I installed the code for my collapsible sidebar on here… perhaps a bit prematurely… I dunno…

I havent fully tested it yet, but the sidebar seems to work right… evrything with a handle can still be dragged to reorder the sidebar… but now you should be able to collapse each item as well… the contents should drop out and go away on the first click… then fade back in on the second click… blind up and down when you click the little toggle switch to the right of the handle.

the page should then remember both the position that item was in… and if the box was collapsed or not.

 test it out and let me know if it works please.

Made a new theme today…

I wanted something cleaner… less busy… easier to read… etc.

This is what I came up with. A side effect is that I had to re-organize my code for the draggable sidebar with memory… that makes it one step closer to being a plugin. Only thing left to do is finish the collapse script. Once thats done I’ll start “pluginizing” it.

 Anyway, please comment if you find a bug or if something doesnt look/work right in the new theme. or you could just comment to let me know if you like it.

Ok.

Lots of people are aware of… and annoyed by the ActiveX issues surrounding embedded flash (and other things) in IE. I personally have only been effected by the flash issues though so for now Im ignoring the rest.

My friend Dan pointed me towards SWFObject… a javascript by Geoff Stearns (visit him at blog.deconcept.com) which can be used to embed flash without any issues.

The invocation code is a little much for sites that are flash heavy… or people who just like to write as little code as possible. Dan had written a nifty little php script to insert all the javascript more easily… even his simplified code was too much for me though so I made my own.

Read on for examples, explanations and all kinds of stuff that will make your life easier if you care about this whole ActiveX problem…

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v0.2 Upgrade makes plugin work with titles containing ampersands and works better for people who are not using mod_rewrite for their urls. Also fixes IE ActiveX lawsuit problems with embed.

Heres the sIFR plugin I promised… It shouldnt be too confusing to install… the only potentially tricky parts are if people really wanna change the flash file…

Ive included the source FLA to make editing it really easy… Please read the comments in the FLA though… there a few really important points.

Anyway… for those of you who dont know what sIFR is… check out the original post I made: Flash Titles Like This One

For those of you who want the plugin and source files…

Downloads:

• v0.1 Is available HERE
• v0.2 is now available. I reccomend you upgrade. Download HERE

Please comment if you like… post a link to where you are using it so I can check it out… and if you have any problems that you think may be a bug… post a comment about it.

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“Fleshh It” detects links coming in from Fleshh.com to your blog posts and displays links back to Fleshh so people can vote for you. If there is no link detected, the link will be “Submit to Fleshh” - Fleshh.com is NSFW!

Current Version is v0.5
Prettymuch the same as 0.4 but added a new option… Can now “Submit to Fleshh” if no existing fleshh post is detected.

Major changes were in v0.4

If you have an earlier version installed then download this one and read the whole readme before you install the new version… You should prolly uninstall the old completely and then install this one.

All problems are fixed and it works great! 

Downloads:

• Download it HERE
• v0.2 Actually Works! Download it HERE see the readme for what I fixed.
• v0.4 Sweet! Download it here! Read Readme before installing or upgrading.
• v0.5 Download it here! New Feature! Read Readme before installing or upgrading.

Usage details are now in the readme. They are important so check it out.

Read a little old info on this plugin… Ive removed most of it though and put it in the readme. Check out the comments for updates… please post bugs there if you find em.

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How cool is this lil bugger…

A virtual bluetooth keyboard so you dont have to use the crappy little onscreen keyboard of your PDA all the time.

 It projects a laser image of a full size keyboart onto whatever surface you set it on… then tracks you hand movements and inputs what you type through the BT link.

Apparently you have to be extra accurate in your typing so it doesn’t mis-understand you… but from what Ive read so far you can type almost as fast as you would with a real keyboard.

Anyway… check it out. Ill be busy trying to convince myself to part with the $200 they’re going for… (should make coding on my Axim easier ) Theres another brand (or what looks like a different brand) for sale over at Think Geek… its just $179… but is of course out of stock.

Check out the new link at the top menu… or just click here: Site Terms

kinda cool huh?

anyone who gets errors or other bad stuff… like seeing the terms before you click or the terms not going away… please let me know so I can fix it. The browsers Ive tested in didnt give me any trouble though.

Ok… since Im still working on it… one would expect a few bugs in the sidebar…

The current bug isnt really a bug at all… I havent written the code yet to handle problems created whan I add a new sidebar item and a users cookie doesnt recognise it… this results in big ugly errors in the sidebar.

For now if this happens… scroll down and click on the “Reset order to default” link then refresh…. this will clear the cookie and let it rebuild the sidebar to get rid of errors.