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TaskMate 1.0 released

Ryan has finally got round to releasing his ultra simple todo list application of Mac OS X, Taskmate.

It’s so simple he doesn’t even have any instructions! The tiny window is designed to sit in the corner of your desktop and easily allow you to add, remove and mark tasks as complete.

This simplicity is all he needed after getting frustrated with many GTD apps that are bloated with so many features that you end up spending more time looking after it than actually getting this done!

I’m sure he is after lots of suggestions for improvements and tweaks to make it better so send them his way.

Download TaskMate here

Fireworks at Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

Yahoo Reset 2.6.0 in Sass

I’ve just converted the most recent Yahoo reset into Sass, I’m sure it could be of use to others so here it is:

/*
  Copyright (c) 2008, Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
  Code licensed under the BSD License:
  http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/license.txt
  version: 2.6.0

html
  :color #000
  :background #FFF
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td
  :margin 0
  :padding 0
table
  :border
    :collapse collapse
    :spacing 0
fieldset,img
  :border 0
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var
  :font
    :style normal
    :weight normal
li
  :list-style none
caption,th
  :text-align left
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6
  :font
    :size 100%
    :weight normal
q:before,q:after
  :content ''
abbr,acronym
  :border 0
  :font-variant normal
sup
  :vertical-align text-top
sub
  :vertical-align text-bottom
input,textarea,select
  :font
    :family inherit
    :size inherit
    :weight inherit
input,textarea,select
  :*font-size 100%
legend
  :color #000
del,ins
  :text-decoration none

Also available in a pastie here: http://pastie.org/293025

The London Eye at Night

Best seen really big: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/2939503194/sizes/o/

Showing adverts only on old Wordpress blog posts

I’ve just added a little change to the theme here on Teabass, posts that are older than 30 days now show a small google adsense banner below the post.

The idea behind this is that most regular readers won’t click on the adverts so it’s pointless showing them, but I still receive quite a lot of traffic on the old posts from search engines.

The code to do this is pretty simple but I couldn’t find anyone else who had blogged about it on google so I thought I’d share it:

<?php if ((time() - 2592000) > get_the_time('U')) : ?>
*Your advert code here*
<?php endif; ?>

This must be called from within “The Loop” so the get_the_time() method works. To change the delay (this one is 30 days) just change the number of seconds that is subtracted from time().

Hopefully this will help you monetize your content without pissing off your regular readers, enjoy!