For quite some time now I’ve been working on an Android application in my spare time. It is an alarm clock called Alarmed! and I released the beta version of it today. This version is a free trial with a limited feature set. You can find out more about it here. Continue reading
Example of Character Justification plugin
I’ve updated my Character Justify Plugin. Continue reading
Justification using pure CSS can be achieved by setting the text-align property to “justify”. This will tell the browser to attempt to line up the words so that left the and right edges of each line are aligned with those above and below. This effectiveness of this property can be enhanced by inserting hyphens where necessary to maintain the alignment using Hyphenator (here’s an example).
The “text-align: justify” technique is useless when applied to a list or similar column of text where each item or line only has one or two words in it. For example in a navigation menu. This is because the spacing that is added to achieve the justification is only added at the word boundaries. Justification based on characters will be available in CSS3 using the property text-justify with the value “newspaper”.
I had the requirement to build a navigation sidebar with justified text for Caragh’s still unfinished website so rather than wait for CSS3 cross browser support I decided to find a solution. Continue reading
Perhaps I was wrong Continue reading
Not sure why but I had a few problems with my RSS feed today since upgrading to WordPress 2.7. Continue reading
Impressed by Dan‘s decision to make a mixtape based around colours but not so impressed by all of his song choices I decided to have a go myself. Continue reading
11 Vessels they are meant to protect (6)
Book meme:
There have been a few mumblings on social media blogs, as there often is, about how Digg has been alienating it’s core user base, possibly in favour of attracting new users or appearing more saleable. I’m not sure how much of this is true but I do know that I am a fairly regular user of Digg and I don’t feel particularly alienated or disaffected. Perhaps this is because I don’t do anything as perverse as using scripts on the site or blindly digging friends stories. Continue reading
Here’s a little tutorial on how to set up a checkbox in the header of an Altio list. The minimum requirements to complete this tutorial should only be that you have an Altio server instance installed, preferably version 5.1 or later. Why not take this opportunity to try out the 5.2 beta?
Daniel just Pownced a link to Wordle, a very slick application for generating clouds of words from a bunch of text where the most frequent words are displayed the largest. It has a nice interface for customizing the appearance of the resulting cloud with a good range of fonts and preset color schemes to tweak. Also it’s a Java Applet which actually features smooth animation and decent graphic design / typography. Definitely a candidate for the Cool Applets blog.
