BgPatterns.com – Cool Background Image Generator

While its generally not my style, I would have loved to have something like this several times in the past. Slick, easy, classy, fun, and actually worthwhile. Check it out:
www.bgpatterns.com

savethedevlopers.org – Save a Developer. Upgrade Your Browser

“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/

Evernote – Awesome Note Capturing Software

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

Magic Toolbox – High Quality JS Tools

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

Is “finally” the answer to all IE6 memory leak issues?

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