For those who had my ICQ number (440317), I’d like to inform you: it’s no longer mine, so update your contact lists with 371416890.
Jan
6
After some period of time, you realise that your
..:\windows\fonts
becomes a nightmare, since you download fonts, and some of them were used only once or twice but still are kept there, and no one knows if they are going to be used again.
Today I’ve witnessed this problem in all its beauty and might; as it appeared, some of the fonts were completely malfunctioning, or simply forgot to be installed. They were unrared to
..\fonts
folder and that’s it.
Few minutes of googling the web gave me the solution called The Font Thing. The program does its thing very well, the fonts are clearly represented, and the ones that don’t work are easily fixed. The navigation becomes faster and simpler!
Jan
6
What if in heaven, they’ve got the company which is in charge of everything: disasters, customer relations, product development. And all of that is based on paperwork routines: an old idea from a different point of view: sitcom God Inc.
Jan
5
Google brought to the light another solution of sharing all the notes for people who prefer on-line data storage. If Docs & Spreadsheets were quite massive in order to keep small notes, Google give an ability of storing and sharing small notes with their Google Notebook.
Integrated Firefox extension for Google Notebook allows the users to check their notes right in the web browser, I personally find it more convenient in comparison with Google Desktop with its Scratch Pad. By itself, the idea of taking a part of the screen by Google Desktop is not so handy. The other way of making GDesktop using floated positioning makes the gadgets to be covered with primarily opened window. In this case, GNotebook with its position is more accurate, and it doesn’t overload the desktop with another watches, another winamp controller or some other features in a way not so useful.
Jan
5
Not every kid can program, while every kid can make a website! If you can argue with me about the first part of the phrase, the second has no doubt.
Definitely, website can be varied differently according to its level of complexity and tools used to make one. While almost everybody knows basic HTML and its continuations like XHTML and other add-ons, which help webmasters to simplify the code, like CSS, DOM technologies, sometimes people forget about the exact look of the website.
First person, who started organizing the colour behaviour and studying its harmony was our lovely Isaac Newton: I don’t remember, before that “apple accident” or after it, but this scientist was the first who offered color wheel.
Of course, nowadays, you don’t have to renovate the wheel (don’t mess with Newton, that guy was stoke by The Apple!), you’ve got whole ton of different tools, which can help you to eliminate most friendly colours to organize the composition of colours on your website! Wellstyled offers two colour management schemas: Color schema generator, and the second schema which gives you an ability of seeing the intersections of chosen colours - in some way it can be easier.
Some other services give you a ready made coded variety of colours to be used in your web development environments. And while you are choosing kinky colours for your website, take a break and think: why all the alarms are using red colour? Maybe it’ll make you pay attention on the psychological point of choosing colours for your project, because each colour means something in our daily life, and what if the your well built colour schema won’t effect visitors of your website in the needed way? In this case, psychologists made a good review of colour stereotypes.
So next time, when you think of making another website, develop a good and appropriate colour schema.
Jan
4