Facebook recently changed the way comments appear from this:
to this:
You can add this to your userContent.css in Firefox to set it back to having a line break after the person’s name.
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.facebook.com/) {
.commentable_item .comment_box .comment_content .comment_author {
display: block !important;
}
.commentable_item .comment_box .comment_content .comment_actual_text {
padding-left: 0 !important;
}
}
I like Twitter. I really do. I like TechCrunch too, and have been subscribing to their posts for years now. But I can’t stand the barrage of Twitter-related posts over the last few months. I decided to take a look at how many posts per day over the last 3 months have been related to Twitter using this handy CrunchBase page. My findings are below:
There are many blogs out there that are dedicated to covering one service. They usually make that pretty clear in their name. But I think it’s ridiculous for TechCrunch to have 8 posts in a single day related to Twitter (as they did yesterday) and to have only 2-3 days per month where they DON’T talk about Twitter. Twitter being down is not news. Twitter disabling search for a few hours is not news.
I was satisfied just leaving a short comment to this effect on the latest Twitter post, but after doing the brief post count research above and realizing how long I’ve tolerated this for, I’m no longer a TechCrunch reader. If they ever reduce the number of Twitter posts or perhaps split the mind-numbing posts off into TweetCrunch, I’ll be glad to hit the subscribe button again.
And like I said: I actually like Twitter. It’s gotta suck even more for the people that don’t care for Twitter.
I recently discovered a cool plug-in for iTunes that shows a calendar of upcoming shows and album releases for the artists in your music library. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, my calendar is pretty full, but I’ve already found a number of great events in the next month that I didn’t know about. The plug-in is called iConcertCal and works on Mac and Windows.
While using Dashcode to create a dashboard widget, I came across an annoying styling bug that’s not as easy as it could be to fix, although it’s still pretty easy. If you use a list part in your widget, you have the option of rounding the corners. This is what corners rounded with a 10 pixel radius look like:
You may notice that there’s now a horizontal line at the bottom of the list that should have been affected by the corner rounding, but was not. To fix this, open your CSS file and find the .listRowTemplate_template selector. It should look like this:
Today Paul Kim complimented my new blog design and I mentioned that I was thinking about replacing the bird at the top with a squirrel. A few minutes later, he sent me the new header above with what looks like a cross between a squirrel and a panda which he called a squanda.
I really like it. Thanks Paul!