If you are at all like me, and i suspect someone is, you will use software on systems it wasn’t designed for. I use Irssi for chatting, on windows, due to its supereor functionality to many other clients. Unfortunately, a side effect of using software on systems it wasn’t designed for is having to use a series of workarounds to make it function. I had fixed most everything with Irssi, except for UTF-8 rendering. I fixed that today.
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This is a feature that is found in SMF, and a lot of MyBB users I know have asked about a similar feature. While this is not a simple preference pane value, it is easy to set up, and anyone should be able to do so.
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Every modern browser has a text finding feature, and today, i stumbled across the one in Chrome. When you press Ctrl+F, a little find box slides down in the upper right hand corner. As you type, results are highlited. This is nothing new. What is new is on the scroll bar, chrome adds bands of color for areas with search results. The only other place i have ever seen this is in Merge/Diff tools, and i absolutely love it.
There are many tutorials, downloads, and other tricks on the internet for getting Google Chrome on a USB Stick or Thumbdrive, but there is a much simpler solution. Download a nightly binary. Google offers these up for download, just click on the folder with the highest number, and then download the included zip file. If its buggy, go back one number. These are direct from the horses mouth, and by downloading these binaries, you might actually get a feature or 2 that aren’t in other downloads[1. This is only speculation. In all probability, these will get more features as development goes on.]
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
CSS3 includes a useful new property called Resize. This allows a developer to specify any block element in their site as resizeable, and the users of said site to be able to resize it, either by grippy handles in a corner, or by expanding the edges via cursors. Another useful trick of css is how to control these resizings, as you don’t want users to blow up the comment box to take over your site[1. A user's resize settings are NOT saved (as of current browser technology), and do not affect other users. Every time a page is reloaded, the elements return to their normal size, unless you implement some other method to remember the settings.], or shrink it down to where they don’t know where it is.
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Google chrome was released today, and i have been using it for a while now. It is different than most other browsers, but almost all the changes are good. It is speedy, clean, well built, and doesn’t crash. They seem to be missing a few things, but for beta software, its incredibly complete.
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Google has announced that it will be releasing a browser tomorrow, for beta testing. Named Google Crome (likely a beta name), it will mix elements from Webkit and Firefox, as well as a new javascript engine, and other google technologies.
Each tab will be isolated in its own “sandbox”, so one crashing tab doesn’t bring down your whole browser.
Read more at Google Blog: Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser.
Facebook is great. It lets you share things with your friends, and does a good job by doing so. One problem is that many people have fairly boring profile pages. Usually they have one or 2 annoying apps, and nothing that is actually useful. There is a way you can integrate the various services you have an account on into your facebook, to make your page truly say who you are.
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Following my review of the new Facebook design (New Facebook design review), I am writing a review of the new DeviantArt design. The new design is quite pretty, it improves areas that needed improvement drastically over v5, such as the message center and other areas of the site still using the v4 theme.
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Facebook is launching a new design, one that has been in development for several months. Some people may already have it, others may not. But either way, if you have a facebook account, you need to know the ins, outs, changes, bugs and other things that the new design brings.
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