Odds and Ends

Unfortunately, I had a feverishly busy week, so I wasn’t able to post, but the carnival must go on.

Continue reading The Tech Blog Carnival for July 12th

Welcome to the July 5, 2007 edition of the tech-blog carnival. If you publish a tech oriented blog or online magazine, submit your articles and become part of the community. Continue reading to view the entries.

Continue reading The Tech-Blog Carnival: July 5th Edition

I have 6 Pownce invites for the few people who havn’t gotten in so far. If you’d like one, drop a comment below.

Earlier today I was playing a game of Band of Bugs on Xbox Live Arcade. It’s a fun and addicting game, but there is no shortage of dialogue that you have to “hit A” through before, after, and even during a level. Yet it is possible to scan through the dialogue and still learn what they’re trying to teach you or what you’re supposed to do, because of the way the designers emphasized important words in the speech bubbles. They change the color of the text, and I thought that a slight modification would make an excellent idea for the web. Instead of changing text color, I propose slightly changing the background to emphasize the words more.

Because so many people scan web pages instead of reading them, wouldn’t it be great if all the most important terms or points in an article were highlighted? Yes, I know some websites/blogs already do this. I just wish the idea to get around and see where people go with it. Hit read the rest of this entry if you’d like to see some example markup to make this possible, as well as how to modify the Wordpress Visual Editor to display a background color button.

Continue reading Highlighting- Improving Scan-ability

After my last post about using the <code> element along with entities for > and < to display HTML or PHP on your blog, and setting out to better style the <code> element on this site, I wondered how others were styling the <code> element. So I thought I'd take a look at how Nyssa Brown, Andrew Nesbitt of Teabass, Veerle, Dan Cederhold of SimpleBits fame, Jonathan Snook(of Snook.ca), and Steve Smith(from Ordered List) style their code blocks.

Continue reading Make The Code in Your Blog Posts Look Great

This is a great tip if you write HTML and PHP tutorials on your blog. You know that if you try to simply show your readers the code by typing it in, it will be parsed and outputted as normal HTML, and rendered by the browser. Here’s how to fix this, and be able to display code that your viewers can read and even copy. Continue reading How to Properly Write Code in Your Blog Posts

If you’re running Windows or OSX. You can have your PDF documents read to you instead of reading them when using Adobe Acrobat Reader to open them.  Continue reading Listen To Your PDF’s

For many, including me, productivity is massively dampened when around the computer. Here are 15 ways to be more productive around your computer, in no particular order. Continue reading 15 Productivity Tips For Working Near Your Computer

This is meant to be an update to the many articles out there on which applications new mac users should download or buy. All sections here assume you are running OSX Tiger on Intel, but if you search for the applications’ websites you will probably find a panther version too (or at least a powerpc for Tiger version). Here we go! Continue reading 12 Apps Every Mac User Should Download

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