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Monday, 26 May 2008
As most of you Firefox users are probably aware, the latest version has a built-in spell checker which is really useful in web forms. But if you prefer a proper spell checker (rather than the default American one), you should download the Australian Dictionary extension from Cameron Roy instead.
Monday, 5 May 2008
Recently, I needed to write some documentation for a web application and I needed a way to create screenshots of web pages which are longer than one screen.
While there are several shareware applications which can do this, I stumbled on a Firefox extension which does exactly this in such a simple and elegant way.
Screengrab allows you to grab a screenshot with a simple right-click of a mouse. You can grab the complete page, visible portion or your own custom selection, and copy it to your clipboard or save it as an image file.
Saturday, 28 July 2007
A small sample of American wit and humour from the folks behind Project Gutenberg, the largest single collection of free electronic books on the planet:
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Calamity: A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and fool’s excuse for failure.
Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Liberty: One of imagination’s most precious possessions.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Tariff: A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Truce: Friendship.
Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
While you’re at it, check out the Top 100 as well.
Thursday, 8 March 2007
I still occasionally get asked by prospects if I can help them build a website on a sub $500 budget. These days I just tell them to ask their favourite nephew (who dabbles in HTML) to start right here:
With over 2000 free template designs to choose from, there’s bound to be something they, and their favourite nephew (who dabbles in HTML) will both like. And I won’t have to put up with endless revisions, chronic complaints, requests for freebies, unreasonable demands and futile explanations.
Saturday, 3 February 2007
I have created a lightweight XML template for those of you using the Simpleton Image Gallery in conjunction with Picasa.
Download the Simpleton Template archive and unzip in into your Picasa “web templates” folder, usually:
c:\program files\picasa2\web\templates\
To export your images from Picasa into Simpleton, click “Folder > Export as HTML page…” and choose “Simpleton XML Code”. Then just upload into the Simpleton “content” directory, using your favourite FTP client.
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