This is a site which lets you see in real-time if any website is blocked or censored in China. They’ve created a website in China and they route your url request on greatfirewallofchina.org through to their server in China. The server in China opens the url and the result is send back. Their testing is only based on one server on one location in China. They do have different backup servers in different locations in China in case one goes down. Other locations and other servers may give you different access to the various websites. While the animation is really just an activity indicator, I felt it was an effective way of showing not only that there was something load, but also a sense of what I was waiting for (e.g. waiting for the server connections in each country). …

Here’s a form validation script that is very easy to use. The basic method is to attach to the form’s onsubmit event, read out all the form elements’ classes and perform validation if required. If a field fails validation, reveal field validation advice and prevent the form from submitting.

Website: http://tetlaw.id.au/view/javascript/really-easy-field-validation

ClickHeat is a downloadable visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. Key features include, low logging activity: a very few function calls to log a click, no server load rise should be noticed; a keyword is used to define the page upon Javascript code load, allowing you to group same pages and Screen sizes and browsers are logged, making possible the tracking of liquid-layouts.

Website: http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/

Visuwords online graphical dictionary is a way to look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Visuwords uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web. To use the dictionary just enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node.”