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Foxy fonts of the future

Mark Thursday, 22nd October, 2009

Any web developer who’s ever tried to introduce an old-school graphic designer to the ins and outs of web design will know how easy it is to make their brain melt and trickle out of their ears. One of the …

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Where are the Firefox GPS add-ons?

Mark Thursday, 20th August, 2009Thursday, 20th August, 2009 7 Comments

Firefox 3.5 has been out for a few weeks now, and amongst all the exciting new features is an API for geolocation. In theory this means that a website can ask the browser where you are, and you then get …

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Apple, my Chumby thanks you

Mark Wednesday, 12th August, 2009Wednesday, 12th August, 2009

In the past few posts I’ve praised my little Chumby and the small but fascinating distractions it provides throughout the day, but although it’s a great device, it’s not perfect. First there’s the price. It’s expensive. $199 to the yanks, …

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Chumby: An art gallery on my desktop

Mark Monday, 10th August, 2009Tuesday, 1st May, 2012

I love wandering round art galleries – but I don’t really like the way most of them are organised. Most galleries take the “museum” approach of labelling and categorising. All the Old Masters are over in that wing, separated into …

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Chumby

Mark Monday, 3rd August, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Chumby – I bought it secondhand, but it had all the original packaging. A Chumby is essentially a small internet-connected touchscreen and speakers. Yes, there’s more to it than that, but that’s …

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Toning down drop shadows in Firefox 3.5

Mark Monday, 6th July, 2009Monday, 6th July, 2009

One of the new additions to Firefox 3.5 is support for the CSS3 “text-shadow” rule as a means to add drop shadows to text. Ideally this would be used to add subtle shadows and glowing halos – but like any …

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Firefox 3.5

Mark Wednesday, 1st July, 2009Wednesday, 1st July, 2009 3 Comments

Firefox 3.5 was officially released yesterday. If you’re already running Firefox 3 you should get prompted to upgrade in the next few days – but if you want to expedite matters you can choose “Check for Updates…” from the Help …

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Yet again Microsoft miss the point

Mark Thursday, 18th June, 2009Friday, 19th June, 2009

I can easily write a web page using standard HTML and CSS and have it display correctly on every major web browser… except Internet Explorer. I can even throw in some advanced code in the form of SVG, canvas and …

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Another one to try

Mark Thursday, 11th June, 2009

It seems that every man and his dog is bringing out a netbook OS of some description. Jolicloud another that looks interesting – it appears to be a Linux-based OS with a netbook optimised UI. From their “First Look” screens, …

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Why is there no AND for regular expressions?

Mark Thursday, 31st July, 2008Thursday, 31st July, 2008

Here’s a Javascript regular expression which will match a string which contains at least one lower case letter: /[a-z]/ And another which will match a string with at least one upper case character: /[A-Z]/ I can even stick these together …

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