What the heading says, get it here. I don’t know how he does it, but he’s made it even faster than before.

Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map

Another web-stat company absorbed by Google. One wonders what they’re going to do with all this, combine them or use Google Analytics to target the corporate customers and Measure Map for the bloggers. If nothing else hopefully Google will put Measure Map on faster servers. They seem to have done so, Measure Map is responding much quicker & I’m not having the loading problems that I’ve been having over the last few months. Good stuff & congrats to Jeffrey

Nick Bradbury once again reinforces his position as the coolest developer on the planet by showing how to run an easter egg in FeedDemon 2.0. A great little egg it is too, a game where you have to catch the falling news items (in the FeedDemon’s hand no less) while avoiding the blog spam.

You’ve gotta love easter egg games, especially ones that are actually entertaining too! It’s a bit like Arkanoid without the ball, you’ve got to catch the good falling items & avoid the bad ones.

I’ve got a new WordPress plugin in the works, you should be able to see its effects here (assuming the browser you use displays images). It replaces the HTML tags you specify (in options) with an image of the text. So if in you template you have your post titles set as a h3 tag, & you’d like all your titles to be images, you go into the plugin’s options and create a new replacement for h3 tags and set the font, colour, size, etc. There is provision to limit to certain classes too (i.e. only replace h3 tags with a class of storytitle). An option will be coming that will allow you to replace any tag of a certain class, but that’s not working just yet.

The obvious question is: Why create a plugin to do this when a perfectly good one already exists? Firstly let me say this is in no way a disparagement of the Image Headlines plugin, which is very cool, I just wanted a different way of doing it. With the Image Headlines plugin, you need to edit your template files to set which template tags you wanted to replace, which I’m far too lazy to do. Also, if I disabled the plugin it broke my template because it left -image- in front of the text. I also could have fixed this, but as I said, lazy. The other reason was that if people have images turned off then they see the ugly alt text (in IE anyway, Firefox just displays it as plain, styelable text, but IE seems to need to highlight the fact that there’s a broken image). My Image Replacement plugin will not run if the user has either images or javascript turned off, it will just leave the tags alone as plain text that will be styled with CSS as per normal. Credit goes to Peter-Paul Koch for his script to check if the user’s browser can display images.

This plugin isn’t for everyone. A lot of people don’t like using javascript, so for them, the Cold Forged plugin would be much better.

I’ve turned off comments on this post because it would help me greatly if you left any comments / question on the plugin page.

This is possibly the best mod I’ve seen done to an Xbox, adding a water cooling system. Looks great and actually works

Ill start by saying most of the time the noise from the 360 isnt too bad. Its comparable to a home PC or the first versions of the original Xbox and a little louder than the first PS2’s. For most people the noise level is fine but I’m easily irritated. When the 360 heats up and the fans speed up it becomes annoying.

(via Xbox-Scene)

Technorati Tags: Xbox, Xbox 360, Case Mod

Day of Defeat: Source is the latest version of the WWII online action game from Valve®. This weekend, everyone is invited to try DoD: Source for free. Join the ranks as Axis or Allies troops located in Western Europe during the height of the war in 1944.

Day of Defeat: Source Free Weekend

Nice, a whole weekend to play for free. Pity there’s no way my poor old pc could handle the game, I even have to run Counter Strike at 800×600. (That’s Counter Strike, not CS:Source)