My Monkey Do

There are a ton of video player that use HTML5 with flash fallback.  A few years ago I found one named JW Player.  This was a great player that was fully featured.  Keyword being “was”.  I was developing a website that would be using this player, but for the time being I used the free version [...]

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 I had “undefined” showing up in the description of my lightbox whenever I left out the “title” attribute in my link.   Solution I am using jQuery 1.6.2, the examples used 1.4.2.   To resolve the problem, look to change something like this:   if(pp_descriptions[set_position] != “”){ $pp_pic_holder.find(‘.pp_description’).show().html(unescape(pp_descriptions[set_position])); }else{ $pp_pic_holder.find(‘.pp_description’).hide(); } to this: if(typeof [...]

PuTTY and its related tools are a free version of Telnet and SSH for windows.  It has been available since 1999 and I have heard about it since way back then, but I haven’t had a real need for it until just recently.  I used to use the SSH Secure Shell commercial client, but since [...]

Originally published by Zack Rusin, found by using the WayBack Machine. I am not a lawyer and do not know legal stuff.  I posted this here for my reference and in case the wayback machine loses the page.  If this posting itself violates some kind of license let me know and I’ll take it down [...]