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Having Hosts File Problems in OS X Lion?

If you do any kind of web development work on a Mac or even want to block or redirect access to specific domains, you have probably edited the system file /etc/hosts. If like me, you've recently upgraded to Mac OS X Lion and now find that entries appended to this file don't work, the reason is probably because there is no carriage return after the last line in the file.

To ensure that all your hosts file entries work correctly, including the last one, all you need to do is leave an empty blank line after the last entry in the file like this:

Amazing photos of Eyjafjallajökull

Unless you've been living as a hermit in Tibet, you've probably noticed that most of Europe has ground to a halt over the last week thanks to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland. This eruption is interesting in many ways but not least because of the amount of lightning it's produced. Check out some of the beautifully captured lightning shots in the short time lapse stills on the Boston.com website.

View the photo gallery here

Works Great with iPad

I had the chance to play with a work colleague's Apple iPad today and I have to say, I'm quite impressed. It's a great size - not too big - and it doesn't feel too heavy to be comfortable.

Naturally, I fired up Safari and had a quick look at Pixaria Gallery and I'm pleased to report that thanks to the standards support in Pixaria's HTML and CSS, everything works beautifully:

ShakeItPhoto Brings Polaroid to the iPhone

If this doesn't count as a silly gimmick, I don't know what does but it's pretty much irresistible as far as the fun factor goes.

ShakeItPhoto is as close as you'll get to the Polaroid experience on an iPhone (or any phone come to that). I love how they've captured that slightly faded, hazy kind of look that I always loved about real Polaroid film - oh and you get to do the whole shaking thing too!

Read more: http://shakeitphoto.com/

And check out the gallery on Flickr.

Photoshop Magic

Adobe Labs are, as ever, cooking up some truly unbelievable new tools that will be making their debut in future editions of Photoshop. For the latest preview, check out this video on John Nack's blog for a demo of an amazing new feature called 'Content Aware Fill'. It's worth watching the video right the way through because this is technology that's pretty much indistinguishable from magic.

Read more: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/caf_in_ps.html

Cute iPhone Stand from magneticNorth

British design style rides once again with this cute and oh so simple iPhone stand. Damn, I wish I'd thought of it..! http://www.movie-peg.com/

Is this 'FaceBook Login'?

Usability on the web is a big issue, not least because many people don't seem to have the vaguest idea how the web actually works. Consider the case of ReadWrtiteWeb who on Wednesday featured an article discussing the login page on Facebook. Very quickly, the posting got to a rank of number one in a Google search for 'Facebook Login' and the result was that many, many people ended up on the ReadWriteWeb article when they were expecting to see Facebook.

The comments section at the bottom of the page makes for hilarious reading as one person after another rants incoherently about the 'new Facebook'. The take away lesson though is that many people have no idea how to use a web browser and simply Google (or Bing) for what they're looking for, something web developers everywhere would do well to consider! via Daring Fireball

Poisonous Pine Nuts?

If you have recently suffered from a really unpleasant, persistent bitter or metallic taste in your mouth and couldn't find an explanation for it, even after visiting a dentist or doctor, it's possible it might have been caused by Chinese pine nuts.

It seems that there is a minor epidemic of pine nut related taste disturbances going on in Europe at the moment and I've been unlucky enough to be one of the ones affected by it since I bought a big bag of Chinese pine nuts to snack on last week.

The nuts themselves tasted fine at the time but about six to eight hours after starting to eat them (long enough for me not to make the connection), the taste in my mouth evolved into something similar to what you'd expect after drinking a stale shot of espresso. Not wanting to be one of those people who Googles their symptoms and immediately comes to the wrong/worst possible conclusion, I only started hunting on the web today and was relieved to discover that pine nuts are the most likely cause and not heavy metal poisoning.

In the UK the Food Standards Agency is investigating the problem and from what I've read on the net, other countries' local agencies are doing the same thing so hopefully the cause will be determined soon. In the meantime, it seems that while the taste is very unpleasant and makes food and drink somewhat unpalatable, there doesn't appear to be any health risk involved...

Move over Flash, here comes CSS

I've just been pointed (via Ajaxian) in the direction of an incredible new demo of the capabilities of 3D CSS transforms in the latest version of Webkit, the HTML and JavaScript processing software which lies inside Safari, Google Chrome and a host of other web browsers.

The demo, named Snow Stack, is an impressive example of how advanced new CSS and JavaScript capabilities can be used to implement the kinds of visual effects that were previously only possible with Flash or special plugins like Cooliris. The Snow Stack demo is itself very much reminiscent of Cooliris so if you're running a beta of Mac OS X Snow Leopard or have the latest nightly release of Webkit installed, it's definitely worth checking it out.

If you don't have either of the above, Ajaxian have a YouTube video of the demo here which will give you some idea of how it looks working in a real web browser.

As impressive as the demo is, the 3D CSS transforms and JavaScript used in the demo are not yet implemented in any web browsers so don't expect to see this turn up in Pixaria Gallery just yet!

Ad-busting in Berlin

Subverting the meaning of posters and billboards is nothing new but these examples in Berlin are quite clever. As one of the comments points out, it's a bit of an inside joke but it's still clever...

http://www.gizmodo.com/