Asymptomatic

Check out the structure of our universe using this atlas.

I hurriedly upgraded to Firefox’s new preview release 1.0 after reading about it at Gadgetopia. Perhaps I was a bit hasty. Once again, a couple of the extensions that I use extensively are not yet compatible with the new version. Still, there are some benefits to be gained.

The new version includes this crazy search bar. Instead of popping up a window when you hit Ctrl-F, a new toolbar thingie appears at the bottom of the window. The toolbar has a space to type the search term, and a couple of buttons that let you cycle through all of the instances on the page. There is also a button that will highlight the term wherever it appears. Appropriate errors appear in the bar when the search cycles back to the top of bottom, or when the term isn’t present. That’s a nice addition.

Remember the days when you could only be certain that web users had five specific fonts available? Well, this font survey shows that those days are over.

Need a GMail account but don’t know anyone with an invite? Have one to give away and nobody to give it to? Check out the gmail invite spooler.

Here are some artsy text effects that you can use to spruce up a design.