Technology.Life.Stuff
Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009
It seems something screwy is happening to Google. I noticed that under every search result Google was displaying the “This site may harm your computer.” message. Even on it’s own sites.
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Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009
Here is a Hilarious rendition of Survivor’s ‘eye of the tiger’. It was created using Microsoft Songsmith.
- The telegraphSongSmith has been widely panned as inferior to Apple’s popular virtual music kit GarageBand, but internet wits have discovered an alternative use for the programme and its musical limitations: creating dreadful reworkings of existing hits.
Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009
You know that your service is popular (or has fan boys/girls) when someone writes a song about it.
Posted on Friday, January 2, 2009
On a lot of windows systems, fonts can look very pixelated and display fonts poorly. I have had experiences as mentioned above, on my old XP laptop. All fonts looked the same and were very pixelated; even on websites. That is when I discovered ClearType.
ClearType is a type of technology developed by Microsoft that improves the display of text on LCD screens that can be found on a variety of devices. Examples of such devices are laptops, pocket PCs and flat panel monitors.
Though you may not know it ClearType comes built into Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. ClearType is automaticly turned on in the windows Vista operating system.
As mentioned above ClearType is already turned on in Windows Vista. To turn it on in xp you need to:
You may want to tweak your ClearType settings. To do this Microsoft have provided a web Tuner (requires windows Internet Explorer) that allows you to change your settings from there website. Microsoft also provides ‘Power Toy‘;a piece of software that allows you to to tweak your settings. For more information on ClearType visit the ClearType website.
Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008
Considering that there are so many web applications and software using the smarty template engine; and that one of those pieces of software is FlatPress, I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about smarty.
The clue is in the name; it’s a template engine. What this means is that smarty is used to display the output of processed data and does not do the processing itself; even thought Smarty is able to do a small amount of processing.
Smarty divides the structure of a web application cleanly into two phases; Processing and output. This is how the application would be divided.
PHP SCRPIT (PROCESSING) > TPL FILE (THE DESIGN) > OUTPUT HTML (WHAT THE BROWSER SEES)
