All your round are belong to us!

Hi guys! If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been running into a bug in Webkit that causes an embedded SVG to have a white background, rather than transparent. That was causing my SVG logo on http://alpha.spherecat1.com/ to look terrible in Safari and Chrome, so I have been looking for a fix for some time. I found one!

Update: Here’s a link to the official bug in the MacOSForge mailing list.
And here’s one for Chrome.

Intro

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Hi guys! Today I’m announcing a new project from SphereCat1, the EvStick (short for Everything Stick). The EvStick is designed to be used for diagnostics, as well as a backup system in case of hard drive failure, or something else along those lines. It has a complete live version of Linux Mint 8 running on a thumb drive! It will also include tools like Darik’s Boot ‘n’ Nuke, Konboot, the Ultimate Boot CD, and more to come as I find cool stuff. Feel free to make suggestions! There will also be some surprise stuff added just because I think it’s … Continue Reading

R.I.P. CrunchPad

Hi guys. I know, no exclamation point. It’s bad. The CrunchPad really is dead! How did this happen? Well, I won’t go into great detail, you can read Mike Arrington’s full post if you want the whole story. Basically, the manufacturing company that they had partnered with, Fusion Garage, contacted them three days before the official launch and told them that they were no longer involved with the project, and that they would be selling it without TechCrunch’s involvement. That is wrong on … Continue Reading