Steve Forde

“The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing”

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:38:23 +0000

Some interesting info about trying to cram all of your content into the top of the page. People expect to have to scroll. (via guuui.com)

Updating my Portfolio … finally.

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:00:18 +0000

I’ve had this latest iteration of my website up now for … a long time, and I’ve finally started migrating my portfolio over. Take a look: Web Development and Game Art.

Also, trying out the WPtouch plugin to give the site a special theme tailored for mobile browsers.

Random mouse/keyboard issue in Karmic

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:43:45 +0000

I’m not sure how long Ubuntu has been doing this, but the other day while trying out Half-Life 2 in Wine, I was noticing that I couldn’t move with the keyboard and look around with the mouse at the same time – I was thinking it was just a HL2 / Wine specific problem, until I noticed the same thing happening in my browser, I couldn’t move the mouse while typing or holding any key on the keyboard.

I found a fix on a older blog post for getting a Macbook to play along with Feisty – fortunately the fix still seems valid in Karmic. In /etc/defaults/mouseemu:

Uncomment “TYPING_BLOCK…”, change 300 to 0, save
sudo /etc/init.d/mouseemu restart

“New Wave” theme for Google Chrome/Chromium

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:06:38 +0000

My first attempt at making a theme for Chrome/Chromium that fits in with the “New Wave” window border theme.

Download CairnNewWave Theme

I have also posted the theme on deviantART. For those interested in learning to create your own themes check out these two sites:

Chrome Developer’s Documentation for themes
And a handy How-To theme tutorial

[Updated: Nov. 28 2009]

Theme has been updated so that the buttons appear the correct color in Chromium version 4.0.257.0

Fontcapture – Create a font from your own handwriting

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:33:02 +0000

I used to use YourFonts.com, but then they started charging to use it. This one looks like it does the same thing, but for free. Let’s hope it stays that way. (via Lifehacker)

70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:46:04 +0000

A boat-load of neat examples and ideas from SmashingMagazine.com

Riven X

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:33:23 +0000

An awesome project that’s creating a native Mac OS X version of Riven. If you own the CD version of the game, Riven X also lets you copy all the game data from the CDs onto your harddrive so you don’t have to constantly swap discs.

Monster truck rally tilt shift video

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:21:16 +0000

This is just so awesome. (via Boing Boing)

The IE5/6 Doubled Float-Margin Bug

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:04:52 +0000

This Internet Explorer bug used to drive me insane: you say margin x in your CSS, IE6 would display it with a margin of 2x. Fortunately, the solution is wicked simple…

It’s fall!

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:09:06 +0000

Every time I look at my house in a photo, I notice that the post with the house number on it is upside down. How did someone not realize that when they were fixing the porch? Seriouzly.