Fix for the Firefox/CSS one page printing bug

I ran into Firefox’s CSS printing bug that would only print one page and let the content overflow (without clipping the page). The actual bug is documented here by Mozilla.

After scouring the Net for a fix, I found that it can be caused due to a number of reasons. Here’s the list of fixes that should help you out if you’re facing this bug:

.css-element { overflow: visible !important; }

W3C’s Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once

Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web’s governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website’s code against multiple web standards at the same time. You can find the new Unicorn “all-in-one validator” on the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) website at validator.w3.org/unicorn/.

Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website

Bounce offers free and dead-simple web site capture and annotation for hassle-free sharing of site-related notes.

Visit Bounce, plug in a URL, and Bounce snaps a screenshot of the web site you pointed it at. Once the capture is loaded you can draw boxes around elements of the site you want to annotate and immediately add text. When you share the URL for your capture others can check out your notes by mousing over the focus boxes you've created.

Terminal Tips: Unfreeze your Mac

Look, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, it happens to everyone: your Mac has frozen up and won’t respond. I know, I know, for years we Mac folks used to love poking fun at Windows because it freezes up. Apple even made a commercial about it. As someone who has used both, I will say that I have seen this far, far less frequently with Macs… but it happens — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dr Macro’s Hi-rez vintage movie stills

Dr. Macro has compiled an impressive collection of high quality photos featuring famous screen personalities from the 1940s and earlier.

The images are scanned from 8×10 publicity photos and presented in all their high rez glory. As an interesting side-note, movie stills from that era were typically captured with medium and large-format cameras with significantly higher resolution than "modern" 35mm SLRs that became common in the 1970s.

Organic Vegan Twinkie Recipe

The best of all the homemade Twinkie recipes we tried, these organic vegan twinkie cakes will knock even the most conventional meat-eater’s socks off. As you might remember from our Great Twinkie Taste Off, the following recipe comes from this review which was too provocative to ignore. As the winner of the challenge, these Twinkie cakes have earned their own complete Instructable. It’s no small undertaking, but the resulting cakes are so delightful, you won’t begrudge a moment of effort, and your friends will be begging you for more — via Instructables

What to do if locked out of Gmail, and what to do now if you aren’t

What to do if you're locked out of Gmail? It's a question too many users ask, after they are already locked out and are attempting to recover their account. Given the incredible amount of personal and financial information we keep in our inboxes, gaining access to a compromised Gmail account is incredibly important. Here's how to recover your Gmail account, and what you can do now, to make a future recovery easier.

Pattern in Islamic Art

Pattern in Islamic Art offers a FREE download of over 4000 images of patterns and other design features drawn from the rich cultural heritage of the Islamic world. Historically, the decorative arts have always formed a major part of Islamic aesthetic expression. Its remarkable achievements in this direction (much of which are represented here) make it an invaluable resource for designers of all kinds as well as for art-historians and art-lovers generally

12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros – operating systems, open source, Linux

One of the benefits of open source software that many people are most familiar with is that it’s free to download. This means you can grab great applications — such as Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite or the GIMP photo editing program — without paying a cent. However, the other major benefit of truly open source software (some “open source” software licences are more restrictive than others) is that you’re allowed to modify a program and redistribute your altered version so other people can enjoy it — via Good Gear Guide

Meet WebMatrix, Microsoft’s New Suite For Painless Web Development

Microsoft has unveiled a new all-in-one web development suite called WebMatrix. It’s more than an IDE or a framework, it’s a whole suite — a web server, a SQL database, and a database-ready framework, all wrapped up into a single development environment that makes it easy to build, test and deploy some fairly complex web apps. WebMatrix is free, and it’s available for Windows users as a beta download.

Blackberry Buckle…

This week's basket from Farmhouse Delivery was so beautiful…full of colorful not quite summer bounty. I spotted a big basket of blackberries hidden under the rainbow chard. The four cups of blackberries included were exactly the amount needed to make a Blackberry Buckle for dessert. First Buckle of the Spring/Summer fruit season — via Bless Her Heart

Add PDFs to iTunes for easy syncing

If you have iTunes 9.2 and iOS4 installed on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, the iBooks app can view PDF files in addition to other e-book formats. That means you can easily bring any PDF with you for reading on-the-go. An anonymous MacOSXHints.com reader found an easy way to add almost any kind of document to iTunes's Books collection: