I wanted to get a Encyclopedia CD, but thought are there any other open source alternatives. Even though I couldn’t find any alternative, I found there was a way to create PDF from Wikipedia articles. To get PDF checkout the Print/export links in the left hand menu of any Wikipedia article.

Also there is an option to get a offline paper book version of the same through

• PediaPress
• http://blog.nitropdf.com/index.php/2010/05/18/ubiquitous-pdf-order-custom-printed-pdf-books-wikipedia/

I had a PDF which had about 400 pages which I wanted to print with a low cost solution. I searched internet but couldn’t find any service matching my need, but I did find couple of services, which caters to a need similar to mine but at a bigger level.

Listing them below

• https://www.createspace.com/
• http://magcloud.com/
• http://www.lulu.com/

If you want to support Back buttons for Ajax or want to give bookmark links for Ajax content, I suggest using
jQuery Address plugin

IE 8 Developer Tools gives a feature called Browser Modes, with which you can check how your web site works and look in IE 7 without having to install IE 7 . More about this feature here Testing in Different Browser and Document Modes

I wanted to know if my browser Firefox 3.6.3 supported HTML5 video. Easy solution was to try out the HTML5 video demos provided in this site HTML5video.org

Here is another site which tells the HTML5 features your browser supports HTML5 test, I found it through this blog post Testing HTML5 Feature Availability In Browsers