I don’t think a single day goes by when something about FireFox amazes me. Today though I hit on a note worthy combination of extensions that bring an end to frequent emails and cross office journeys.
Entries from January 2006
Useful FireFox Extension Combo
January 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: BitTube Thoughts
The sound of a dying hard drive
January 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments
So after a previous post detailing the slow painful death of one of my own hard drives, I found some sweet amusement in using these sounds from Hitachi to try and diagnose the exact cause that finally struck my hard drive down.
The closest match was certainly in the realm of ‘Head Damage’ although the quality [...]
Tags: BitTube Thoughts
Interesting Maths Fact
January 26th, 2006 · 4 Comments
As some one that has real issues with Math, how it works (or in my case why it doesn’t) I found this nugget rather interesting. I don’t know why, or how, but I like its simplicity.
[as]var int_inPut:Number = 12345678987654321;
trace(”output == ” + Math.sqrt(int_inPut));[/as]
A surprising little maths snippet, unfortunately flash doesn’t display the original equation properly [...]
Tags: BitTube Thoughts
Windows XP on an Intel Mac
January 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I must confess the release of the new MacBook Pro really did quite excite me. The possible idea of having the best of both worlds on one machine was just too much. I wan one I really really want one, and as a died in the wall PC/windoze user I never thought I would here [...]
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Ford Multilingual Micro Site
January 16th, 2006 · 9 Comments
So I have been pretty busy of late with development of a simple Ford Micro Site. This is certainly one of the most interesting projects i have been able to work on in a while, and I have to say seems to be showing a trend towards flexible, yet visually strong multilingual sites.
Previously i had [...]
Tags: ActionScript 2 · BitTube Work · Development · Localization · Snippets







