Links for 2007-02-05

Enhance your (page) performance!

Tips for speeding up your site’s load time.

Hidden Feature of OS X: CUPS

Manage your Mac’s printers via an online interface. [Via Lifehacker]

Google Prepares a Presentation Tool

Google Docs will allow you to create Powerpoint-ish slide shows online. Until then, try Zoho Show. [Via Lifehacker]

Where?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s the Beef: TV Meets Online Video

A summary of three reports and three interpretations of online video versus television.

Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X

Setting up a Ruby development environment.

How to stop IE from caching AJAX requests

Two techniques (though only one is covered in detail) for preventing IE (and other browsers) from caching Ajax requests. This, incidentally, also works to prevent browsers from caching data loaded into Flash movies.

Automate Your Backups

How to create automated backup scripts using *nix-based systems, and on Windows systems with Cygwin.

The Importance of Mobile Pre-Emptive Navigation

Suggested methods for making mobile web sites easier to navigate.

The multicultural Issue

Europe’s battles with Islam and European Muslims’ battles with each other continues. Sign and Sight has a round-up.

International, global, transnational: Just a matter of words?

Thoughts on language and cross-cultural tensions.