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Two small Leopard improvements that I love

Apple has touted the release of Leopard by boasting that it includes 300 new features over Tiger, the previous version of the OS. There are however two tiny little improvements that were not talked about anywhere and have answered my prayers by making it even easer to use by polishing the Mail and Finder application.

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Double Margin Bug

Don’t you just hate it when you spend hours lovingly crafting a layout in CSSedit/Safari/FireFox to the point of beautiful elegance only to discover that IE turns it into a pile of merde? This happened to me just the other day and even though it was down to a tiny, well known bug it still caused me a little grief. Because of this here is yet another blog post about fixing the double margin bug so others may fix it quicker than I did.

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CSS & Javascript modal windows

I have been trying to set up a modal window on a web site like the one used by wayfaring.com for a login window.

A little searching turned up a few different implementations an I picked Pj Hyett’s as he was the person to make the wayfaring.com one.

The reason I am blogging about it is that a few people commented on the PJ Hyett blog that they could not get it working so I am posting a zip file of a working example here.

300: Dine in hell

So I finally went to see 300 and I really enjoyed it. It is not perfect and I think that it will not appeal to many people, but if you are in the mood for a load of war and death the this is for you

Apollo: Break out of the browser

On Sunday night Adobe released (launched…) an alpha version of Apollo.

So what, I hear, what the hell is Apollo any how? Well apollo might just change the way you use the internet.

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In the beginning there was PHP then God created Rails

So another blog on the web singing the praises of Rails. Not the most innovative subject, but a personal one non the less.

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First Post

So here is the first post of my shiny new blog, and to be honest I don’t really have anything earth shattering to publish with this post.

This is mainly to get the blog off the ground as like most things its difficult starting with a blank slate.

I suppose for the first post I will simply talk about some bits that will probably end up constituting the main content of this blog.

Films

Coming out in a week or two is a new film called ‘300′.

This is the latest film based on one of Frank Miller’s graphic novels (think Sin City, Daredevil) set in 480 B.C. retelling the battle of Thermopylae.

I am not predicting this to be a great movie but I am looking forward to it for a number of reasons:

• The cinematography looks great
• A strange fascination in me for anything about ancient Greek or Roman war (almost killed off by ‘Alexander’ and ‘Troy’, but kept alive by ‘Gladiator).
• The reputation of Spartans as warriors should lead to some great battle scene

A slight concern is that the leading actor: Gerard Butlers previous film, Beowulf & Grendel, was not exactly Citizen kain, but Ben Affleck is not in it so thats a plus!

Conclusion

Well it was brief, but I had to start somewhere. Another film that is coming that I want to talk about is the new Transformers movie, but I will save it for a more comprehensive post.