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Embedding an Ordnance Survey Map | Simon Whitehouse
"Lots of us will now have access to embed Ordnance Survey mapping into our blog posts. Just like I’ve done below, with the arrow pointing to Moseley Exchange. And to be honest it wasn’t too difficult to do."
ordnancesurvey  maps  html  howto  embed  wordpress  via:jystewart  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Keyboard Equivalents | Quarter Life Crisis
Some very good reverse-engineering of the way System Preferences tracks custom keyboard equivalent mappings and why they sometimes get overwritten, complete with a fix.
macosx  defaults  preferences  howto 
july 2009 by blech
Videos in the Flickr API | code.flickr.com
The official "how to do video via the Flickr API" post, which thankfully doesn't seem to contradict anything in my post from a few weeks ago (which is, shockingly, top result for 'flickr video api' - for now).
flickr  video  api  howto  documentation 
may 2008 by blech
Instructables DIY RumblePak for Nintendo DS Lite
Fits into the front slot without protruding, using a salvaged Nokia motor. Smart.
nintendo  ds  howto  hardware  hacks  via:simonwistow 
july 2007 by blech
A List Apart: Articles: Conflicting Absolute Positions
Interesting discoveries on how div postitions are intepreted, and a nice use of them, complete with IE workarounds.
html  css  design  howto  article  ui 
july 2007 by blech
Geek to Live: Manage multiple Firefox profiles - Lifehacker
It's time for me to move up from Firefox 1.5, I think. Cloning a profile so I can return to it if I don't like 2.0 (or the Gran Paradiso alphas) seems like a good idea.
development  browser  firefox  windows  howto  hacks 
may 2007 by blech
A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
The new husk.org front page (which I still haven't got around to writing about, sigh, but it predates the article) uses a vertical rhythm of 16px. I wish this title didn't used the word "grid" for the concept, though.
design  typography  web  html  howto  article 
april 2007 by blech
Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server: How to mount a volume as read-only
mount invocation for readonly hfs on Mac OS X. Very similar to what I use on Linux for my external firewire HDs (`mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda3 /mnt/epidermis/`)
macosx  unix  howto 
october 2006 by blech
Vitamin Training » The Secret to Perfect Version Control
Hopefully this will be useful. Difficult to tell as it's audio.
versioncontrol  flickr  howto  toread 
april 2006 by blech

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