Alan Hart

Here are some geeky/webdesign thinga-ma-bobs i’ve stumbled across/used recently:

Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

a very handy quick reference guide for regular expressions, including symbols, ranges, grouping, assertions and some sample patterns for beginners.
http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet/

CSS Transparency

used on this site so you can see the background image behind content on smaller screen resoltions
Transparency is one of those weird things that is treated completely differently in all browsers.
don’t forget to read the comments at the bottom of this article too:
http://css-tricks.com/css-transparency-settings-for-all-broswers/

Twitter “Retweet” Button

The Retweet button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to retweet their content on twitter.
Here’s a really smart bit of code using one simple piece of JavaScript to give up to date tweet counts and shorten your title and link for the retweets. Best of all it will work on any web page, anywhere!
http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/

Dezignus.com

Vector art, icons, brushes, textures, wallpapers, anime, girls, tutorials… nuff said!
http://dezignus.com/

if you found any of these useful, please tweet/share.

I might be a bit slow on this but thought it was interesting enough to blog about.
Google have gone off-road with their StreetView camera and captured Stonehenge.

Google Street View goes off-road to add Stonehenge Photo: GETTY

See stonehenge streetview below or View Streetview Stonehenge outside of the blog.

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Street View allows web users to view place as if walking along the street, exploring 360-degree images recorded from eye level.

But its cameras have also captured some embarrassing moments, including a man entering a sex shop and another being sick in the street.

The application allows users to access 360-degree views of roads and homes in 25 British towns and cities and includes photographs of millions of residential addresses, people and cars.

It has been hailed as a helpful tool for home hunters and tourists.

So, this year marks the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. I used to watch it mostly when i was at school and occasionaly college.
I love the show and was therefore very happy to be greeted by some of my favourite Sesame Street characters on Google’s Logo this week. My absolute favourite being Elmo.

Here are all the Sesame Street Google logos from this week:

Big Bird Google Logo – Wednesday 4th November

More about BigBird

Cookie Monster Google Logo – Thursday 5th November

More about Cookie Monster

Bert & Ernie Google Logo – Friday 6th November

More about Bert and Ernie

Oscar the Grouch Google Logo – Saturday 7th November

More about Oscar the Grouch

Elmo Google Logo – Sunday 8th November

More about Elmo

The Count (Count von Count) Google Logo – Monday 9th November

More about The Count

Sesame Street Ensemble Google Logo – Tuesday 10th November

More about Sesame Street

I use Europe DNS for pretty much all my domain name registration needs, the prices are good and they give you full control over your domains.

They don’t just do european domains, they have every kind of domain available in one place including: .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz (worldwide domains) and .mobi (mobile domains) as well as country specific domains such as .co.uk (UK domains) and .ie (ireland domains).

Custom DNS Entries and Modifications as well as domain renewals are easy using their domain managment system .

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The wife of one of my colleagues has got a new site. She does hand painted canvas pieces.

The website has the current collections but she also does customised designs with your preferred choice of colours.

Contemporary Touch Painted Canvases