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The personal weblog of Zander Martineau

TwoUp

TwoUp

Have you seen the new Snap feature on Windows 7? I have, and was more than a little jealous when I found out about it; I constantly need two app windows to share the same screen and find it so annoying trying to resize them to fit. I found this awesome little gem that does just that. It’s called TwoUp made by Irradiated Software and turns this annoying chore into inconsequence. The best reason to use it, apart from the obvious, is that it’s free, so click here to visit the developer’s site and download that sucker!

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jQuery Masonry updated to version 1

My favourite jQuery plugin, jQuery Masonry by David DeSandro has recently been updated to version 1. It is a simple layout plugin that works in a similar way to floats, with the exception that Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. If you are browsing my blog, you have already seen this plugin in effect, it is being used on all article list pages.

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Recent work for Weight Watchers UK and Australia

Recent work for Weight Watchers UK and Australia

Over the past few months I have been working on a slightly different project, for my biggest personal client yet, Weight Watchers. They have two films on their US website that needed localising (for want of a better word; I replaced voice-over and content as well as modified spellings and grammar) for the UK and Australian websites, I was asked to amend the existing films using Final Cut Pro and After Effects.

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