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A fun way to browse through Twitter networks is to use neuroproductions visual Twitter browser. You simply add a Twitter username and that account’s network pops up, including avatars. Screen space is limited, so not all members in your network are displayed. You can then click on the avatars to keep browsing their networks. This Twitter app is smaller than 5k and just enough to browse through your Twitter friends. When you’re done playing with that, check out Kris Temmerman’s other visual experiments projects.

Our newest friends on Twitter

It can be time consuming to find just the right icon or design one yourself; if you’re looking for an easy way to get icons for your design work, for personal or commercial use, including icons in the public domain, visit IconFinder. This icon search engine provides an easy way to find high quality icons for your web design, presentations or reports. You can search alphabetically and through tags besides the standard search functions and you can also browse through popular icon sets. The site makes it easy to contact designers directly if needed. Before using any icons, be sure to read the license.

As opposed to being limited by the many preset grids available, you can simply define the layout width and the number of columns you want and the Gridulator will show all possible grids (incl. gutter widths) with nice round integers. You won’t get decimal results as with some desktop grid creators. Once you’ve set your options – there are shortcuts available – Gridulator will create full-size PNGs grids that are perfect for web design for use in CSS, Photoshop etc.

This is a simple app yet extremely useful.

Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from its services (e.g., alleged defamation, hate speech, impersonation), or provide information about their users. The Google Transparency Report shows the number of requests they receive in six-month blocks. Request for removal of copyrighted materials by private parties are not included. The statistics also don’t show all categories, but primarily cover requests for criminal matters.

These numbers aren’t completely transparent though, because there may be multiple requests that ask for the removal of the same piece of content, or data for the same account. Also, the data doesn’t show whether Google complied with or challenged any request. Requests to remove content also include other Google products like YouTube.

What do you need a blood splatter brush for? A game, an album cover, a poster? Whatever dark use you’re planning on, the dried blood splatters on photoshoptutorials may be just right. If you need some fresher blood, try Shad0w-GFX’s brush or circle–of–fire’s brush on deviantart.com. Be sure to check acceptable uses of any blood splatter brushes; some may be for personal use only, while others allow all uses, including commercial.

If you need a simple open source Q&A solution for your website, give Question2Answer a try. This is a dedicated question and answer solution and not just a simplified forum. It features a five minute install, easy CSS themes, search engine, e-mail notifications, voting, comments and follow-up questions, categories and tags and is scalable to millions of posts. This question and answer software is licensed under GNU GPL. According to the site the Q&A platform has been installed over 1000 times.

If you want to know more about the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) architecture and its relationship to domain registration, IPv6, or need a reference resource for DNS information, how-to guides and other DNS solutions, visit Zytrax.com’s DNS for Rocket Scientists.

This Open Source Guide is about everything DNS and (mostly) BIND 9.x on Linux (Fedora Core), BSD’s (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD) and Windows (Win 2K, XP, Server 2003). “It is meant for newbies, Rocket Scientist wannabees and anyone in between.” Besides info on zone files, security threats, IPv6, DNS tools utilities and glossaries you also get a brief history on name servers and a Quickstart guide for BIND 9 software.

Discover what topics and personalities are trending on blogs only. BlogPulse is not a search engine for the world wide web, but only a tool to search and analyze blogs and their content. It can be used as a search engine for blogs (blogs can be submitted to the site for free) and as a trending tool, to see what people and issues are currently being blogged about the most.

You can find out how many new blogs are being created and identified by and submitted to the site. BlogPulse lets you create charts and compare popularity of specific topics, follow discussions that spread form individual blogs and analyze a blog’s presence and influence.

You can also find the most popular links appearing in today’s blogs and find out how many blogs link to a specific site.

For a fully customizable web chat software try BlueImp’s open source AJAX Chat which is implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. AJAX Chat features:

multiple channels, private messaging and channels, invitation system, banning offending users, online users, emoticons, optional Flash sound support, clickable hyperlinks, enable/ disable guest users, possibility to define opening hours for the chat, IRC style commands, flood control, automatic adjustment of displayed time to local client timezone, easy layout customization through stylesheets (CSS) and template system, persistent client-side settings, message character counter, sample phpBB2, phpBB3, MyBB, PunBB, SMF, vBulletin integration provided, realtime monitoring and logs viewer, support for unicode (UTF-8) and non-unicode content types, bandwidth saving update calls (only updated data is sent), well commented Source Code and much more.

Developed with Security as integral part, AJAX Chat is built to prevent Code injections, SQL injections, Cross-site scripting (XSS), Session stealing and other attacks.

AJAX Chat is released free of charge under the GNU Affero General Public License.

We haven’t found an easy way to determine which tab the sound is coming from, but the reason anyone wants to know that is usually to shut off the sound from that tab. Maybe the Firefox add-on “Stop Autoplay” will work for you: this add-on prevents audio from automatically playing when you enter a website.

>>Update: Stop Autoplay won’t work with Firefox 6. We’ll keep you updated.

The way you would use this is to install this Firefox add-on, enable its settings in preferences, then close Firefox while saving all the tabs and then re-opening Firefox. (In Firefox 4, click on “restore session.”) All tabs should be silent now. Hurray!

According to Stop Autoplay add-on info, it works on Flash and Silverlight music, video, media and movie files including mp3, wma, wav, mid, flv and other files. You can also define a whitelist and disable the add-on for individual tabs.