Web fonts have been around for a while, since 1998, when CSS2 created a way to link to fonts from style sheets. Unfortunately the big browsers back then did not include support for the most widely used format, TrueType.
Web Fonts are back. Thanks to some of CSS3 architecture and a declaration called @font-face.
The @font-face allows you to direct your stylesheet to a particular font via url, once done, simply declare the font use as you would with Arial or Verdana. Let's take a look at the code.
Read more at: http://blog.iantearle.com/learning/css-web-fonts
As soon as Apple announced the launch of the new iPhone 3G and along with it MobileMe their own online version of Microsoft Exchange, I was adimant that I was going to sign up and be organised once and for all.
So yesterday, when I found that I had a spare five minutes in my schedule, I signed up to MobileMe. The free trial of 60 days is fantastic, its like having 60 days free from a years subscription, as at sign up you are prompted to enter your payment details and at the end of 60 days you are automatically billed. Dont worry though if you find that you do not like it, there is a cancel button in the account options, although Mobile Me is well worth the £59.
Continue reading and get your Free Mobile Me Account worth £59 here: Free MobileMe
With the discovery of Blog It on Facebook, I need never leave the social networking tool, other than to update my own website http://blog.iantearle.comI wish they had an API.
I also find the best way to get SEO working for you, is to get your name around the social sites, blogging sites and update sites and get as many link backs as you can muster!
I am starting to get some comments on my site - my end game goal!
My latest jQuery project, a bit of a baby really, I have been looking around for this functionality for a while now, finally found a version which is not entirely finsihed or fully functional.
If you use Facebook, you will see what I am trying to achieve here. When sending a mail in Facebook when you start typing into the recipient field you get a quicksearch list, click on a name and it inserts it into the input field similar to how Apple Mail displays its results, continue to enter names and you create a list of people each indiviually able to delete.
Well I have achieved this effect in jQuery, but need to develop it further to provide functional functionality.
So I played around with the code and managed to get some of it working, but I need help. I need the ability to have an ID of an item inserted into a hidden array, but the script will not pass in the second element of the array in a PHP script, rather it does, but then fails when you try to delete the item, it adds a comma into the ID tag and does not handle all spaces properly, thus fails.
There are a dozen support requests around, but if you want to help me out here, all comments gratefully recieved. You may download the zip file and have a go for yourself, but please do let me know if you get anywhere. Zip files here.
A project page has been created on the jQuery website at the following page Facelist.
Demo available at Facelist
The quick and simple answer is never. Else learn the hard way, like I just did after a mornings worth of creativity.
Now I have lost 3 hours worth of adminsitrative pages design, its lunchtime and I am very annoyed.
So in conclusion always SAVE your Adobe Photoshop work, save drafts, save to different locations, just always save.
Oh and before I go, always make a backup or check what you are deleting when tidying your desktop. I lost more work then!
If you know me well, then you will know that I help out as a leader at a youth event for Christian and non Christian young people in a somewhat less well off area of Chelmsford, and event called The One Event.
We play loud music, games and generally have fun, with some teaching about Christianity thrown in, as we are part of a church in the area.
My problem came about when I moved my music onto a shared hard drive in my house, freeing up valuable disk space on my mac. I figured as all my music was on my iPod I could use that instead to play a playlist off each week at the event. It worked fine, but iPods do not have the functionality of crossfading music.The result, a horrible pause in between songs.I did not want this gap in my iPod music, so I went on the hunt for solutions. I couldn't find any. Until that is, when I changed my search a few days later, to playing music from my iPod through my computer. Here is how.
Simply connect your iPod to your itunes enabled PC, and click manually manage music, that way when the iPod is connected to your iTunes it won't delete your music when iTunes cannot find your library because its miles away on an irremovable hard disk plugged into your network.
You get all the same functionality you get from you mac, including crossfade. Super. And if you use Apple Lossless Encoding, you do not get any jumps or loss in music quality when playing through multiple sources.
For more tips and tutorials head over to my blog
In a lame effort to gain recognition for my blog posts, I'll now be posting to many of my blogs which in the last few days I have set up.
Ill also soon be styling them, as many of them are the standard themes and layouts. Unfortunate. So it looks like I have my work set out for the next few days, trying to come up with variations on my latest Media By theme.
Hope you like them when they come online. Oh and ill also be adding to Technorati and other social bookmarking tools!
So I have just got out of bed, quickly tidied the flat as it was a mess in the lounge, emptied the drying rack, have a stack of ironing to do, its raining, and very miserable outside, I have a shopping list to get, I must collect my house keys from the estate agents, make dinner, oh and find my wife something nice to nibble on for when she goes to work on her night shift at the hospital.
What am I to do? I dont feel like doing much, the weather is awful.
I guess I shall start by finishing this blog post and jumping into the shower.
Thanks for joining me, reading this dribble, bye.
So its come to it, my lame effort to share my blogs with everyone. Check out my Technorati Profile so I can see if any of my posts really are worth reading!
While your at it, I have a more updated blog over at http://blog.iantearle.com
