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The website reports about all kinds of news in modern (call it Web 2.0 ) web development. This involves CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML, browsers, JS libraries, web standards, etc. A good source of up to date info on RIA development.

I only knew of the Google Talk client application (that you can install on your PC) and the chat that is integrated into Gmail. But it seems Google has created a web UI for Google Talk and names it Google Talk Gadget. It provides now group chat functionality too, which I think is missing from the Gmail-integrated chat.

PS: there's a great Google blog on Google Talk related stuff. Thanks to airwin for the tip.

There's a list of links pointing to various free, anonymous HTTP proxy directories at OpenDirectory. Might come handy, when you have to test a website from various external addresses.

RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. RoundCube Webmail is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.

Apart from the above promo, I've used it and it rocks. Setup is a piece of cake and despite of being only 0.1 RC1 (man ... I love OSS versioning ) it works pretty well. I've found only a small issue, but one can live with that.

Wikipedia has a comparison of webmail providers, although it is very short and lists only the biggest players. However in my country (Hungary) the three most popular are: Freemail, Citromail and Vipmail.

Recently I posted a list of free, one-click file-sharing services and a link to a Wikipedia comparison of them. This time it's about video-sharing. Here's the respective Wikipedia page.

There're now quite a lot file hosting websites where you can upload even huge files for free to share with others. Here's a short list just to name a few ...

Is there any viable (preferably open source) alternative to the mod_dav Apache module for providing a WebDAV server? I'd like to use Mozilla Lightning as a calendar application, but I also need to access it from multiple environments (office and home). It is a must-have requirement that I can store the calendar data on some networked server.

There're some web administrators who spend quite some time creating funny/amusing pages for the standard HTTP 404 ("Page not found") error codes. You get these normally if you try to access a page on a server that does not exist, however some guys (or girls ... you cannot know for sure nowadays ) make custom designed pages for these events. I'll collect them here and I'd be glad if others could contribute as well.

I've installed the Google Sitemap module in my Drupal setup, submitted the link of this sitemap to Google and it seems to have helped a lot. Now I can find my site with G. by looking for "asktom" references which I couldn't do previously.
But to tell the truth ... the reason for the latter can be my post about the indexing problems, since it includes the words "Google" and "asktom" on the same page.