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Help James Key

September, 15th

A friend of mine has just been diagnosed with acute leukemia. Myself, Host Creative and ibrollins have teamed up and put together an info / donation website to help raise money for James and his family. It’s extremely difficult for anyone to deal with this situation, so we are asking for your support. You can give at www.helpjameskey.com

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CSS3 border-radius Property

September, 15th

The working draft of CSS3 is being talked about more and more as browser’s are being continually updated, and one of the best features in CSS3 is the border-radius property. This allows for the application of rounded corners to any element, except to the table element when border-collapse is collapse. You can read more about the values that can be set on the CSS3 working draft.

Not all browsers currently support this property, but for the ones that do —Safari, FireFox, Google Chrome— we’ll use it. The browsers that fail to support it will just get straight edges. Lets take a look at the default values for the border-radius property.

<div class="some-box">
....Stuff Here....
</div>

We will style this box with a background color and round all of the corners equally. For Geko based browsers —FireFox— we use the -moz- prefix. And for the Webkit based browsers —Safari, Google Chrome— we use the -webkit- prefix.

.some-box {
padding: 20px;
background: #f4f3ef;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;
-webkit-border-radius: 6px;
}

You can see the result of this by looking at the wrapper div of this site. By using this property we have eliminated the need of using background images and extra div elements. This makes it possible to re-style rounded corner elements without the frustration of editing images.

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What the Snow Leopard…

June, 11th

Any one that knows me, knows that it’s apple or nothing. I need to admit that I was a little scared when they announced “Snow Leopard”. Leopard has a though – i can eat you – kinda of sound, but snow leopard sounds like a de-clawed kitten at the pet store. I am glad to have been proven wrong. The new features that are packed into snow leopard are more than enough to compensate for the name. One of best features is the re-written finder, with 64-bit support, not to mention all of the key built-in apps are now 64-bit.

0 Comments / Filed in OS X
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