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Not everyone is as sophisticated as us email readers. Believe it or not there are still people who use and actually prefer the archaic fax. So for all of you who decide you want to receive a fax without paying out to a service like eFax what are you to do? Thankfully there is a solution. Its called K7. K7 gives you the ability to receive faxes or receive voice messages in your email free of charge. While the voice mail is good, it still doesn’t come close to GrandCentral’s ability to recover incoming voice mails, however GrandCentral can’t receive faxes either.

K7 makes money from it’s banners on their website and your faxes will come in unmolested. there are no limits, or hidden charges. One other extra benefit is that if you have a fax nearby and need something scanned quickly you can scan your page in and receive it in your email. Keep in mind Fax scanners are crude at best, but if you are in a pinch it could be pretty handy.

This is a guest post by Chris Carey of Noheat.com

Here’s just another example of how terrible Internet Explorer 6 is. Using one line of HTML code, you can crash IE6. This little gem was found by a Japanese blogger by the name of Hamachiya2. The code needed to crash IE6 is as follows:

<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input>

Luckily this bug has been fixed in IE7. Firefox, Safari, and Opera are also all immune to this line of code. Please use this code for good and not evil!

In many cases, web development can be quite costly between purchasing image editing software to FTP software. You may not know it, but there is a plethora of great free web development software. I’ve put together a list of a few of the best webdev freeware applications I could find.

Bluefish Editor (Windows/Linux/Mac)

If you’re looking for a great HTML editor, Bluefish is what to get. It is not only for editing HTML though. This application is capable of editing everything from PHP to Python and Javascript and even adds syntax highlighting.

Paint.NET (Windows only)

Good and free image editors are hard to come by, but Paint.NET is an exception. This image editor can be classified as somewhat of a Paint Shop Pro replacement as it doesn’t have as many features as Photoshop does.

FileZilla (Windows/Linux/Mac)

If there’s one essential web development tool, it’s the FTP client. Unfortunately, good free FTP clients aren’t very common. FileZilla is both free and very easy to use. The beta version is available for all platforms, whereas the stable version is only available on Windows.

Know of any other good web development freeware? Post your favorites!

WP-Lytebox is a plugin for WordPress which uses Lytebox to add a lightbox functionality like that of Lightbox 2.0 to images as well as HTML content such as web pages. This plugin will automatically group all the images linked to in a post into a gallery with next and previous links. The new version of Lytebox can be configured from the Lytebox Options page in the WordPress admin panel.

Download v1.3 (compatible with WordPress 1.5 to 2.5)

Grouped images example

Slideshow example

HTML content examples

1. Google search
2. M42 - Orion Nebula

For more information on how to use the HTML content feature, check out the “How to Use” section on the Lytebox website.

Installation instructions

• Unzip the file and upload the contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on your web server.
• Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin panel.
• That’s all there is to it! Now Lytebox will be enabled on every thumbnail in your posts that is linked to the full-size version.
• You can also configure how Lytebox works via the options page in your WordPress admin panel.

Changelog

• 1.3 - lyteshow (slideshow) can be configured in WP admin panel, plugin will check for latest version on the Lytebox options page
• 1.2 - numerous code optimizations, moved Lytebox options page under Presentation section of admin panel, added WP 1.5 compatibility
• 1.1 - new Lytebox options page in WP admin panel, updated Lytebox to v3.22
• 1.0.2 - fixed issues with Lytebox not loading
• 1.0.1 - fixed minor bug mentioned by Bas
• 1.0 - initial release

Thanks to everyone for the great response to this plugin! I’ll definitely be adding some new features in the near future.

Like my plugin? Donate a dollar or two.

1. Does it bug you that you can only zoom text in Firefox? ArsTechnica is reporting that Firefox version 3.0 will have full-page zooming like that of Internet Explorer 7 and Opera.
2. Today uTorrent was re-branded as the official Bittorrent client. Version 6.0 and on of Bittorrent will be based off the ever-popular uTorrent client.
3. BBCs new iPlayer has finally arrived and many users are not happy that the player will only run on computer running Windows XP. Yes, you read right. The iPlayer won’t work on your shiny, new Vista machine. If you’re running XP and would like to try the beta, you can download and test it.