Yet Another Blog

Difference Between Serif and Sans-serif Fonts

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:43:19 +0000

I didn’t know this, but I just noticed on w3schools.com.

On computer screens, sans-serif fonts are considered easier to read than serif fonts.

26 gigapixel photo of Dresden

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:38:45 +0000

No it’s no type, it’s really a photo of 26 gigapixels which is 297.500 by 87.500 pixels! In photography we are getting used to standards around 20 megapixels or higher and now a photo like this is passing by. A.F.B. Media from Germany has presented this by putting 1655 photo’s of the city of Dresden together.

The complete photo is now on the online and can be viewed with a nice viewer.

Snail timelapse

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:58:52 +0000

On the Internet I found this interesting movie. Normally when we see snails on the ground or something we see like one frame of their whole life. We can’t see exactly what they are doing unless you have much time and have the patience to study them of what they are doing and where they are going. The following movie is a timelapse of snails coming out during the rain and makes you see the snails from a different perspective because. The movie is made by Chase Rees with a RED One camera.

Google Talk: Login with multiple accounts

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:03:08 +0000

I’m not very active as you can see, so I want to celebrate this with writing a second-post-of-the-year.

Since a couple of months I’m using Google Talk a lot more than before. Last week I just wondered if it is possible to run multiple instances of Google Talk. You might think why should I use multiple instances but it becomes handy when you have multiple accounts and you want to be online with both at the same time. It is very simple to do this, you only have start Google Talk with a parameter. To make that easy you can edit your current shortcut to Google Talk or make a new shortcut with the following action (assuming your installation folder is the same):

“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

Now when you run Google Talk using that shortcut and do it a second time, you see a new instance showing up.

Crashing JavaScript in Internet Explorer

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:15:03 +0000

Most of the JavaScript programmers has probably “broken” their scripts in Internet Explorer at least once in their live. Sometimes it is a tiny bug that can crash your scripts. One of that bugs can show up when using object literals.

When adding a few key-value pairs to a object literal, most developers just copy and past the previous row, including the comma and then edit the key name and its value. Example:

var foobars {
   foo1: "bar1",
   foo2: "bar2",
   foo3: "bar3", // <-- get rid of that comma!
}

This code will let you crash your JavaScript in Internet Explorer and it can make you desperate when you have to debug it. So, watch out when using object literals.