I may not like how Google is building a monopoly on the internet, but, I have to admit that most of their services are useful. As developers, it is useful to know that Google hosts a lot of open source projects. Today, let's have a look at the 10 most awesome projects hosted on Google code.

ZeroClipboard

Do you remember the old days of web development, when IE6 was the king? (ok, it sounds soooo bad now but if you were already building sites in 2002 you know what I'm talking about!) It was extremely easy to force copy to clipboard.
But, for obvious security concerns, Firefox doesn't allow clipboard access by default. This is a good thing, but for some sites, being able to copy into clipboard is a

Within the music industry there is a great variety in terms of the quality of websites. Some bands have excellent, creative websites, and others have sites that are not so friendly for visitors. In this post we'll feature 35 websites from the music industry. Some are band websites and others are involved in the music industry in various ways.

The Blizzards

Gary Nock

Jared Campbell

When I do Web work–whether solo or in collaboration with a Web designer–I'm always mindful that we need to keep things simple. Sometimes keeping things simple forces us to compromise more than we would like or generalize in the interest of time and money (for us and the client's). Ironically, when you tend to over simplify, that's when many situations tend to get really messy.

Most Web sites are tailored to a specific audience–business or consumer. How to structure and compartmentalize content in that instance can be pretty obvious.Those are the easier ones for us and the client because they tend to be focused (i.e. simple).

However,

There are loads of handy scripts, bits of html and widgets that you can incorporate into your websites and blogs - here we bring together 25 of the most helpfull in the first part of this series …

Bubble Tool Tips - Bubble Tooltips are an easy way to add (via a bit of CSS and javascript) fancy tooltips with a balloon shape to any web page.

Box Over - BoxOver uses javascript / DHTML to show tooltips on a website.

In 2007 Tutorialblog grew from 500 RSS Subscribers and under a thousand visitors per day to over 7,000 RSS and 15k uniques per day, as a thankyou I'd like to take the time to list a few sites that linked to us and our articles and provided us with visitors and helped with our growth. Lets hope 2008 is just as good …

Smashing Magazine - Our good friends Smashing Magazine, an invaluable resource for web designers - for the few of you left that haven't heard of it, go subscribe now!

Bittbox - Another good design-related blog and home of the free vector