Spinal Tap Appreciation Day
Lately, I’ve felt drawn to the roots of heavy metal. Scouring rock music history, I always end up throning one band as king of them all. I have come to learn that this band is the pulse, the mulch of the sea, black as the night without the stars, the living beating heart of the [...]
Extra Image Tags Plugin
This is a very minimalistic Wordpress plugin, which finds all images you insert into your posts, and wraps them in extra span’s, so you can style the hell out of them. The smart thing is that this is done “compile-time”, meaning when Wordpress outputs your posts. That means you won’t see the extra tags on [...]
Joystiq 3.0 Usability Mini-Review
Gamer website Joystiq has just been redesigned. The main purpose of the new design was to reunite the brand that had bled out through various platform specific subsites.
The design is decent, a minor improvement that keeps the blue, white and orange brand colors, while tightening things up. Pity to see the logo all glossed [...]
Google Webdrive, Nearly Here
There are a number of signs that point to the imminent unveileing of Google Webdrive. If the rumors are to be believed, it’ll replace the Google Docs landing page, and have an icon like this:
Update: An official description has surfaced:
GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents. GDrive allows [...]
The Quest For A Sturdy Laptop
A coworker and myself are looking for laptops in the “desktop replacement” class. That means fairly fast computers sporting plenty of RAM and dedicated graphics cards. That means prices in the 1500 ranges. These are all Fisherprice plastic concoctions, however, and therein lies the problem. Can it really be true, that only Apple makes truly [...]
Exit War President
George,
Today you cease to be president, and I have to be honest: I will not miss you nor will I remember you fondly. I have, in fact, been waiting for this moment for 8 long years.
I have never been one for “what ifs”; at the very least my imagination has been limited to pondering what [...]
Five Things We Hope Barack Obama Has Learned From Conan The Barbarian
Apparently, Barack Obama collects Conan comics. Some danish friends of mine have written an excellent list of five things they hope Barack Obama has learned from Conan. The article in its entirety is in danish, though you can try and have Google translate it for you. Here are the five items, translated for you, dear [...]
Outlinefix For Mozilla’s text-indent: -9999px; Focus Rectangle Issue [Update]
When building search engine friendly but nice looking websites, webdesigners might sometimes replace a headline with a graphic logo. One trick has been to use hide the text in the headline and add the logo image as a background, thusly:
h1 a {
display: block;
text-indent: -9999px;
width: 100px;
height: 30px;
background: url(logo.gif);
}
This works fine in most browsers; it shows the [...]
How To Fix The Broken Latch On Your Last-Gen Macbook Pro, Which Is Why Your Lid Won’t Close
If the lid on your last-gen Macbook Pro won’t close, the cause is probably a stuck latch. A clever gentleman on the Apple support forum has invented an ingenious toothpick trick, which can help you fix this problem. We’re told that pushing the small metal pins inside the two rectangular holes just below the trackpad, [...]