Alexandre Figueiredo

If you are like me, there are some HEX color codes that you know by heart. But most of them are very hard to memorize and we always have to use a color picker of some kind to find the HEX color code we want. If you don't need to use strange colors, here goes a great solution that makes it a lot easier to memorize colors for CSS.

Did you know that you can use colors names in CSS? And did you know that the list of available colors is actually quite big?

Take a look at the list and feel free to bookmark this page to get to it everytime you need.

It's Washington, D.C. It's the last night of the year, and people are dying...
No... this has nothing to do with the Devil! It is just the title of the book I am reading now.

After reading "The Vanished Man" and "The Sleeping Doll", Jeffery Deaver got me to read another one of his fast-paced thrillers. The author of the book that inspired the famous movie "The Bone Collector" is yet again the responsible for my few hours of sleep.

If you have read one or more of his stories, you know what I am talking about. If you haven't, what are you waiting for?

After creating Lincoln Rhyme, the famous quadriplegic retired criminalist, who solved the cases both in "The Bone Collector" (portrayed by Denzel Washington) and in "The Vanished Man", created a new top character - Parker Kincaid. This case is being solved by a team of characters lead by this retired FBI agent and top forensic document examiner.

You can use CSS to give levels of opacity to some objects in all browsers.

Most recent browsers (except, of course, IE8) already accept CSS 3 for opacity. So, for the great majority of recent browsers you will have to use this line of code to give a 60% opacity for a certain object:

opacity: 0.6;

For older Mozilla browsers, like Netscape Navigator, use this instruction:

-moz-opacity: 0.6;

For oldest Safari versions, you have to use this instruction:

-khtml-opacity: 0.6;

It is great to have fast ways to access all the websites you visit more often. And there are several ways to do this. Some people use their browser's bookmarks toolbar and some people use web based platforms like Netvibes or iGoogle. I needed a faster way. At least for the websites I visit everyday. Gmail, news websites, my homepage or my online task manager are a few examples. But what's faster than the browser's bookmarks toolbar? Probably nothing!

There is nothing faster than the bookmarks toolbar but there is, at least, one solution as fast as the bookmarks toolbar and much more versatile - a locally hosted web page with a collection of the most often used links.

I created and use one for a few months now and I'm so addicted to it that I decided to give it to you. I provide it under a GPLv2 License so you can do whatever you want with it.