AA meltdown

August 3rd, 2009

Tags: battery, leak, minidisc
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Let this be a les­son to you. Do not store elec­tron­ics with the bat­tery inside.

My mini­disc recorder had a bat­tery leak and now it is broken.

If you plan on stor­ing some­thing for a while, remove the bat­tery before plac­ing in storage.

RTFM, my friends. RTFM. And, also, fol­low your own advice.

DJ support

June 18th, 2009

Tags: dj mumbler
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Bronta Scor­pio, from dubstepforum.com, has included my track "World­wide" in a mix!

Dub­step­fo­rum Under­ground Pro­duc­ers Mix by Bronta Scor­pio
http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1221461&highlight=#1221461

PNG-8 with alpha transparency

April 30th, 2009

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I learned a new web trick today.

Appar­ently, Photoshop's inabil­ity to save PNG-8 with alpha trans­parency is not a lim­i­ta­tion of PNG-8 but a lim­i­ta­tion in Photoshop.

For years, I have been oper­at­ing under the assump­tion that I need to use PNG-24 to achieve trans­parency effects in my web projects. This is usu­ally a com­pro­mise in terms of file size and browser com­pat­i­bil­ity (requir­ing ie-specific hacks). But it doesn't have to be…

[Enter Fire­works]

Fire­works to the rescue:

• Open your big Photoshop-exported PNG-24 with nice alpha trans­parency in Fireworks.
• Change the file for­mat to PNG-8.
• Change the trans­parency option to "alpha transparency"
• Rebuild and export your PNG-8
• Revel in the MUCH smaller file size

Bonus points for ie6 compatibility!

Learned this from Brenelz's screen­cast which was linked on Net­Tuts

Internet Explorer image resizing tip

March 17th, 2009

Tags: css, ie
Posted in code | 1 Comment »

Who knew?

Though it's not best prac­tice to resize images in the browser this could really be use­ful in the right situation:

 
img { -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; }
 

This lit­tle snip­pet will vastly improve the image resiz­ing abil­i­ties of ie — bring­ing it closer to the resized image qual­ity expe­ri­enced with Fire­fox or Safari.

exam­ple

[seen at devthought via css-tricks]

TivoSlimserverClient support forum

February 5th, 2009

Tags: Tivo, TivoSlimserverClient
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Even though it has been a very, very long time since I updated TivoSlim­server­Client it seems that there are peo­ple who are still dis­cov­er­ing it and using it.

Though I am usu­ally happy to respond to email or blog com­ment ques­tions, I think it may be more ben­e­fi­cial to all users to bring the dis­cus­sion into the open.

I am pleased to announce that I have just opened the TivoSlim­server­Client forums.

So please feel free to ask ques­tions there, and hope­fully I will get to you soon. Or even bet­ter — some help­ful fel­low user might see fit to answer your ques­tion for me.

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