Archive for July, 2007

Zap2It Replacement

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Since I’m sure about everyone out there that has mythtv has heard that Zap2It Labs is discontinuing the free TV Guide data that we all use. So what are we to-do. I heard that some people were getting together to create a nonprofit organization to provide free listings for personal use. The website was www.easytvdata.org but due to the trademark and copyright infringement possibilities, they have renamed themselves to Schedules Direct. Check out schedulesdirect.org for more info and lets hope that they come up with a solution for us by the September 1st deadline.

Tiger Woods for the Wii

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

I think I found my favorite game so far for the Wii. It is Tiger Woods and using the motion of the Wii controller, it makes for a very entertaining time if you like golf like me. Let me know what games you like and if you’ve tried Tiger Woods

IE CSS Hover effect on any HTML tag

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I’ve been adding css hover techniques to items a lot and I got tired of doing onmouseover’s in javascript to get the hover effect to work in IE. I ran across a script called whatever.hover which makes it easy with CSS. Just add this script to the header and then define your css hover as shown bolded below. If anyone has any questions or needs help with implementing it, let me know.

Put this in the Header
<!– Additional IE/Win specific style sheet (Conditional Comments) –>
<!–[if IE]><style type=”text/css” media=”projection, screen”>
.classname{
behavior: expression(
this.onmouseover = new Function(”this.className += ‘ classnamehover’;”),
this.onmouseout = new Function(”this.className = this.className.replace(’ classnamehover’, ”);”),
this.style.behavior = null
);
}
/*.classname{
background-color: expression(
!this.js ? (this.js = 1,
this.onmouseover = new Function(”this.className += ‘classnamehover’;”),
this.onmouseout = new Function(”this.className = this.className.replace(’ classnamehover’, ”);”)
) : false);
);
}*/
/*.classname{background-color: expression(
this.onmouseover = new Function(”this.className += ‘ classnamehover’;”),
this.onmouseout = new Function(”this.className = this.className.replace(’classnamehover’, ”);”)
);
}*/
</style><![endif]–>


Put this in the css
.classname{
font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;
font-size: xx-small;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5;
background: silver;
cursor: hand;
}
.classname:hover, .classnamehover {
color: HighlightText;
background: Highlight;
}


HTML
<input type=”button” value=”Submit” class=”classname” style=”width=100″ />

Well its been a while

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Sorry, I’ve been very busy at work and on some home projects. I will try to get back to writing something once a week again. So far this month I’ve been building a shed in my back yard and doing some landscaping. I’ve also been working on some new projects at work and will post some of the things about them soon. Have a good 4th of July everyone.


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