The Arcade Fire have made another entry into the history books. This time not for being the biggest Internationally recognized Canadian recording act since Celine Dion, but for making the most innovative music video since The Buggles launched MTV in 1981. Why is it so important? Because this music video is tailor-made for me.
Google announces the release of a direct competition to Skype’s web-to-phone service, Google Talk. with free calls to USA and Canada for the rest of 2010. Currently, when a call is made a charge of 10 cents appears next to your call history. My hope is that will be erased at the end of 2010, and I will no long be able to make calls until I have purchased credits to continue to make long distance calls at low rates.
I was migrating a website containing about 100 links to pdfs on one page. I didn’t have access to the old site’s ftp so I needed a utility to speed up the process, instead of right-clicking on each file and saving the link manually.
http://www.downthemall.net/
I found a link to this on a very handy utilities list [...]
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.
If you have any experience laying out websites in CSS, you know that browsers can be tricky and that layouts don’t always go as smoothly as you’re photoshop document dictates. I began working with grids a few years ago when I was involved in the Toronto SUN redesign. If you visit the site, you can [...]
If you need to change content on your website in the future, and are running your page on an Apache web server, you can use Apache if statements to set up timed deployments based on the server time.
An example of how this can be handy is if you want to serve one include and then, [...]
Sometimes you are given a haystack and taxes with producing the needle. In programming language, this calls for Regular Expression!
A Regular Expression works wonders if you know how to write them! Good news, looking for a match in a huge document can be as easy as knowing what you want to achieve and using these [...]
Q: Hi Meaghan,
I’m wondering if you can offer me any advice, seeing as you know about computery things: yesterday, someone hacked into my ebay account and used my paypal to purchase a $750 cellphone. Luckily I got the email notifaction of the purchase in time, and went to my bank and blocked the transaction before [...]
A quick online tool to quickly access and copy special characters
http://www.copypastecharacter.com/
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Have you been getting random MSN messages from friends that invite you to click a link that asks for your personal log-in information, or other valued tidbits, like your cell phone number?
Don’t click them!
A fresh wave of spam messages related to the website covered here have started popping up on MSN Messenger clients. [...]