Linkdumping

Here are parts of todays finds, jotted down for later reference: GZIP compression, HTTP Caching, the Pareto principle (plus the wikipedia equivalent), passing elements to event handlers with jQuery, CSS Compress for WordPress, This day in type, Pingdom, We love TXP, Jon Hicks’ google reader theme, lovely inspiring typography works by Craig Ward…

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How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app

Just open up the terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset “UTF-8”

It was that easy. Not everyone has to do that I guess, but if you, like me, have had a problem with Outlook users asking you why you’re writing to them in Chinese, this might help get them off your back

Finally! Flickr adds collections

Ah, finally flickr provides a way to organise one’s photosets! From the Flickr Blog:

Today we launched what’s probably the most requested feature over the last few years: a way to categorize and organize your photo sets! In the past this feature has been referred to as “sets of sets” or “subsets”. After today, […]

Upgraded.

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.1. All in all, it was quite a smooth experience. Congrats to the WordPress team for an impressive update!

Update: if you’re using the Feedburner plugin for managing different flavours of RSS, be sure to update that, and change your settings accordingly. I didn’t, but now I have…