Despite what the TF2 Wiki says and what a Google search would lead you to believe, there is in fact a way to craft the awesome Towering pillar of hats.
Craft two of the Spy’s Camera Beards which will create a Towering pillar of hats!
I only found it out by accident and when I mentioned it one of the other players already knew about it. It would seem that players are attempting to keep the secrect under wraps. I can hardly blame them considering how much I envied players with the Tower of hats.
Of course to do this you’ll need two Camera Beards which aren’t exactly common, or maybe they are after all I had three of them.
Noticebar
What?
Noticebar is jQuery plugin that adds, well, a noticebar to the top of any page. Much like the one that will have shown up right about now.
Why?
A while back I wanted to drive traffic from one of my older sites to a successor site. Inspired by the IE security alert page I whipped up a very ugly, static solution, a purely html lime green bar across the top of the page. Before that I had searched for a javascript solution but came up empty handed. Since then I’ve been meaning to create Noticebar for a while.
Features
It uses minimal markup and accepts several options.
- Use of text and HTML markup
- Custom CSS to change the appearance.
- Optionally have the bar slide into view, like I have done here.
- With animation on you can have the bar’s arrival delayed, again like done on this page.
- A close button
- Prepend the Noticebar to any div by specifying the target argument.
Example code
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jquery.noticebar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
jQuery.fn.noticebar({html: “your text or html here”, close : false,});
</script>
To use the above code copy and paste it inside your websites head tag. By this I mean between the “<head>” and the “</head>” part.
Options
A list of accept settings with their defaults:
jQuery.fn.noticebar({
html : “Notice is credit to team!”, //Your message which can use html
animate : true , //true means that the noticebar will ’slide’ down after the delay
delay : 0 , //A delay in milliseconds, 1000 would be one second
css : “”, //Used to customize CSS styling
close : true, //Whether the close button appears
target : “body”, //Use “#id” you have the noticebar appear on an element with said id, .class for classes
})
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FYI by Warll
May.09, 2010
Google has dominated the search engine market for much of recent history and so far nothing on the horizon appears to be changing that.
But did you know that Google is the underdog in a number of markets?
Russia has Yandex
China has Baidu
Yahoo.jp is Japan’s largest
And Sezman has the Czech Republic.
In the two Eastern Europe cases they beat Google by supporting their local language better than Google. In Asia I couldn’t dig up any information indicating that anything similar had happened.
For as much as I love Google I do think it deserves some strong competition, un-fortunately I am unwilling to help with that as is likely the case with many Google loyals.
Long story short my mother needed t0 playback a microphone through the speakers. Should be simple and on Windows Xp it is. But for some strange reason vista does not have the option, some drivers do but not the default Microsoft audio driver. Of course doing this should be simple so I spent at least a good hour finding a solution, it would appear that none exist. I tried googling everything “Force mic loop”, “Force mic feedback”, “vista mic live playback”, “play mic through speakers vista”, “program to playback mic” and yes I did just put that list there in the hopes that Google will get a clue.
Turns out there is no program that does it. So I’ve created my own. It is done in flash and has some minor latency due to the use of flash, but any solution will have a bit of latency and hopefully for your needs it will be good enough.
To run it you have to give it permission to use the mic, it will automatically show you the permission dialog and will start working as soon as you close the dialog.
You can download the file and run it locally should you need to. To do so right click on the following link and select “Save file as”
Download: Warll’s Microphone playback’r
Embedded below:
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While checking my gmail one of my favorite features is that little bar which shows news from a selection of websites. Apeerntly someone at Economist.com let a article go live that shouldn’t have.
Headline goes here in “headline” font
Or at least thats the headline. All the article has is the standard “The Economist welcomes your views.” At time of writing there are 27 comments and I must say, these commenters know their archetypes.
The ‘full’ article can be found on the site for now, http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15993648&fsrc=rss , image below the fold for posterity:
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