IE8 CSS Hack – Make IE8 work like IE7

Another Internet Explorer, another set of problems.

As soon as we draw near to the close of having to support IE6, well for free anyway – this is a hotly debated topic you can read about here, we suddenly have to start learning the hacks for the latest IE, in this case 8.

Mostly this is related to CSS hacks as this is where i get the most stress an inconsistency, but not anymore, now i have found a wonderful way to force IE8 to render as IE7, so only one set of hacks to learn (which is useful as i am not aware of IE8 only CSS rules, without making an entire new file, something i object to).

Want to know what it is:

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OSX: FLV turns my screen black

Now this one really had me stumped, I do a lot of video conversion and since upgrading to Snow Leopard every time i went to encode an FLV file my screen would go black, ..and i would have to reboot.

If like me you have many things open at once, a bit of a disaster and not very mac-behaviour if you ask me. …now i have the solution

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Accounting software for freelancers

Many times i am asked by ex students and friends starting out on the freelance route what software or system i use for my accounting and although my answer with a smile is always the same, Kashflow, i thought i’d better take advantage of my recommendations by finally offering an affiliate link.

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Email settings phishing scam

It has come to my attention recently that there is a rather convincing email phishing scam going around. I saw it when with a client last week and it made me chuckle, but then today i have been alerted to it from one of my clients to whom i provide a mail service, so suddenly i chuckled less and thought i would make you all aware of it.

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jQuery Tools

jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user interface components for the web. These are tabs, accordions, tooltips, overlays and scrollables.

They can dramatically improve the usability and responsiveness of your site. They mainly focus on presenting information and visual appeal.

After all, this is exactly what most websites desperately want: to present their content to the reader in an easy and visually pleasing manner.

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