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An easy to follow tutorial on how to get sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) to work.

Smashing Magazine’s free desktop calendars for May 2008 have arrived.

Project Pier is a free open source self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams thorugh an intuitive web interface.

Zoho is an online project management tool which allows you to create tasks, assign owners and set milestones, with a calendar, reports, time tracking and file sharing.

Projjex is an interesting online project management solution profiled on Web Worker Daily today. I currently use Basecamp, mostly because of trust in 37signals integrity with my data. Its probably the one area people don’t seem to be assessing at present. Do I know you enough to trust you with my client’s data? And my livelihood? Will you sell it to third parties? You see from a marketing perspective there’s a strong reason to pitch into that ballpark of trust. I like the look of Projexx and don’t get me wrong, they seem like very good people. Give them a try.

Do we really need microformats? Robert Nyman is saying what a lot of us have been whispering about microformats for a long time - bulky non-semantic code riddled with excessive spans. Very good points all of them. Are you using microformats?

CSS3.info has a great tool that tells you what CSS Selectors are available in your browser, what’s buggy and what’s not supported at all.

Roger Johansson’s post today about Nikita the Spider, a bulk validation and link checking tool, is worth a read. Philip Semanchuk, Nikita’s creator, has put up some statistics that his tool has been collecting along the way - By the Numbers, March 2008.