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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

QuickSlide: Create slides from your browser's address bar

Here's another little site I've been working on: QuickSlide. It lets you create good-looking slides using your browser's address bar.

For example,
http://quickslide.ning.com?q=QuickSlide<div class="subtitle">Simplicity. Power.</div>
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You get a nice dark backdrop, and centered text at a good size.

You can also add a picture – one of the built-in leaf images, or an image of your own:
http://quickslide.ning.com?q=<img width="450" src="leaf1.png">Improvements
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http://quickslide.ning.com?q=<img width="300" src="leaf2.png"><br />Music
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To add a reflection to an image, use class="reflect":
http://quickslide.ning.com?q=<img width="300" src="leaf4.png" class="reflect">Reflection
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If you use YubNub, you can generate slides using the qsl command. Here's a slide that shows a random number:
qsl { random 100 }
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QuickSlide source code

[Programming] Unused Variable Detector

Presenting the Unused Variable Detector. Paste code into the box, press the button, and you will be given a list of variables that aren't used. Works for many different programming languages. Source code.

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Saturday, February 09, 2008

Trying out the Maxthon browser

Trying the Maxthon browser again. I've loaded down Firefox with web-development extensions, so it's nice to have a zippy browser for regular use.

One cool feature of Maxthon is Split View. I often want to see two websites side by side.

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Firefox Bookmarklet for Making Webpages Easier to Read

On many websites, the text is tiring to read because it is too small and too closely spaced:

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If you use Firefox, try dragging the following booklet to your Bookmarks Toolbar: Legiblize.

Now, whenever you encounter a page that it is hard to read, click the bookmarklet. It will increase the font size, increase the spacing, and change the font to Palatino.

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This is much easier to read on my monitor. Adjust the font and font size to taste.