February 2006 Archives

This short essay is intended to give a brief introduction to Buddhism. It will discuss the way Buddhists perceive the world, the four main teachings of the Buddha, the Buddhist view of the self, the relationship between this self and the various ways in w

Garcia does advocate clear navigation tools, legible type, order and continuity in regular features and, finally, an attractive look.

A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. Whenever you wanted Internet access, you wouldn't have to hunt for a wireless coffee shop or pay $24 a night to your hotel.

I've changed ParticleTree's lightbox functionality to allow the use of inline div's instead of AJAX calls. Very often I find that I want the data in the lightbox to be indexable by search engines and visible to people with screenreaders etc. This adaptati

Motorcycle Photographer

List of freely available windows software. NOT SHAREWARE.

Fred Langa offers a step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive.

Unipage™ is a way to store a complete web page as just one file that you can directly view in a browser. All of the page's images, styling, and even functionality are kept together instead of being scattered in separate files.

FullSync is a universal file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. It is especially for developers, but the basic functionality is easy enough for everyone.

Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things).

This guide will attempt to take you step by step, through the process of creating a fully functioning CSS layout. I will try my best to explain the concepts behind each step, but a lot of the time other people have already covered these things better than

Open Source Trouble Ticket System for Small & Medium Sized Businesses

parabola is a browser based news feed aggregator. It is written using Ruby on Rails and uses the quite excellent FeedTools module for all the parsing of feeds.

Absolutely not! But it does mean that few games are going to hit all 9 of these high notes, and that’s okay. Every game you run should be a learning experience — these are lessons, but they’re also goals.

This is basically an Ubuntu liveCD that has been pimped out for rails/ruby developers.

Flickr photos is a plugin that enables you to display thumbnail links of Flickr photos in your Movable Type blog. Flickr Photos focuses on displaying lists of photos, in many possibl

This is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.

The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of

Excerpts from the book, discussions and new patterns

This collection consists of user interface design patterns (interaction patterns) that seems to be recuring problems when trying to make design based on the user’s goals. These design patterns have been analyzed during the past five years by going throu

What writing tips would you whisper to those who aren't aspiring professionals, but would like to write better? If I asked you about losing weight and you said "Diet and Exercise" you'd be a) correct and b) ignored. So no ideas that take work. We want the

The ASP cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing various of the oft-forgotten parts of ASP / VBScript.

This year, I'm learning Ruby and Rails in an effort to keep my mind wrapped around newer technologies. My first major Ruby project was to write an import script to move my content from MovableType to .Text. This article documents the process and results.

This collection of geomorphs were published in TSR's Lankhmar: City Of Adventure accessory. I also hope to add geomorphs from two other Lankhmar packages Rogues In Lankhmar and Cutthroats Of Lankhmar when I have time. Also some form of random town or city

These maps have been created using ProFantasy's Campaign Cartographer suite of programs. They are based on the Mystara D&D setting published by TSR where the copyright resides. The maps have been published here as an aid to adventurers and Dungeon Masters

Light gun for CRT and LCD

Welcome to HTML Executable, the powerful HTML compiler that turns an entire website into a single executable file also known as ebook.

The Pricelessware list is a compilation of software collected through a yearly vote by the participants of the "alt.comp.freeware" newsgroup. It is a list of what people have voted as "the best of the best in Freeware".

The Face Transformer is a fun toy only, and is not guaranteed fit for any purpose, implied or otherwise. The Perception Laboratory and the University of St Andrews accepts no responsibility for loss or damage incured while using this software.

You've heard the buzz about the seperation of style from content, but you are stuck in the world of nested tables and deprecated markup. If so, you have come to the right place! Using CSS to style your (X)HTML files, will benefit you and your visitors in

Particle Tree posted an article the other day on how to modify the Lightbox javascript to work with regular divs and not just images. A few days before that article went up, I had the same bit of inspiration for Wayfaring:

Clearbits is a small spinoff of the Bitcons icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing. The icon design is exactly the same, the only thing missing is a background - allowing you to set it to any color you so desire.

Bitcons is a mini-pixel icon set (16×16 pixels) containing 91 121 individual icons for various subjects. Each pixel for every icon was placed with love and tenderness. Bitcons is intended to be a very hypo-styled icon set; allowing for broad use for desi

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.

I’ve extended ActiveRecord so that if you have created_by or updated_by fields in your database tables, then they will automatically be populated with the ID of the current logged in user.

Page with all the HTML you might be styling

Home of Motorcycle, Hot Rod, & How To Books, Calendars and Videos

Grabbr is a small application to smooth the task of uploading screenshots to Flickr.

“What is your design philosophy?”

Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.

This topic introduces the Microsoft Feeds API, an application programming interface (API) that developers can use to manipulate the Common Feed List, the set of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to which the user is subscribed. This topic groups prope

What goes on in the brain during attraction, bonding

This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP s

Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies, how to guides and examples

HTML and CSS, two of our favorite acronyms, are normally associated with web pages. And deservedly so: HTML is the dominant document format on the web and CSS is used to style most HTML pages. But, are they suitable for off-screen use? Can CSS be used for

So—here’s my series of Getting Things Done desktop backgrounds, available in a variety of sizes to fit your screen resolution.

Wholesale T-Shirts - Made in Los Angeles

Cyclemo's Vintage Motorclothes is the world's largest supplier of vintage motorcycle patches and riding apparel.

If you use iCal to manage your tasks, and particularly if you favor the keyboard over the mouse, you've probably noticed how many steps it takes to create a To Do. Zoodo changes that:

Seagull is an object oriented framework written in PHP that focuses on best practices, clean code and reusable components. The core libraries are free for you to use in your own projects and a number of modules developed by the community are also availabl

I've been experimenting with a 'magazine contents' or news style page for a current project and thought I'd give it a whirl here.

Zerospan is a free application for Mac OS X that can "bridge" any two computers via Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous or Bonjour), allowing you to access iTunes, file sharing, SSH, and more.

Download 386 free user-contributed AppleScripts for Apple's iTunes that will make maintaining your digital music collection easier and more fun!

Based on the "Smart Radio" playlist idea here, the (non-existing) ultimate iTunes script described here and using this script as a starting point, I decided to roll my own ultra-smart iTunes personal radio.

Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.

This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age of 37 (same age as Rossini when he retired).