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deusx : Play Rhythm Games using any MIDI Instrument - "wouldn't it be great to be able to play Guitar Hero on the drums?"
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deusx : Moka Pot Stove (INeedCoffee.com) - "I found a solution at ZENSTOVES.COM which describes a number of options for making alcohol stoves yourself out of recyclable and readily available materials. ... The small stove has been modified slightly make it specific for brewing. A stove made f
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deusx : MAKE: Blog: The Visible Hand - "The DIY mindset celebrated in this magazine must again become an essential life skill, rooted once again in necessity and practicality. Our future security lies in knowing what we’re capable of creating, and how we can adapt to change by being res
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philgyford : Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs - Handy summary of several CSS frameworks, pros and cons. (via Infovore)
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wearehugh : The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » The Road to HTML 5 - Episode 1: the section element
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20 days ago
Milo Vermeulen : Oldskooler Ramblings - The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind [via]
deusx : The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings - "The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is
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wearehugh : For and against standardizing font embedding
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wearehugh : typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
Andy Baio : Typeface.js, rendering Truetype fonts with Javascript, Canvas, and VML - awesome hack lets you deliver custom fonts on the web without Flash; works on the iPhone, too [via]
Rod Begbie : typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML - Amazingly clever piece of hackery. Embed fonts seamlessly in your pages in a manner that works with all released major browsers (including iPhone), but degrades gracefully. Need to do some playing with this… [via] #
Simon Willison : typeface.js - typeface.js. Outstanding hack—renders custom fonts using VML in IE and canvas in everything else, using fonts that are defined as a set of vector paths stored using JSON.
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Richard Rutter : Firefox 3.1 beta supports font embedding - TrueType and OpenType. Sweeeeeeet!.
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wearehugh : CSSHttpRequest - Hacks - nb.io - deliciously evil
Simon Willison : CSSHttpRequest - CSSHttpRequest. Devious cross-domain Ajax hack that uses CSS for transport (@import rules with data URIs, but it still works in IE). Similar to JSONP but safer, since JSONP can cause arbitrary JavaScript to execute. [via]
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deusx : Eric's Archived Thoughts: JavaScript Will Save Us All - "we’re all vendors now, baby!"
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Simon Willison : Conditional classnames - Conditional classnames. Yahoo!’s internal coding standards still recommend CSS hacks over conditional comments because a separate stylesheet for IE imposes an additional HTTP request. Paul Hammond points out that you can use conditional comments to wr
Eric Meyer : Conditional classnames - True 'nough.
deusx : paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames - "If you use this HTML: <!--[if IE ]> <body class="ie"> <![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]>--> <body> <!--<![endif]--> with CSS that looks something like: div.foo { color: inherit; } .ie div.foo {
philgyford : Paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames - An easy way to apply Internet Explorer CSS hacks. So simple that, in retrospect, it's hard to believe no one's thought of it before. Smashing.
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wearehugh : Web Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 3.1 beta 1 - an overview of features for web developers
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1 month ago
deusx : Step By Step: Set Up Universal Ad Blocking Through Your Router - "If you've turned your $60 router into a user-friendly super-router with open-source firmware Tomato, you already know that Tomato can boost your Wi-Fi signal, track bandwidth usage, and set Quality of Service rules with ease. But if you're
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1 month ago
jonhicks : NealGrosskopf.com l CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer
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2 month ago
deusx : Hidden USB Storage - "If you're like me, you may or may not have secret files plotting world domination and other devious deeds. These files obviously need to be hidden from the prying eyes of sisters, FBI agents, grandparents, etc. We are going to convert a phone j
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2 month ago
jonhicks : Automatic numbering with CSS Counters - Opera Developer Community
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2 month ago
Richard Rutter : CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS - Barcamp talk from Clearleft’s very own Natalie Downe.
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2 month ago
jonhicks : Hiding CSS from IE6 - Mr Clayson has found a way of hiding CSS from IE6, I've been looking for a good solution for a while, and this is it!
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2 month ago
dbow : Time to stop showing clients static design visuals
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2 month ago
deusx : Nihilogic: Sandbag text wrapping with Canvas - "With CSS you can make text wrap around an image using the float property and for most purposes this is quite adequate. However, it doesn't take into account the actual image and treats it as one big block, even if you'd prefer the text to
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3 month ago
deusx : Core77.com :: View topic - corrugate iPhone document scanner - free template! - "When I got my iPhone last year I loved having everything important in one place, and the ability to get rid of unneccesary devices, documents and information i kept with me. I would frequently snap photos of class assignments printed on copy paper s
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3 month ago
deusx : DOOM for Intellivision - "I finally got around to porting the freely available DOOM source code to the Intellivision. I will be posting the source code for the Intellivision version soon. The ROM image, weighing in at 32K words, is probably the largest cartridge ROM image ou
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3 month ago
deusx : Netcat Tar Pipe - "So you have gigs of data to transfer between two machines over ethernet. A nice quick and dirty method is to use netcat and tar. This is by no means secure, but if you haven't got the time or desire to setup NFS, FTPd, Samba. Or wait hours for
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