No sooner do we get WordPress 1.2.1 up and running across our many blogs … and now it is time for 1.2.2 … so here goes nothing. Only problem is that the post file needs manual correction for the image auth hack we use and like.
Paint Shop Pro 7 and 8 do a very poor job of creating rounded corners if you create a rounded rectangle. It has frustrated me to no end. Ironically PSP 6 made perfectly fine rounded corners. What gives? Fortunately I found this tip: how to round corners (it is a ways down in the tips). […]
Paint Shop Pro 7 and 8 do a very poor job of creating rounded corners if you create a rounded rectangle. It has frustrated me to no end. Ironically PSP 6 made perfectly fine rounded corners. What gives? Fortunately I found this tip: how to round corners (it is a ways down in the tips). […]
I’m always on the lookout for new ways to tweak CSS for design purposes. The more you can rely on CSS to drive layout, versus images, tables, etc. the faster your site is going to load and the more you’ll distinguish your site from others. Mandarin Design is one such site that is pushing the […]
This HP series of articles seeks to address WIFI Security. WIFI will grow increasingly popular and no doubt enable a whole new way of accessing information. Many are using wireless palms to get and send email on the fly already. Security should be part of any wireless users thought process at this point. This article […]
There is great pressure from local governments to tax internet connection services. Several states already tax broadband and/or DSL connection services. A prior ban on such taxes lapsed at the end of November, but President Bush last Friday signed a bill to extent that exemption from local taxation. They allowed states already charging a broadband […]
A reader on the notetab list asked for a clip to generate a list of words with a first letter capitalized (the rest of the word can be upper or lower cased so long as the first letter is capitalized). I tried a couple of versions that worked pretty well on my test files. Because […]
I found something interesting the other day … non-uppercase characters were testing positive for ^$IsUppercase. While you might presume only an uppercase character/string would test positive for this, it is actually testing to be sure there are no lower-case alphabetic characters. The opposite is also true with ^$IsLowercase testing for Not Uppercase. So you first […]
I wanted to see if ^$GetLinecount$ updates on the fly every time a line is deleted. It does as shown by the following clip: ; by don at htmlfixit.com ; this clip is to show that ; if you delete lines the ; variable ^$GetLinecount$ updates ; itself on the fly ;create file ^!Menu File/New […]
Blog is one of the “top ten” words being looked up and has been added to the dictionary. I am not sure if that is necessarily a good thing, and I am not sure the definition is even accurate at this point as many blogs are no longer simply personal (ours being a perfect example). […]
In the BBC breakfast new was some advice on how to deal with the latest scam in which a computer user’s Internet dialler is diverted to a premium rate or international number. Amongst the list of advice was to consider changing your web browser and that a popular new browser is Firefox, which is less […]
A reader on the YahooGroups Clips List was wondering how to open files in Irfanview via a NoteTab Clip. I proposed the following two solutions: