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hurl is an web based API debuging tool which allows users to send custom HTTP requests and view the responce. hurl is very easy to used and can prove to be a great application in a developers armory. hurl is free and avalible for anyone to use.

hurl allows you to add any amount of headers to the request, define a user password for the HTTP authenication and set a redirect. You can also create an account at hurl, this allows you to save the request responces for future comparison.

Source: http://hurl.r09.railsrumble.com/

Tweetable is a lightweight jQuery plugin which enables you to display your twitter feed on your site quickly and easily. More than just displaying the feeds you can highlight @replys as well as links being dynamically generated for ease of use.

To use Tweetable simply create an empty div and apply an ID or class of your choice. There are some added parameters that you can pass into tweetable for extra functionality. as default you must enter your username, you can also control the date and set the limit of tweets you wish to display.

Demo: http://theodin.co.uk/tools/tutorials/jqueryTutorial/plugins/tweetable/

Rounded corners in site design have been very popular over the last few years especially with “web 2.0″ designs. Rounded corners are usually created with images placed in each corner with a a single curved side to give the rounded affect. With CSS3 this all changes, the ability to create rounded corners on a object with a simple property “border-radius” which means no carefully crafted images and hours of trying to get them into the correct place.

Source: http://www.bloggingcss.com/en/tutorials/the-css3-border-radius-property/

Knowledge bases are very useful for visitors or clients on your website which need information or answers about questions. Knowledge bases act like large FAQ which takes some load off the customer support department allowing users to find their own answers to questions.

68KB is a free, opensource knowledge base application which is build using PHP and uses the MySQL database engine. 68KB can be styled to match the theme of your website.

Source: http://68kb.com/
Demo: http://demo.68kb.com/
Download: http://68kb.com/download/

BuildInternet has been looking at some of the webs most popular sites logos in order to find which fonts they used to create them. They have created a list which can be found here Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites. Websites include, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Last.fm, Vimeo, Tuts+, Technorati, YouTube etc… These fonts may come in handy if you need inspiration for your own logo.

Source: Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites

Hello and welcome to my new web resources blog. As you can see it is very plain at the moment however over the coming days I will be adding more content.

This blog will be about the ever growing and changing internet however it will specfically focus on “cool” technologies such as Javascript, CSS, Flash, Ajax, HTML and perhaps a few server side languages thrown in for good measure.

I hope you enjoy reading this blog!