Bobby Jack

Norwich

Writer and Editor at Freelance

✍️ @NintyMedia, @MUO_official, @superjumpmag ❤️ #nintendo for 30 yrs 🎮 Playing 🚪Paper Mario: TTYD 🤐 MY views ✉️ [email protected]

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Articles

Make Your First Web App Amazing With These 10 Core Web APIs

1 week ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

Using JavaScript, you can radically transform HTML documents, adding functionality to static web pages and even creating full-blown web applications. At its core, JavaScript can do anything that any other programming language can. However, beyond this, web browsers implement several web APIs that provide powerful support for various features. 1 Access and Modify HTML With the DOM All Web APIs (Application Programming Interface) supply code so that you don’t have to.
6 JavaScript Snippets to Polish Your Site

2 weeks ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

JavaScript is a popular language, and it’s easy to find general-purpose snippets that help complement it. But its most important context is the web browser, and there’s a lot you can do to enhance your web pages with just a little JavaScript. These snippets are designed to be dropped into any website, regardless of its underlying framework or structure. They are all short—many are one-liners—and offer plenty of bang for their buck. Try opening a Google search results page and pressing the / key.
Why I Still Get My News and Alerts From a 25 Year Old Tool

2 weeks ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) lets you subscribe to site feeds and receive new article notifications. RSS is an open and simple format, encouraging publishers to syndicate content for customized reading. Podcasts rely on RSS for syndication, and it’s a great alternative to social media feeds. Catching up on the news means either dodging paywalls on traditional media sites, or wading through toxic comments on social media, right? Wrong: there’s another way.
Nintendo’s 7 Greatest Hardware Innovations

3 weeks ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

Nintendo may not always put out the most powerful hardware or bleeding-edge games, but when it comes to innovation, the Japanese company has walked the line from bizarre diversions to revolutionary advances. The following experiments have taken the company from the dawn of gaming in the 1980s to the current day. 1 Clamshell Portables Nintendo’s first-ever hardware (apart from the Japan-only Color TV-Game) was a series of small LCD gadgets called Game & Watch.
You Can Fix This Uncommon Mac Error If You Know Where to Look

3 weeks ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

Few things are more frustrating than a vague error message, especially if it prevents you from running a game or an app you’ve just installed. macOS likes to throw these errors at you from time to time, in the name of system security. So what can you do about it? What the Error Looks Like I encountered this error myself just a few weeks ago, with a game I bought on itch.io.
11 Classic Indie Games You Can Play on Mac

3 weeks ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

Support for games on Mac can be pretty patchy. While we tend to accept this as a given for AAAs, there’s more of an expectation for indies to be available. There are one or two exceptions, though. Try playing Animal Well, Outer Wilds, or Death’s Door, and you’ll be out of luck. Here are the best indie games for macOS, all of which can be bought on Steam.
7 CSS Properties You’ve Never Heard Of (and How to Use Them)

1 month ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

Even if you’re an expert web designer, there are plenty of obscure CSS properties you’re unlikely ever to use. In fact, with hundreds of supported properties, there are parts of CSS you’ll probably never even learn about. Some worth knowing despite being uncommon. Thanks to Google’s Platform Status report you can find out which properties are used the least, and maybe learn about a new, powerful property while you’re at it. I've put pulled out some of the most interesting.
Chrome’s Customisable Toolbar Just Made My Life Easier

1 month ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

You can customize the Chrome Toolbar by selecting which icons to display and adjusting their placement. Improve your Chrome experience by adding relevant icons to the toolbar to access functions you use frequently. Update Chrome to access the toolbar customization feature, and use it based on your preferences and usage habits. The Google Chrome Toolbar now offers just enough customization to be useful without it becoming a time sink.
Don’t Rely on CSS, Make Your Site Look Great Without It

1 month ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

CSS isn't necessary for good-looking sites; HTML provides structure, and browsers use appropriate default styles. Design web pages by focusing on semantics through proper HTML tags. Use minimal HTML and validate code for clean, robust web designs. You may already know that CSS is a vital technology for styling your web pages. But you don’t need to use it, and your sites can still look good without it. How Do CSS and HTML Work Together?
Git or GitHub: What’s the Difference and Are There Alternatives?

1 month ago | howtogeek.com | Bobby Jack

GitHub is a platform for hosting and sharing code, with free web hosting and social media features. Git is a version control system that tracks code changes and is used to drive GitHub. Other Git hosts—like GitLab and Bitbucket—are available, but GitHub is by far the most popular. GitHub has become so ubiquitous that you might think Git is an interchangeable shorthand. But the two are very different, and alternatives to each are available, if not quite as popular. What Is GitHub?