Sep
01
I love memrise. Not just as a concept or a webapp, but as a learning tool. I use it daily. But there are a few issues that I wish they would address that just haven’t been done yet, so I wrote a Greasemonkey script to fix them. The main thing this script does is eliminate [...]
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13
We all know how multiple backgrounds work, and they’re really neat. Recently I started thinking about being able to use a single image and transforms to simulate some of the multiple background effects. Specifically the one where you want to put the same image in all 4 corners of a div, but facing a different [...]
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04
Here in China the fact that some websites just are never available (e.g. facebook, youtube, twitter, google+, hulu, etc…) and some sites get blocked intermittently depending on what you’re searching for is a constant source of frustration for me. My typical day looks like this:
Read More»Feb
16
ZenPhoto is a pretty robust, but light weight photo gallery software. The front-end is pretty sparse, but the framework is excellent – meaning you can customize the layout in almost any way at the site, album, and image level without needing to hack the core source. One thing I needed to do was to change [...]
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26
Ever since I started using FireFox 4 Beta I’ve been wanting back my favorite plug-ins. Fortunately Firebug has their 1.7a that’s compatible, so that’s good, but GreaseMonkey seems to have been lacking (even with their nightlies). That’s too bad, but then I came across Scriptish by Erik Vold. It’s a great light-weight fork that cuts [...]
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