The signup form at VaultPress, Automattic’s new backup service for WordPress sites, eschews the traditional, vertical layout with some unique design tricks.

If you mis-enter credentials in the login form at Apple’s MobileMe site, it will shake and wipe out the incorrect password to help reinforce the fact that you goofed up - just like the login form on a Mac.

If you subscribe to a lot of sites in Google Reader, the unread count badges next to feeds, folders, and tags either become meaningless cruft or pressure for an unobtainable “inbox zero” goal. Fortunately, you can turn off the unread count from the Subscriptions menu. This toggle only works across your entire account, however, and is not available on a per-feed or per-folder basis.

YouTube displays the actual frames of a video as an upload progresses. I doubt this works in every browser, though.

via Delete Yourself

A blue dot for new mentions in Brizzly. Are you listening Twitter?

Perhaps I use my iPhone to get directions far too often now, but I forgot this simple trick existed: In most of the maps services from the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Bing (though, unsurprisingly, not Mapquest), you can use your mouse’s scroll wheel to quickly zoom in and out of a map.

After Remember The Milk introduced its Smart Add feature, multi-edit mode was turned on by default. Previously, each time users logged in, they had to manually enable this mode before editing multiple tasks. There was no option to leave multi-edit mode on across sessions.