Useless but fun: inspecturl.com

A week ago someone tried to Rick Roll me with a tinyurl. So I thought, why not make a service that shows you where you're going to when you don't trust the link.

Within a week me and Dirksierd made this little website. For fun. We don't expect a lot of people to use …

Fix for the crashing mail.app

I think I'm not the only one if my mail.app (mac email application) keeps crashing for no reason right after it starts.

It can happen when your todo's in ical are corrupt. But if you don't use todo's in mail, there isn't a clear fix yet, unless you want to delete your …

Using special characters in photoshop layer names

Whenever I design a website it often happens that I lose my overview on the layers. It get's all messy and I can't find anything. So I came up with a way that helps me find layers and folders back easily.

The picture

How I use it

You can use this in a lot of different …

Quicktip: 100% height on elements

Did you know that you can give a div a 100% height? It's not really known. So I'd like show you how it's done.

This article is especially useful for people that like do add a second background to their website in order to make the file size smaller.

Write some html

So …

Fix the bad text rendering in Safari, Take two

A few months ago I wrote an article about the bad text rendering in Safari. The fix I used for that worked like a charm in Safari 3, but in Safari 4 Developers review it doesn't work. So I figured out a new fix.

Dark on light text looks way better in Safari 4, but, …

Quickfix: Remove textarea's extra bottom padding

A while back I discovered that <textarea> had the same padding-bot as the <img> in Safari and Firefox.

It's not an awesome fix but there are a lot of people that don't know about it yet.

Here's how to fix it:

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textarea {

	vertical-align: bottom;

}

There is …

Fix the bad text rendering in Safari

If you're a Mac user you might have found out that the text rendering on websites isn't that good as before. This is because Apple switched to CoreText. I'm going to explain why this happens and how to fix it.

Apple came up with something called CoreText.

The Core Text …

Fix Safari's bg bug

The problem

Some xhtml/css coder might know the bug that Safari has when you open a website that is less high than the window you are browsing in.

For the people that don't know this error, this is what happens:

Do you see the white area at the bottom?

This happens …

Apple is hilarious

I'm actually very scared to be sued by Apple. So I took took the picture down. We will just wait for the beauty of Leopard.

Getting tired of rippers

Today (Thanks to Andreas Creten) I found out a guy stole my website. This is the second one, that I know of.

www.pioneiros.net

I know that this will happen more often in the future and that I shouldn't make a big deal out of it. BUT, I found out that he does that more …

Ripped

No fun at all. Checkout http://sksolutions.us/mac/ to see what I mean.

They even ripped my 'about' text.

Is there any thing I can do to remove it? (except for hiring a bunch of hackers)

http://sksolutions.us/ is the devil. And I want the world to know it!

Update

It …

Divide your bg in half

Imagine, for a moment, that you need a website styled with CSS that has a body tag in it.

body { }

Now, make a background image that is 3000px wide and 1px high. Select half of it, doesn't matter which side and fill it with your desired color. Save it as a transparant …

Make Mail.app faster

CSSEdit master Jan told me about this neat little Terminal code he found at 'bbum's weblog-o-mat'. It makes your Mail.app a little faster.

1) Quit Mail.app!!

2) Copy & paste this line in your Terminal.app:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index vacuum

Read all about it …

Remove Firefox's link border

As you probably have noticed, Firefox adds a dotted border around a link when you click on it.

The most of the designers don't like that becouse it changes the look and feel of our creations.

Here is the solution to remove it. Using css.

a:active, a:focus {

      outline: 0;

}