I’ve been stumbling around for new stuff to use in the world of webmastery this morning and stumbled across this rather useful tool.
A few weeks ago I attended PHPNW along with some guys from work, one of the talks at the end of the day was by a Microsoft guy who was trying to flog their latest set of tools, Expression Studio. One of the tools he wanted to demo was a browser preview tool – of course, in typical demo fashion, it failed to load the page.
Adobe Browser Labs (free at the moment with a free registration) allows you to preview websites across several popular browsers (including the dreaded IE6) without having to install anything, it all works in the comfort of your preferred browser using Flash.
What makes it so cool is the fact it has 2 great features, 1) side by side view of two different browsers and 2) “onion skin” mode – browsers overlayed so you can see the difference between two browsers per pixel. This gives immediate feedback as to how good your site works across browsers if you’ve been focused on one browser so far.
All in all, a great tool from Adobe that beats the pants off Microsoft’s tool (which isn’t free as far as I know.)
I’m an avid Final Fantasy fan and am really looking forward to the upcoming FF games, both the online and the regular RPG games. One thing Square Enix never fails to deliver on is graphical quality – and for anyone who knows me and games, they’ll know my main pull to a new game is how good it looks, story comes second (yes, really.) The latest screenshots for FFXIII look impressive as always and I can’t wait to get my hands on this game.
It’s almost Halloween and that means costumes, however one parent seriously needs to re-think their childs costume, a fuzzy monster with a penis and single testicle isn’t going to go down well with a lot of parents I’m pretty sure!
I’ve just finished writing version one of my link checker tool and have now launched it on my site. The tool will parse a given URL, extract all links on that page that point to the same domain and follow them, and keep doing that until it’s finished. It will then show you the results of the crawl (page details), along with any 404’s and redirects it encountered on the way.
Of course there are limits (which I don’t intend to expose), and you’ll know if you hit them as the app will fail. They’re pretty high though and I will leave them that way so long as the tool isn’t abused. Every use is tracked so if you abuse it, I’ll know! In the mean time, I hope some of you find it useful. And if you fancy helping me out by checking out the Google Ads, that’d be appreciated )
Today is officially the launch of Windows 7 to the general public, people are no doubt throwing their Windows 7 parties everywhere, it’s a day of rejoicing and celebrations, a day to remember those that came before it and hastily forget them again, etc. etc.
The Japanese have decided the only way to celebrate the launch of Windows 7 is to, create a burger (this is a line you’d expect to begin with “The Americans”.) Like many a fast food burger before it, this is heart attack in a bun, and yet I can’t help but wonder if it tastes good. In all fairness though, this is Burger King in Japan so it’s pretty American.
There’s never a free toilet available when you’re in a rush, well not anymore! Except maybe the chinese would not be best pleased if you attempted to use this centre-piece as a pit stop. Created for a ceramics festival, it’s a different idea, but I really don’t like that blue toilet.
According to a post at NewScientist, bird flu (avian flu) is actually an STD – at least, it is in ducks. While not completely confirmed yet, it is believed to be the case. Although unlike humans, the more promiscuous the duck, the less likely it is to become infected (wha?); apparently “…It’s all to do with penis size and the complexity of the females’ vagina…”
When the researchers compared data on the prevalence of low-pathogenic bird flu strains in different duck species with what is known about the anatomy of duc
k reproductive parts and mating behaviour, they found that ducks with the smallest penises and tamest sex lives had the highest flu levels.
“This is intriguing and a bit counter-intuitive because a long phallus prolongs copulation, and forced copulations characteristic to species with a large phallus should further promote virus transfer,” says Hegyi.
I can’t help but feel humans got the short stick (pun intended) when it comes to STD’s!
It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays, a study co-author says.
The scientists even demonstrated that the X-rays were bright enough to take an X-ray of a finger.
Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, reports the work with UCLA colleagues in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking.
In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.
That’s where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.
It occured to me when I posted about Peerblock that I neglected to post about a very useful site in regards to it’s use; that site is I-BlockList. It’s a really simple site with some of the most popular services IP ranges there so you can be sure you’re blocking (or allowing) specific things through. For example I play games on Steam and there is a Steam list so I can access the services.
So head on over to the site and grab your block lists, whether you use Peerblock or Peerguardian or any other software that supports the lists for that matter!
What makes it so cool is the fact it has 2 great features, 1) side by side view of two different browsers and 2) “onion skin” mode – browsers overlayed so you can see the difference between two browsers per pixel. This gives immediate feedback as to how good your site works across browsers if you’ve been focused on one browser so far.
It’s almost Halloween and that means costumes, however one parent seriously needs to re-think their childs costume, a fuzzy monster with a penis and single testicle isn’t going to go down well with a lot of parents I’m pretty sure!
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