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gpg4usb

Nix für den Mac, aber trotzdem interessant:

To say it straight in only one sentence: gpg4usb is a very easy to use portable-application, which combines a simple text-editor with a GnuPG-frontend to write, encrypt and decrypt your text-messages. Gpg4usb should work on almost any computer you’re working on, should it be a Linux-machine or even one with a Microsoft-OS running.

Almost the only thing required is an available usb-port you are allowed to access. With this application you can write safe and encrypted messages anywhere you are: should it be an internet-cafe, at work or somewhere else on holiday… and you always have the encryption-keys available for usage!

via Burkhard Schröder

Pinwheel - Enhanced Select Element

Sehr schicker Effekt:

Pinwheel replaces a standard SELECT element with a Javascript-enhanced version that, when clicked, “pinwheels” outward to display the choices.

Ich wüsste zwar nicht wo ich sowas einsetzen soll, da es nicht wirklich intuitiv ist, aber schick ist es!

Einführung in CodeIgniter

Auf IBMs developerworks gibt es eine Einführung in CodeIgniter. Es werden die absoluten Basics behandelt, aber da ich letzten Monat gerade mal wieder eine Seite mit CodeIgniter realisiert habe dachte ich rein damit ins Blog:

Finally, the good folks at EllisLab released CodeIgniter. After working with and experimenting with all the available PHP MVC frameworks, CodeIgniter has come out as the winner at many firms, mostly because it supports just enough freedom within its organizational dynamic to allow developers to work fast.

Freedom means that with CodeIgniter, you don’t have to name your database tables a certain way, nor do you have to name your models after your tables. This makes CodeIgniter the perfect choice to refactor a legacy PHP application, in which you may have all kinds of crazy structures that need porting over.

CodeIgniter doesn’t require a huge footprint of code (the 1.6.2 release is a slender 2.8 MB, 1.3 MB of which is user documentation you can delete), nor does it ask you to plug in to huge libraries like PEAR. It works equally well in PHP 4 or PHP 5, allowing you to create fairly portable applications. Finally, you don’t have to use a templating engine to create your views — just old-fashioned HTML and PHP will do.

Animierte Menüs

Ein Artikel auf A List Apart zeigt wie man mit CSS Sprites und jQuery einige schicke Menüanimationen realisieren kann.

Einen ganz ähnlichen Effekt erklärt: Image Fade Revisited (und der Effekt dort ist sehr viel schicker, IMHO).

Im Artikel wird auch noch das Tutorial: How To Create A ‘Mootools Homepage’ Inspired Navigation Effect Using jQuery erwähnt. Sehr verspielt aber hübsch.

10 CSS Tips von Leuten die wissen was sie tun

NETTUTS hat 10 CSS Tips von Leuten wie Peter-Paul Koch, Roger Johansson, Jonathan Snook, Trevor Davis, Dan Cederholm, Jeffrey Zeldman, Wolfgang Bartelme und Trenton Moss zusammengetragen.

Nichts wirklich neues aber immer interessant zu sehen was andere so denken.