From the site:

“The Apple Remote will let you control your Mac from up to 33 feet (10 meters) away. Its signal will even bounce off walls, ceilings and furniture so you don’t have to point right at the computer.

Mira drops into your System Preferences and provides an easy interface to change button settings for all your applications. Settings are made in a familiar profile fashion for individual applications and over 60 profiles are already built-in. Of course you can change any of them as well as add unlimited of your own.”

 Remote Control Your Mac

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From the site:

 ”Reason is a cross platform framework designed to bring the ease of use of Java, .Net, or Python to developers who require the performance and strength of C++. It has been developed over the course of 5 years with a desire to demonstrate an easier and more effective way of writing software.”

 Reason’s goal is to make using C++ easier for the programmer by providing a framework of functions and functionality.

Reason’s C++ Framework

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From the site:

“You can integrate the full power of the AIM service into any program that you create. For example, you can give users the option to send and receive messages on the AIM network in that next killer app you’re building. You could even create a client specific to your company, community or school.”

Add AIM to your site

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From the site:

“It is widely accepted that fast-loading pages improve the user experience. In recent years, many sites have started using AJAX techniques to reduce latency. Rather than round-trip through the server retrieving a completely new page with every click, often the browser can either alter the layout of the page instantly or fetch a small amount of HTML, XML, or javascript from the server and alter the existing page. In either case, this significantly decreases the amount of time between a user click and the browser finishing rendering the new content.”

This is some of the best information about how to speed up your site, and make it easier for everyone, regardless of their connection to be able to view your site in a timely manner.  Some of the great tips include using AJAX, and creating image subdomains on your server so that you can utilize the browser’s ability to multithread the downloading of your page.  If you have a ton of images on your page, and you use this technique you can almost double or triple the load time of your page.

Ideas for Optimizing your Page Load Times 

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From Who is Hosting This:

“Who Is Hosting This is a tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name, and you’ll get a link to the company that’s hosting this particular domain. It’s that simple! Check out the FAQ for more info.”

This is one of those tools I wish I would have built when I was complaining about there not being a tool like this out there… That’ll teach me, won’t it!? Absolutely amazing, so easy to use, fast and clean. All around a useful and amazing tool.

Who is Hosting This Home Page

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