Site Seeing – Week Five

Ninite – Easy PC Software Installations

http://ninite.com/

Auto installs your selection of useful programs after that inevitable Windows install.. It’s even clever enough to prevent it installing those nasty bundled toolbars! (via @fry15)

Font Fonter – Preview Fonts On Any Site

http://fontfonter.com/

From fontshop, this tool lets you preview a selection of their fonts on any webpage of your choice. Try Bencollier.net in FF Duper Web.

Sharekit – Open source, drop-in share features for all iOS apps

http://getsharekit.com/

Enables sharing via Delicious, Email, Facebook, Google Reader, Instapaper, Pinboard, Read It Later, Tumblr, Twitter and more! Just simply copy the files into your iOS app. The whole UI can be customised and it’s open source!

Site Seeing – Week Four

Google Font Directory

https://fonts.google.com/

Bit late to the party with this one, but the Google Font Directory has some great open source fonts that can be included in your webpages incredibly easily. They host the whole solution and it’s a few basic lines of CSS to get some fancy fonts on your site. My personal favourites include Inconsolata and Lobster.

Experimental Gummy Bear Surgery

http://www.likecool.com/Experimental_Gummy_Bear_Surgeries–Other–Gear.html

Some great gummy bear transpants!

Experimental Gummy Bear Surgeries

Experimental Gummy Bear Surgeries

For Zebras

http://spudcomics.com

Think the photo says it all, check out Spud Comics for more.

For zebras it's not a party until someone brings the barcode scanner cartoon

by Lonnie Easterling

Fullscreen HTML5 Video in Safari via JavaScript

In Safari 5 HTML5 videos played in the <video> tag can now be made fullscreen, if you’re using the default controls then a button is available, but if you’re overriding them with a custom control you can use:

webkitEnterFullScreen();

This needs to be called on the video tag element, for example, to fullscreen the first video tag on the page use:

document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].webkitEnterFullscreen();

Last.fm Disco!

Go on last.fm and paste the following into the address bar:

javascript:function toggle(){
t=setTimeout("toggle();return false", 300);
LFM.Display.colourToggle(this, LFM.String.toRedStr, LFM.String.toBlackStr); return false;};
toggle();
return false;

and hit return!

(However, It seems to go a bit weird if you’ve got multiple browser windows open..)