“Say No To IE 6!
Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening the retirement of an outdated browser.”

http://www.savethedevelopers.org/

I know, yet another note capture / organize program… but this one’s different. It’s got really powerful OCR software (it will pull text from images, even handwriting) that automatically finds words in your images and indexes them, making it easier to find later. Works on the web, your mobile phone, and PC or Mac. Best of all, it’s free!
Evernote - Capture. Sync. Find

Nice little suite of JS tools… they’re commercial, but reasonably priced. The names kinda imply what they do: Magic Zoom, Magnify, and Thumbs. Definitely worth a look:
Magic Toolbox

Via Ajaxian:
Hedger Wang has been scanning a lot of Chinese blogs lately for solutions to IE6 and memory leak issues. One of the things he stumbled upon is a pretty nifty way of nulling the objects to stop memory leaks by using the try … finally construct.
Read the article ad Hedger’s Site

That’s right kids, I’m speaking at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo! I’ll be giving a session on server-side javascript, and how it will make your life better, your apps cooler, and your friends jealous!

Read the full entry for details on the session, but here’s a little introductory overview (for the sake of not re-writing everything, I have just copied and pasted the announcement)…

Server-side JavaScript (SSJS) is growing in popularity fast since developers realize it can drastically simplify Web app creation by letting you use using the same technology stack on both the client and the server. While server-side JavaScript is not new - it was a part of Netscape’s vision 10 years ago - times have significantly changed with 10x faster hardware and networks, making that original vision for the Web now a reality.

In this session delegates will learn how to:

• Overcome common hurdles and pitfalls of client-side only JavaScript development.
• Speed up development time by cutting out extra server-side code and processing scripts that are no longer necessary.
• Clean up your code base by reducing (or even eliminating) the number of languages needed to leverage to accomplish common tasks (i.e. Why bother with server-side PHP scripts to fetch database results when you can do it all in JavaScript on the server? Why mess with Curl to fetch content that your JavaScript code can grab in one line?)

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