Sounds of typing

April 8th • 1 Comment • Under: Sidenotes

On Web Worker Daily I found this little article about CushyCMS. Watch the introductory screencast and listen to those keystrokes, especially enter. Aside from that, I actually think that CushyCMS is very useful for the work its meant to do (and its free).

Simple Fullscreen Text Editors for Students, Bloggers, Journalists and Writers

April 1st • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: writing

Do you ever catch yourself changing the typeface, line spacing or the color of the text instead of actually writing? You might want to try one of these: Q10 — Finish that first draft. Now. (Windows only, no frameworks required); JDarkRoom — A simple full-screen text editor. (requires Java 1.4 or greater); Dark Room — Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. (requires .NET Framework 2.0).

Hello, WordPress 2.5

March 30th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: WordPress

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 RC-2 and then 5 hours later to WP 2.5 final. Had a few problems which I will explain and show how to solve in a follow up post.

We’re back with a free font suggestion — Liberation Sans

March 27th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: design

Why use Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica or Verdana if there is the fantastic Liberation Sans — created by Steve Matteson and liberated by Red Hat, Inc. under GNU GPL licence. Read more »

Posting suspended while on vacation

March 17th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

There will be no new posts until the next week (March 24) as there haven’t been any for the past few weeks already due to the studies and the current vacation.

Topics for the upcoming articles include: how to automatically create thumbnail images for the blog post excerpts (from the images inside the article), and how to create one sentence post excerpts using regular expressions (REGEX) and PHP. Therefore — stay subscribed.