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January 25, 2008
Generate sIFR SWFs without Adobe Flash
For those of you unfortunate enough to not have Adobe Flash hand for generating sIFR swf files from fonts, dispair no more! Introducing sIFR Maker, a program that will generate the sIFR swf without buying Flash.
sIFRMaker is a fairly simple program to convert from a TTF to SWF by banging together swfmill files to […]
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January 20, 2008
Laptop Power Consumption
In this article we compare the power consumption of various laptops as well as look at the notion of undervolting and its affect on power consumption. Learn which features take up the most power and how to maximize your battery life on the go!
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December 31, 2007
Post Onload Download for better user loadtime
Weee, well this is a fun one. It’s a method for ensuring that your users get the best response time possible, particularly on their first time to your page (Which in most cases, is most of your traffic). It will increase your bandwith usage, but overall, should lead to a better first impression to users.
The […]
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December 29, 2007
Introducing a new way to minify CSS
This whole site actually started when I thought of a novel way of minifying CSS that (at least as far as I was aware) was not done by any other piece of software out there. The results in the end are better than any other minifiers I have come across, so, without further adieu, […]
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December 24, 2007
GZipping CSS and JS files in Apache
GZipping text files on your server can increase response time to the user by shrinking the amount of data that goes across the pipe. Unfortunately, most hosts/servers do not have this on by default. There are a couple cons to using gzip, but overall, it is a worthwhile thing to set up. […]
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September 29, 2007
Adding an Expires Header
An expires header tells clients how long to use a cached version of a file. And, let’s face it, most of the files on your webpage (images, CSS, JS, etc) do not change all that often. Adding an expires header can significantly reduce both bandwidth usage and user load times for repeat users. […]
