HTML HEX email encoder - hide your email address

If you need to have an email address on your website, but like the rest of us would like to shoot spammers on site. Then this little tool allows you to encode your email address as HEX, and the little gadgets that crawl the tinternet searching for email address invariably miss yours.

http://www.knechtology.com/stop-spam/email_encoder.html

css-tricks.com

If you have anything to do with XHTML and CSS this is a most useful little demo.

http://css-tricks.com/videos/css-tricks-video-40.php

It explains z-index positioning for css.

really useful, very well explained.

That's better....

Well following on from the last moan, its improving, perhaps someone is listening...

...do trees make a sound when they fall when nobody is there to hear them?

Fuel mumble grumble

So, oil prices have dipped below $90 a barrel today.

Why, oh why are we still paying over £1.18 for diesel at the pumps?

We are getting RIPPED OFF in this country, and we're all to passive and stupid to do anything about it.
If we were French, half the country would be on fire/blockaded in protest!

or am I alone in this thinking......?

Searching for colour palette inspiration

It took me a little while to find this link again, so I thought hey, I know I'll stick it in my blog.

http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/

The best thing about this is you can direcly import the colour palettes into photoshop, topstyle and loads of other every day packges.

Supabulous

Audio books - made easy

So, what you need to do is download itunes v.8.

Then go and register online at podiobooks, then find the book you want to listen to, subscribe to it using the itunes button and check the tickbox to download all the chapters.

Then you convert it to AAC or MP3 format for your car, bang it onto a CD, and hey presto listen to something interesting on your commute.

Something useful

Have you found FireShot yet?

Go and search for this wonderful tool, install it on Firefox (yes it works in v3) and then you can tell it you want it to work in IE too, and it goes away and sorts it all out for you.

http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/

Lots of potential

If only I could figure it all out...

There's ways and means to get interesting things added and for all of this nonsense to imported into other places on tinternet.

Well mananged to get a nice photo added over there on the right.

Kinda started with a google toolbar, (thanks Mr Ellis!) and has now lead to this.

Its a case of having to try these things out to stay on the rails and keep trucking towards the big light at the end of the tunnel... do they sell candyfloss on the way. Now there's something you'd be annoyed if you'd missed it, particularly if it was free.

Hey ho, well that is a start. Lets see how this progresses.