Forgot about Ubiquity?

Have you forgotten about the Firefox plugin Ubiquity?

I did for a while, but I've been using it more and more and find it to be an invaluable tool.

I just used it a few minutes ago to translate an article that my friend @Tales tweeted about editing video on non-3GS iPhones.

I've also used the edit command to mock-up screenshots for a recent proposal. You can also use it to have a little fun.

Working on a new design

New web design

 I decided to mock-up a new theme for my blog/website. This is still a work in progress, but I thought it would be interesting to post this now to compare it to the final theme.

Let me know what you think. I've only spent about 2 hours on it so far.

Google Chrome on Mac OSX

Chromium

Chrome is built from Google's opensource project Chromium. I installed it and give it a whirl, it's definetly buggy as hell. (The search bar stopped working randomly etc.) But some of the cooler features like dragging a tab off the tab-bar to create a new window worked well; dragging the window back to the tab-bar also works.

Fun with spam

Surprisingly a piece of spam mail made it into my GMail account. It doesn't have any advertisements for it or anything, and it appears it came through AOL.

The text, as well as the layout is quite puzzling.

 

The full text is below:

Tip: Fix stupid IE8 errors: force compatibility mode

Internet Explorer is Stupid

IE has never liked Javascript very much, and IE8 will be rolled out soon. Many nice Javascript elements that I commonly use don't work yet in IE8, such as Shadowbox and BeautyTips.

Beerfest '09 Video

Free iPhone & MP3 Ringtone: The Cougar (greatest ringtone ever invented)

Cougar's be round here!

Image by i am indisposed

After I first saw The Italian Spiderman, I really wanted to have that cougar sound clip that that is used in the videos. So I searched all over the Internets and I found that same audio file. I edited and tweaked it into what I believe is the greatest ringtone to have ever been invented by a mere mortal, but that's just my opinion.

I created a version for my iPhone but there is also an MP3 version too if your phone supports it.

Preview the greatest ringtone ever!

Designer's Dream: Preview fonts without installing anything

I came across the site Flipping Typical, it's a web-app that uses some Javascript to find all your installed fonts and it let's you try out a few words in all the fonts at once! The greatest part about this is that it works right through the browser and it's quite fast too.

I know that I've spent way too much time trying out a bazzilion fonts right there in Photoshop. You should definitely give it a whirl.

What countries does PayPal Website Payments Pro accept credit cards from?

I had to find this the extremely hard way. Paypal kept sending me to a list of countries that PayPal works in, but it was more geared towards the individual and not someone that has Website Payments Pro account like we did.

I got this list by logging in, going to My Account. I then went to Fraud Management and clicked the link at the bottom to configure my filters (un-conveniently located at the bottom of the page). I clicked on Edit for the Country Monitor filters. And there was a list of countries, so I figured that these are the countries that can be accepted.

I changed the filter to Flag so that it will accept it but flag it for later. This way we wouldn't miss any transactions, they would just be flagged.

Importing MPG4 h.264 Premiere Issues

Premiere CS3 Box

I slammed my head against the wall for hours trying to figure out why h.264 MP4 HD video from my snazzy new Samsung digital camera wouldn't import into Adobe Premiere CS3.

Answer: Change the file extension to .mpg

Change filename.MP4 --> filename.mpg

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