Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

Firefox 2 Beta 2

Friday, September 1st, 2006

A new beta version of Firefox 2 has been released…

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Interesting site design: Ronin MUD

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

This site is for the online game Ronin MUD, I haven’t played the game, however I found the site to be very impressive. It has a very striking red and black colour scheme, using irregular lines and a large image to good effect. The text is mostly readable, the parts that overlap the main image are less so…

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NeoOffice — MacOSX Native OpenOffice.org

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

NeoOffice is a version of OpenOffice.org, the powerful open-source MS Office alternative, ported to be native to MacOSX…

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Wordpress tutorial video

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

This video tutorial that came up on popular webdesign links can take you through the steps of installing wordpress, and covers the basic use of many of it’s features…

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MAMP — Macintosh Apache, MySQL and PHP

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

MAMP is the MacOSX equivalent of XAMPlite, the software some people in the class are using to ease PHP work somewhat by removing the need to upload the .php file after every change…

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Sidenote — Note-taking program for MacOSX

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Sidenote is a small app that is normally hidden at the edge of the screen…

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Screen Resolution and Page Layout

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

In his latest alertbox, usability guru Jacob Nielson recommends optimising web pages to be viewed on 1024×768 resolution, but make sure they scale adiquitely in lower resolutions…

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A short history of Georgia and Verdana

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

This turned up in popular webdesign links, and describes the background behind two of the most-loved fonts for the internet…

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GIMP Tutorials

Monday, July 10th, 2006

This just turned up on digg, and looks like it’d be useful for those of us who are using GIMP at home…

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HTML Tidy — Correct and tidy HTML code

Monday, July 10th, 2006

HTML Tidy is a program for checking and tidying HTML files. It can tidy your code by doing automatic indentation, it can scan for errors and even generate a version of your code with the errors fixed…

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