Routine Order

Since I wrote about the wedding magician, I have been browsing the web for small magic tricks that I can manage to pull off. In addition to the videos on YouTube, I came across Magic Trance - a site with a lot of “magic”. If you sign up for their mailing list, you get some good magic trick ebooks. In fact, one of the videos on youtube is how I got to the Magic Trance website. You can catch a video with some simple magic tricks for beginners on the site. Check out the magic tricks page for more videos and tricks.

There is a link to a “web page that can read your mind”. I think I have that one figured out. Try and see if you can figure it out for yourself. There’s another coin trick which was one the first I learnt, way back when I was in middle school - the disappearing coin act. It goes as follows: you show two coins, one on each palm face-up. You slam your palms down onto the table, and mysteriously both coins show up under your left palm. Learn how to do it.

Ever wondered what a page would look like without that image/block of text/header? When designing pages, and when in doubt regarding whether or not to have something on your blog/webpage, it might be useful to be able to check what your page would look like without the item in question.

Javascript comes to the rescue. To edit any displayed page in the browser, by selecting and deleting, or adding text/images/stuff, you can visit the page and put the following in the URL Location bar:
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Now you will find that you can edit the page, as if it were a word document or something! Go on, try it right now.
(via Free Software Blog)

Stupid htaccess Tricks « Perishable Press

Will definitely come in handy. Lots of “recipes” or solutions to the more common problem solved easily using .htaccess in Apache. Great collection of solutions!