October 2007
15 posts
Dynamic PageFlip flashbook →
An adaption of Macc’s PageFlip that makes adding pages easy by simply updating an XML document rather than messing around with the ActionScript. Whilst trying to layer flash under HTML text, I also found this version stops the flickering of the pages bug that PageFlip v2.2 has when used with a transparent background. However, Safari still has issues with the page turning. There is also a...
glider.js - Create a sliding carousel →
This script makes it easy to create a sliding carousel component like the one seen at www.curbly.com. Inspired by www.panic.com/coda. This script uses the Prototype javascript framework and the effects.js library from Scriptaculous. You must include Prototype version 1.5+ in your pages before including this script. This library is known to work in recent versions of IE 6/7, FireFox, and Safari.
IE is unable to open Office documents from an SSL...
When you attempt to open or download a Microsoft Office document (.doc file, .xls file, .ppt file, and so on) from a secure Web site in Internet Explorer. Microsoft Help and Support (Article ID:316431) PHP solution PHP: header - Manualheader('Pragma: anytextexeptno-cache', true); PHP force download example header('Pragma: anytextexeptno-cache', true); header('Content-Description: File...
Portable Application Description
“PAD (Portable Application Description) files make it easier and faster for software publishers to list information about their software on download sites, and for owners of download sites to keep the records they hold about software up-to-date. When releasing a new software program, most software publishers place a PAD file on their website that contains detailed information about the...
CUE Splitter - Split a single big audio track with... →
Supported audio files: uncompressed pcm WAVE, MP3, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA, MPC, WV and TTA.
UBUNTU 7.10 released! →
After an hour downloading updates and another hour installing I am now using Gutsy Gibbon!
SimpleXML with XML namespaces →
Ubuntu: Setup BT Voyager 1055 Wireless Adapter
This guide was written after I got a spare BT Voyager 1055 Wireless Adapter working in Ubuntu Edgy, but can be used to setup most wireless cards and other USB adapters with Windows drivers. It is split into two stages with the first stage getting the drivers installed with ndiswrapper and the second adding WPA encryption. Try these instructions if you are using Ubuntu for 64bitAMD. Useful links: ...
Take a HTML snippet from a webpage using cURL,...
$url = "http://php.net/"; $expression = "id('leftbar')/p[1]"; // make the cURL request to $url $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); $html= curl_exec($ch); //...
WPvideo - Inserting videos in your WordPress Posts →
WPvideo is a plugin for WordPress that allow you to insert flash (YouTube) videos into your posts. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyB4gbsSdYQ[/video]
Sony Bravia - Play-Doh advert →
The third commercial for Bravia by Fallon. 2.5 tonnes of plasticine!
YSlow - Speed up your web pages →
I remember Nate Koechley briefly mentioning YSlow in his talk about ‘High Performance Web Pages’ at this years @media. This tool generates a grade for each of the rules below, with an overall grade for any web page. Once installed YSlow integrates into Firebug and can be launched quickly from the status bar. 1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests 2. Use a Content Delivery Network 3. Add...
Crazyegg - Visualize your vistors →
I have just noticed a new tab called confetti on the report page that allows you to overlay dots with each color representing one of the top 15 referrers.
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Linked images become embedded in HTML emails from...
I only noticed this was the default action whilst viewing a HTML email with a signature on Entourage sent from Outlook. What you get is an attachment for every img tag used, even if the src is the same! I stumbled across this Guide on creating signatures, which had the answer to changing this behavior in Outlook 2003. Tools -> Options -> Mail Format -> Internet Format… ->...
