April 29, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Oddly named Cabel’s Blog LOL has a fancy-pants (a technical term apparently) javascripty image zooming tool called FancyZoom. I’ve installed it for this post, but if it ain’t working go here. It’s very simple to set up, and once it’s done, if you link to an image (via thumbnail or text link) the image will pop out of the page when visitors click it. Check it:
Or from this text link.
It’s pretty.
FancyZoom [Cabel’s Blog LOL]
Update: 2008-06-29 I’ve turned of the fancyzoom javascript. It was huge, and was partially to blame for my sites slow performance for the last little while. turning it off was a quick fix.
Tags: cabel sasser, fancyzoom, image, test
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April 29, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Tags: geek, html, humour, tags
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April 28, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Lifehacker is always ready with a quick tip or a tutorial for seasoned professional IT people and newbies alike. I get asked a bit by Mac users at work (me being the defacto Mac expert in these parts) how to make Windows work on their shiny new Macbook. Today Lifehacker posted a straight forward tutorial on the subject, and as I’ve never had reason to do it myself, I defer to their expertise.
Dual Boot: Have Your Mac and Windows Too with Boot Camp
Tags: apple, lifehacker, tutorial, windows
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April 27, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Just testing pdfmenot.com — a tool from the people behind bugmenot.com, retailmenot.com and cushycms.com. It lets you read a PDF in your browser without downloading it, and even embed a pdf in another page with a bit of javascript. Also trying out an alternative, vuzit.com.
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Tags: embed, javascript, pdf, pdfmenot, tool, vuzit
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Before we started planning, we knew that Denna was already actively using the functionality of other web sites to share her work and thoughts. It made no sense to reproduce the functionality here when we knew we could import her content from other sites and use it on this one. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to create a site that would distill all of a person’s activity from around the Web on one site, painting a rich picture of who they are and what they do.Colophon | Denna Jones
Tags: beautiful, design, grow collective, inspiration, jon gibbins, jon tan
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April 18, 2008 by Josh Nunn
I’m a republican at heart, but some things just shouldn’t be tampered with. This morning when thinking about the issue of whether Australia should be looking to rule itself, and cut ties with the British monarchy, only one thing played on my mind as a possibly unintentional consequence of such a move.
This issue should not be taken lightly. Whilst it is a slim possibility, even a remote chance should be enough to halt all talks of such a change until this issue can be sorted out.
Would the Brits still send us new episodes of Dr. Who?
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Tags: actor, debate, dr who, idea, monarchy, republic
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April 16, 2008 by Josh Nunn
I’ve linked to comics I’ve liked in the past, and have been meaning to do the same with this one for a while. Starslip Crisis is the cleverest web comic I read. Set in the year 3441, the crew of the Starship Fuseli take art and culture to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy.
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Tags: Comic, comicstrip, starslip crisis
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April 16, 2008 by Josh Nunn
I’m researching what might be the best approach for creating a web page for a client with some limitations (i.e. html only hosting). Probably the most fantastic approach I’ve found so far is CushyCMS. CushyCMS lets you define editable areas in your plain HTML then lets your client edit a page’s content without touching the page itself.
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Tags: alternative, cms, cushycms, html, templates, wysiwyg
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April 11, 2008 by Josh Nunn
xkcd — A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language — By Randall Munroe
I instantly thought “Calvin and Hobbes” when I saw the second half of this… Then *WHAM*
Tags: calvin and hobbes, comicstrip, xkcd
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April 10, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Checking out the Photo Dropper Wordpress Plugin, that lets you search for a keyword, and insert creative commons flickr photos into your posts automagically. I’ve used Flickr photos in the past, but it’s taken some searching of flickr, and some copy-pasting to get them into Wordpress. Photo Dropper makes it much easier.
I’ll reserve judgement till I’ve tried it more, but it seems like it could be very useful.
Tags: creative commons, photo dropper, testing
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