As you can (hopefully) see, DidntYouHear.com went under the knife recently, and is now sporting a new look. Version 1.1 incorporates a lot of the visual changes that I’ve been wanting to make for some time now, with the biggest being the addition of a second sidebar. Overall, there is now more information available on one screen, and I think it makes everything a little easier to look at.
For today’s TGI Friday, I’m asking for some feedback. Do you like the new look? Hate it? Is anything broken? Since I develop on a Mac, I can’t see the site in Internet Explorer, so I’m especially interested to hear how it looks over in IE land (though you should be using Firefox anyways). As always, both positive and negative comments are appreciated.
In addition to the design changes, DYH is now a little wider as well. Unfortunately, this means that some of you might have the edges of the site cut off by your browser, but according to my Mint stat tracker, 87% of you will still be able to view the new size in its full glory, so I had to make a few sacrifices for the greater good (though I do apologize to anyone who now has to side scroll). Remember though, if you subscribe to the RSS Feed, you can see the content however you like (or however your RSS viewer allows you to like), so there is always an alternative solution.
Lastly, in case you were wondering, this site runs off of WordPress, uses K2 as the theme, and sports a custom K2 style (called DYH) that I developed. And coffee. Lots of coffee.
Here’s a neat little trick for Firefox’s autocomplete suggestions. If you mistype or misspell an address or a search or anything else that you want autocomplete to forget about (so that you don’t constantly and accidentally click the wrong one), just arrow down to it, hold shift, and hit delete (or just arrow to it and hit delete for you Widows users). Boom, no more didnyouhear.com.
Here’s a neat little trick for those of you who are Firefox surfers and members of MyBlogLog:
Open your cookies.txt file, and find the line that looks like:
.mybloglog.com TRUE / FALSE 120364175 mbl_sid (long string of numbers)
Now, change the number after mbl_sid to 2006111716255804
If you aren’t a MyBlogLog member, just add that line to your cookies.txt file and restart Firefox
When you’re done, browse around to sites that have the MyBlogLog widget (try MyBlogLog.com if you can’t think of any others), and see who shows up as your avatar. Neat, huh?
With the launch of Vista, T-Mobile and the ‘Soft have partnered up to give away three months of free HotSpot service to anyone who upgrades. The free service relies on a pretty weak verification scheme to check for the upgrade though, so with a little easy hacking, you too can enjoy free wireless, courtesy of T-Mobile. Here’s what you need to do:
Download Firefox (You should be using this anyways)
Restart Firefox and go to: Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options…
Click “User Agents” and then “Add”
Fill out the window with following info:
Description: Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
App Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer
App Version: 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Platform: Win32
Save, go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Then click the newly added one.
Browse over to http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista/ and you should be redirected to a trial sign-up page.
Note: This isn’t guaranteed to work (You may need to be using a Mac), but if it does, hooray for you!
One thing that makes Firefox so great is its customizability. Lifehacker has put together a nice little tutorial for changing values and tweaking the little known and littler used about:config settings. It looks daunting at first, but by following the guide, you can’t stray too far off course, and soon you’ll find yourself tweaking with ease (doesn’t that just sound illegal). Give it a try, you’ll be glad you did.
Firefox 2.0 has officially hit the streets, and it’s going to be hot. If you haven’t joined the Firefox revolution, now is the time. Firefox, by Mozilla, is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser (thanks Wikipedia) that’s quickly become the standard for browsing the web. It cuts down on pop ups, is totally customizable, and just plain works. Give it a try; you’ll never look at the web the same way again.
Need another reason to switch? Watch this comparison video, and the choice will be pretty obvious:
Here’s a quick tip for you Firefoxers out there: To change your homepage, just drag the site’s favicon onto your ‘Home’ button on the address bar.
