lab.arc90.com

A place for us to share our ideas, tools, and the occasional experiment in Web technology.

Featured Projects

TBUZZ

Our wildly-popular Twitter client, TBUZZ lets you easily post to Twitter directly from your Web browser, and shows you what others are saying about that page. It works with all modern Web browsers.
Readability

Despite the ubiquity of reading on the Web, readers remain a neglected audience. Readability is our popular bookmarklet that removes the junk around what you’re reading and displays a clean, readable view.
HashMask

HashMask attempts to provide an easier-to-view visual “fingerprint” for users to recognize the password they’ve entered. Within the password text box, a sparkline is drawn to aid the user in recognizing what they’ve entered.
HalfMask

HalfMask is an experimental approach to masking on password fields. Rather than just showing bullets or asterisks, HalfMask presents visual cues so the user can easily read their own password.

ActionScript XML Binding

… converting to and from XML is an often laborious, and certainly tedious, task.
Best Buy Remix API client (PHP)

BestBuy Remix API Client is a PHP library for placing HTTP calls to the Best Buy Remix API.
SqlWatcher: Ad-hoc database change monitoring

How many times have you needed to debug an application and wished, just wished, you had put better …
Yeller

Yeller is a PHP script that lets a group post messages to a single Twitter account using Yammer.

JSON CSS: A More Powerful CSS Proof of Concept

JSON CSS is a proof of concept meant to demonstrate what could be accomplished with a more powerful syntax within CSS.
Adding a Drop Shadow to an Element, then Centering It

Most drop shadow techniques require floating the element, which undermines the item being centered.
Yammer API Client Library

Our Yeller API Client allows direct programmatic integration with Yammer from PHP.
Java Encrypter

Encrypter is a simple Java class for encrypting a java object to text, and later reversing the process.

PHP Twitter API Client

Arc90’s Twitter API Client is a PHP library that allows direct programmatic integration with Twitter from PHP.
jQuery Reverse Order plugin

Ever want to reverse the order of a group of DOM elements? Or want to give your user the option?
SVN Notifier

… SVN Notifier, the first Apple Dashboard widget to come from the Arc90 lab.
Flex / AS3 Library : RESTService

One of the most lamented issues in the Adobe community has been Flash Player’s lack of true HTTP support.