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Tab Effect for Firefox

Tab EffectI like Tab Effect, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's useful. It's an extension for Firefox that adds a sort of rotating cube effect when you switch tabs. It's powered by DirectX 8, so it'll only work on Windows, and how well it performs may depend upon the quality of your graphics card. My graphics card, for example, is a piece of crap, which may be why Tab Effect performs a tad sluggishly. There's a slight delay after clicking on a tab and when the effect kicks in, and the rotation is a slower than I'd like.

Like I said, I'm not sure how useful Tab Effect is, but it's definitely a cool concept. We've seen this sort of effect with desktop-switching before, so tab-switching is a natural progression, but as it stands it's pretty limited. But it's only 1.0, so maybe after a few revisions it'll be mind-blowingly speedy, intuitive, and useful.

Filed under: Design, Photo, Windows, Blogging

Wetfloor: Shiny surfaces for WordPress

WordPress WetfloorApple started a trend with FrontRow by introducing the suave effect called wet floor. Everyone and their dog are using on their website now, but so what? It is cool. Siuyee Presents a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to use the wet floor effect on images. The only downside to this neat plugin is that it can't be used in the rich editing mode, only in plain editor mode. Of course the easier way to avoid this is to just use a bit of simple code to "wet-floor" any image. The plugin even offers customized height and opacity. This example code is all you need: <img class="reflect rheight80 ropacity40" src="abc.jpg" /> I know from experience that this code works in both posts and in theme template files, so you can easily "wet-floor" your banner or footer image as well as little Susie's picture in your post. I know there are a ton of similar scripts out there, but I found this one particularly useful and easy. Who knew eye-candy was so simple?

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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