Safari for PC

Get Safari 3.0 Beta for Mac and now PC too. Available for XP and Vista.  This makes it so much easier to test web pages just on my pc.

Download page here.

Flock "The social web browser"

Flock is a browser that makes blogging, photo/video sharing, and social bookmarking a whole lot easier. Just press the "new blog post" icon and start typing an article, even if you forgot to log in. Upload photos with the "upload icon". Bookmark any page you are on to del.icio.us and ma.gnolia. You can also search flickr, youtube, photobucket, and truveo all in the convenient media bar, and much more. Go ahead, check it out. Get Flock.

taggit

Ok, try to come up with as many possible tags for the following picture. They've got to make sense, and if not, give a reason why it is related to the picture.

The tags:

• tree

I'd subscribe to the comments feed.

Fully Customizable Page Elements

If you've done any playing around with blogger tools, you have probably noticed you can edit the colors and fonts of the text, links, etc. through "Fonts and Colors" of the "Template" tab in your Dashboard. Now let's say you wanted the text a different color every time you use the 'blockquote' tag. But it's not preset into the font and color editor. There's actually a very simple way to get it to show up and edit there. Go to "Edit HTML", and in the head section, copy the code I have highlighted. It should be almost all the way at the top. Now paste it to the line just below it.



So now you have two sets of code that look the exact same. Change the 'name' value to 'blockquote'(this is what you'll use in your css). Let's also change the 'description'(what you see in the font and color editor as the name) to 'Blockquote'.

Were ready to go to our css. Find the '.post blockquote' element and add
'color: $blockquote'.

You're finished. Go try it out.

Free Graphic Design Software

I know there are some of you graphic design artists, or web designers who have no money and want to create an image that you can't do with the photo editing software that came with your computer. Well, here is a quick list of photo editing tools, places to get your vectors, and other graphics. (All of these are free)

• Inkscape, an open source vector graphics editor.


• Gimp, software for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.


• Blender, (not really a photo editor) but a free open source 3d content creation suite.


• Bittbox, a blog with free Photoshop brushes, tutorials on Illustrator and Photoshop, ink splatters, grunge corners, a few javascript, css, and html tips, and other stock graphics.


• Picnik, a web 2.0 site with some basic photo editing features and some more slightly complex. I'd try it while it's in its beta version and the good features are still free.

If any of you know of other free software or graphics, please tell me and I'll add them.

New Sidebar Look

If you haven't noticed, I added a fading corner to my sidebar. If you liked it, you can accomplish this by first getting the image at bittbox, and upload the corner of choice to tinypic, a free photo and video sharing site. Or, you can use the image I used which is already uploaded. If you wish to use that image, here is the code to use.
(add this to the "sidebar-wrapper" element in your css)
background-image: url(http://i18.tinypic.com/67dk8qx.png); /* if you chose a different corner, change this url. */
background-repeat: no-repeat; /* so you only see it once */
background-position: top left;
So now you see the fading corner in the background. But, your text is covering it. To fix that all you have to do is set the padding. The padding defines the space between the content and the element's sides.
padding-top: 10px; /* feel free to play around with this number */
padding-left: 23px; /* same here */
Feel free to comment or ask questions.