March 2010
59 posts
Some Photoshop filters not working?
If some of your Photoshop filters are disabled (such as Lighting Effects), make sure you’re in RGB mode (via Image > Mode) - some filters won’t work in CMYK mode.
Nice usability Adobe.
Window Resizer - Google Chrome extension gallery →
Font Squirrel | Create Your Own @font-face Kits →
Automatically optimize your font for web-usage, create an IE compatible EOT file, AND give you optimized CSS for usage. Amazing.
LightHouse - Ticket View InPlaceEditor for... →
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PHP: Problems outputting an image from a file?
Just spent 45 minutes debugging a problem where an image could be read by PHP, but trying to output its contents and setting correct headers wasn’t working.
Turns out it’s because my PHP script was encoded in UTF-8 not ANSI. What the fail.
Damn I hate encoding related issues.
The Best Way To Wake Up
For years I’ve been using Citrus Alarm Clock for Windows to wake up to a gentle fade-in of my music each morning, and I’ve just come across the much-recommended Awaken for Mac.
So now nobody has any excuses not to wake up feeling awesome - give it a try!
Well-Placed Pixels →
A visual record of beautiful software
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jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web →
Reflection.js for jQuery ยท digitalia.be →
Mikinho | Yammm →
“Yet another movie manager” catalogues, adds meta data and downloads movie covers for your local movie collection.
Robin Hood Tax catching on | This earth is... →
This is totally awesome
OSX Keyboard Cleaner - plok →
Run this app when you’re cleaning your keyboard to disable any accidental key presses!
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jQuery hasParent() function
Wow can’t believe how long it took me to find this on the net, posting here for future reference;
/*
* Test whether argument elements are parents
* of the first matched element
* @return boolean
* @param objs
* a jQuery selector, selection, element, or array of elements
*/
$.fn.hasParent = function(objs) {
// ensure that objs is a jQuery array
objs = $(objs); var found =...
"Dammit I'm Mad" By Demetri Martin - Slate... →
A 224 word Palindrome by comedian Demetri Martin. Epic.
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HowTo: Automatic Custom Daily Backup on OSX
Just wrote an OSX script to automate my daily backups on OSX. I simply backup all of the important files and settings that I have at 11am and 4pm each day to a folder called Backup, which I then back up to S3 using the epic Arq;
Open a Terminal window - don’t worry if you’re not used to it, neither am I!
Create and edit a file called osx-backup-script.sh somewhere; sudo nano...
Bowtie →
Bowtie is a free application for Mac and Windows that allows you to control iTunes on your iPhone
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Ajax Upload - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com →
Mac OS X Terminal - case insensitive auto-complete →
Sudo without a password in Mac OS X - Matt... →
Chrome Experiments - Detail - Starfield →
Another HTML5 experiment - amazing stuff!
Andrew Hoyer | Cloth Simulation →
An HTML5 experiment. The future of the web.
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