Archive for February, 2009

Today I had to help a friend force eject a stuck DVD in his iBook, there are a couple of methods we tried and I thought that hey may be helpful for others.
I would recommend trying to eject your stuck CD/DVD in this order;
1) Hold the ‘Eject’ Key for up to 30 [...]

I sat down to further my Javascript skills a couple of weeks ago and re-wrote a small peice of code that I used on DreamCatcher, A School Careers Application to create ‘Slide Down’ boxes for the Contact Form, Login Form and an Introduction Movie.
I rewrote it using less code and working out heights and sizes [...]

I was browsing just now and fond something pretty interesting, Safari supports multiple background image declarations for the same style tag.

.box {
 
background:
/* Upper-left */ url(./corners_01.png),
/* Upper-right */ url(./corners_02.png),
/* Lower-left */ url(./corners_03.png),
/* Lower-right */ url(./corners_04.png),
/* Icon */ url(./icon.png),
/* Gradient */ url(./gradient.png);
 
background-position:
/* Upper-left */ 0% 0%,
/* Upper-right */ 100% 0%,
/* Lower-left */ 0% 100%,
/* Lower-right */ 100% 100%,
/* Icon */ 0.6em 0.6em,
/* Gradient */ 0% 100%;
 
background-repeat:
/* Upper-left */ no-repeat,
/* Upper-right */ no-repeat,
/* Lower-left */ no-repeat,
/* Lower-right */ no-repeat,
/* Icon */ no-repeat,
/* Gradient */ repeat-x;
}

I use Adium for Chatting on my Mac. It is a great little App that allows you to connected with multiple Account types like MSN, Yahoo, Google Chat ( or gmail ), MySpace, Facebook and more… all in the one cool customisable messenger.
Today I looked at writing my own Message Theme as a quick [...]

If you download anything via torrents, you should read this article. It is a pretty clear explanation of the upcoming Torrent Laws for ISP’s and users here in New Zealand including the ‘3 Strike’ policy.
http://torrentfreak.com/code-aims-to-quell-new-zealand-3-strikes-fears-090204/
The thing about torrents is that not every one uses them to download Copyright Application, music or movies.
I [...]

Recently I brought a new iMac for my home development, music, movies, games and general play things. For work I develop Web Applications and with my ISP I have a static IP address, so I decided to set up a small testing webserver. Since Apple has built in PHP and Apache2, this [...]

As I was browsing the web today on a completly unrelated matter I can across Alex King’s blog and a couple of interesting mySQL Queries that can show some useful stats on your blog.
The Article is http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/01/sql-for-blog-stats.
Here is my Stats for 2008 and 2009 to date…

I noticed when installing the SPAW Editow recently that on the Design tab in SPAW, the HTML was showing as converted HTML Symbols like &lt; and &gt; rather than < and >.
After a bit of playing, i found this hidden piece of information on the SPAW FAQ’s.

You should use getHtml() method instead [...]