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I’ve been looking for a good web based file repository for about an hour now and cannot find a single one that I like. Does anyone know of a good one? It can run on either PHP or ASP.NET and ideally has a way to create different users. Need to have the ability to limit visibility of documents and files to specific users. Thanks!

Update: Owl Intranet Engine appears to be a PHP File Repository. I need to test it out before I’ll know how it works.

Also, WebAsyst Document Depot looks to be really sharp.

If you don’t like SmartFTP (my current favorite FTP program), give FileZilla a try. It’s a nice looking FTP program for Windows and it works pretty good.

This is interesting. I just found an open-source “content management system.”
It’s got a lot of features, including a blogging package. Not bad.

Oh, and by the way, the mushroom header is getting kinda old (so old that the mushroom might possibly grow mold). I’ll have to change it sometime soon—or better yet, you guys should change it. I’ll have to post the Photoshop document sometime and have everyone come up with a good photo for it.

—Andrew

I was meeting with some web designers yesterday and we were talking about video and how Flash incorporates it so well these days. Check out some of these examples linked from the Macromedia site.

I’m posting it because I was really captivated by the idea and this year I’d like to do something like this for some of our clients. Check out how Titleist Golf does it.

Back by popular demand we present the now official Caption Contest Friday! Only at BrainFuel where we continue to bring you pathetic content way too often.

Use your imagination and come up with a caption to go along with this great photo. Post your caption in the comments:

I’m aware everybody is posting about this but I couldn’t resist. It’s very cool. A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, has launched a Yellow Pages. Somehow, they’ve taken photos of tons of locations. Try it out.

Oh, and did you know that there is one Starbucks for every 30,496 people in Arizona. That’s a total of 183 Starbucks. California has over ten times as many.

So I spoke with the City of Scottsdale today after they finally returned my call. I was right! They’re wrong. It’s sweet success. I don’t have to charge sales tax on web hosting because our server is out of state and currently residing in the fine state of Texas. There are a lot of good things in Texas. So if you want some business advice: don’t do business locally when you rent a web server.

There’s nothing worse then having an awesome web-design layout with some sweet CSS code, and other cool stuff, when you preview it in Internet Explorer and disaster strikes. Internet Explorer never displays stuff the way you want it to! So I have an idea. There’s a spot called PetitionOnline where you can, well, post petitions online. I wrote one last night. Tell me what you think. Would you sign it, and further the Web Design cause?

We the undersigned hereby announce our wishes to Microsoft Corporation that it update both Mac and Windows verison of Internet Explorer. In its present form, Internet Explorer is nearly incapable of displaying CSS (also known as Cascading Style Sheets) and other new web technologies correctly, which results in frustration from web designers.

Our requirements for this update to Internet Explorer are as follows:

1. That Internet Explorer is made to display CSS and other web content to the caliber of FireFox, or Safari (other web browsers which display things correctly).

2. That Internet Explorer is made more secure, as to help prevent viruses from infecting people’s computers.

This is, in reality, simply a humble request for Microsoft to make it’s emminant web browser actually work. By leaving Internet Explorer on the shelf to gather dust, Microsoft is depriving many of the people on the Internet a good overall experience of the World Wide Web.

Web designers shouldn’t have to dumb down their design or creativity on account that most of the people on the internet use a web browser that does not display content correctly. This is frustrating, annoying, and unnaceptable.