The plugin uses the getImageData method on the Image object. It iterates over a portion of the pixels in an image, keeping track of color occurrences. It then returns the most dominant color and any other highly occurrent colors.
I was not anticipating on my little 3 hour jQuery plugin hitting the front page of HN, so I didn't take certain precautions. That's a good problem to have.
In any case, I've now moved the library to also be hosted on Github pages.
I have fall in love with Strava - minimal iOS running app (http://app.strava.com/mobile). I am not affiliated with them in any way.
I can also second Hal Higdon's site above.
A lot of people in a recent half marathon I ran were using the half marathon as a staging ground for their full marathon. By running a half marathon/5k/10k you can get a feel for what running an actual race feels like, which is invaluable.
Neya, good point. This is what a two man team looks like trying to release a product in 3 weeks. We'll be sprucing the site a little more in the coming days. We chose to focus on the usability of the app more than the site. Hopefully that translates well to our users.
FontPrep converts all of your TTF & OTF files to web-ready formats: WOFF, EOT, and SVG. FontPrep also fires up a server listening on port 7500 so you can easily view and test your fonts.