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Did you ever wonder how Google specified an iPhone specific icon for their mobile Gmail Tasks application to your iPhone home screen? It turns out it’s about as simple as applying any regular favicon.

Just yesterday, news surfaced that Google was going to release a browser which was being used internally. Now that it’s been released as a beta for Windows as of this moment, how did it do?

Just yesterday, I found everystockphoto which is a search engine for free photos. This is a brilliant idea for a search engine as there are free photos on flickr too but searching the photos with those specific creative commons attributes isn’t as easily accessible as everystockphoto provides.

In this post, I will follow up on some of the comments and requests that generated around my newly popular post, How to Create Your Very Own “Archive Navigator”. I’ll cover graceful degradation (for non-javascript), and how to achieve tabs like I did.

Developing a Facebook application is a great starting point in learning to develop database driven web applications. Prior to developing the Wii Friend Number app, I was mostly a front end developer. After releasing it, I felt I was a more well-rounded developer now that I understood the basics of back end development.

Last week I received an email from fellow reader Jaap asking if I could provide a link to a plugin that would implement something like my very cool Archive Navigator you see to the right. I’ve provided a link to a plugin which looks to achieve a similar effect and wrote a mini-tutorial for those who want to take a stab at developing it themselves.