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digital media · pictures · videos · weird · interesting · the past · the present · the future · the arts · tipsI am trying to learn Bash scripting. This one performs Nominet whois lookups (checks the availability of .uk domains). Disclaimer: I don't know how well-formed it is - probably not very. Use at your own peril!
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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.
There are times when you need to lock your laptop, but don't want to put it to sleep. In Windows, you can just hit Win-L and it locks you out. Oddly, despite having a lock screen built in (complete with snazzy 3D transition effect), Mac OS X doesn't seem to have a keyboard shortcut for it.
Fortunately, being ridiculously extensible, there is a reasonably easy way of adding one!
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