Archive for February, 2004

Turn you LCD Monitor into a TV

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

Have a spare LCD monitor kicking around? Xpert TV looks like a cool product that will turn your LCD monitor into a TV or Video Monitor.

This product retails for about $120CDN.

OSX Unix Tutorial

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

OSXFAQ has a very good Mac OS X Unix Tutorial. It is targeted towards Mac users with little or no knowledge of UNIX.

OSX Link Checker

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

BLT for Mac OS X is a small, freeware application that will check the links in your sites.

BLT checks all objects on web pages, not just images and clickable links. In addition, you get many options to help customize your link checking experience.

DOM Inspector for IE

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

IEDocMon is an Explorer Bar that displays a DOM inspector in Internet Explorer. It is useful for exploring elements, events, and interfces in HTML documents.

View HTTP Headers in IE

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

ieHTTPHeaders is an explorer bar for Internet Explorer that will show you the HTTP Headers IE are sending and receiving.

Mozilla has had a similar extension for a while now, but this link may be useful for those of you who have not yet switched from IE to Firefox.

Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step – is a fantastice tutorial at WebReference.com. The tutorial is an exercise that the webreference team took to replicate their home page which was originally done in tables.

Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications

Friday, February 27th, 2004

Boxes and Arrows have two very nice articles on the Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications:

Wicked Form Styling

Friday, February 27th, 2004

Fun with forms – customizing input elements is a great tutorial that demonstrates some wicked CSS for form presentation.

The article demonstrates how to apply customized backgrounds to HTML forms, while preserving stucturally clean markup and accesibility.

Preview Pages Concurrently in IE and Mozilla

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

MOZiE is a cool application for assisting you in comparing your web pages in both Mozilla and IE at the same time.

[link via cssVault]

IE CSS Problems

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Another great article from Mezzoblue, talks about Side-stepping IE and looks at some glaring CSS deficiencies in the web’s most popular browsers.