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PutPlace is currently in beta, so you can test it for free. When it launches, they’ll offer annual subscriptions, presumably with rates varying based on the amount of storage used. This really isn’t big news for advanced users who are already on the offsite backup bandwagon, but there are still plenty of people who haven’t gotten there yet. If backup were easier, fewer novice users would have to go through the traumatic experience of losing everything to a hard drive failure. PutPlace might be able to help them by putting on a friendly, trustworthy face.

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Yahoo now offers a beta version of its Delicious browser plug-in for online bookmarking functions.

(Credit: Yahoo)
Delicious, Yahoo’s “social bookmarking” site that lets people archive, tag, and share Web site addresses, got its start closely tied to the Firefox open-source Web browser. Now Yahoo is branching out to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, too.

The company released a beta version of the IE plug-in Tuesday (available on Download.com). Though there are differences, the IE version is similar, offering users the ability to add and tag bookmarks and to search their own bookmark collection.

“We’re very excited about this release, as we have many users who use Internet Explorer as their primary browser,” said Nick Nguyen, senior product manager for Delicious, in a Delcious blog postint Tuesday.

The software works on IE 6, IE 7, and the IE 8 beta on Windows XP and Vista, Yahoo said.

This article show you a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. (Via Noupe)

1. Growl 2.0 with Mootools- Daniel Mota has created Growl 2.0 with Mootools, that is easily integrated into our web applications.
2. Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery- An incredibly easy way of achieving tooltip like bubble popups that appears when you roll over link or a thumbnail.
3. Sliding top panel using mootools- Antonio Lupetti explains how to release a simple sliding top panel (top/down) using mootools, some line of css code and JavaScript.
4. Sliding top panel using mootools- How to recreate the menu on MooTools with the same effect … but in jQuery!
5. Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery- How to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally doing the same thing using the jQuery library.
6. Custom JavaScript Dialog Boxes- Leigeber has put together a lightweight (~4.5kb) JavaScript dialog box library. The script currently offers four dialog styles: alerts, warnings, prompts and success.
7. Facebook Sliders With Mootools and CSS - A very simple 3-slider system that allows a user to modify the height, width, and opacity of an image using just sliders!
8. Making a Javascript Video Player- How to create a pure (non-flash) JavaScript video player.
9. Ajax mosaic builder- The function will load multiple images as a color pallet using BinFileReader and then arranged them in such an order that those images would look like one of the images in the pallet.
10. jQuery flipv()- Accessible way to display vertical text line.
11. Drag. Drop. Lock.- A nice tutorial for making quick drag and drop features in PHP.
12. WebAppers Simple Javascript Progress Bar with CSS- WebAppers has created a simple and brilliant Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App
13. moowheel- The purpose of this script is to provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the <canvas> object.
14. noobSlide- A Smooth Mootools Slide Show Image Galleries.
15. Mocha UI- Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.
16. ddMenu- ddMenu is a simple MooTools-based script to create you’re own context menus.
17. googleDrive- googleDrive is a little google maps mash up that allows you to drive a little car around on the maps.
18. GlassBox- GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.
19. ProtoFlow- ProtoFlow is a coverflow effect written in Javascript. It uses Prototype, Scriptaculous and also uses Reflection.js to do bulk of the work and it uses Reflection.js to do all the image reflections stuff!
20. ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete Control (Facebook look)- An ASP.NET AJAX extender that can be attached to any TextBox control.
21. ADamnIT – JS error notification- A free reporting service that emails you when a JS error occurs in your webpages.
22. Flexigrid- Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
23. prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone- A jQuery lightbox clone with tons of features you would love to have.
24. JavaScript Color Fading Script- This lightweight JavaScript allows for easy color transitions. Add fading effects to tables, divs and more. You can target an elements background, border or text color.
25. Rotator- This small Javascript class, serves as a generic rotator for different kind of collections.
26. Kotatsu – a simple html table generator- A nice tool to help create a table and throw in column classes quickly.
27. jQuery virtual tour- This virtual tour plugin has the particularity to be accessible and can run even if javascript has not been activated.
28. Usable directory listings with a little Dojo- A tutorial by Sam Foster to create directory listings with keyboard shortcuts. Just tab over to the box on the top right, and filter your selections.
29. Cuzillion’- The tool lets you test out different techniques for optimizing performance in browsers, and these tests can be saved and shared by the community.
30. The Sliding date-picker- GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and “Flash-like” effects.

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Facebook Chat might’ve had a simple and quiet launch, but a month later, the social network is already announcing plans to upgrade.

Engineer David Reiss announced Tuesday evening on the Facebook Developer Blog that Facebook Chat will soon have an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) interface–that’s better known as Jabber. This will mean that external clients will be able to incorporate Facebook Chat, currently restricted in most cases to the browser.

Universal IM clients Digsby (which is PC-only) and Adium (which is Mac-only) have already worked in ways to support Facebook Chat.

Through Facebook’s official Jabber support, which is coming “in the near future,” Facebook members will be able to not only chat with their friends, but also see friends’ profile pictures through the IM client and set their Facebook statuses.

C²Call lets you make web-based phone calls straight from your browser. It works like web-based email without any software installation. You can talk to anybody on the web free.

It is a java widget that is loaded temporary from the C²Call web page into your browser each time you use C²Call. It works with Windows, MAC and Linux.

If you want to use C²Call, you need to have a handset or microphone and speaker, and your system needs to have Java installed.

C²Call is free. In the future there will be premium services like calling out to phone numbers, call-in forwarding to mobile phones etc. But the C²Call basic service will remain free.

Go to C²Call: www.c2call.com

Instan-t allows you add all your  instant messaging account under a single Instan-t username, so you don’t have to open multiple IM software. Instan-t supports MSN, AOL, ICQ, Gtalk and Yahoo, and you can even experience a multiperson video chat with your friends on any IM network.

Instan-t messenger has no ads and it’s free to download. There’s also a web version on the website.

You can try it here.