So you can finally grab the Helvetimail at josefrichter.com/helvetimail. This took a lot of time, because Gmail html, css and js are extremely messy. Does anyone know why?
If you like Helvetimail, please see also my Helvetwitter.
Please use discussion under this blogpost to submit comments, report problems, etc. I am aware that Helvetimail is far from [...]

Probably everyone, including me, likes Helvetireader and the new kid on the block, Helvetical. My despair with Twitter website as well as standalone clients, made me create a minimalist twitter client, using custom CSS and Fluid.
Please click the icon to go to special Helvetwitter subpage.

This blogpost is mainly a support for Helvetwitter. If you are [...]

UPDATE: Helvetwitter is out! check www.josefrichter.com/helvetwitter
If you are using Helvetireader, maybe incorporated into Fluid or Mozilla Prism, you might have been looking for a nice 512px icon. As I didn’t find any nice one, I decided to make one myself. So here is the result. Feel free to donwnload and share it (please include link [...]

UPDATE: now with new Opera icon
You may have heard about the IE 6 no more initiative. It asks webmasters to put a banner on their page, which detects Internet Explorer 6 and suggests to download ‘a modern browser’ instead.
While I generally support the initiative, the banners are unusable for me. One of the browsers suggested [...]

Read this letter and try to spot an amazing typo. Click on the letter to enlarge it.

If you didn’t find it, click here: where is the typo?

Making layouts in CSS is a real pain. To me it’s like cleaning toilet with a toothbrush – it can be done, you can even achieve great results, but you would probably choose different tool if you could… The community, including Eric Meyer and Shaun Inman obviously longs for a real layout system.
Before we get [...]

This piece of code makes form fields more intelligent and usable. It clears the field on focus and if nothing is filled-in, it puts back the default value. There is a single line function MooTools
for this, but I used jQuery elsewhere on the web, so I needed jQuery solution. But couldn’t find any good one, [...]

Sweet photo taken somewhere in the US

Even if you are a Twitter novice, you may already have noticed that the figures of “following” and “followers” for individual users vary considerably. There is actually quite a lot these figures can tell you about the user.
So what may help you get the basic feeling about the Twitterer are the absolute figures of [...]

UPDATE: Helvetwitter is out! See www.josefrichter.com/helvetwitter
In a previous post, I was explaining how to enable Google Gears within Mozilla Prism to turn Gmail, Google Docs and other Google Applications into stand-alone offline applications, that may come useful e.g. when you are in plane or train.
You may know, that specifically for Mac, there is an alternative [...]