Link dump #50

21st Sep 2009

• Tell someone you love them
• Three Squares Greetings - niche cards for your friends and family in prison
• Letters of Note, correspondence deserving of a wider audience
• Cluttered desktop? Too many icons? Here's what to do
• HTML5 - detect support for individual features, like canvas, video, or geolocation
• Optimise your internet connection by tweaking the hardware and software you're using
• UK government database of all 1,841,177 post codes together with precise geographic coordinates and other information
• Firefox 3.6 will support a new CSS property: image-rect, allowing you to to display only part of a background image, which means you could stick all your decorative images into one file and save on multiple http requests
• Has the time come to kill the "Remember me" check box?
• Fever Ray - Seven remixes, all very different and equally good
• The top 10 Agatha Christie mysteries according to Christie expert John Curran
• Helvetimail - a minimalist Gmail skin and companion piece to Helvetireader
• Stacey, Simplified portfolios
• punypng - optimise png images for the web