2 down, 11 more to go (2)

Posted May 10th, 2008 in Mac Geekery

Speed Racer: Visually stimulating, has an odd cast. Go with low expectations and you’ll have a blast.

Didn’t grow up with Iron Man but I’m a huge fan now.

Still to come this summer: Batman, Hulk, Narnia, Clone Wars, Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda, Get Smart, Love Guru, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan and Wall-E. That’s a lot of tickets.

Under Construction Redux (4)

Posted May 9th, 2008 in Web
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Be Right Back Page

 

View my “Be Right Back” page

Enough of this blank “Be Right Back” pages we usually throw together when we need to do website updates. It is time for a nicer, more web 2.0 savvy under construction. Next time I do an update to WordPress, I’ll be replacing my index.php file with this one, and then switch back when all is ready to go.

Here’s what I have:

1. Links to my other web sites and web services.

2. Flickr gallery via the flickr.com’s Make a Badge tool

3. Twitter updates via twitter.com’s Make a Badge tool

4. Last.fm gallery via Jeroen’s Last.fm Records standalone version which grabs images from amazon.com. I actually copied the whole script and included it in the PHP file so that it is not dependent in other files. I also disabled album art caching since this page is really going to be up for a few minutes. If you are going to use it for longer, then you should consider enabling caching the images. Consult the original script for more info on this.

To do this yourself:

1. Download my “Be Right Back”. Note, PHP 5 is required for the Last.fm portion to work. 

2. Open it in a file editor and change the following items:

  • The page title
  • The site links should point to your of course
  • The Flickr user number in the Flickr javascript link. It might be best to create your own Flickr badge, grab the javascript and replace this one.
  • The Twitter username in the javascript url.
  • The last.fm username in the PHP code, right after $lfm->username.
  • The footer info.
That’s all, it would be great if soe of you designer do some other designs and start posting them to share.

Multiple Language Spellchecking (3)

Posted May 8th, 2008 in Mac Geekery
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Multiple Languages is a feature in Leopard most people don’t know about. Having access to this is great but it can be rather tedious  to switch your spellchecker back and forth between multiple languages. Leopard introduced a Multilingual feature that makes the spellchecker check against multiple languages instead of just one.

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