Take a look at this funny series of Photoshop tutorials called “You Suck At Photoshop“.
Like he says in one of the videos, he made me realize that I only use like $5o worth of Photoshop 
what a waste!
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Internet Explorer 7 is slow
I have:
4GB of RAM, 2GHz dual core CPU with 6690 MIPS and 4445 MFLOPS.
That is my CPU’s internal clock ticks 2 billion times per second (try making an empty for loop that loops 2 billion times and see how long it takes) and it executes 6690 million instructions per second and has two processing cores which basically means it’s 2 CPUs.
Now, it takes 2 seconds for Internet Explorer 7 to open a new tab for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (It’s really annoying sometimes)
Also, after using IE7 for a while and having many tabs open, it used to slow down and start using like 80% of my CPU, so I had to turn a lot of my add-ons off and that helped fix the issue to some degree.
I’m thinking of moving on to Firefox, the only thing about IE is that, it’s smooth and I like it, but Firefox feels like a truck to me, the 3rd version of Firefox is nicer though
Comparing 2 blog search engines
Those of you who know me know that one of the client projects I’m working on for many years is Bloggapedia.
It started as a categorized collection of blogs and then became a blogging community.
From the very beginning, I always bugged everyone involved to let me make a search engine out of it and a few months back they finally agreed and told me to go for it. So it took me a while to develop the search part and the blogs are manually approved so there is really no junk.
Right now Bloggapedia is a full text search engine (and it doesn’t use MySQL’s fulltext search either, it was too slow 
) and it searches all the blogs in the database at the speed of light and the quality of the result is great!
Now, there is another famous blog search engine called Icerocket. Icerocket has so much reputation and it’s name is everywhere BUT I don’t understand why?
For example take a look at the search result for the term “Sushi” on Icerocket:
http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&fr=h&q=sushi
Now, compare this with Bloggapedia:
http://www.bloggapedia.com/blog_search.php?q=Sushi&=posts
Do you see the difference?
And hey if you are from Icerocket, I can fix this for you
How to force the browser to renew a cached image with JavaScript
Yes, you can do it with JavaScript, it’s simple; assume that the name of your image 2.png and you are writing it dynamically to a web page the only thing you need to do is this:
var image = 'http://www.example.org/2.png?' + new Date().getTime();
To the browser, this is a new URL so it will download the image again but to the web server this is the same image regardless of what’s after the question mark.
Obviously you can adapt this to your own needs…
Pandora, a radio that plays what you like all day, everyday!
It’s only available inside US.
Go to: http://www.pandora.com/
Create an account and then click on “Create a new station” then enter a name of a song or an artist that you like and Pandora will start playing similar songs!
You can also give songs thumbs up and thumbs down which will help Pandora fine tune your station more to match your taste.
It will probably be all you listen to everyday and also helps you find new music!
Enjoy
“Submit is not a function” error message
If you try to submit a form with JavaScript and keep getting “Submit is not a function” then you probably have a field in your form named “submit”.
Take a look at your form maybe a hidden field:
<input type="text" name="submit" value="true" />
Or your submit button’s name:
<input type="submit" name="submit" />
Change the name of the field to something else and try.
This is one of those situations where you find yourself pulling your hair out
Happy coding.
Should we stop supporting users without JavaScript?
I say YES!
I’m doing it from now on, just like Facebook and many others, I will show them a message:
Sorry, you won’t be able to use this site until you enable JavaScript on your browser.
I think it’s time for AJAX everywhere and web applications should start being modern and interactive…
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Hamid Alipour is a partner in Codehead, LLP with his wife, Tess. Hamid speaks 12 markup and programming languages [Yes, 12: PHP, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, HTML/XHTML, Java, Python, C/C++, ASP, Visual Basic, Scheme and Action Script]; has a penchant for solving the unsolvable; an affinity for clean, hand-written code and is a Zend Certified 
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