The Geekorium

Home of Rex Havoc, Space Adventurer and other assorted Geekeries.

  1. Add characters quickly to a wave

    Wave has a WYSIWYG interface for styling your blips. For those of us used to working on the web however, the default Bold/Italic/Dot-point tools can leave a lot to be desired. Many wont have a character pallet handy, or remember the windows/mac keyboard codes for producing various glyphs either. But if you’ve worked on the web long enough, you might be familiar with HTML/unicode character entities such as & (&) and •

    If you need to add various characters to your waves, and are familiar with HTML entities, then the Character Entity bot might be what you need. Add character-entity@appspot.com to your wave, and whenever you write a character (in the format &code;) the bot will happily convert the code into the correct characters for you.

    Here are a few to try:

    • © becomes ©
    • ↔ becomes ?
    • ∴ becomes ?

    (A more detailed list can be found at Intuitive Systems)

    Character Entity Bot [Google Code]

  2. CSS Positioning Tricks for Beginners

    A graphical depiction of a very simple css doc...
    Image via Wikipedia

    I’d not call myself a website coding guru. In fact, my learning has only really started. In creating the [design for my site->claim theme], I’ve learned a couple of important CSS coding tricks that I had to learn from disparate sources all over the web. I hope by putting them here that I’ll cement them in my own brain, and maybe they’ll help you too. They’re elementary things but they may not be obvious at first glance.

    More!