Every Monday through Thursday, we post a new Monkey Bite on our frontdoor
for your edification. This could be a little news item, a link to a useful
site, a handy coding tip, or just some random piece of information we think
might be of interest to Web developers. Expired Monkey Bites are stored
right here, growing tastier and more sophisticated with each passing day.
This month's Monkey Bites:
04/17/00
So you have a brand-new Web company that's all set to incentivize open-source vortals, and you've even got a catchy acronymic name picked out, and you're all set to launch, when you realize you don't know what your acronym stands for! No worries, friend! Check out AIEEE, the automatic acronymer. Or, if you have the opposite problem — you've nailed a company name, but can't figure out what it is you do — visit the webco BS generator. Did we mention these useful services are absolutely free of charge?
04/07/00
The Web is pretty
interesting right-side-up, I suppose. But its trueaesthetic value only
comes to the fore when you start to mix things up.Late-night
coffee-fueled random hypersurfing can provide a bit ofrandomization, but
there are some highly pleasing Web applications that cando the job for
you better, and with much less bodily wear and tear.Webmonkey
contributor Dyske Suematsu's
04/05/00
Pretty happy there with
your light-as-a-feather, powerful-as-a-server,top-of-the-line, awesomely
slick brand new laptop? Well, in Japan theyalready have one that's
two-thirds the weight, with a faster processor,a bigger hard drive, and
more RAM, that's so cute it makes yours looklike Bob Hope. Sure, in half
a year they'll give it a new boring nameand a new boring case and start
selling it over here, but why wait?
04/03/00
JunkbusterProxy is a local proxy that you can install to sit between
yourbrowser and the outside world. It is optimized to block banner
adsbased on the patterns of their URLs, and has features for
controllingcookies and concealing your personal info as well. Remember,
though,that if your favorite commercial sites (read: us) can't serve you
anyads, they'll have to either go belly-up or resort to other,
moredevious, advertising techniques.
