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Mark's Technomusings: November 2004 Archives

November 16, 2004

Getting IE to do fixed positioning

I am struggling with getting some HTML/css code to work properly in IE. I found some links that might help:

Tom's site: http://tom.me.uk/ has a bunch of great examples of how to do things in IE, like: "I did this in HTML, how do I do it in CSS?" and "CSS Stuff: Emulating position:fixed in IE without scripting"

Explorer Exposed These CSS bugs are all found only in Internet Explorer, versions 5 and higher. To see the demos properly, they must be viewed in IE, of course.

css-discuss mailing list archive a great source of information, with a searchable index

Posted by mark at 10:22 PM | TrackBack

November 10, 2004

Google SMS -- search from your phone

Google has finally added the ablility to search Google via SMS.

Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you're looking to find

They have also come up with a tip sheet that will fit neatly into your wallet to help you with your queries.

Posted by mark at 04:55 PM | TrackBack

Free Secondary DNS

EveryDNS.net is a service that provides FREE secondary DNS. Without a donation, you are limited to 20 domain names; with a donation, you are (theoretically) allowed as many domains as you'd like. They also provide 4 DNS servers to add to your DNS listings:

To have your domain resolve correctly, please use ns1.everydns.net, ns2.everydns.net, ds3.everydns.net, and ns4.everydns.net for your nameservers. Note, NS1 is in San Diego, CA. while NS2 is in San Jose and NS3 is in the Netherlands and NS4 is in Washington DC.

Posted by mark at 03:08 PM | TrackBack

November 09, 2004

Get flight status w/ SMS

AA Timetable

The American Airlines Electronic Timetable Pager application allows a two way pager to request the current Flight Status of an American Airlines flight.

Instructions:

1. Send the message to: status@AAFlights.com
2. Leave the subject line blank, in the body of the message type: “AAxxxx” where ‘xxxx’ is the flight number.
3. The status of your flight request will be send back to your pager.

Posted by mark at 02:59 PM | TrackBack