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How to Clean Coins to Make Them More Valuable

You come across a rare 1909 Indian Head Cent, generally worth over $400. But wait it’s very dirty and tarnished. What do you do?

Finding Treasure: A Quick Guide to Antique Appraisal

Could that old vase in your attic be valuable? We talked to a local appraiser to find out.

10 Collectibles NOT Worth Collecting Anymore

Kovels.com is the go-to source for information on antiques and collectibles since 1953. Research your antiques using our FREE price guide.

Are we web yet? Yes, and it's freaking fast!

AreWeWebYet gives insight on whether you can build your latest web-project on top of Rust

How to turn web pages into PDFs with Puppeteer and NodeJS

As a web developer, you may have wanted to generate a PDF file of a web page to share with your clients, use it in presentations, or add it as a new feature in your web app. No matter your reason, Puppeteer, Google’s Node API for headless Chrome and Chromium, makes the task quite simple …

What Does The Sensation Of Feeling A Spider Web On Your Face Mean?

Have you ever found yourself brushing a cobweb from your face despite being in a location where it's not likely there would be spider webs around?

Inventor of the web says the web needs to be fixed, and fast

The creator of World Wide Web is worried about the web, with good reason.

What Is The Dark Web? Minnesota Tech Security Blog

The dark web is a vast, invisible portion of the World Wide Web known as the nucleus of illegal online activities. It's hidden from standard search engines like Yahoo and Google.

No cat videos?! What life was like before the World Wide Web

Thirty years after the invention of the World Wide Web, it’s time to reflect on how life has changed since the web arrived.

How to Access the Web Inspector for Desktop iBooks

If you’re familiar with doing web development, you know one of the best tools in any web developers toolbox in the Web Inspector. It allows you to inspect the HTML and CSS of a live page, allowing …

New Study Shows How Deeply Awful Those 'Get the App' Web Pages Are

Those web pages that stop you getting to the information you really want in favor of asking you to Download An App are deeply annoying. But now a study by Google shows just how counter-productive they actually are for the people that put them there in the first place.

Web Conferences in your car?

With the speed that automotive technology is advancing, we may not be too far away from you being able to have a web conference in your car. Currently the only way to attend a web conference from your car is...

What about an Open Web Health Report?

We often talk about the “Open Web” or “the web as a platform” and it certainly resonates from some, but for others, not so much. It’s a murky concept for sure. Prior to my time at Mozilla, I must a…

The History Of Web Design Explained In 9 GIFs

Froont, a San Francisco company that makes tools for web designers, has created nine GIFs that show just how far web design has come in the past 25 years. If you've ever wondered why CSS is important, or why Flash died out, these GIFs will explain everything. The Monochrome era of web design, circa 1989. Think Lynx and other Unix-based web browsers that couldn't do more than squirt a little bit of text from one terminal to another through university networks. There's no…

Cosmic JS wants to simplify web development so you can focus on content

If you are a web developer, you know how complex many of the traditional web content management systems have been. One of the big problems has been managing the underlying infrastructure for the system. Cosmic JS, a member of the Winter 2019 Y Combinator class, wants to simplify that by taking care…

Feeling Sick? Use This Web Tool to Self-Diagnose Your Symptoms

When you're feeling under the weather do you rush to the hospital? Google frantically?Now, a web app provides a middle ground solution, offering the guidance of medical profess...

Should I cover my laptop's web camera?