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Posts from January 2008
- Flying Visits with Boot Camp: Using the iSight Mic in XP
- A quick tip on toggling microphone boost so you can use your Mac’s built-in iSight mic in XP. The second in a series on reducing your time spent in Windows.
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- Posted: Jan 28, 08
- In: Windows
- 1 Comment
- Span-Free Gradient Text Effect
- A slightly cleaner method of achieving Nick La’s gradient text effect, removing the need for extra markup whilst unfortunately sacrificing support for Internet Explorer.
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- Posted: Jan 17, 08
- In: CSS
- 15 Comments
- Flying Visits with Boot Camp: The Switcheroo
- The first in a series of posts on minimising your time spent in Windows doing those things you just can’t do in OS X. Part 1 covers quickly switching operating systems with AppleScript.
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- Posted: Jan 12, 08
- In: Windows
- 6 Comments
- Building a Better Blocklist
- An explanation of an improved technique for creating link lists with large clickable areas, like the Quicklinks section of this site. View the demo.
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- Posted: Jan 5, 08
- In: Sandbox
- 3 Comments
- Top 5 Lesser Known Web Apps
- A list of 5 of my favourite Web apps you might not have heard of, hopefully to be joined by more in the comments. The services range from file hosting and conversion to collaborative drawing and meeting organisation.
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- Posted: Jan 1, 08
- In: Web General
- 5 Comments
- First Edition
- Unfortunately, sale of a printed version of this post is unlikely to fetch you much at auction. That is, unless you happen to discover the meaning of life through analysis of its sentence structure. In which case, I claim joint credit and 50% of all resulting profit.
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- Posted: Jan 1, 08
- In: Site News
- 9 Comments











