Silverlight, Microsoft’s market response to Flash, is a powerful tool for creating rich media. It comes with a marvelous development environment and claims some technical advantages over Flash.
Its market penetration is still in the neighborhood of 1 in 4 computers — Flash, which is ubiquitous, still dominates. Although Silverlight has succeeded in landing some very [...]
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Fluid dynamics (read: cool graphic effects) with Silverlight
Get a glimpse of how your site looks to spiders
Came across this useful tool today, a web site that shows you the information spiders detect when they visit your site. Great for SEO!
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/index.php
Just enter the URL and it displays what text the spider will see. This could be useful if you think certain text is visible when it actually isn’t. It also displays a [...]
Make your web site place a phone call
Need your Web site to place a phone call to you or someone else when a certain event occurs? VoiceShot is a service that does exactly that. You can specify the message and the phone number and the service will call and speak that message with an automated voice.
Try it out, there’s a free demo. [...]