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
})
Download jquery.noticebar.js | Preview An example page
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.
