How to heat coffee in a standard cup size then pour into your favorite cup, without spilling

I haven't been posting on here as much as I would like, I have been pretty busy lately trying to obtain new business and restructuring our finances. Since I am restructuring our finances I have had to cut back on my lovely morning Starbucks and bring coffee from home.

I recently purchased a new coffee cup (the steel one on the left) which keeps my coffee warn all day thanks to its dual layers of insulation.

I like to add milk to my coffee to give it a nice cream color and smooth taste and sometimes this makes my coffee colder then I would like. Since my coffee is cold I now need to warm it up in the microwave. However, there is a problem with this, my new cup is stainless steel, not the best thing for a microwave and since it is made of steel I have to pour my coffee out into a standard porcelain cup.

Okay, here is the real problem and I am sure many of you have done this too. When you pour from your small cup into your favorite cup you sometimes spill coffee all over the counter, I ran into this exact problem this morning so I decided to run a little experiment.

GOAL:
To get all of my coffee from my porcelain cup into my favorite cup with out spilling.

TEST 1:
Pour the coffee into my favorite cup "slow".

TEST 2:
Pour the coffee into my favorite cup "fast".

RESULTS:
Test 1: FAILED!!! Coffee got all over the place.
Test 2: THE WINNER!!! Pouring my coffee into my favorite cup going at a fast speed made it possible for all of the coffee to get into my favorite cup with out spilling a single drop.

CONCLUSION:
Pour your coffee fast into your favorite cup and you will save those precious few drops of your black gold.

List navigation vs. General link navigation

What are the advantages to using unordered/ordered lists for menus as opposed to setting up a menu using general links or links in containers for each menu item?

I have wonder this very question myself, so I set out to find the answer online, after hundreds of pages I was only able to find a few answers scattered around. So after coming up short with answers I begun to look into the benefits and downfalls to using each menu system and I made note of them here.

Benefits of using general random link menus:

• Finer control over the outcome of each menu item
• A basic link can have the least amount of code needed to create a link for a menu.

Downfall to using general random link menus:

• Normal menu links use larger amounts of code ie. (classes, id's, spans, divs) sometimes generating more code then actually needed for the desired outcome.
• Harder for Content management systems to generate new menu items.
• Large amounts of code for each menu item can decrease load times when multiple links are on a single page.

Benefits of using lists for link menus:

• A menu is just a list of links.
• Small amount of code used
• Seperate website formating from content
• Screen readers for the handicapped (the blind) recognize "ul" as a "list" of whatevers... and it 'speaks' that fact to the listener. Without this, the series of 'links' would be, essentially, random (found by the user via random mouse-movements or TAB-clicks...)
• Easier to add new menu items when using an automated management system.
• Saved Bandwidth needed to download the page
• Faster load times
• Faster maintenance do to less code
• Using a list still allows for easy navigation even if all style sheets are turned off.
• Finer control when using inconjunction with JavaScript
• Using lists give menus structure that is not possible with general links

Downfall of using lists for link menus:

• Harder to get a desired menu design with less css.

TinyURL Gadget now available for Gmail

We kept our promise and have now ported our TinyURL gadget to now work in Google's Gmail.

If you spend a lot of time in your gmail accounts like we do, then you probably use Google's gtalk instant messaging. Have you sent a URL to your friend/co-worker in your gtalk instant messenger and the url was so long that it took up multiple lines casuing you to scroll up to view older messages, well we have and so we wanted to bring our gadget to Gmail to eliminate the need for the scrolling (I admit it, we are lazy at times).

To add our gadget to your gmail takes 3 easy steps.

1. Simly activate the Gmail labs feature for "Gadgets"
2. Add our gadget via the following url:
   http://www.heka1.com/gadgets/tinyurl/tinyurl_gmail.xml
3. Go back to your gmail home page and the Tiny URL gadget will now be available.

If you have any questions or requests for the gadget feel free to contact us at gadgets@hekainteractive.com

OpenSocial Tiny URL Widget

We have just finished our first OpenSocial Widget. This widget uses the Tinyurl.com API to generate a Tinyurl link using ajax. This means that you can generate a Tinyurl link on your favorite OpenSocial platform.

Currently this Widget has only been tested on Orkut.com. We will continue to develop and test this widget on more OpenSocial platforms, giving you more places to generate a Tiny URL link.



The beta version of Tiny URL widget can be found at :
http://www.heka1.com/gadgets/tinyurl/tinyurl.xml

iPhone and Andriod dedicated website

Ok, I have been busy working on client projects lately so the iPhone/Andoid website is taking a little longer then expected to finish. I have been unable to even touch the gallery of the website since I made the last post. If you are interested in viewing the website at its current status it can be found at www.heka1.com/mobile/ as soon as I have time to finish the site I will post an update.

iPhone website

After we release our iPhone website we will give you some pointers and how to's on what we did to create the new iPhone dedicate website. We will include tools we used along with simple scripts we included.

New Iphone Portfolio dedicate website coming soon!

Today we have begun a new iPhone dedicate version of our website.

If you enjoy using your iPhone to do work and look at some amazing websites then be sure to stay turned when we release ours next week.