Archive for July, 2007
If you need to have a div tag smaller than 20px, then you will find it a bit hard to get on IE. Just add “overflow: hidden” to it’s style and you’re good to go.
I know it’s a quick google find, but there are several methods that you’ll find.
Some are telling you to add a and set the font-size to 1px, but they all sound “hackish” to me.
I’ve been having several cross-browser related issues lately and all of them have to do with IE (well most of them on Safari, but I’m comparing IE/Firefox) I remember back in the old days when you had to work really hard to get it working on Netscape 4.016.
Is IE becoming the next Netscape?
July 31st, 2007
I was having the following issue and I spent a lot of time figuring it out.
I had an Input Text and applied some formatting to it, using target.setTextFormat(format). But the format would only work if the textfield had some text in it.
I tried to “hack” around it and leave some text in it, then apply the textformat then remove the text. But when doing: target.text = “”; The formatting was also removed.
I’ve noticed that for “new text” that the user might input, you need to use: target.setNewTextFormat(format)
That worked like a charm, and all my input texts look like they’re supposed to.
I hope someone finds this useful.
July 31st, 2007
Using an add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird called Lightning, you can view events properly in Mozilla Thunderbird.
There are currently 2 Mozilla projects that let you do this, Sunbird and Lightning. I prefer Lightning because it integrates nicely with the email client.
You can view more information on the Mozilla Calendar Project.
Have you ever received those Events sent by Microsoft Outlook, and see them as raw text, like this:
Raw text:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
When you install the Lightning Add-On, you get a better view of the event.
You can also send events, and view your following events inside the thunderbird client.
This is how you see it once it’s installed:
July 10th, 2007
I’m very happy with my Espresso Machine. EUROLAB Coffee Machine With Grinder.
I got it from deals direct for $99.
It is very good for making just one coffee. Though it is capable of making 2 cups, I wouldn’t recommend this, because it doesn’t “express” evenly between 2 cups, and the frothing device isn’t that powerful to froth the milk required for 2 cups.
It’s much quicker to make yourself a cuppa of instant coffee, but once you try the espresso you’ll never go back. It takes some time to get used to brewing your own espresso coffee, you need to have a process and once you find it works, follow the same steps and try to make it quicker each time.
The process also includes washing up… That’s the boring part of making your own espresso, but once you reduce your times, it should be very easy.
It also tastes much better than any other coffee shop, because YOU made it!
This is my creation!
So is the Eurolab Coffee Machine any good?
For that price, it is really good.
Here are a few cons:
- The grinder is a bit noisy, but it works quite well, though you have to clean up after grinding. So I recommend grinding a lot of coffee once per week (or so) and keeping stored in container in the fridge.
- Instructions are in very poor. English translated from chinese.
- It’s not really good for making 2 cups.
July 3rd, 2007
