Christian Heilmann

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Now that is a cool picture browsing package

Monday, April 4th, 2005

I just installed Picasa and I like it very much. So far, my favourite browsing tool was ACDSee, but seing how bloated and buggy it has become, I was looking for something free and good, and Picasa is a very nice alternative.
OSX Users might be reminded of iPhoto when using it on a PC.

April fool’s and a cheap design idea

Friday, April 1st, 2005

April fool’s day, and once again Thinkgeek.com prove to have an excellent sense of humour. Personally I think the Network Shrinter was their best idea ever.

If you cannot be bothered to come up with a nice colour scheme, let the computer do it for you, as you can see in my cheap design example.

osX for cheapskates – More CSS shenanigans

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

After all the feedback for the Star Trek CSS navigation I played some more and thought of a osX dock style navigation much like the googlex but without images.

Star Trek in CSS

Monday, March 28th, 2005

I was inspired by the menus on the Star Trek – The Next Generation DVD menus and wondered if you could do a navigation like that in pure CSS. And voila you can:
Star Trek Navigation Screenshot

Star Trek TNG styled pure CSS navigation
Feel free to use it, in case you feel like geeking out, too :-)

Generating thumbnails with PHP and GD

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

This rather old article is now moved to icant.co.uk where it belongs and I ditched the gd1 information. It describes how you can generate thumbnails from images on the fly using PHP and the gd library.

You can check it at: http://www.icant.co.uk/articles/phpthumbnails/