How to type upside down letters & backwards text ?
How does this tool flip text up side down and backward?
The JavaScript program converts English letters to unicode characters and symbols that look inverted, to make it look like you’ve created upside-down text on the computer. Most of them come from the character sets “Latin Extended” and “International Phonetic Alphabet”. Unfortunately there are no upside down numbers and not enough upside down capital letters, so this tool supports lowercase letters only. This page uses the font “Arial Unicode MS” to display the flipped text. You can learn the letter mapping behind this upside down text generator by viewing this page’s html source code. Enjoy this trick on internet forum, blog, IM, & chat!
Check it out…
http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html
Dock and Finder frozen on MAC with fully updated SnowLeopard
From time to time I encounter some really nasty and irritating problems… most often they are illogical and typically related to conditions over which I have no control…
One such problem occurred to me today after the workshop I had together with Piotr Walczyszyn.
Triggered by something completely unapparent to me and in a way unlike something I had seen before, the Finder App and the entire Dock on my 4 days old MacBook Pro froze… but ONLY when I tried to start the build-in Mail App.
No matter how many KillAll I exposed the poor Dock to in the Terminal and no matter how many Relaunches of the Finder app, just as little did it help… there were no other solution every time I wanted to check email, but to restart… however, this didn’t solve the problem satisfactorily because every time Mail tried to spawn a Window as a response to me trying to Reply or Forward an email… nothing happened !!
After some messing around I found the “com.apple.dock.plist” system file which I tried to remove followed by what I had decided would become the very last KillAll Dock this afternoon.
Immediately following a completed KillAll (and intrinsic Relaunch of the Dock) everything just worked perfectly. I had lost my preferences for the Dock, but since it was a meager 4 days since I had bought the damn thing, not much was lost and all my Dock preferences could be recreated in less than a minute.
My next solution would have been to reinstall / repair the Operating System from System Disk, so naturally I was happy to find this solution which is why I decided to share it…
The file to delete can be found here: “[User]/Library/Preferences/” (where User should be replaced by your User’s ID).
Good luck taming your SnowLeopard !
My Schedule for Oredev 2009
Upon having completed my preps for the AIR Bootcamp tomorrow, I decided to use the scheduler app for Oredev to compile my own personal schedule for the conference, and it turned out to look as follows.
Quite a number of slots were difficult to decide because so many sessions this year sound so interesting and the lineup of speakers is totally impressive…
Have you not yet checked out Oredev, I recommend you do it… its right here…
http://www.oredev.org/
Going to the amount of conferences I have been so fortunate to do the recent times… I always find that the scheduler apps always leave something to be wished. Some of them are really bad (Microsoft TechEd 2008+2009) and some of them are really good (Flash On the Beach 2009). The latter mainly because it was an iPhone App, to have a complement mobile app should be the standard from now on.
Anyways, the one for Oredev is really simple and easy to use, so what it lacks in wow’ness, it makes up for in simplicity… and it persists the personal schedule locally on the client… check it out…
http://www.oredev.org/scheduler
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