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Lots of good stuff to use and learn from

This is a growing list of small projects you can read, learn from or use. Feel free to bookmark this or any of the following pages.

Agent

Returns your HTTP user agent. Useful when attempting to handle browsers based on their agent (use a brower you want to know the agent of to view this project and then use that data to test against).

View your agent »

CurrentlyHearing

CurrentlyHearing is a general-purpose plugin for Winamp2 that allows you to display what you're currently listening to in Winamp on your website. CH requires Windows and Winamp 2 or 5. For help or to post comments, suggestions or complaints, please visit the forums.

Download the example documentation.
Download the full version.
Download the upgrade version (from 1.0).

Custom Blogshares Portfolio

Use this to view your Blogshares portfolio in beautiful, standards compliant code. Not to mention a much prettier layout and sorting options too.

Read the tutorial.
View it in action.
Download the source.

IP Address

Simple, quick access to your current IP address.

View your IP address »

Relative Dates

Create relative dates using PHP (and Movable Type, if you wish). Instead of saying "posted on April 15, 2003," say "posted 3 hours ago."

Read the tutorial.
View the source code.

Special Characters

A permanent home for the WebMonkey HTML special characters reference, updated and wrapped in standards-compliant code by me.

View Special Characters »

xPad

xPad is the ultimate notepad/TextEdit/Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice. More information »


See Also

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Original iPod Introduction
How far we've come in just a few short years. Here's where it all started.

Front Row on Non-iMacs
Going to try this tonight!

WriAShorStorWe!
DY starts a one-week short story writing event for people to lazy to enty NaNoWriMo. VerCooIdea.

Lost Rhapsody
Funny Flash movie using Weird Al music and Lost stuff. Lyrics make a surprising amount of sense!

Jed's Other Poem
Unsolicited music video made on an Apple ][. Fantastic!

Printers Output Secret Barcode
The government is keeping tabs on what you print, with the help of major printer companies.

Dreamhost Promo Codes
DH already has very cheap, very good hosting—this just sweetens the deal.

Photos of the new iPod
Just received my new iPod and I put a few photos up.

PEZ MP3 Player
Funny idea that actually looks kind of neat. I like that it comes pre-loaded with "indie" music.

HD Easter Egg
"My Name is Earl" on NBC gives viewers with HD TVs a little easter egg. Cute, but weird.