Gizmodo via Juha
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Viper’s Video Quicktags
“[This plugin] creates a bunch of new [WYSIWYG buttons which, when pushed, prompt] you for the video’s ID or URL and then inserts XHTML valid code into your post or page. […] This Plugins Provides Support For:
- YouTube
- Google Video
- IFILM
- QuickTime files
- AVI files
- MPEG files
- WMV files
- FLV (Flash video) files”
I modified the plugin just slightly so that each embedded object gets a named class (e.g.
"youtubevideo") which I can then manipulate trough the stylesheet (like centering the video usingdisplay: block;andmargin: 1em auto;). -
Google Image Labeler
You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.
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How to Crash Internet Explorer
Ever wish you could make your friends and family switch away from Internet Explorer? Perhaps the ability to make it spontaneously crash (and I mean totally crash) just by sending them a link might sway them…
Modern Life Is Rubbish via Juha
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WavPack: Lossless Audio Compression
“WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. […] The compression ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%.”
They say it compresses better than FLAC at the highest levels.
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PHP's number_format() with
PHP’s
number_format()can’t take a as a separator, which is bad when you want the separator to be whitespace inside HTML, since using a normal blank (a ” “) breaks the number when it happens to be laid out between to lines.Svein Tjonndal has written the following little function which essentially does a
number_formatwith as the thousands separator:function numberfix($number) { $number = number_format($number,0,","," "); return str_replace(" ", " ", $number); }