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No sound in Powerpoint
11/14/2008
This took me a whole morning to work this out so I thought I’d share the solution. If you’re using embedded audio clips in your presentation but on previewing you hear no sound… - after you’ve done the obvious like checking your system mixer settings (volume faders up, not muted etc.) and you’ve played the file outside [...]
Web design inspiration
11/11/2008
Navigation menus and more… Navigation Menus Minimalistic Websites Minimalistic Websites Part II Minimalistic Websites Part III Beautifully Colorful Websites Beautifully Colorful Websites Part II Beautifully Dark Websites Beautifully Dark Websites Part II Unique Layouts Incredibly Artistic Websites Incredibly Artistic Websites Part II Incredibly Artistic Websites Part III Innovative Flash Designs Examples of Creative Navigation
6 Embeddable HTML Editors Compared
11/04/2008
http://mashable.com/2008/11/03/embeddable-html-editors/ from the ever excellent (if high volume) feed at Mashable
Turn your name into an avatar
10/28/2008
A bit of fun… http://turnyournameintoaface.com/ Me - in case you’re interested
Sync those folders
10/23/2008
If like me you’re constantly hopping from pc to pc and trying to get various files in sync with each other this may be of some help… FolderShare (free) A Microsoft utility with online synchronisation: “Install the utility on multiple computers, create an online account where you identify each computer, and pick folders to synchronize. Up-to-date data [...]
Fonts and typography aggregator
10/21/2008
A wonderful odyssey in all things typographic: http://www.typeneu.com/ and some great examples of CSS typography.
Free Textures Galore
10/02/2008
Lots of high quality textures for web-design, graphic design, CGI texture mapping and more… http://designm.ag/resources/60-free-textures-from-sxchu/ http://www.textureking.com/ http://www.lostandtaken.com/ http://www.cgtextures.com/ and a couple of free (for both personal and commercial work) stock photo libraries: http://www.freerangestock.com/ http://www.sxc.hu/
Getting a list of all files from a folder
10/01/2008
Techie stuff… getting your hands dirty in the Command Prompt. Click Start, then Run, (or windows key and ‘R’) and enter cmd (it’s faster than digging for Command Prompt in the Start menu). Navigate to the folder in question using your good old DOS skills: cd \ - Changes current directory to the highest level of the [...]
100 Greatest ‘Rock’ Albums
09/17/2008
At last a properly interesting 100 Greatest ‘Rock’ Albums: http://www.scaruffi.com/ratings/best100.html Spanning 1960-1999, and wonderfully eclectic it is too!
