I was helping Raul out with a CSS issue tonight and pointed him toward a colour picker that I’ve used a number of times for my own projects.
The tool features the full range of hex-code colours but breaks them down into three categories:
Web-Safe – The 256 “safe” web colours
Web-Smart – An extended range of colours [...]
Tags: AllScoop · color · colour · colour picker · colour wheel · css · dhtml · tools · web design
I couldn’t resist posting this one when I discovered it last night while researching the post about Simeis 147. This photo was taken from the Mall of Asia in Manila and is of the moon sneaking in front of the sun just before sunset. I’ll let the stunning imagery speak for itself. As always, photo [...]
Tags: apod · crescent · eclipse · manila · partial eclipse · sunset
Occasionally on the blog I like to post an image from APOD which gets my attention in some way. I used to do this far more regularly, but things have gotten in the way the last couple of years. I’m going to make an effort to post at least one of these per month.
I’m already [...]
Tags: 150 light years · 1859 · apod · Astronomy · history · remnant · simeis 147 · supernova
The Internet is a wondrous place where we can connect with people from all over the world as easy as our neighbour next door, or some would say more easily. Tools like email, instant messaging, blogs, podcasts and social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and the subject of this post: Twitter.
Twitter’s ability to instantly [...]
Tags: DoS · microblog · social media · spam · tweet · tweet spam · tweet tornado · twitter