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Panabee: Name Generator

Kroger's Q2 sales growth was driven entirely by price increases rather than volume gains—identical store sales excluding fuel were flat at 0.2% as unit volume declined—while the company faces mounting capital pressure with cash reserves down 50% year-to-date despite a pending $1.65 billion acquisition. The report reveals how nominal sales growth masks underlying weakness in customer demand and inventory levels.

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Glyphish – Great icons for great iPhone & iPad applications

Glyphish is a collection of carefully designed icons available in multiple formats (PNG, SVG, PSD, AI) and sizes optimized for iOS, Android, and web applications, with vector source files that allow developers and designers to scale and customize them while maintaining crisp resolution on any device. The full icon sets are available for purchase without attribution requirements, while a free 50-icon sample set requires attribution under Creative Commons licensing. The service includes Sketch source files for easy color customization and supports user requests for additional icons.

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Some slight modifications to the codeigniter profiler to dynamically display session vars, and to add EXPLAIN to all queries. — Gist

This is a modified CodeIgniter profiler class that adds two key debugging features: it displays session variables in a dedicated table during profiling output, and it automatically runs MySQL EXPLAIN queries on all SELECT statements to show query execution plans with details like table access types, key usage, and row estimates.

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ScraperWiki

ScraperWiki rebranded both its product and company: the platform became QuickCode, a Python and R environment for data analysis aimed at economists and statisticians without coding experience, while the parent company became The Sensible Code Company. The rebrand reflects the platform's evolution beyond its original scraping focus toward general data analysis and processing.

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Beautiful web-based timeline software

This is a marketing page for Tiki-Toki, a browser-based timeline creation tool that distinguishes itself through 3D visualization, multimedia integration (YouTube and Vimeo), color-coding by category, and collaborative editing features. The page outlines various use cases from personal diaries to corporate histories and legal presentations, and offers tiered pricing from a free single-timeline account to premium options supporting up to 25 timelines with embedding capabilities.

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Bigfoot CMMS

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Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen

Typetester is a browser-based WYSIWYG editor that lets you test, compare, and design with over 2,800 web fonts without coding knowledge. You can create typographic projects directly in the browser, then export them as responsive HTML and CSS that automatically adapts to different screen sizes.

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Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking

Pinboard is a paid, ad-free bookmarking service designed for privacy-conscious users who want a simple, fast way to save and organize links without tracking or surveillance. The platform integrates with browsers and services like Twitter and Instapaper, and offers optional archiving that creates full-text searchable backups of saved content and monitors for broken links.

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