Martin Crockett

Hello 7-Zip, goodbye Power Archiver

On the back of an ‘out of control’ Power Archiver having some uncontrolled process moments, high CPU usage and general hanging around - on the back of a 9.5 update, I’ve been hipped to the open source 7-Zip compression/archive tool and am running the 4.23 release as an alternative.

The key selling points:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB
• For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that
  is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 59 languages

Link to 7-Zip:
7-Zip

CSS hacks

CSS hacks
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Essential CSS hacks
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The two biggest Mac IE 5 CSS gotchas

1. You MUST declare a width for any floated element (this is a real killer)
2. If trying to do forms without tables, remove any new lines in the HTML between elements intended to be on the same line in the rendered page.

Example:

NOT:

CSS support in HTML emails

CSS support in HTML emails of Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail

Better yet. Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails

Gibernau to Ducati

In this year’s end of season biggest non-secret, Sete Gibernau has joined the Ducati MotoGP team.

The Ducati MotoGP Team has reached agreement with Sete Gibernau to contest the 2006 MotoGP World Championship. The Spanish rider will join Loris Capirossi, who renewed his contract with the squad before September’s Japanese GP.

Let’s hope he has a little more luck with his hardware and fuel in the 2006 season!

Flash IQ test game

1. Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
2. The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their
   mother’s presence
3. The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father’s presence
4. The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there
5. Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the
   raft

To start click on the big circle on the right:

Flash IQ test game