Sam’s random musings

So got some documents from clients in .docx format, of course they don’t open directly here. So after downloading Micro$ofts convert tool (that didn’t work by the way on this file) and some others that did here are some resources

• http://docx-converter.com/ converts a file after you upload (worked for me)
• http://docx-converter.com/widget/ they also had a widget that worked for me
• http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx download the converter (didn’t work for me)

NeoOffice is also supposed to work now, ,but mine was out of date and haven’t downloaded the latest yet

Any other ones to add to the list…

Watch the video …:

Shift happens.

(Via Dangerousmeta.)

FancyForm - Pretty checkboxes and radios:

Styling form controls has always been limited with HTML and CSS. Not anymore. FancyForm provides the solution by letting you style checkboxes and radio buttons as you would any other elements, while degrading gracefully on older and non-graphical browsers.

Here’s an example of what’s possible with the script:

Click through to see the demo (worked in most of the browsers I tried, safari, camino, firefox…

(Via Vacuous Virtuoso.)

Reflex: Cover flow for your soul:

Christian Effenberger, Canvas Library Creator Extraordinarie, has created Reflex.js 1.1, which allows you to add a Cover Flow effect (including reflection) to images on your web pages.

It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, IE6+ (tilting missing) and Safari. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing.

As per usual, usage is via a simple microformat using CSS classes such as reflex iopacity75.

Click through to have a look it is really well done

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

So It Seems You Like the Porn:

(Via Bug Bash.)

Proto.Menu: Prototype-based Context Menu Solution:

Description

Proto.Menu is a simple and lightweight prototype-based solution for context menu functionality on your page
Features:

• Lightweight: ~2 KB (~1.5 KB minified)
• Unobtrusive: Plays nice with JS turned off, uses its own namespace
• Cross-browser: Full A-Graded browsers support (Opera is supported through Ctrl + Left Click)
• Fully customizable: Menu styling can (and is intended to) be easily defined in external stylesheet
• Fast: Menu container is rendered on page load, and only changes position on click

Nice clean and looks pretty simple to use.

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Straight Dope Message Board - View Single Post - The horror of blimps:

Last week while travelling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It’s called Airship Earth, and it’s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellors hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium put batteries in it, and you have a radio controll indoor blimp. I’d seen these things for sale in Sharper Image catalogs for $60-$75. At Zany Brainy it was on clearance for $15. What a deal!

If you need some cheering up you have got to read this, it is about the funniest things I have seen in a long time.

(Via Rush.)

Effectiveness Quiz - Management Edition:

(Via Bug Bash.)