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    Prevent Chrome from Translating a Page

    A while back I shared my favorite Google Chrome extension:  Google Art Project.  I've enjoyed seeing beautiful art when I open a new tab -- it's brought genuine happiness to my day, however small that happiness may be.  About a week ago, however, the art presented had...

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    Combine Audio and Video with ffmpeg

    We have audio.  We have video.  We appreciate each of those media on their own but you can create an awesome work of art if you combine the two.  After all, how could you watch a sports highlight video without setting the visuals to some obscure techno track?

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    Resize an Animated GIF

    Animated GIFs are images but you can't really handle them link other types of images, like PNGs or JPEGs or even WebPs.  GIFs are kind of a video file, because they have frames, but there's no real control over how they play or loop.  My favorite image...

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    Preventing Side Effects in JavaScript

    JavaScript is very dynamic these days but I still see a lot of legacy code, whether it be for optimal backward compatibility or simply that the code hasn't been maintained.  One of the practices that makes me cringe is coding that creates unwanted side effects.  What's a side...

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    Open Files from Command Line on OS X

    I'm as much of a fan of application UIs as anyone else but I'm finding myself working more and more from the command line lately.  Much of that is becoming obsessed with media manipulation but I'm forcing myself to use less UIs so that I...

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    Get an Absolute URL with JavaScript

    Dealing with URL formats can be a real nightmare.  Think of how just a few characters can effect a URL's absolute endpoint: starting or not starting with / starting with // starting with ? starting with # ...and so on What if you want an absolute URL though?  One that starts with...

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    Get HTML5 Video Duration

    HTML5 video is exciting, if only for the reason that we no longer need Flash or other third party plugins to render media.  We can also create custom controls and displays around the video, and one of those displays should be the duration of the video.  Let me...

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    Indent JSON with JavaScript

    Working with XML and JavaScript is a nightmare, which is why JSON has become gold in the development community.  Hell, I even wrote a function to turn XML to JSON with JavaScript.  If you want to turn an existing object into well formatted JSON, you can you JSON.stringify(obj), but...

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    Change Tab Title with JavaScript

    Changing the tab (or window) title is an age old practice.  Gmail does it to notify the user of a new chat message and this blog does it to update the tab title after a new page loads via AJAX.  How is it done?  By setting a property...

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    Access Intern Command Line Arguments

    SitePen's excellent client side testing tool, Intern, comes with an excellent command line utility to run tests and customize how those tests are run.  The options provided are great but what if I want to make the command line more dynamic?  What if I...