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700+ Free Categorized Icons from Google
As part of Google's Material Design Project 750 icons have just been made available for you to use in your projects. They've been categorized nicely and come in many flavours: SVG (24px and 48px versions) PNG (1x, 2x, 3x) CSS sprites And even hi-dpi versions (hdpi,...
Copy and Paste Characters from Copypastecharacters.com
A quick shout out to copypastecharacter.com! They provide a quick one-click interface to a bunch of favourite characters people use commonly in Tweets or other online writings. Be sure to click the link near the top of their page for more options (see graphic above)....
Boomerang for Gmail: Send Emails in the Future
I've been using Boomerang for Gmail for a year or two now and love it. It's a FREE add-on to Gmail that allows you to send emails to yourself, or anyone, in the future! The main purpose I use it for is reminding myself of an event in the future. Months ahead of time,...
Locate32 is an awesome 3rd-party search for Windows
Locate32 is the free software program I use to search for files and folders on my computer running Windows 7. I'm only writing about it here because it's awesome. Locate32 uses it's own database to make searching lighting fast (yes, that fast) and includes a feature...
The Read More Button in WordPress
All of my default Wordpress installs lately seem to configure the blog entries and the Read More button such that when the button is clicked the blog entry is loaded and the page "jumps" to the spot in the entry where the "more" button was located (a named anchor). To...
Adobe InDesign: Printing Blank Pages?
When printing or exporting to a PDF from Adobe InDesign I sometimes run across pages coming out blank. I don't mean the odd blank page in the document or one or two blank pages at the end, but rather the whole document is blank, or each page is missing a large amount...
Responsive Video Containers: Embedresponsively.com
Embedresponsively.com offers a simple copy/paste solution for responsive containers. See a video you want to share Copy the address bar Visit their site embedresponsively.com Paste the address Copy the code their site presents to you Here's a screen capture of their...
Invisible Elements Correctly in CSS
[code lang="css"] .element-invisible { position: absolute !important; height: 1px; width: 1px; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); /* IE6, IE7 */ clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); } [/code] Full credit to Jonathan Snook. His article and reasoning here:...
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