JTK – Notes and Ramblings Things we have found …

RTF2HLP the freeware help compiler
RTF2HLP is a freeware tool that converts directly a Microsoft? Word RTF document to a Windows Help file.
The main advantage of RTF2HLP is that it converts documents without the need of any extra project files.

DBX :: SQL queried XML database in PHP
What is DBX?
DBX, is essentially a DBMS that is written completely in PHP, and works using XML style text files as its native format. It runs as a header file for your PHP pages, and can be used as a substitute for any SQL queried DBMS.

FileForum | Program Detail – Project Dogwaffle
Project Dogwaffle supports realistic artist tools, paper, and media styles, custom and procedural brushes and fill types, realtime image processing, animation, a revamped interface and it’s hopefully a lot of fun to use

ISSN for Weblogs (Joe Clark: fawny.org)
ISSN for Weblogs
You can apply for and use an International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog. Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals

MailWasher
MailWasher is a powerful email checker with effective spam elimination. Discover the safe way to stop unwanted viruses and emails before they get to your computer

PuTTY: a free Win32 telnet/ssh client
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

glish.com : CSS layout techniques
Look Ma, No Tables.
If you are looking for help making the transition to CSS layout (that’s Cascading Style Sheets), you’ve come to the right place. I am cataloging here as many useful cross-browser CSS layout techniques as I can find, and some that I made up when I was bored last Thursday. All the examples on this site have been reduced to only their essential code, and you will find the source displayed on each page to hopefully make it quick and easy to understand the inner workings of the CSS. Feel free to steal all the code you find on this site, and consider linking back here on your site or in your source comments.

A List Apart: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques
THE WEB STANDARDS PROJECT’S (WaSP) Browser Upgrade Initiative (BUI), has spurred many a designer to move towards more Standards Compliant web design, using CSS rather than TABLEs for layout.
This article includes some helpful CSS tips including a nice way to do a thumbnail page without tables. hmmm…

LILEKS (James) The Gobbler 2.0
What were they thinking?
Imagine the pitch to the investors:

The Smart Tags Weblog : Home
I started this website to coordinate work to disable Microsoft’s smart tags feature on as much of the Web as we possibly can. I decided to do this as people have been sending me stories about work going on in various server environments to make it easy for users to do so. I got an email from a webmaster who works for the Australian government wanting to know how to do it. There must be a place where we can exchange information about this. It’s in that spirit that I started this site

Picture to HTML
PIC2HTML – http://pic2html.vvv.tf/
Try the PIC2TEXT converter too!
A very cool gif/jpg/bmp/png to text convertor.

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