Thomas, Author at TwisterMc

SpongBob and the Nickelodeon Team Coming to the Mall of America Theme Park

31 Jan, 2007

SpongeBob Square Pants, Dora the Explorer, the Rugrats and many other Nickelodeon cartoons may just be coming to the Mall of America in Minnesota. The once Camp Snoopy has been looking for characters ever since Snoopy and his gang left. The word on the street is that the mall and Nickelodeon are in the final […]

Firefox – Innovations for Better Surfing T-Shirt

30 Jan, 2007

Last night I arrived home to a package. Inside was my official Firefox developers t-shirt. I remember logging into my developer account at Mozilla and getting a note saying that I qualified for a free t-shirt since I had created an extension (yExplore) for Firefox 2. Fast forward a few months and here it is. […]

PinkHope 0.7 – Firefox Theme

29 Jan, 2007

PinkHope 0.7 was quietly updated last night and will soon be live at Mozilla’s official addon site. New in this version is some great icons from Ken Saunders. He put a lot of work into them and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Not all are complete yet, but for the […]

Freedom Writers

28 Jan, 2007

We caught Freedom Writers at the local theater and it’s is an excellent movie. It’s a based on a true story where one teacher tries to unite students that are from different gangs and yet all lead the same life. She works with them to let them know that their lives aren’t anything new and […]

Now In A Smashing New Design

26 Jan, 2007

Well here it is, the all new TwisterMc.com design for 2007. The last major design update was back in April 21st, 2005 and so it’s more than time for an update! This design offers more color, more personality and better sidebar organization. I’ve been working on it for about the past two months and I’m […]

View from the Top of Renegade

25 Jan, 2007

As more and more boards get nailed on, Valleyfair’s new coaster, Renegade, is taking shape. See the view from the top of the coaster at the ThemeParkReview forums.

No Fun with IE and CSS

25 Jan, 2007

While re-designing my site I ran in to many issues related to Internet Explorer and CSS. To any web designer, this is nothing to new. I designed in Firefox and checked things in Safari and they were perfect. Opened up IE 6 and spend the next week or so re-working things. My biggest issue was […]

Chicklet & Social Creator Work in WordPress 2.1

22 Jan, 2007

I have a test blog that I basically do anything with so I decided to take the chances and upgrade to WordPress 2.1 on it tonight. I didn’t perform a backup, I didn’t even disable any plugins, I just upgraded and in about two minutes I was done. Everything works great and looks good. My […]

From Around The Web : Flock, Seamonkey, Outlook, Idol

21 Jan, 2007

I’ve never quite understood why people just leave a list of links to other sites, but now I do. Here is some news that I don’t have time to write about, but wanted to share. A new preview version of Flock, based on Firefox 2, is out with many additional features. Note, it didn’t import […]

Google Calendar Alarms in iCal

18 Jan, 2007

I’ve been using Google Calendar for a while now and it’s been working out quite well. Since it’s web based, it’s everywhere I am and since it works off .ics files, it can be subscribed to in iCal. It’s almost perfect. Two of the features I miss the most are being able to edit a […]