Archive for March, 2006

removing duplicates in the OSX “Open With” menu

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

For a while now I’ve noticed duplications in the context menu “Open With”. Not a major issue since all the duplicates work, just annoying in that it obviously makes the application list longer than it need be.
So finally today got around to looking for a solution. And the solution I found was at […]

css tricks

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Recently come across a couple of nifty CSS tricks that are worth sharing. All kudos to the authors for working these out.

nifty corners

Probably not unique, but here is a well-written article on how to add rounded corners to your HTML boxes without having to use images. The article shows a couple of […]

quote of the week

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing has unearthed a great quote from our company’s namesake: Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Isambard was commenting in reaction to a move at the time to establish regulations for bridge design:

In other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvements of tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices […]

wordpress customisation #3: no more justification

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

When you select the Kubrick theme in Wordpress, by default all text is justified. This means spacing between words is stretched to ensure the text lines up with its margins on both sides. For a variety of reasons (legibility, accesibility, etc) this is not a good thing. Hence one of the first […]