Gutenberg 2.0

I have been having a lot of fun with an app called LetterMpress, which is a virtual letterpress.

There aren't really any shortcuts; you have to arrange all the letters and secure them in place, just like the real thing. Then you pull the ink roller thing - okay, I haven't got all the terminology down yet - and, with a very satisfying sound, it prints your creation to an image file.

Here's my magnificent first creation. I'm not sure who I'd send it to.

CSS pseudo-classes

CSS (cascading style sheets) is the means by which the web looks prettier now than it did in 1998. It's a language that makes it much easier to make webpages look good. The newest version, CSS3, isn't officially released yet, but basically works in the newest browsers. It's behind much of the cool stuff that snazzy webpages do.

Maybe it's just because of the shiny things it does, but CSS is pretty much the only computer language that continues to make me go 'wow'.

Anyway, here is my latest CSS discovery. I had a huge HTML table, generated by Excel, which I needed to quickly format with alternately-coloured rows for readability. I discovered there's a fantastic new pseudo-class called nth-child which will do this with just one line of code:

Thanks to Ash Mann for then pointing me to this monster article about all the new pseudo-classes in CSS3.

Meet “Apple” iHub, the USB hub for your empty consumer lifestyle

My new cheapo imported USB hub looks posh, feels cheap, and comes in hilarious cease-and-desist-inducing packaging:

From the manufacturer's website:

The pros? It suits your Mac with its glowing Apple logo! The cons? It’s made of cheap plastic.

And I can confirm that it does (and is):