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Two links of interest:

1. Adobe BrowserLab: How often do you have to check your web designs in a number of different browsers to make sure that things look ok in all the browsers your customers are going to use? You either need multiple computers (MacOS, Windows, Linux) with multiple versions of browsers installed or you have some virtual machine solution (VMWare) on a single computer.

   Adobe just released a new web-service, which allows you have a URL rendered by some of the most popular browsers and see the results as screenshots in your browser. Granted, something like this has been done before (see for example browsershots.org and netrenderer), but BrowserLab has at least one feature that makes it very interesting – it offers an “Onion Skin View” that allows you to overlay the output from different browsers on top of each other. See the example below, that shows “Firefox 3.0″ on the left and “Safari 3.0″ on the right (both on MacOS X). You’ll see immediately where the two diverge from each other:

   

   Things are bit slow on the service at the moment … give it some time, it’s worth it!

2. Prezi: prezi.com is a pretty interesting concept for “presentations”. Think of it as one large canvas where you layout all the information that makes up your presentation: text, photos, graphics, videos are spread out over the canvas. Once all items are placed, you define a path over the information and pan, zoom, rotate to draw attention to certain sections of the canvas. It’s hard to explain, but just go to prezi.com and have a look at the examples there.