Monthly Archive for December, 2004

Shooting fireworks with your camera

Its that time of the year when people go snap happy, well a bit more snap happy than usual and for those that would be daring the chill/heat of the night to watch the sky light up this is what you may like to try out before you experiment on New Years Eve. A quick read of some of these articles would land you with some basic knowledge of what to do or be prepared with if you want to shoot quality fireworks. Have fun!

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Screen Grabbing on Mac OS

UPDATED 16th March 2006: Capture a Screencast with a Mac — tutorial on how to organise yourself before doing a screencast by Miraz Jordan.

Mac OS X comes with its own screen grabbing tool called Grab and it is fairly comprehensive but I needed something more powerful as I intend using this a whole lot more. On doing some quick searches I landed up here at Pure-mac with 26 applications to choose from. Holy Moly! Jeremy helped me pick the best one and I tell you this is one kick ass screen capture software. Wow!

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CSS podGuide on your iPod

Westciv, developers of the leading cross platform CSS Editor, Style Master, and long time supporters of web standards have released a special iPod edition of their renowned CSS Guide. Featuring a handy overview of CSS concepts, and in-depth information for every selector, property and @rule of CSS 2.1

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Firefox party tonight

Update: There wasn’t a very big turn out but all the same it was fun. It poured non-stop. We were at the Opera Bar for a while before proceeding on to Aqua. Thanks to all those that made an effort to turn up and show your support and appreciation to both WSG and Firefox. Head on over to Maxine’s Flickr for the photos from last night.

Just letting you know I may not live up to your expectations today! And if you are wondering why… I got off the bed at 9 this morning! And almost flew to work… totally forgetting that I’d to take my camera along… and right now its raining pretty hard! :( I am still looking forward to the usual WSG crowd if not more… and yes after I have pinched some photos off Maxine’s camera I will have ‘em here for you to ogle!

And for those interested in yesterday’s meeting at Wellington, NZ, here you go.

The Great Illusions

The search for the answers to life and its laws,
is rooted in everything, since effects have their cause.
It’s as easy as saying when words hit a wall,
they come back at the speaker like a red rubber ball.

The Great Illusions has always intrigued me, its been one of my favourites since I found it back in 2001 if I have that right. Everytime I read through the prose it seems to make a lot of sense.

TeamSite produces valid code

TeamSite is a CMS produced by Interwoven Inc. And an approximate listing says about 1000 clients across the globe use it for pushing content both within the local Intranets and different extranets worldwide. Most sites that talk about Content Management process and architecture like CMSwatch.com, www.cmsmatrix.org and Oscom hold TeamSite in high esteem. But I have always been skeptic about it because I haven’t seen a single site deliver clean, valid code! As a website developer, designer and website consultant I am very pedantic about valid, clean and semantically correct code. But my view about TeamSite changed since David, Ruth and I started working on building a Template for a website.

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