Here’s a cool site with a ton of free Photoshop patterns.
and
Another.→ Continue reading “Free Photoshop Patterns”
Color Palette Pickers
Here are a couple of cool websites for picking and generating color palettes:
- http://www.lightsphere.com/colors/
- http://colorschemedesigner.com/
- http://www.degraeve.com/reference/color.php
- http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ This one is really cool. Give it the URL of an image and it’ll generate a palette for you.
How to Set Up Your Website to Weather the Recession and Play the Internet Attrition Game
There are many businesses that are seeing their sales diminish and are realizing that they are going to have to cut costs to survive. There are some businesses that wont make it and they and their websites will simply go away.
If your business is contracting and you need to batten down the hatches what should you do to survive the lean times that also helps you gain a better position for when things start to turn around. The number → Continue reading “How to Set Up Your Website to Weather the Recession and Play the Internet Attrition Game”
Does Safari under Windows Render Pages Diferently than Safari Under Mac OS X?
The following is a set of composite screen shots that were generated to
answer the question: "Does Safari on Windows render pages the same way
that it renders pages on the Mac?".
My conclusion is that it does.
Click here to see the composite screen shots.
What I did was to take a screen shot of exactly the same web
page on a Windows XP machine running Safari 3.2.2 and a Mac running
3.2.1. I used pages that I knew → Continue reading “Does Safari under Windows Render Pages Diferently than Safari Under Mac OS X?”
CSS: Setting line-height on the body Tag Can Causes Un-Wanted Rendering Anomalies
If you have content on your site on which you want to set a custom line-height, doing so on the body tag can cause some unwanted side-effects and rendering anomalies in some browsers.
My suggestion would be to set the line height on the specific content container (div, span, ul, etc.).→ Continue reading “CSS: Setting line-height on the body Tag Can Causes Un-Wanted Rendering Anomalies”
How to run Safari 4 and Safari 3 on the same mac
Here is a link with information on how to run both Safari 3 and 4 on the same Mac.→ Continue reading “How to run Safari 4 and Safari 3 on the same mac”
Test Image for Tuning Pixel Clock and Phase on an LCD Monitor
If you have ever tried to get an LCD tuned just right when using a KVM switch you’ll know that the key is in the pixel clock and the phase settings.
Download and use the attached gif as a test image with which to tune your screen.
Make sure that it is being viewed at 100% (not scaled in your browser) and set your pixel clock so that the pattern is uniform across the screen. Set the phase such that → Continue reading “Test Image for Tuning Pixel Clock and Phase on an LCD Monitor”
Removing Extra Whitespace Between List Item Entries in IE
Using a CSS styled unordered list you can create a fairly sophisticated navigational bar with rollover states.
In IE6 and IE7 without some special consideration, you end up with spurious white space rendered between the list item.
Click here for and HTML example of the problem (you’ll need to be using IE 6 or IE 7).
Click here for an example of the fix and a detailed explanation of how to do it.→ Continue reading “Removing Extra Whitespace Between List Item Entries in IE”
VMWare: Fix for arrow and delete keys not working
Under VMWare Workstation 6.5 I noticed that the arrow keys no longer worked. After a bit of searching around I found the following:
Edit your "/etc/vmware/config" file and add:
xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 → Continue reading “VMWare: Fix for arrow and delete keys not working”
CRiSP Not Accepting a License Key
I have recently been introduced to CRiSP, an amazing text editor.
Also recently, I had Xwindows crash on me while I had a running instance of CRiSP. When I went to fire up CRiSP again it told me I was in demo mode and that I needed to get a license. I have a fully licensed copy
I e-mailed the nice folks at CRiSP and within a few hours they e-mailed me back with the fix.
rm -rf → Continue reading “CRiSP Not Accepting a License Key”