This is a quick tip about obtaining a nice looking effect of shadow while scrolling. Using css and a partially transparent background png it is possible to simulate a shadow in the lowest part of your website/blog, giving the input to the user about scrolling the page to read the semi-hidden content.

Firebug has always been my favourite companion for developing frontends for web applications. Unfortunately latest version both of the extension and the browser disappointed me and I had to look for other solutions. In a Linux environment Opera was the most known non-free alternative so 6 months ago I started using its brand new debugging engine codenamed DragonFly. Some months [...]

Just a quick example on how to use CSS new properties to rotate texts without Javascript. I love those progresses, but still hate the needing of specify three different properties for three different kinds of browser.

I really liked the new Ubuntu notification system so I decided to install it on Gentoo too. At first I found this overlay but it’s not updated and fails to download packages. Then I decided to compile it myself and found the process terribly easy… Here’re my steps Download Notify-osd is hosted on launchpad , and got lots of releases. I found that latest ones failed to compile on my environment so I chose the 0.9.12. cd /opt/ sudo wget http://launchpad.net/notify-osd/0.9/0.9.12/

Just a quick reference to spread that it’s recently been possible to manage SSL certificates trought NSS Shared DB. Management has not been enabled via gui yet, but it is possible to use nss tools to install and manage certs. On [blippr]Google[/blippr] code dedicated page there were useful generic instructions for [blippr]linux[/blippr] but we (gentooist) got different commands to launch and a different way to install required nss tools. I added our purple way to do everything to google wi

I’m currently using Adobe Air just for Twitter clients, Seesmic and [blippr]Tweetdeck[/blippr]. I noticed that the browser used to open links was not the gnome default one (Epiphany in my case) but [blippr]Firefox[/blippr]. After looking for firefox string into the apps folder I tried looking for it on the adobe air installation directory and… yes that was there. Unfortunately it’s compiled in a .so files and as I couldn’t recompile it I decided using mighty vim to do the

I got a memory leak problem on my brain. Can’t remember all the passwords, hosts and usernames to connect to work and home servers, remote hosts etc. Usually I store everything on gnote and then simply copy&paste on my terminal, but I got bored about that, so I created sabri. Sabri ( Ssh from Automatic Bash Remote Inditement ) is a Bash script able to store on a sqlite3 database all my ssh connections data (host, user & pass) and then connect to any of them automatically without pr

This is just a quick & (very) dirty trick to run Google [blippr]Chrome[/blippr] on [blippr]Linux[/blippr] using a precompiled debian package instead of compiling the enormous source tarball. Step 1. Download the Deb Get your browser to Developer Download page for Linux x86 and accept [blippr]Google[/blippr] Terms of service. Step 2. Unpack the unpackable Open a terminal emulator and cd to your download directory ( mine is Desktop ) cd ~/Desktop mv google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb /tmp

I own a very old IBM laptop, 64 MB of memory 533Mhz Intel celeron 5Gb HD, running [blippr]ubuntu[/blippr] 9.04 alternate with fluxbox and custom kernel. Unfortunately this laptop doesn’t have any way to connect to internet but the old 56K modem. The pcmci port seems broken (also I don’t think spending 50€ for a pcmcia wireless or eth card is a good idea as the laptop value is around 5€) so the latest chance for me to navigate from this old friend is connecting something to the USB

As the most important thing both for professionsts and companies on the net is “being talked about“, find and monitor buzzes is essential too. Professional analytics applications like Trackset Conversionlab help a lot, crawling the net and finding news, reviews, forum messages and more, containing the website, the brand or some specific keywords chosen by the interested company. Bloggers usually can not afford such a professional tool and have to find other ways by their own. Google