My Monkey Do

All tools listed here are free and ready to use.   Great for creating gradients, even in IE: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/   Great for an alternative to Photoshop or even Gimp if you don’t have anything installed: http://pixlr.com/editor/

Since Safari 3.x, you can now have a firebug-like tool in Safari.  Either open terminal and copy-paste the line below or edit the plist file here ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safai.plist. defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true Most websites stop there saying “you should now be able to right click and see the ‘Inspect Element’ in any contextual menu”.  Well, [...]

Not a graphic designer, but you need an animated graphic to show something is loading?  Preloaders.net is a free online tool that lets you create your very own loading graphic.   http://preloaders.net/

I found some great info, where I always do, on stackoverflow.  Basically it all modern browsers request a ico file so its best to have it in case you don’t have a <link> tag.  The best thing was the ico generator url on Dynamic Drive which does transparency.  Just great stuff.  Scroll down to the [...]

Problem I added and pushed a bunch of files into my repository, but now I need to put it into a subfolder.   Solution Git is smart and will find the files you moved.  Do the following: $ mkdir newFolder $ mv oldFolder newFolder $ git rm -r oldFolder $ git add newFolder source:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3900805/git-command-to-move-a-folder-inside-another [...]

Problem: I keep getting this error: “Couldn’t resolve proxy ‘(null) …”. I googled so hard!   Solution: Thank you to someone who just plainly answers my question.  You just have to unset http.proxy and possibly https.proxy! git config –global –unset http.proxy searched: proxy connect aborted while accessing git Thanks to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5102361/pull-command-error-failed-connect-to-github-com8080

Windows only accepts TTF font files while Mac format’s their font into Dfont format.  This tool by Peter Upfold lets you convert those beautiful Mac fonts into windows format.  Then with your TTF fonts you can upload them to http://www.font2web.com/ or http://onlinefontconverter.com and make web fonts! http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2008/03/11/dfontsplitter-convert-dfont-files-to-ttf/ What to do about PostScript type files? Say you thought [...]

Problem Using your own fonts with HTML 5 can be great, but different browsers require different font formats.  I only had the TTF  (True Type Font) file, but I also needed the otf, .eot, .woff and .svg files to be compatible with all browsers.   Solution http://www.font2web.com.  Font 2 Web is a great website that does [...]