spent the night yesterday adjusting the look and feel on my blog as well as adding in the sidebar. looks a bit better now, and it’s actually possible to navigate! though I’m still missing the post navigation, hopefully il fix it up soon. im still not so sure on the current “design” im using, wish my design skills were a bit better.
for the past few weeks, iv been using flock 2 beta as my browser. the more i use it, the more annoyed im getting with it. the UI isnt as nice as the rest of my mac apps, the top bar is insanely cluttered, the youtube media stream messages make it impossible to play a youtube video, the twitter sidebar is utter crap; it never updates and the user flow isnt the best. the idea for the browser is brilliant, i like the idea of being able to drag images from the media bar into a textarea, its nice having twitter right in your browser. the idea’s are all good, but the flocksters have implemented them poorly (yes, i know i use the beta. i should expect bugs, but i get the same problems in flock 1). the flock team seem to be pushing more new features in releases rather than bug fixes and improvements on old features, i guess this is what to expect when projects become commercialised, the dark force of money and greed take priority over a decent product. flock fail.
/rant over
btw, wrote this post from the wordpress iphone app, nice to use though not so desirable for long posts.
im back with my blog on 84degrees.com, trying to come up with a design. hopefully this time my blog will be used, hoping to release firemint v2 soon and im considering the redevelopment of zenses but as a cross platform application (rather than .net).
firemint v2, will contain extra stats but will require a special pepper to be installed in mint. fully compatible with firefox 3, and flock 2. will post some screenshots soon.
didnt take too long, everything should be back the way it used to be. apart from a few minor edits (il fix them soon). weirdly enough, i still haven’t started backing up. i will keep trying to remember.
having a bitch of a mac issue at the moment though, my applications (safari, skype, textmate, itunes etc..) keep failing with Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) and there seems to be no solution!! im using leopard 10.5.2, its only been happening the past week or so, but god its annoying.
apple have fucked up, how can they say vista is flawed when their own operating system is screwed?
update: now everything is really back, i missed out setting up the permalinks again. opps.
bare with me, i accidently deleted my custom stylesheet and my custom plugins. and because im pretty stupid, i dont have a backup. so i need to spend a while recreating all my shit.
time to backup
last night i spent some time making a plugin for wordpress, basically it uses the jquery lightbox plugin and adds extra functionality to it by detecting flickr images, and making them work in a lightbox automatically. this means i dont need to specify rel=”lightbox” on the actual link, and i also don’t need to specify the image to display in the lightbox, as the javascript works out the image to load (from the thumbnail being displayed).
my plan is to release the plugin, but first im going to make some adjustments so it doesnt need the jquery lightbox plugin (as the code i’ve used has been modified)
expect a release within a few days
well heres version 1 of the mochapowered style, currently theres still lots of improvement that need to be made. need to add some shadows, and try to make the site look just as nice using css2 as it does with css3. css3 has introduced so many new features such as opacity on colour channels, text shadowing etc… hopefully people will make the switch to a css3 browser soon like safari or firefox3.
for all of you stuck in the old ways, heres what your missing out on:
enjoy
