illustrated Preservation Briefs 1-42 are now available online as an integral part of our 25th anniversary celebration.

Transformation of Flash to XML and XML to Flash
Kinesis Software announces the release of it’s latest product: KineticFusion, a great advance in rich graphical content management. KineticFusion is the perfect fusion of new technologies for the Web. For the first time, SWF files, the native format for Macromedia? Flash™ can be fully represented in a new XML vocabulary, Rich Vector Markup Language, or RVML. Our processing engine can decompile SWF to RVML and compile RVML back into native SWF format. All resources, whether ActionScript, sound, video, or images can be extracted and inserted, SWF files can be viewed and manipulated using external development tools, versioned, stored, or translated to SVG allowing users to author SVG applications using any Flash™ authoring environment.

Grumpy Martha’s Guide to Grammar and Usage – Encarta
You may think, “Grammar, schmammar. Usage, schmusage,” but when you use words incorrectly, you sound as funny as someone wearing underwear for a hat looks.
I’d like to spare you from this fate. You can sound smarter in just ten minutes with “Grumpy Martha’s Guide to Grammar and Usage.”

ASP.NET Web Matrix is a community-supported, easy-to-use WYSIWYG application development tool for ASP.NET. It can be installed via a quick 1.3 MB download (about 5 minutes using a 56Kb modem). New features include: Access database support, J# support, design time enhancements including improved table editing and user-control rendering, many bug fixes, and much more! Best of all? It’s absolutely free!

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Neighborhood Maps – New York City Department of City Planning
Geographically, New York is a city with 5 boroughs, 59 community districts and hundreds of neighborhoods. In 2003, the Department of City Planning issued a revised wall map displaying the neighborhood names and community district boundaries along with informative statistics on the geographic, demographic and economic profile of New York City.

Creating the Amelie Effect :: 12 November 2002 :: a.lifeuncommon.org
Creating the Amelie Effect
I’m in the process of putting together a little photography display at home and I wanted the photos to have the look of the movie Amelie. So, I came up with a little Photoshop 7.0 action to give that feel.

QuickColor KOHAISTYLE.COM
Ever found yourself in need of a quick color scheme ? But no inspiration at all … When that happens, i quickly launch my favorite www.colormatch.dk ! And this is the Flashlet version of it.

Blog-Fu: Simple Character Entity Reference
These charts will allow you to copy and paste the appropriate character and numeric entities for your documents. To be sure a particular browser supports the entities (both named and numeric), simply open your browser to this pages and view the charts. If the character you want doesn’t appear in the target browser, it doesn’t work (simple, huh?).

and.doxdesk.com: software: parasite.js
Many web users unknowingly have unsolicited commercial software installed on their computers. This can cause system instability, add unwanted advertising, spy on everything one does on the web, or compromise security. You can find out more about them at this site’s parasite section.

PHP iCalendar
PHP iCalendar is a php-based iCal file parser. Its based on v2.0 of the IETF spec. It displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, month, and year navigation, printer view, RSS-enabled, and searchable. It supports 12 languages, is fully theme-able, and has complete timezone support.

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