Emulate Float Center
This entry talks about how to solve a common design scenario with different approaches. If you are not interested in the long explanation, you can just take a look the end result of my emulation.
Category: geeky
CSS3 border shadow, border radius, multi-columns
If you haven’t, check out CSS3 documentations on border shadow, border radius, layered background images, multi-columns etc. How cool is that? No need to make rounded corner images!!!! I can’t wait. Btw how much CSS3 does firefox support? I really haven’t thoroughly test it. What else you heard about CSS3 is uber cool? Please share!
Simple PHP URL rewrite
One thing I did for dmb is making dodosmb.com/profile/username work with my profile.php script. Normally without the help of .htaccess, you can use the value of the path info from the global variable For example, create a php file named profile.php and in there put: Then upload the file and load it with yourServerPath/profile.php/dodo. The… Continue reading Simple PHP URL rewrite
Funny cartoons and images
These are cartoons and images found in my old pe backup. They were under the fun section but I don’t want to create a page for them any more so I will select the ones that still amuse me and put them in a post instead 🙂 Watch for the contraction Did you back up?… Continue reading Funny cartoons and images
pure-essence.net is back
What happened? If you weren’t here when pure-essence.net went down, here’s a summary of the story. PE got sponsored by http://edgewebhost.com/ in early 2006. The hosting was fine until mid May 2007. My site just all the sudden disappeared from the face of the internet and the owner of edgewebhost was nowhere to be found.… Continue reading pure-essence.net is back
the infamous office assistant
reorder taskbar buttons
if you are like me who expect buttons in my taskbar to be a certain order, you will find it frustrating that you can’t easily reorder them. it will be nice if they implement the drag and move functionality with those like the tabs in firefox. but even in vista they didn’t do anything like… Continue reading reorder taskbar buttons
just want to strangle IE
for a minor revamp of the web application i’m working on at work, i want to implment this css vertical menu. i was thrilled to find that it works great in IE 5.5 which is something we still need to support. after i put everything together, i realized it is not going to work due… Continue reading just want to strangle IE
change double click folders from open to explore
i just figured out something cool by playing around. when you double click on folders in windows xp, it opens the folder. personally i like it to open the folder with the explore view. apparently it’s quite easy to change that. Select Folder Options from the Tools menu in My Computer or Explorer, and click… Continue reading change double click folders from open to explore
shorten right click -> new list
i’ve heard about tweak UI – a free microsoft powertool for a while but never tried it out. i did today and there are two things i was able to customize that made my day. first i was able to choose which application it will use to view source in internet explorer. i was able… Continue reading shorten right click -> new list
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