Monthly Archive for December, 2007

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Vote for iMap

I have just added iMap to the Application Voting Machine called CoolMacApps. It is quite a cool thing to vote your favorite app right in the top ten.

So why don’t you vote iMap up along with all the other apps you like.

Vote for iMap (And Other Apps)

I know, it’s a short post. Nothing really to read. :-P

Safari’s Web Inspector – Hell nice!!!

Safari 3 is Apple’s latest browser and is surely my favorite one in the world of browsers. Firefox, is just yuck, it has a ugly look and ARG – just horrible. We then have Opera which is the worse that I have ever experienced – I mean, just look at the icon??? Who wants that in a dock??? No one!!! BTW – same goes for the Firefox icon (Even though the fox is a nice idea). Better is the Camino Browser which is a mixture of Firefox’s browser engine and Safari’s elegance. Well done Camino group!!!

In any case, I’m a 100% Safari user and will never switch to a different one.

Now to the post, since Safari is quite new, it has some great features that have yet not been discovered. One of them is a advanced source-code inspector that makes life easier than ever, at least for developers.

Firefox has a plugin named Firebug which allows you to look at the source-code of a page, steal stylesheets in a snap and lots of other great things. Safari now supports this without any sort of plugin. A right-click inspector will allow you to get this:

The image above shows the loading time for certain things of my site. All visually interesting and the power of this “inspector” is just amazing.

Here is a image which shows the source code with syntax coloring.

This image shows how elements are set up within other elements, basically displaying the whole hierarchy and then the corresponding style attachments for this element! Coooool!

This is known through Coda already – but it is just nice to see this out of Coda.

Now how do you get this cool thing? It’s totally easy, just follow this steps:

  1. Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).
  2. Paste in this command line:
    defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
  3. Hit enter and now open Safari.
  4. Open any page and then right-click (or on a MacBook: ctrl + left click) and select the Element Inspector.
  5. Now you have a new window with all the features above. If you want the Element Inspector in the same window as the actual page, then click on the lower-left icon looking like three boxes
  6. If you want to get the inspector away, just paste in the same command line into Terminal, only with “false” at the end instead of “true.”

I hope you enjoy this little trick. :-D

Snow Theme Released

I just mentioned in the last post that I was working on a Wordpress theme – well, here it is! Beautiful as ever and most of the bugs fixed.

Click here for more info about “Snow Theme.”

Download “Snow Theme” here.

BTW – Yes I know, the theme does not have AJAX commenting yet – but I will add them as soon as I know how to do it. :-D

Update 1: Lol, I just changed my site to the theme and realised that some links make you really go weeeiiirdddo. The normal link colors are to bright, so I just switched the hover into the normal state, and the normal state into the hover. Looks better :-D

Update 2: I just saw an article of how to integrate AJAX comments into a Wordpress theme. I am doing it right now and it already works. I just need to fix some CSS bugs.

Update 3: So, AJAX commenting is now in the theme. I also added Tag support. Other bugs have also been fixed. Go ahead and download a pretty stable release.

Snow Theme for Wordpress

I went completely crazy over the weekend and I ended up making a complete Wordpress Theme. The theme is called “Snow” and it looks just absolutely gorgeous.

Don’t get shocked by the image below – it might not be looking good through there, but when you see it live and get to interact with it, you’ll be amazed!!!

You can take a look at it right here:

It’s not finished yet and has many, many bugs – but I will fix these last issues over the next week and the theme will then be available for free download.

iMap Christmas Offer – just €6.49

Snow, Christmas just around the corner and … iMap 2.2 has just arrived. iMap 2.2 addresses minor issues with the sitemap creation and other annoying bugs. For all those who have already bought iMap – you will get the update via email in the next 24 hours.

Well just a iMap update? No!! iMap’s price has been slashed by 20% and is now sold at €6.49 until the 24th of December. That gives you a nice chance to buy iMap and make sure that your Family Site is hooked up before Christmas and that by the time after Christmas, you can load your new photos and people will find your site on Google!

You can buy iMap here.

Enjoy the new iMap!