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If you’ve been working with CSS even for just a little while, you surely bumped into some silly Internet Explorer bugs. One of the most annoying ones, at least for me, is the background flicker that happens when you hover a link that has an image as its backgound. - aemkei

Deadline is the simplest calendar ever made. You write in plain English, and it will set up a reminder for you. Once your appointments have been entered, you can quickly search through them based on words or dates. - aemkei

Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download. - aemkei

Perspective views are described by so-called projective transforms, which Canvas2D does not support. However, it does support arbitrary clipping masks as well as affine transforms of both entire and partial images. These can be used to do a fake projective transform: you cut up your textured surface into a bunch of smaller patches (which are almost-affine) and render each with a normal affine transform. Of course you need to place the patches just right, so as to cover any possible gaps. As long as the divisions are small enough, this looks convincingly 3D. - aemkei

Two neat tips for cleanly scaling down images in IE 6 and 7 from Flickr’s Scott Schiller. - aemkei

Defining neighborhoods is difficult because boundaries are based on perception. Urban Mapping's patent pending schema captures the nuances of informally defined spaces, modeling fuzzy space in a way that makes sense for users. Urban Mapping's Neighborhood API enables developers to take advantage of UMI's expertise in informal space. The Free Neighborhood API enables 'search by lat/long,''search by name,' and similar requests. The neighborhood boundary coverage for this free API includes the United States and Canada. - aemkei

In many urban areas, critical decisions are often based on proximity to transit nodes such as subway stations, bus stops, commuter rail lines and airports. Similarly, access to public transportation can influence habits, routines, and tasks. However, data sources for mass transit system are highly idiosyncratic, difficult to extract, or unpublished. Urban Mapping solves these problems and offers normalized transit data that developers can use to create innovative applications. - aemkei

Sometimes you have strings that must fit within a certain pixel width. This function attempts to do so efficiently. - aemkei