‘Mark as Scam’ for Gmail
Filed Under: Geek | no commentsAs a result of some emails my wife and I have received trying to run a scam against us while we try to sell Sammy's car, I started thinking how someone less tech-savvy may fall for the scam, and came up with an idea that might help reduce the likelihood of the scam succeeding - we've all heard if SPAM filters, how 'bout adding a SCAM filter to our email?
read onDefault sucks
Filed Under: Code, Geek | no commentsAs a geek, I very rarely leave things the way they come ... my Windows Mobile phone was heavily modified, I've altered just about every plugin for this wordpress journal, my old xbox runs XBMC, and all of my computers run customised software. I'm a geek. I don't settle for things as they are out-of-the-box. Out-of-the-box is configured for the masses. I try to set myself apart from the masses. So I tweak, customise, hack, and modify until I am left with something unique. Or, in the case of my windows mobile phone, a paper weight.
read onCSS only menus
Filed Under: Code, Geek | 1 commentI have seen a few examples of this before, but none of them have ever really worked perfectly for me - so I created my own, as seen on this site's drop downs. But then I was asked by my brother-in-law for some help doing something similar, but rather than use javascript, I stuck with CSS.
read onUbuntu Update Manager
Filed Under: Geek, Linux | no commentsDoes the new Update Manager in Ubuntu pop up more frequently than you'd like? If so, there is a simple solution to the problem.
read onCreating ‘mask layers’ using PHP GD
Filed Under: Code, Geek | 5 comments- Start with original image - $img
- Copy that image to a png - $copy
- Create a mask png image of the area you want in the circle/ellipse (a 'magicpink' image with a black shape on it, with black set to the colour of alpha transparency) - $mask
- Copy $mask over the top of $copy maintaining the Alpha transparency
- Change what you need to on $copy
- Copy $copy back over $img maintaining the Alpha transparency
Hosting Headaches
Filed Under: Geek, Hardware | 2 comments
I’m looking at buying a VPS through Linode as soon as my job situation stabilizes.
Not really looking forward to porting my entire catalogue of sites, but the fact I am working at taking copies of all my sites from my current host down to my development server (once I get my internet reconnected at home) should make it
read onTools of the Trade
Filed Under: Code, Geek, Software | 2 commentsAs a developer/designer I spend far too much time trying to reconcile the differences between the Firefox and IE rendering engines. I’ve picked up a few habits that make it less painful, but until there is a Firebug for IE, it’s still a long painful process.
I’ve been using Aptana Studio as my PHP IDE for a long time now, and would love for it to have some live CSS editing abilities similar to Firebug
read onPrevious Posts
Filed Under: General, Life | no commentsI’ve decided to restrict access to the more personal areas of this journal – this is because the content covered in those areas is more intimate and I don’t really want that sort of information available in the wild. I’ll be leaving the geek-centric posts open, at least the ones that provide useful information for others …
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read onStability and Flexibility
Filed Under: Linux | 3 commentsWell, I’ve been using Ubuntu 7.10 (64-bit) at work for almost a month now. Even though I was already pretty experienced with Ubuntu before this, I have learned a lot since installing it as my day-to-day operating system at work. I’ve learned about wine and wine-doors, adding printers (Fuji-Xerox DocuCentre II C2200), and network interoperability.
I’ve also learned that even though Ubuntu is an outstanding operating system, there are still somethings you will need either a
read onWhy run Ubuntu on a G4 Mac?
Filed Under: Linux | 3 commentsThe real question is why not?. Especially if the Mac only had OS 9.2 on it, and that won't run at all.
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