March 4, 2005. What’s in Your Menubar? is a fun topic over at hicksdesign, particularly for Mac geeks. Read more »
March 3, 2005. Bookmarklets (sometimes called Favelets) are just snippets of JavaScript that are stored in a bookmark. Click the bookmark and it runs a script, which can do a number of useful things. Below are a few that I use on a regular basis. In most browsers you can install these by simply dragging the link below to your bookmarks bar. Validate HTML Validates the HTML or XHTML for the page you’re… Read more »
March 1, 2005. I often find myself wondering how my sites will work on dial-up connections, and I’ve long been looking for a good way to simulate it in OS X. I recently came across the ip_relay Perl script by Gavin Stewart. It isn’t quite perfect; it seems to have problems with larger files in particular. I was streaming MP3s with it, and it would often cut out for long periods of time, not sending any data… Read more »
February 9, 2005. Far too often I see a site do something that just doesn’t make sense. Here are just a few of these blunders. Playing music automatically… and then playing a video without pausing it. It’s amazing how often I see this with Flash movie web sites. You go to the site and music starts playing. You click a button to play the trailer. A new window opens. The trailer starts playing… and the… Read more »
February 6, 2005. I decided the other day that it was time I bought Macromedia Studio MX 2004. So I headed over to Macromedia.com and went to their store, naturally. Their store is done entirely in Flash. It was, without a doubt, the worst online shopping experience I have ever had. The first thing that was painfully clear was how slow it was. Now I’ll admit I’m on a Mac, and I know quite well that the Mac… Read more »