Does Internet Explorer annoy you with this security warning? This message appears when you’re using a secure connection (https://) and the website is trying to load non-secure (http://) elements, too. The culprit was easy enough to find (using HttpWatch or similar tools): What made this case unusual is that it wasn’t a server-side problem. Instead, [...]
Tagged divx hiq, security warningAdding a watermark to a PDF file is easy in Nitro PDF, but if you want the watermark to have a transparent background, things get a little more complicated. I wanted to add our logo to a brochure so that visitors of our scales and balances shop would have a way of telling from where [...]
Tagged nitro pdf, pdf, transparency, watermarkEver been in a situation where you had a picture with exactly the content (“message, meaning, …”) you wanted, but not with the right dimensions? Seam carving could have saved the day.
Tagged content aware resizing, image editing, seam carvingDoes Expression Web (version 1 or 2) add tags (“lang spans”) to everything you type in design view? It nearly drove me crazy with this behavior and the many language-related options in different menus, but after I figured out what was going on I actually came to appreciate this feature (when working on multilingual sites).
Many of the books available on O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online come in HTML format, which I like because it makes it easy to copy code straight out of the book (no need to search for the “companion files”). However, program listings in books often use line numbers, which prevent the code from running if it’s [...]
