Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

CSS jappler.com

helpful css tips.

Over the years, I have wasted a lot of time on “guessing” what would work and what would not work. Anyone just starting with CSS or looking to modify someone else’s CSS will hopefully find these tips helpful and time saving. Padding or Margin? These two attributes are often used, and more often confused. The […]

HOWTOs Web Development

SVN Revert

There are some things I am very thankful for when I am working in PhotoShop…being able to navigate the history, the background eraser, the rounded corners tool, but there are sometimes when I fingers end up moving faster than my brain and save and close PSD files before I had the chance to undo a […]

Life

Don’t Settle

Someone who I care very much for is taking a big step today in their relationship…moving in with his girlfriend. As I am happy for him, I also wanted to share some key relationship tips that I have come to appreciate over the years. (I just celebrated my nine year anniversary this past weekend with […]

Software

Flock Rocks!

I downloaded Flock (web browser) a few months ago and used it on occasion, but never really spent any time with it…until last night. Since I blog daily, I thought it might be cool to check out some of blogging tools that are built into Flock. I really like the “drag stuff to blog it!” […]

Apple HOWTOs

troubleshooting rss feed problems in safari.

I now subscribe to almost 100 RSS feeds and use Safari to manage my them. Over the last year, I have run into problems with some of my RSS feeds where there is an error with one RSS feed and the error text seems to leak into other feeds. The blog/news entries still appear correctly, […]

Politics Quotes

LBJ Quotes for the Weekend

During college, I by chance, picked up a biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson and ended up reading in and many others in between games of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. By the end of the summer, I had a new and profound understanding of one of our greatest presidents of all time. After a hard week, […]

Life

Time to Move to Vonage/Satellite?

I have been debating for the last several weeks about moving from my traditional phone service to Vonage. For someone like me who does not use the phone a lot, does it make sense for me to pay $50 a month for local phone service, another $50 for my cell phone, and A pays another […]

Apple

new apple commercials.

I enjoy a good Apple commercial and am happy to see there are a few new ones out. If you have not seen them on TV yet, check them out on Apple’s web site. [tags]Apple, Mac commercials[/tags]

Apple

jen uses a mighty mouse.

Well, I finally had a reason to go out and pick up a new mouse this past weekend…and I bought a Mighty Mouse. People who know me will tell you that I have stuck by Apple and have used a single button mouse my entire life, until now. I have not programmed the other buttons […]

Apple HOWTOs

fun with defaults write in Mac OS X.

Ever since yesterday’s defaults write question and then post, I have been doing some fun research on what else is possible with defaults write Note:Most of these changes require you to restart the finder after entering these into Terminal.app killall Finder. change your screenshot file format: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleScreenShotFormat JPEG or TIFF or PNG […]