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Oh How You Resize Me

My website should now be browser resize-friendly! That means that if you make the browser window smaller or bigger, the content should dynamically change as you change the size. This should also mean that my website is now mobile-friendly as well! On a side note, if you notice any inconsistencies during your browsing experience, please shoot me an email!

To Live Once More!

Both my Guestbook and my Strawberry URL web applications are now fully functional and running. I recently purchased hosting with GoDaddy, allowing me to have my own MySQL database and a PHP back-end to run my code. Now I can finally work on keeping my new networking game up 100% of the time! On a side note, I am planning on yet another redesign of the landing page and the contact page.

Redesigned Transitions

Completely redesigned the landing page and swapped it with this renamed page. Now instead of automatically landing on this page with news and recent information, you will land on the new redesigned landing page. Not only that, but with new CSS transitions, I am no longer relying on jQuery for most of the animations on my website. So ignore the last post, the side-notes are no longer JavaScript. On a site node, what do you think about the new redesign?

ThinkVantage Custom Scripts

ThinkVantage Button (X1 Carbon) If you own a Lenovo laptop, chances are that you have a " ThinkVantage " button on your keyboard. It's that thin rectangle button on the top left of your keyboard (actual size and location depends on your laptop model). You first have to do a registry edit to change the button from the default Lenovo software. Please refer to this link for instructions. You'd have to change the registry entry to point to the following BAT file I wrote. Here are two files that I wrote to turn that button into a custom script for running a Google voice search. The actual usability of the script depends on your laptop and how quickly you can open a browser. I purposely put a long sleep timer on the VBS script to account for slower startup times on your browser. If you find that you are opening a new browser and waiting too long before the voice search starts, then feel free to lower the 5000 to a smaller number. The script.bat file which ...