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Archive for October, 2009

IMDB Episode Scraper

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

I like to keep my TV rips well-organized, and labeled with the correct episode title. I’ve been using the excellent Bulk Rename Utility to quickly rename with proper series title, season and episode numbers—but the individual episode titles were always a pain. Begrudgingly, I’d just copy-paste the titles from Wikipedia, always wanting a way to automate that process.

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Apple-Style Nav Menu

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

I’m a big fan of using sprites for navigation menus. While they don’t offer the flexibility of a solely HTML & CSS menu due to the fact that you have to create a new graphic every time you want to change a menu item; sprites do offer you infinite styling possibilities limited only by your creativity with graphics software. Apple’s website is a well-known example of a sprite-driven nav menu, so I’ll use that as the inspiration and walk through how to create something similar.

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