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If you are wanting to try something really unique with your Web content, then by all means have a look at this site here.

What is it?

Direct manipulation, particularly drag and drop, is under utilized in desktop applications and is almost non-existant in web applications. The following examples demonstrate that direct manipulation is possible in modern browsers.

Each example is a proof of concept. I’m answering the question Can I do this? without considering the question Should I do this?. That said, some of these examples are pretty impressive, so it’s nice to think that sometimes the answer will be Yes, you should. [Read the rest]

Sending Email from your PHP Applications

The following article from developer.com gives a great walkthrough / how-to do so in a very simple way.

Are there some tricks to speed up Firefox?

There are indeed a number of different adjustments you can make to Firefox that can improve its performance, the first and most important of which is to always make sure that you have the very latest version on your system. Pop over to get Firefox and download it right now.

Done?

Good. Now, enter the URL about:config and then type in “network.http” to the browser’s “filter” function to identify the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

If your Firefox is set up like mine, the first two will be set to “false”. Change them to “true” and then enter a value like 20 for maxrequests.

These will make the browser use your network connection more efficiently (or, depending on your perspective, more aggressively) which should visibly speed up rendering pages in the browser.

There’s a lot more you can learn if you pop over to Mozillazine’s Firefox Tuning discussion, if you really want to fine-tune your Web browsing experience.