Archive for April, 2008

Checking out FancyZoom by Cabel Sasser

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:

Zoom, zoom a zoomazoomzoom

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.

Pass it on: Programmer’s Earrings


Programmer’s Earrings on PhotoBasement


Run Windows on a Mac

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


PDFmenot.com vs Vuzit.com

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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Another inspired Grow Collective design: Denna Jones

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