Category Archives: Elsewhere

“In response to the great IE8 Beta 1 feedback we’ve received so far, we are introducing the “IE=EmulateIE7” tag. EmulateIE7 tells IE8 to display standards DOCTYPEs in IE7 Standards mode, and Quirks DOCTYPEs in Quirks mode. We believe this will be the preferred IE7 compatibility mode for most cases. Support for IE=EmulateIE7 is available now …

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bram.us was out of the air for about a week … turned out that some config setting was saved over 700 times into the WordPress DB, fuxx0ring things up. Whilst I was at it, I updated to WP 2.5.1 (was still running some old 2.3 version here) 🙂

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In case you missed it (like I did) and don’t want to watch the full 107 minutes: WWDC’08 in 60 seconds 🙂

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Neat jQuery Coverflow plugin made by the lead jQuery UI developer, using Webkit’s CSS Transforms (viz. check it in Safari 3.1). Kudos Paul!

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jQuery UI 1.5 hits the net … details in the extensive announcement 🙂

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“We love Twitter. We hate when it’s down. If you’re addicted to Twitter as well, tweet your heart out through Twiddict and avoid life-changing withdrawal symptoms during Twitter downtime. We’ll make sure your tweets end up where they belong.”

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“BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. Basically, it is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each plugin adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact.”

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Feeling lonely? Need some playful love in your live? Get a kitten! Really, it’ll help. – Hilarious! (via)

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AmIOnMyspace.com? is a Firefox Addon which alerts you if you accidently stumble onto MySpace.com, and take you back to the site you came from. Hilarious! (via)

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Update to the beta version of Firebug, containing bug fixes for issues 736, 750, 256, 734, 707, 709, 56, 455, 623 (See the release notes). Go update! (as getFirebug.com is down, the original Firebug author Joe Hewitt has moved the download location of the extension to the Firefox Add-ons site. Go grab your copy on …

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