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I’ve always been a fan of Macintosh’s Dock. Something about that sleek mouseover effect gets me every time. Recently, I was working on a project that needed a minimally invasive similar effect on a website. During the course of getting it ready, I came across a number of scripts that attempted this very thing. Some of them were good, some weren’t. Fisheye Menu by Marc Grabanski is so easy to install that I thought I’d share it here.

The script is open source, though I’ve only made minimal tweaks to it. All credit and blame go solely to Marc Grabanski. The only thing I’ve added is a single line of code that changes the mouse cursor to…

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Just to let everyone know, over the next several days I will being posting the archives from Site Scrutiny (the original blog) here. I will just auto archive them and set have them have the same post date as their original article. Hopefully all will go smoothly. Thanks for your patience!

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GrandCentral, recently acquired by Google, has been around for sometime now. So why am I blogging about it? Because I’ve just started using it and let me tell you, it is awesome. It has more features then I could possibly tell you about here, but I will try anyway.

GrandCentral (GC) is a way to manage your telephone numbers. It is not a VoIP per se, at least not like Skype. Rather, GrandCentral lets you have one telephone number that will ring any other telephone number you like. What do I mean? With GC you can chose a telephone number in virtually any area code. You can then start handing it out to your friends and…