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Have you wondered how Amazon’s books would look like if it was in a real bookstore? Well, zoomii tries to visualize just that (see below). It’s a real life like bookstore that is based on Amazon. It’s very interactive, you can click and drag, and use your mouse wheel to zoom-in and zoom-out. Clicking on a book will display the book details.

See it in action below. Cool huh? I won’t be surprised if Amazon will buy this website…

Site: zoomii.com

It ca be painful to look up HTML codes for these kind of signs ¢ ® š or ©. However with this tool it’s pretty easy to find the HTML equivalents for these and many more special characters. You simply type and it automatically gives you the matched or related characters, similar to Google Suggest. It also has a Dashboard Widget for Mac users.

leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/entity-lookup/

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal. Here is the examples of what ThickBox can do.

jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

Imo.im provides one login for all your 4 IMs (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk). It’s Ajax based online tool. You can login to all your IMs at one time. Once you are logged in you will be displayed with dragable boxes like in NetVibes. https://imo.im

If you do ajax projects then you might need these images. Here is a two (one and two) website that offer ajax activity indicators [similar to the one below].

www.ajaxload.info - is an online tool where you can create your own customized ajax indicators, you can choose the background color and the indicator color and download it in GIF format. There are total of 20+ different indicators.

Yesterday I signed up with MagikWidget after seeing it on the Guy Kawasaki blog. I liked the star rating widget in particular that you can put for your blog posts. However I was disappointed to find out that you couldn’t integrate it to your template.Technically you can integrate it to your template to show up after every post but the problem is that all of the widgets will be rating the same item and displaying the same rating. If you want to put for every post you need to create a new widget every time and integrate it manually.

I am guessing they did it intentionally, because for every widget you create you need to spend 1 credit. And credits do not come free 500 credits will cost you $25. Other than that they have Poll Widget, Skypecasts Widget, Delicious Widget, Digg Widget and many more on the way.

At the moment they are accepting suggestions from users for creating new widgets. If they accept your idea, they will give you credit and your link will have the option to be integrated into the widget [see image at the left].

I think it’s okay if they charge for their service but I personally think the widgets should be usable throughout the blog (on every post). Rather than charging 1 credit for it, they could charge 50 or 100 credits. www.majikwidget.com