Tag Archives: howto

Round corners and transparency? No way!

Way! Transparent custom corners and borders presents a technique to create resizeable boxes with custom-shaped corners, entirely in CSS, with a clever bit of Javascript to insert the empty div elements that make it all work. By the time I read through all the code, I decided it’s a hack to make other hacks blush, [...]

Bluetooth: easy as quantum mechanics

I’ve just picked up a Bluetooth adapter for my PC so I’ve got at least one device to which I can connect my Tapwave Zodiac. HotSync via Bluetooth works brilliantly, but trying to share out my PC’s net connection has been anything but simple.

I still haven’t quite got it working, but this Palm Bluetooth Guide [...]

CSS tutorials from down under

Max Design has a fantastic series of CSS tutorials. The site covers the basics of styling lists and the proper use of selectors, and its Floatutorial contains the single best explanation I’ve seen for how CSS floating elements work.

Photoshop touchup tutorial

Jeremy Keith has a brief Photoshop tutorial that covers four simple but effective photo-retouching techniques. In addition to the usual step-by-step instructions you’d expect from a good tutorial, it’s also got all four techniques for download as a Photoshop actions (.atn) file.

It’s a shame I’ve only got the dumbed-down Photoshop Elements, which doesn’t appear to [...]

Graffiti classic