This site is no longer updated but kept as it still get lots of traffic. You can find more updated information about me at jenswedin.com.
Extremely well animated and beautiful movie about the history of internet, this is UX at its top.
“History of the Internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org. You can already download a pre-release of all picol icons on blog.picol.org/pre-release-picol-icons
You can see the credits and more information on this movie on
lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html
I use Woopra for my statistic needs on some of my sites. Really great software to keep up what’s happening on the site in real time. One thing I don’t like is the blurry desktop icon they use so I did a new one. As I’m a Mac geek nerd it’s of course important that it looks good. The icon has a width & height of 512px so now it clear & sharp.
I also included an ico file for your Window needs. I have not tested this on Window so let me know if it doesn’t work.
Here are some of my lists for this year, a little bit of music, a little bit of photos and a little bit of statistics for my blog.
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Daft Punk
3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4. Stevie Wonder
5. Aretha Franklin
6. Duffy
7. Bob Marley
8. Wu-Tang Clan
9. Gnarls Barkley
10. Jay-Z
1. Duffy – Serious
2. Storyhill – Storyhill – Give Up The Ghost
3. Daft Punk – Face To Face / Short Circuit
4. In Flames – The Mirror’s Truth
5. Aretha Franklin – Ain’t No Way
6. Isolation Years – Isolation Years – That’s All There Is
7. Daft Punk – Around The World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
8. Ray Anderson Alligatory Band – Ray Anderson Alligatory Band – Drink & Blather
9. Juvelen – Juvelen – Watch Your Step
10. Daft Punk – The Prime Time Of Your Life / The
1. The Smashing Pumpkins – We Only Come Out at Night – december 2008
2. Slayer – Eyes Of The Insane- september 2008
3. Justice – Newjack – september 2008
4. Stevie Wonder – If Your Love Cannot Be Moved (feat. Kim Burrell) – juli 2008
5. Jadakiss – Don of the Dons (Put de Ting P… – februari 2008
6. Obie Trice – Got Some Teeth – februari 2008
7. Gioacchino Rossini – William Tell Overture (abridged) – februari 2008
8. Musiq – Onenight – januari 2008
9. Pharoahe Monch – Desire Featuring Showtyme – januari 2008
Photos posted to Flickr 2008: 126
35,927 veiws since I started using Flickr
Most viewed images since starting using Flickr
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design-makes-me-happy | 4,359 | ||
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Swift dump | 920 | ||
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statistics for jedisthlm.com | 785 | ||
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Leker med spikpistolen | 255 | ||
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Roger and Peter-Paul Koch | 254 | ||
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Brittish dudes | 221 | ||
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Elvis överst som vanligt | 217 | ||
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Jens | 194 | ||
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Boat in the canal | 173 | ||
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Nya bordet | 143 |
1. jankoatwarpspeed.com
2. libpng.org
3. sitepoint.com
4. images.google.com
5. juicystudio.com
6. robertnyman.com
7. icant.co.uk
8. en.wikipedia.org
9. stumbleupon.com
10. artzstudio.com
1. / (frontpage)
2. /2008/03/27/flexible-CSS-buttons/
3. /2005/01/25/khtml-on-windows/
4. /2004/10/13/gui-for-pngquant/
5. /2005/07/08/ie-min-width-position-fixed/
6. /2006/03/16/manfred-a-pngquant-GUI/
7. /2005/06/13/best-swedish-website/
8. /2005/11/14/google-analytics/
9. /2007/12/28/top-32-articles-you-must-have-read-2007/
10. /2005/03/17/more-on-colours/
1. IE min-width
2. khtml windows
3. konqueror for windows
4. pngquant
5. optgroup CSS
6. min-width IE
7. CSS optgroup
8. IE7 standalone
9. konqueror windows
10. coding fonts
2008 is coming to an end and it has really been a great year, so many great articles and blog posts about XHTML, CSS, design, accessibility, usability, semantics, ID & UX and other things related to the web. So if you haven’t read the articles in this list you really should, they are the top of tops, the cream de la cream.
Here are my top 63 list of best articles 2008 in no specific order, thank you all for a great year.
In a few days (dec 31th) Verva, the Swedish Administrative Development Agency is closing down and together with them their guidelines about usability and accessibility, the 24-timmarswebben. This is is incredible sad, much work has been put into these guidelines and are used by many in the public sector.
Right now the guidelines has been moved to a new site by Peter Krantz, one of the authors behind the guidelines. This is a private intitative and all salutes to Peter.
So if you think that 24-timmarswebben is important, I’ve created a petition to save the guidelines. Please sign up and send the URL to anyone you know that think the guidelines should live on.
I work on a mac, both at home and at work. When I work on my site chwisgi.com I work locally on a local webserver (MAMP). This is great as I can work on the site without the need to access the net, I can work off-line you could say. When done something I upload all may changes to the the net (production server). I use Coda which works nicely for my coding needs. To check that everything works I mostly see that it works in FireFox and Safari on Mac. When I want to check how the site behave in Windows and Explorer I have Parallels where I have installed Windows. The problem I had with Parallels was that I could not access the local webserver (MAMP) that I used on the Mac. So if I wanted to see how the site looked in Windows I had to publish my changes to the production server and then check it in Explorer. That is not good.
Let’s see if we can fix this! First some information about my network. The Mac is on the 192.168.1.x network range and the IP is 192.168.1.143. The Virtual Windows is on the 10.211.55.x network range which is default when installing Windows in Parallels. The local webserver (MAMP) is running on localhost and port 8888.
When I say that I cannot access the local web server it’s not really correct. It worked if I hit http://192.168.1.143:8888 in Explorer on Windows and look at static HTML pages. But when I have a more dynamic site it didn’t work. The thing is that my dynamic site uses the ‘localhost’ as the DNS name, so when I hit http://192.168.1.143:8888 it was directed to localhost:8888 which isn’t the correct place in Windows (but is on the Mac).
I tried to use the HOST file on Windows to map the 192.168.1.143:8888 to localhost:8888 but this didnt’t work. I tried to create an alias on my Mac in MAMP, this didn’t work for me either. I searched on the net and finally found a solution.
The solution is to setup a Port Redirection in Windows, this sound kind of geeky and probably is.
1. First download the Windows version of the modified version of Rinetd
2. Take the two files and put them in a folder like ‘rinetd’ and put the folder in the root of C:
3. Open up the rinetd.conf file and change the IP numbers to 127.0.0.1 8888 192.168.1.143 8888
The first number is the local IP number on the mac where you have your have your site running. This should not be changed.
The second is the port. If you are running the MAMP the default port is 8888, change if you have something else.
The third is the IP number of the mac. Open up your Network tools on mac note the IP number, for me it’s 192.168.1.143.
The fourth is the port number on the mac, just use the same as the first port number.
4. Now we just need to start the Rinetd server. What I did was to start a dos window by Start > Run > cmd
5. Drag the rinetd.exe file into the dos window and add -c for custom path to the conf file.
6. Drag the rinetd.conf to the dos window, you should now have something like:
C:\rinetd\rinetd.exe -c C:\rinetd\rinetd.conf
7. Hit enter, if it works the cursor just blinks, no success message here. Just leave the dos window open as long as your are testing.
8. Start Internet Explorer and hit http://localhost:8888 and your site on the mac will should be shown.
Here is a shot of Firefox in Mac, IE, FireFox and Chrome in Windows side by side.
Mission accomplished!