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The lab is a place for us to share our ideas, tools and the occasional experiment in web technology. All lab content is licensed under Creative Commons.

Tools

SVN Notifier

If you work with Subversion on a Mac (and you should), and especially if you've got Growl installed, you might be interested in SVN Notifier, the first Apple Dashboard widget to come from the Arc90 lab. Updated 4/21/2008: Patched a...

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Flex / AS3 Library : RESTService

One of the most lamented issues in the Adobe community has been Flash Player's lack of true HTTP support. In case that issue is unfamiliar to you, here's the rundown: Because the Flash Player VM can run in a variety...

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CollapsiblePanel

The collapsible panel is a fairly simple container that pops up all over the internet. It's great for hiding, but not losing, areas of the screen that may be unnecessary at a given moment in time. This allows the end-user...

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Experiments

Introducing : Sketchcasting

Blogging is great fun, but it can be pretty time consuming. If you track sites like basement.org you'll see that most of the write-ups are pretty long. It takes quite a bit to gather your thoughts, organize, write a draft,...

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Rio v2 : The Arc90 Mobile News Reader

Rio is Arc90's mobile news reader. It allows you to search for news sources and formats the headlines nicely on a wide array of mobile phones and portable devices including Treos, Blackberrys and many others. And yeh, it works nicely on the iPhone.

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Arc90 River Reader

We think mobile rivers are a great idea; Dave Winer's New York Times river and BBC river are terrific ways to check the news when you aren't at your desk. But what about your friend's great blog? Or the...

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Ideas

Extending RSS With RSS Traits

RSS is a great technology for reading headlines from blogs and news sources, but it doesn't need to stop there. An RSS 2.0 feed is really just a a list of stuff. If we build on that premise, then we...

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Search Clouds

While looking for information about the Nintendo Wii he had just preordered, Joel Nagy found himself running across a growing number of search results that didn't have the facts he wanted. Instead, he got back articles talking about comparisons or...

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How to Trust Email Again

As fradualent emails become more and more commonplace, and occurences of identity theft rise in frequency, Arc90's lead architect Joel Nagy steps back and thinks about a new way to make email a bit more secure....

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