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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Sam Rayner

Sam Rayner is an 18 year old web developer from Birmingham, UK. When he’s not pushing pixels or grumbling about IE Sam enjoys , sport, photography and writing about himself in third person. You can reach him at .

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MC’s Gravatar MC on Changing the Boot Camp Drive Icon
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The instructions to change the BootCamp icon are great. One problem, though. I followed the instructions EXACTLY as written, yet…
Amie’s Gravatar Amie on First Edition
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Yeah, I must agree with you. A little strange
Mr. hættetrøje’s Gravatar Mr. hættetrøje on Span-Free Gradient Text Effect
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Wow, this is cooool stuff :-) Thank you for sharing this great tutorial ;-)

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