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From Android to iPhone Make your Android enabled phone work like and iPhone at the click of an app

Lightbox View your photos in a pseudo flash style gallery (pure js)

Photoshop Tilt Shift How to get the Tilt Shift effect using photoshop

ie-tab Firefox addon that allows you to open a tab using the IE rendering engine.

Measureit Cool Firefox add-on that lets you draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

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Dunoon
July 9, 2005
I love this shot of the ferrry terminal. The colours, the patterns created by the pier etc.

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  • mused on: June 11, 2009 9:46 PM
  • listening To: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • reading: Dean Koontz - Cold Fire
  • thinking: Contract ends in two weeks - need a new job

New features

I've added a few new features to this site: 1. "Lightbox2" - a javascript library that shows images in a flash style gallery. Added to the gallery pages. 2. Images will now be included in the Lucene search with preview thumbnails in the search results. Still needs a bit of tidying up.

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June 13, 2009 7:43 PM

No more, the green, green grass

After many years of thinking about it and wishing about it I got rid of my lawn, replacing it with gravel. Before I start to effuse about how much better it is I'd like to say that for 10 years I tried to improve the lawn and get it to that bowling green consistency that I craved - all to no avail. Every spring and autumn I spiked it, added sand, feed, mosskiller, the works but it still had damp patches that were mostly moss. Added to the fact that in Autumn/Winter the entire lawn area became un...

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April 21, 2009 7:32 PM

Eclipse PDT or Webtools missing perspectives on Linux (Ubuntu)

This post is an aide-mémoire and hopefully helps anyone who has the same issue I had; namely that Eclipse PDT or Eclipse Webtools Project running on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) was not making all installed perspectives available. The symptoms were that Eclipse would start but only in "vanilla" mode: only three basic perspectives showing. If like me you installed the Eclipse binary as root into some directory then that's your problem right there. In order for the other perspectives to become ...

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March 9, 2009 8:56 AM

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