websites
Working with the web everyday as a job and hobby often leads me to find useful websites. Below is a list of websites which I think are useful to everyone.
Free Kasha Wallpaper
My friend over at Kasha Music has just released a REALLY nice free wallpaper. It's based on a starfield background with Kasha's face screened over the top. It's really effective!
Free Christmas Wallpapers
As part of my RSS reading, Smashing Magazine is rapidly becoming something I look forward to reading. Every month they do a roundup of desktop wallpapers which include a calendar and are, in some way, seasonal. This month is no exception! They have a fantastic selection of christmassy wallpapers for you to chose from and they're all free!
Abessive For Drupal 6
My first theme, Abessive, gets a new release today for Drupal 6. Turns out to be a pretty easy upgrade!
In case nobody caught onto what Abessive was the first time; it is an (almost) image free theme with flexible 1, 2 or 3 column layout (depending on where/if you place any blocks). Each block/section has rounded corners and slight top & bottom gradient which is achieved using only CSS techniques involving margins, padding and background colours. This makes the theme very lightweight and elegant at the same time.
My First Drupal Theme
I have just finished commiting my very first theme to the drupal community! I'm not a designer by nature - I prefer to be deep in the code. Thats why I commited this theme - it contains very little design (in terms of Photoshop work). This design is, pretty much, image free! On top of that - its SEO friendly too!
I say 'Pretty much' because it is still using 3 core image files for the bullet points. But what I'm pleased about is the curved CSS-only corners with a slight gradient on them AND the fact that if you remove content from a column, the content fills out over it automatically.
Every blog needs a facebook page!
Every blog worth its weight needs a Facebook page!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thingy-Ma-Jig...../22760952880
Lets see how many fans I get! This is also a test in a way. I wanna see if Facebook could provice any kind of useful traffic.
Getting the most out of Fedora Core 4
I recently looked into which versions of software I was running and was a little concerned to see how backward Fedora Core 4 was in some areas. I did a little Googling around and found a website (http://remi.collet.free.fr/) which is predominately written in French (but has a few English translations) which provides a new repository for Fedora Core 4's Yum Installer Package which provides far more recent RPM's for the likes of PHP and MySQL... So I installed it!
Free Nokia N95 Themes
Are you in need of free Nokia N95 themes? I think I might have found just the site for you. Themes4urMobilePhone.com has just released a new section dedicated for Nokia N95 Themes - and they're all FREE!
A while ago I write a blog article about Free Nokia N73 Themes and it has proven very popular. I'm personally thinking about getting an N95 and this is definately going to be the site I use to customise it!
New Blog: Beginners guide to photography
Ever wanted to start taking good photo's? Ever wondered what the ISO setting, Exposure Time or that little symbol of a flower on your camera meant? This great new photography blog has just opened to help out new photographers with these kinds of questions. It is run by my Girlfriend who recently just got a Canon EOS 400D and wanted to learn how to use the camera.
From Russia without Love
I've recently been receiving some spam from some Russian IP's. As each spam attempt was from a different IP, blocking individual ones was a little futile and time consuming. I did a quick Google and ended up at Deekayen's website as it seems he has had similar issues. His solution was an Apache level "Deny"… My solution uses iptables.
Very cool illusion
A friend sent me a link to one of those optical illusion thingies. I'm often very sceptical of them however upon inspection, this one seemed different and legitimate. I don't think its fake - but I equally don't understand why its screws with your eye's so much! Here are the instructions from the website…
The Web is Us/ing Us
After looking through the list of mentors for this years Google Summer of Code I noticed that I have been paired up with a fellow Drupal-eer called kkafer for the project we chose to mentor (I'm probably not allowed to publicly say yet, so I wont). Anywho - in a quest to find out a little more about this 'German gentleman' I decided to pop over to his Blog and, while having a little read through, I found that he'd bloged about this YouTube video regarding the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
Fantastic drupal site for Free Nokia N73 themes
Need themes for Nokia N73? Download Nokia N73 Themes for free for your Nokia N73 handset.
I found this site while looking around the net. I am considering getting a Nokia N73 and I wanted to know what resources were out there. Then I found this site…
Thingy Ma Jig finally moved to Drupal 5
It's taken me long enough to get around to, but finally Thingy Ma Jig has been upgraded to the latest and greatest in all things Drupal.
All in all, I'd say it was a fairly (and surprisingly) painless experience. There were a few minor glitches along the way though…
ColorJack: Sphere Widget
ColorJack is a recently popularized Color Theory Application
They have a fantastic online system and an offline OSX Dashboard Widget. Basically, they have a whole load of settings which you chose from. You then drag one of the points around on the colour "sphere" (circle) and you are provided with a list of complimentary colours.
To try this out, get your browser over to the ColorJack Sphere where you can try it online.
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC
I recently wanted to try out my drupal websites in IE 6.0 (and ideally 5.55 too, for compatibility) however since IE7 was released, its been harder and harder to find a computer with IE6 left on it!
Step in: Multipel_IE
A single install file containing IE 3 through to 6…
I have my own page!
I bought the domain a while ago but haven't had time to set anything up - well this is a start. Its not much to shout about yet (and probably never will be) but I'm pleased with the design and think that its good to have a kind of "CV" site.
Kasha has a new site, and its Drupal!
I've been working with a good friend on a website to promote his up and coming artist, Kasha and label, Vivid Imagery.
xkcd - a webcomic
My like for free icons probably stems from my passion for free quality stuff in general.
Earlier today, a colleague and friend (Janak Singh) of www.4urmobilephone.com introduced me to xkcd. This is a hand-drawn comic aimed at the geek community.
1000 Damn good icons!
I have a never ending quest to find good free stuff. Finding free stuff is easy - its the GOOD bit that stumps me…
Often I dont even mind paying for something if its quality, but obviously free is better!
Quality Icons are something I am always on the lookout for and I have been a member of Icon Buffet for a long time now — I'm a big fan of the free deliveries — and, although I've purchased a few packs (Oslo, Oslo Buzz and Soho), they are very expensive for a "bedroom programmer" such as myself.
Unix Error Jokes
While Digging for fun, I found this site about unix jokes. I'm always up for a laugh!
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