After the speech done at offf and being the user with more reviews and movement in xplsv.tv. Perhaps some people is wondering who is mr.doob? ;)

At some point I started to use in MSN names like "do_ob", "dò_ób", "dõ_õb", "dō_Ôb".. Mainly because I was always with headphones at work. So, later on, a friend of mine just called me, "hey! mister doob!", I thought that the name was quite nice and with a nice background, and changed the name on msn to "mr.doob".. days later, the people at work, was calling me "doob" instead of "ricardo" (mainly because is easier to pronounce I guess).

Some months later, I decided to buy the domain mrdoob.com but I didn't know exactly what to put on there. I had an holding image on there for months. But then, after being some months thinking how to improve this website, and very unhappy with the photo section, I had the idea to do an special photo report on there. An also some experiments that I have in mind, but the main thing will be the photo report I think.

So, after some spare time working on it, here is the first usable version:

http://www.mrdoob.com/

Hope you like it :)

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Here I go with a trechy one. That's something that is not very easy to find on Internet, so if anyone needs that in the future here is the explanation.

If you work on the web sector probably you had the problem at some point of flash on the top of the page. I mean, probably you wanted to have another layer (menu navigations for example) on the top of flash but that wasn't working.

After some workarounds on the design I decided to do a bit of research. And this time I found a way to do it.

<div>
  <div id="flash" style="position:absolute; z-index:0;">
     <embed width="400" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="movie.swf" wmode="transparent" />
  </div>
  <div id="layerOnTop" style="position:absolute; display:block; z-index:1;">
    TEXT ON TOP OF FLASH
  </div>
</div>

So as you can see you need to have the layers with position:absolute and then sort the layers with the z-index property.

TADAAAA!!

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Today I was browsing and checking some design related news and in one of the the link wasn't properly written. Was something like:

http//www.example.com

As you can see the link doesn't have the ":" character, however if you put that address on the URL in any browser that uses google to resolve the wrong address (like firefox, safari, ..) you will be redirected to:

http://www.microsoft.com !!!

wtf?! So if you put wrong the address, you will be moved to microsoft.. also happens with:

http//www.google.com

:S! Looks like microsoft spent some money or did some weird trick to hack that google thing..

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Some minutes ago, sole sent me that website: tadalist.

tadalist is another project done by the same guys that did basecamp. We were using since some months ago basecamp at work.. and it really works very fine, the whole project is well done and everything is very easy to do.

tadalist is a very small part of basecamp that actually i usually don't use, but as feature is very cool. You can manage all your to do list very easily with it. I still missing groups and some features on it, but the idea is very cool, argh! ;) And have a great google feelling.

Kudos to 37 signals

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Probably you are aware that lately there were some "new" browsers on the streets, well, actually one, Firefox. But, be clever and don't use them. Let's see why:

1. Nobody uses Firefox as it don't come with the OS. Only some geeks are using it.
2. A lot of pages doesn't work well with Firefox as they are optimized for Internet Explorer (as it's the most used browser).
3. With Firefox you can't change the colour of the scrollbars.
4. You can install the Avantbrowser to add the tabbing system to Internet Explorer as well (something not really useful).
5. With Firefox you can't use the windowsupdate web service.
6. Internet Explorer adds some great break lines to make the page clearer.
7. Internet Explorer does have great support with Macromedia Flash, only have some small problems at Mac version of Internet Explorer.
8. Internet Explorer does have the best image viewer ever, with a very well optimized resize tool. 9. Internet Explorer doesn't have RSS integrated reader, but who cares? nobody uses that technology!
10. Within Internet Explorer you can use internet based applications to add icons on your desktop, change your default page and add new tabs on your explorer with special search engines. If you need, you can format your hard disk with it as well.

So, use Internet Explorer!

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version 7 and they still with the same old silly bug!!

grrr! when you import an image to the stage (and basicaly when you exports the flash) the first vertical and horizontal line is duplicated, and the last vertical and horizontal line is elimitade.

I am always fighting with that fix since flash4 adding a transparent pixel on the first vertical and horizonal lines (in the case is a gif).

fix that bug for flash supadupahmxp2005pro please!

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Talking about webs again.. the web developers should think about the "new" iexplorer bars that stop the popups. Usually some websites opens a popup with the website, but if you have some of those bars (in my case, google bar), that stops popups, I can't check the website, well, actually I can check it, but I don't want because the developer didn't think about that. Maybe I'm a bit closed mind, yes.. I can't browse the hi-res websites either ;)

Anyway, please, no more popups. Thank you! :)

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I don't know if it's the microsoft fault or just the web developers fault. But I really hate when the website maximize the own window. I got 1920x1200 here so I think those websites doesn't need 1920x1200 of space to show the content. I hate when the website isn't good enough and try to catch your atention doing these poor things. Also, at least with iexplorer, if you close one of these "maximized" windows, and is the last iexplorer window, the next time you open the iexplorer you have the window at the same size, I'm always resizing the iexplorer window.

Please, stop it!

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Vaya, mas de 2 meses sin escribir nada aquí. Hay que decir que Londres es mucho Londres y me esta costando un rato habituarme a todo esto, conseguir trabajo y seguir con mi vida desde aquí. A todo esto, espero que este sea uno de los últimos posts en español :) El propósito de este nuevo post, no es otro que descubriros a pleix, un grupo que no mucha gente les conoce, pero el trabajo que están haciendo es sencillamente brillante. Hace mucho ya habia visto los videos beauty kit, plaid y simone. Desde entonces me olvide de ellos, y hace cosa de una semana vi por casualidad futureshock, pero no sabia que era suyo. Hoy en stereotypography leia la noticia de 2 nuevos videos, sometimes y e-baby. Ambos son extraordinarios, muy muy buenos a mi parecer. Recomiendo bajarse por lo menos los que he mencionado.

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