I’ve just written a tutorial complete with demos showing how to use the CSS3 transition, transform and animation properties – find it here: CSS3 Transition, Transform and Animation Tutorial. Hopefully it’s useful/interesting – any comments/improvements let me know! It’s still a work in progress, so I’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks.
Forms in HTML have typically been pretty boring – input boxes and buttons with all validation performed by javascript. With the new HTML5 Forms module things have become a little more useful. As of May 2010, only bleeding edge browsers support this, Webkit Nightlies, Chrome Dev Channel builds and Opera. The HTML5 forms module started [...]
As you are surely aware, Microsoft ripped off Helvetica to create the Arial font. It’s not as nice, and doesn’t look nice on screen at all. The image below shows some of the differences. As you can see, the ends of each letter aren’t lined up properly, they are all at weird angles. Though Helvetica [...]
An interesting view into how students live today. I’m thinking that it depends what degree you study on how much work and classes you have to do – 3 hours of class + 2 hours work a day is much less than I did, and I only graduated last year! Also, noone brought laptops to [...]
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching! Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.
With the release of Microsoft’s Invite2Messenger, we can now get all our Facebook friends out of Facebook, and into our address books. Useful for finding your friends on other sites, as well as for emailing them! 1. Go to: https://www.invite2messenger.net. If you get a warning about the security certificate, just allow it. 2. Choose Facebook [...]
Icons exist for the following programs that are no included on the Eee – perhaps these were planned for inclusion at one point. Find these at /opt/xandros/AsusLauncher. Use ls | grep iptv in that folder to find the filename for iptv for instance. iptv kturtle kvisio openarena planner skool splashtop supermario xterm music store googleearth [...]
Pageflakes is a customizable start page that allows you to add small widgets or flakes that can display custom content. They have recently launched a prepopulated page designed for teachers. Default layout of the Teacher’s Pageflakes page The default items on the page include a teaching timetable, a calendar, email, online file storage, some [...]
Ever wanted to draw a picture of what you want? Try Retrievr, it lets you draw a quick image, and in real time searches for images on flickr that look like your sketch. Really quite amazing – no idea how it works, but it’s good!
As reported by the BBC, Yahoo have reached a deal with Adobe that allows them to place adverts in a panel inside Adobe Reader. This is the first time that Adobe have allowed dynamic adverts inside their software. Luckily, there is a myriad of alternatives now that the PDF format has been opened including: For [...]