22nd November 2008 – 7:44 pm
7:44 pm
Finally, theming without needing greasemonkey hacks! I can finally inject some personality into the app. If you’re a Google Mail user and still haven’t noticed the changes - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/?utm_source=us-en-gmnav&utm_medium=et&utm_content=gmnav
22nd November 2008 – 6:01 am
6:01 am
I have to admit, I’m a big fan of Derren Brown’s productions with his provocative insights into the human psyche. His Trick or Treat series is no exception – I somehow managed to miss season 2 on TV, so I am quite fortunate to find some decent quality streams on Vimeo. I’m missing 4 and 5, but it saves on those bittorrent downloads! I’m definitely up for going to one of the stage shows when they next pop up.
Episode 1
Episode 2 - Negative Thinking
Episode 3 – Time
Episode 6 – Superstition
18th October 2008 – 8:48 pm
8:48 pm
Why FAIL, instead of failure, or failed?
10th October 2008 – 12:26 am
12:26 am
How’s this for rather unfortunate domain names:
- Welsh IT – www.welshit.co.uk
- Speed of Art – www.speedofart.com
- Morrison & Foerster – mofo.com (sounds like a good law firm to work in, more of a selling point to me!)
- Therapist Finder – www.therapistfinder.com (is this therapy?)
- Auctions Hit – www.auctionshit.com (Ebay competitor, lack of confidence there)
20th September 2008 – 5:22 am
5:22 am
I use the BBC iPlayer. Every so often. It’s pretty good.
Only problem on my system is that the iPlayer does not like staying fullscreened on one monitor if I need to use the other screen (same issue with all other flash viewers it seems). Next best alternative is to view the video in the pop-out window; unfortunately, the window is rather small. Rather than try to fix the fullscreen issue, I found that adjusting the flash object dimensions manually did the trick. This does get rather tedious, but luckily, I have Greasemonkey installed.
Writing this was quite straightforward: this is a simple script which resizes the pop-out window to a nice size (HD-ready view of 1280×720), and allows you to resize the player by resizing the window (big criticism of the default behaviour).The bulk of the code is along these lines:
player.width = 1280;
player.height = 834; // 720 + 114px of iPlayer chrome
resizeToPlayer(player); //window.resizeTo(1286,916)
window.addEventListener('resize', function() { resizeToWindow(player); }, true);
Install Greasemonkey if not already (Firefox only), and install this script from the userscripts.org page.