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This is how this blog should look:


Screen shot of this blog with Firefox 1.0.7.


...and this how it looks in Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac:


Screen shot of this blog with Internet Explorer 5.2.3. for Mac Os X.

No title and the sidebar has no background nor any font setting!
This is a bit too much. Not mentioning the colors which look dirty.

I know it not easy to make a liquid layout, with the least hacks, which will looks OK in most browsers, and that IE is a major problem for CSS. It's getting better from what I heard but their will be no updates for Mac Os X.

I saw to a photographer friend who uses Mac OS X the other day. I peeped over his shoulder while he was surfing... And he was USING INTERNET EXPLORER!!!
What can I say. For somebody who doesn't do web pages and is not aware of the actual problems, I had to explain him what advantages he had using an other browser: TABS!
That made him change. But that means that even people "sensitive" to visual aesthetics hasn't noticed that some of the pages which look bad are not done on purpose.

So I had to check what this blog looked like. Before I didn't care about IE users, a bit because I thought they weren't in the same field, but no some ARE.

If you know or see a way to do some fixing this, PLEASE HELP.

Me too sometimes I fell like: Instant Badger ;D

I just wanted to explain the "simulate keystrokes" function in Butler:
But first for those who don't know Butler:

Butler is a system menu witch does lots of things, more than just a file & application launcher. It's can be:

1. a system wide bookmark manager with import export capacities


2. a web search with customisable search engines


3. multi clipboards


4. iTunes control


5. show IP


6. a keystrokes simulation

... and can be called by keyboard shortcut, abbreviations or like expose.


By far the best I've seen and totally free! and is so good you just have to send a donation. Once you find out all the features and how useful it is, you just need it, well I do. But I must admit I can't compare with Tigers widgets.(I don't have it!) I've tried konfabulator widgets before and found it too slow for my G4 768ram 400MHz.

Now, for this keystroke simulation, you just type in the keysrtoke combination you normaly would do, you can also choose to give some delay for the process to finish.

For example to change the extension of a selected file in the finder you would customize your Butler keystroke something like this:

Focus in the keysroke window and type:

Entrer - command left - (add some time if you need it) - alt shift right - Z - I - P - Enter

This is a simple example but combining system keystrokes you can do quite complicated things.

Other cool apps Peter Maurer has made:
Desktop Curtain: small utiliy for displaying a black backgroud for taking screenshots.
File List: batch file renamer, and a playlist generator.
Key Codes: displays the key code and key modifier for any key combination.
Service Scrubber: a system service manager!
Textpander: store text and image snippets for quick keystroke access.
Witch: switch and manage widows without viewing/openeing them.
PS: Thank you Peter Maurer. I've followed your creation since Another Launcher.