• Jul 15, 2003

  Dragonlance Persistent World for Neverwinter Nights

  Krynn Haven appears to be a very good Neverwinter Nights Persistent World (PW). You can become a Knight of Solamnia all the way up to a Knight of the Rose and even get voted by your peers to become the the High Clerist. Wizards have to take the Test at the Tower of Wayreth! Perfect for a hardcore Dragonlance fan!

  I'll have to see this in action and finally re-install NWN - it's been a standing there in it's pretty box since the last time I played it for a while and quit.

• Jul 15, 2003

  A handy color picker

  I found this very handy color picker imaginatively named Color Picker from Iconico. The good thing about it is that it comes as a ready to run single-file executable (Windows only though). It is also freeware.

  Only thing I find lacking is the absence of a palette-saving feature.

• Jul 14, 2003

  Ensight

  Ensight is a multi-author blog I've been a part of. It's a tech and biz blog that seems to be doing quite well with a reasonable readership.

  ensight is a group of business and tech professionals sharing their various thoughts. We affectionately call it "peeking into the minds of nearly geniuses", but you don't have to, just don't laugh at us.

  We've reached passed the milestone 100 entries (of which I contributed a measly 2). I, too, am a sucker for useless statistics, as you'd have noticed.

• Jul 14, 2003

  Rounded tables with CSS

  I had cause to create rounded tables in my recent freelance work and rather than use the "old" way of doing it, I decided to set out to see if this can be more easily achived with CSS.
  

  And no it isn't possible to do so until CSS3 border-radius is supported in browsers.

  And no it isn't possible to do so until CSS3 border-radius is supported in browsers. It is, however, possible to do so using Mozilla's -moz-border-radius, which works in Gecko browsers like Mozilla, Firebird and Netscape 6. It is proprietary though so it won't work anywhere else.

  .roundedCorners {
    -moz-border-radius: 20px;
  }
  

  Still, it wasn't a fruitless search as it turned out easier, erm, hacks to achieve rounded goodness, as demonstrated here.
  

• Jul 13, 2003

  Mozilla - easy search

  This tidbit of a tip came up at mozKit today. The Mozilla browser and Firebird have this nifty function where you can select a piece of text and you can do a "Web Search for..." it in the context menu (right-click). Great time-saver for people who search often like me. Funny enough, I do recall myself wanting to always make use of that function when I noticed it quite a while back, but always forget and instinctively type into the Search bar on top. Must make sure to use it from now on.

  Also, in the context menu there is a "View selection source" option that allows you to view the HTML source of your selected text/image/etc. - pretty nifty, pretty useful for web developers who want to check out their HTML source and not have to search through the entire clutter of code.

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