The Awesome Russian Ekranoplan appeared on Noscope on March 10th, 2010. Tweet This

function hide_meta_boxes() {
     remove_meta_box('postcustom','post','normal');
     remove_meta_box('postcustom','page','normal');
}
 
if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
	add_action('admin_init','hide_meta_boxes');
}

The remove_meta_box function takes three parameters. 1: the div ID of the box you want to hide, the context (post or page) and position (normal or advanced).

Wordpress Trick: Hide Admin Panels From Specific User Roles appeared on Noscope on March 09th, 2010. Tweet This

Out now using Googles “Books” engine, all the magazines ever published of Popular Science Monthly. Delicous.

The Complete Archives Of Popular Science appeared on Noscope on March 08th, 2010. Tweet This

• Only a top-bar as opposed to previously, a top and bottom bar.
• Close buttons on the left! Are they insane?
• There are still file menus. How 1995.
• There’s a “Shutdown” button in the top right corner, arguably the best real-estate according to Paul Fitt. Do we really want it to be that easy to shut down?

A New Ubuntu Interface appeared on Noscope on March 04th, 2010. Tweet This

Enforcing patents is wrong. You’ve famously taken and built on ideas from your competitors, as have I, as we should, as great artists do. Why is what HTC has done worse? Whether an idea was patented doesn’t change the morality of copying it, it only changes the ability to sue.

[...]

I always thought of you as a guy who’d say, “Well, copy me if you can, because you’re copying what I did years ago, and what I’m working on now is EVEN cooler!” I like it when competitors copy me because it means they aren’t about to leapfrog me: they’ll always be playing catch-up.

This is, of course, the laser-eyes-lion-riding Wil Shipley who was himself copied by Apple. Which makes this post extra delicious.

Open Letter To Steve Jobs Concerning The HTC Lawsuits appeared on Noscope on March 04th, 2010. Tweet This

This is flame art, built using Peter Blaskovics java-based Flame painter.

Flame Art appeared on Noscope on February 25th, 2010. Tweet This

function mp3player($attr) {
	$src = str_replace("=", "", $attr[0]);
	return '<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3247397568-audio-player.swf?audioUrl='.$src.'" width="100%" height="27" allowscriptaccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="window" flashvars="playerMode=embedded" />';
}
add_shortcode('mp3', 'mp3player');

Here’s an example:

Music by Speaker Bite Me.

Wordpress Trick: Google MP3 Player Shortcode appeared on Noscope on February 25th, 2010. Tweet This

function pdflink($attr, $content) {
	return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $attr['href'] . '">'.$content.'</a>';
}
add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink');

[Update]: Here’s an updated shortcode function which allows you to also embed PDFs using this syntax: Link to a PDF. Note how it’s just a tad shorter, and you don’t have to remember the “href” parameter, though you can still use it.

function pdflink($attr, $content) {
	if ($attr['href']) {
		return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $attr['href'] . '">'.$content.'</a>';
	} else {
		$src = str_replace("=", "", $attr[0]);
		return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $src . '">'.$content.'</a>';
	}
}
add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink');

Also, here’s an example PDF link using the above code: Link to a PDF.

Wordpress Trick: Create A Google Viewer PDF Shortcode [Update] appeared on Noscope on February 25th, 2010. Tweet This

Android Market Finally Shows Updates To Your Apps appeared on Noscope on February 23rd, 2010. Tweet This

html { height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; }

Which has, for the most part, worked, even if it felt somewhat unnatural to scroll a page that doesn’t need scrolling. Fortunately, there’s a new method in town, which relies on CSS3:

html { overflow-y: scroll; }

This forces the scroll-pane even when not needed. The beauty of it is, it doesn’t add the actual scroll-bar until it’s actually needed. This works in Internet Explorer, Safari 3+, Firefox 3+, Opera and Chrome.

Special thanks Alexander Graf and also M. Slater who has a demo available.

Forcing Scrollbars, 2010 Edition appeared on Noscope on February 19th, 2010. Tweet This