• 250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web
  
  

  We’re all living on the web, and we all seem to be starting our own websites, so it’s time we all learned the languages that make it run. We’ve gathered over 250 resources to help you get going.

  
  
  
  
• Twype Updates Your Skype Mood From Twitter
  

  

  Twype (short for “Twitter to Skype”) is a new Windows-only tray tool that can help you update your Skype mood on the fly without doing anymore than posting to Twitter, or listening to music.

  All you need to do is download a small executable file, install, enter your account info, and you’re ready to go. Once every five minutes the program will check your Twitter account and paste it to your Skype mood area. If you use Winamp, you can also set it to check to see what song you’re playing, and that will be pasted to your mood. With Winamp, it checks every five seconds, and will override the need to check Twitter. Once you stop Winamp, it will revert to checking for new tweets.

  While I personally don’t see why you need your mood updated quite that often, apparently there are some out there who want to. The file is available at Voidstar.

  
  
  
• GMail: 42GB Free Storage by 2038
  
  

  Gmail just revised their storage estimates for the next 1449 years. Googlified dug around in the code and discovered that you’ll be getting a tiny increase to 2912MB on Friday, 4.2GB by October 23, 6GB by January 4 2008, 42GB by 2038 and 2.70266701 × 1072 TB by 3456. Google has since since confirmed by on the Gmail blog that the counter’s speed has been increased.

  Meanwhile, the paid storage is also getting a bump: $20 used to buy you 6GB extra, but it will now get you 10GB. The other prices are 40GB for 75/year, 150GB for $250/year and 400GB for $500/year.

  This is reassuring: Google is going to keep increasing the free storage despite having a paid plan they could push users over to. If you’re just about to exceed the limit on your Gmail account and you’re planning to add paid storage, it may be worth holding on for 11 more days. And somehow I don’t think 42GB will be considered very much by 2038: I expect we’ll be talking in terabytes by then.