Articles tagged with Tips
Flash Components Missing Fonts
Posted by Chris Inch on Feb. 8th, 2006
So here's a nice bug that took me about a month to figure out:
Blocking Backgrounds in Flash
Posted by Chris Inch on Feb. 12th, 2006
A very common problem in Flash is as follows:
Your stage is covered in buttons and interactive movie clips and you want to put something on top of your entire stage and disable all the elements in the background all at once. Here's how:
iTunes 7 - Unnamed Album Fix
Posted by Chris Inch on Sept. 13th, 2006
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Apple released version 7 of iTunes yesterday. The new version has lots of new features including movie support from the iTunes Music Store, iPod games, and way more support for album artwork including automatic downloading from the iTunes Music Store, and Cover Flow which is an awesome new way of showing all of your albums in iTunes visually.
A tip from Inch's bathroom
Posted by Chris Inch on Oct. 6th, 2006
Have you ever been frustrated by condensation on your bathroom mirror when you get out of the shower? Are you annoyed when you wipe it off only to discover that you’ve now created streaks on your mirror, and the condensation just comes right back anyway? Here’s a discovery I made a couple months ago to get rid of your foggy mirror after a hot shower.
If you build good content, they will come.
Posted by Chris Inch on Feb. 8th, 2007
You've been hired to make a web site for a client. They want something attractive, easy to use and they want good search engine ranking. So you get right to work. You design an amazing graphical layout and add all lots of useful features using Ajax and javascript. Now, for the search engine optimization.
A tip from Inch's bathroom #2
Posted by Chris Inch on Feb. 20th, 2007
There is only one person who doesn't replace the toilet paper roll after using the last square. His name is Apathy.
Thank you Firefox
Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 14th, 2007
I just stumbled upon something in Mozilla Firefox that saved me a lot of time: Recently Closed Tabs.
Unblocking backgrounds in Flash
Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 31st, 2007
A long while ago I wrote an article describing how to block background elements in Flash. The problem I used to encounter was that my background elements were clickable through other movie clips on the stage. In ActionScript 3.0, this has all changed.
Why I shave with olive oil
Posted by Chris Inch on Sept. 5th, 2007
Shaving is a fact of life for most. Both men and women have felt the need to chop off hair as close as possible to their skin for thousands of years. I am no exception. Seeing as I shave my face almost every day and realizing that there's millions of other things I would rather be doing at 7:00AM, I have made it my mission to find the best, most comfortable, fastest and generally most enjoyable method of shaving available.
How to shop online for cheaper
Posted by Chris Inch on Nov. 7th, 2007
Yesterday I found something that I had to share. With Christmas only a month and a half away, if you haven't started thinking about shopping, now's the time. Here's a site that will help keep more money in your pocket.
DIY Super Clamp
Posted by Chris Inch on Nov. 9th, 2008
Recently I was looking on eBay for a Super Clamp. This is a small device that costs about $40. This is about $35 more than I was willing to spend. I decided to make my own Super Clamp.
How to flip a mattress
Posted by Chris Inch on July 20th, 2009
Most mattress manufacturers recommend that you rotate your mattress to allow it to wear evenly and prolong its lifetime. This is especially important if you have a partner that you share your bed with. If you and your partner are different heights and weights, then you will need to rotate it to prevent it from getting too worn in some areas, but not others. The concept is not unlike rotating the tires on your car, allowing them to wear evenly as well.
So how do you flip a mattress? Do you flip it the long way, or the short way? What way did you rotate your mattress last time? This past weekend, I came up with an easy system that is pretty straight forward and will help you remember when and how to flip your mattress:
5 reasons to avoid pre-paid credit cards
Posted by Chris Inch on Sept. 20th, 2010
I've seen a lot of those "pre-paid" credit cards in stores recently, and in the past year or so, I've actually received three of them as gifts. With all due respect to the people who purchased them for me; please stop buying these pre-paid MasterCard and pre-paid Visa cards. Here's my top 5 reasons why you should avoid pre-paid credit cards:
Being more productive in 5 easy steps
Posted by Chris Inch on April 17th, 2011
Have you ever had a busy day filled with little tasks that added up to practically nothing, walking away at the end of the day, you realize you just worked for 8 hours straight and have nothing to show for it? You're not alone. We all have days like this. Sometimes, the key to being productive has nothing to do with how long you work, but rather how you organize your time. Here are 5 ways that I improve my productivity on a daily basis.
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