links for 2006-11-23

• Making Capitalised Headlines With CSS
  Wondering if I can use the first-letter and text-transform things to ensure that posts auto-created by del.icio.us will have a title beginning “Links for…” rather than “links for…”. Looking at other blogs, seems they only went lower-case recently.
  (tags: css headlines initial capital)
• Kaboodle
  Free, open-source LAN mapping, monitoring, remote control & VPN application.
  (tags: kaboodle download network LAN vpn software)
• SourceForge.net: PDFCreator
  PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
  (tags: pdf software Windows opensource freeware pdfcreator download)
• Welcome to ART VINYL
  Fabulous way to display 12″ record sleeves. Must ask for some of these for Christmas. I used to blu-tack sleeves to the wall in my student days, but this is more grown-up.
  (tags: music frames records vinyl artvinyl)
• Liberal Holland hits the cultural panic button
  Good summary of recent Dutch history & background, plus general musing on British, Dutch & Muslim identity.
  (tags: netherlands dutch history multiculturalism britain islam muslim pimfortuyn theovangogh)
• User Script: del.icio.us notes max length
  Here’s a User Script for Greasemonkey to warn when you’re going over the 255 byte limit in the del.icio.us notes field, to avoid truncated notes.
  (tags: userscript del.icio.us greasemoney notes limit truncated)
• John Cale – discographie sélective
  Selective discography of John Cale in French, with images of record sleeves. I had never spotted Warhol’s image on the Songs For Drella cover!
  (tags: johncale discography loureed andywarhol)

Update: yes, the capitalised headlines thingy worked. Obviously it doesn’t change the underlying lower-case word in the Movable Type database, but it displays it with an initial capital when viewed via a CSS-capable browser. For the technically curious, my post titles are coded as follows:

<P class="title"><a class="permalink" href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a></P>

The CSS magic that does the initial cap is as follows:

P.title:first-letter { text-transform: capitalize ; }