• Every time they mention hurricane Katrina, drink 1
• If they show pictures of the City of New Orleans right after Katrina, drink 1
• Every time they say how much the Saints mean 2 the City of New Orleans,drink 1
• Every time the words “tragedy”, “flood”, or “devastation” are used, drink 1
• Every time they talk about how good Reggie Bush was in college, drink 3
• If they show Kim Kardashian in the stands, drink 5
• Every time they show a picture of Reggie Bush with a bat or say “bringing the wood” drink for 5 seconds.
• Every time Reggie Bush gets negative yardage trying to run around in the backfield a bunch and outrun the defense, drink 1 and turn to the person next to you and say “I told you Vince Young should have won the Heisman”
• Every time Reggie Bush gets up and flexes his arms in that pose he likes to do, drink 1
• If they mention Tim Tebow for any reason, funnel a beer
• Every time they say that “it’s destiny for the Saints to win” drink 1
• If they show footage of Katrina survivors at the Superdome, take a shot of cheap liquor
• If they call Saints fans the most passionate fans in football, drink 1
• If they say that the Saints, Saints fans, or the City of New Orleans “deserve” a Superbowl victory, drink 1
• Every time they say how good of a story the Saints are, drink 1
• If Jeremy Shockey pretends to be hurt after dropping a pass, drink 2
• If they mention the Saints beating the Falcons in 2006 in the first game after Katrina in the Superdome, drink 5 and remember that we are still a better football team with better fans.
• Every time they compare hurricane Katrina to the Haiti earthquake, funnel a beer and yell “bullshit!”
• Every time they mention brew Brees as the Mardi Gras king, drink 1
• Every time they show Archie Manning, drink 1, and mention how bad he sucked. If they show old footage of him on the Saints, drink 5. If they mention how tough of a decision it was for him as for whom to cheer for, drink 10.
• Every time they show a saints fan yelling “Who dat!” or a sign/shirt saying the same, drink 1.
• If they show Chris Paul at the game, drink 1 and mention to someone how much better he is than Marvin Williams.
• If they show former Mayor Ray Nagin, drink 5 and then punch someone in the face

Other Rules not involving the Saints:

• Every time they show Eli Manning in the press box, drink 1
• Every time Pierre Garcon is mentioned with Haiti, drink 1
• If Brett Favre is mentioned for any reason, drink 1

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a jQuery FAQ list that is both easy to use and easy to create. View a real life example.

FAQ pages are often a long list of questions followed by answers, or a list of questions that anchor link to an answer further down the page. Neither one creates a very usable way for users to easily find the information they are looking for.

The following script fixes all of that by creating a clean page that puts the user in control of what information to display.

The HTML

First we wrap everything in a wrapper div and give it a class name. Within this div is an h5. This h5 is actually our question. It doesn't have to be an h5, but if you use a different element, you will have to edit the jQuery accordingly to target the element you have chosen to use. Next, we have a div with a class of answer. We will be targeting this div in order for the user to be able to show and hide the answer. Within this div is a paragraph tag with some filler lorem ipsum text.

That is all you need to create the HTML for one question, however, to get the full effect, you will want to copy and past this code a few times so that you have a few questions.

<div class="FAQWrap">
  <h5>This is my question?</h5>
  <div class="answer">
    <p>Notare quam littera gothica quam, nunc putamus parum claram anteposuerit litterarum. Et quinta decima eodem modo typi qui nunc. Per seacula quarta decima nobis videntur parum clari: fiant sollemnes in.  Equitur mutationem consuetudium lectorum mirum est formas humanitatis.</p>
    </div>
  </div>

The CSS

The styles are essentially unimportant. You can styles the layout any way you want, but I will give some insight into some of the styles I often choose when creating an FAQ page.

The first thing to note is that I give my h5 a cursor: pointer style. This creates the hand pointer when the user hovers on the question. That gives the user a clear indication that something will happen if they click on this question.

You will also see that I have different background images for the h5 depending on whether it has a class of inactive or active. We will change this class with jQuery when the user clicks the question and the class, along with the background image arrow, will toggle, again creating visual interactivity between the user and the page.

#content {width: 960px; margin: 0 auto;}
.FAQWrap h5 {color: #555; margin: 10px 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 20px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; cursor: pointer;}
.FAQWrap h5.inactive {background: url(../images/bg-faq-inactive.png) no-repeat 0 3px;}
.FAQWrap h5.active {background: url(../images/bg-faq-active.png) no-repeat 0 3px;}
.FAQWrap .answer {background: #EEE; margin: 10px 10px 20px 30px; padding: 10px;}

The jQuery

And finally, the most important part, the jQuery. Remember of course to first link to the jQuery framework.

The first thing we do is hide all answer divs when the page loads. That creates the nice clean layout we are looking for and puts the control in the hands of the user as which information they want displayed on the page.

Next, we target all h5's within the FAQWrap div and assign a class of inactive. This, along with our CSS on the h5, will create a background image of an arrow pointing to the right, denoting that the answer is hidden, but can be displayed if you click the question.

The next thing we want to do is run a function when we click on an h5 within FAQWrap. The first thing we do is use this toggleClass method to switch the class of the actual h5 we clicked. toggleClass simply toggles the class name on the targeted element. If it has a class of 'inactive', it will switch the class to 'active', and if it is 'active', it will switch the class to 'inactive'. So, hopefully you are now beginning to see that each time we click on an h5, we are switching the class name between 'inactive' and 'active', and that, in combination with our CSS, is what is changing our background image arrow on the h5.

The last thing we do, which is most important, is slideToggle the answer div. The way we do that is first find the parent of 'this' (the h5 we are clicking on), then we are finding the div with a class of answer within that parent element, and slideToggling it. This means that if the answer is showing, it will slideUp and and be hidden, and if it is hidden, it will slideDown and show.

$(function() {
      $('.answer').hide();
      $('.FAQWrap h5').addClass('inactive');
      $('.FAQWrap h5').click(function() {
        $(this).toggleClass('active');
        $(this).toggleClass('inactive');
        $(this).parent().find('.answer').slideToggle();        
      });
    });

The Demo

And so when you put all of that together, you get a nice, clean, easy to use FAQ page that any user will enjoy using!

Download the source

Demo:

Code:

<script src="/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/imageCycle.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
if (!$('.pics').length > 0) return false;
$('.pics').cycle('fade');
});
</script>

<div class="pics">
  	<img src="images/1.png" width="205" height="147" alt="" title="" />
  	<img src="images/2.jpg" width="205" height="147" alt="" title="" />
  	<img src="images/3.jpg" width="205" height="147" alt="" title="" />
  	<img src="images/4.jpg" width="205" height="147" alt="" title="" />
  </div><!--end .pics-->

1. link to the jquery framework
2. link to the image cycle jquery plugin
3. create a function that links to a specific class to trigger the rotation (just copy the exact function I have included)
4. create a div with a class of 'pics' (or whatever trigger you chose to use in your function. If you just copied mine, it will be 'pics').
5. include the images with your div that you would like to fade in and out

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Here’s what to do. Open up the facebook application on your iphone and navigate to one of your favorite photo albums. When you open the album, it shows a collage of thumbnails. All we want to do is take a screenshot of this view and then set it as our wallpaper.

If you don’t already know how to take a screenshot or screen capture on the iPhone, simply hold the on/off button on the top of your phone and then click the home button. Your screen will then flash and save an image to your photo library. You can now go in your photo library and set the image as your wallpaper. You then have a custom, personalized wallpaper using nothing but your iPhone and the facebook application!

Here are 4 easy steps to get set up to open all the applications you use on a daily basis with one simple click of the mouse.

First: navigate to Applications > AppleScript > Script Editor.  Open Script Editor.  This is where we can write and save a simple AppleScript to open all the apps that we want to open.  You will see a window popup that looks like this:

Second: now we just have to write our script and it couldn’t be easier.  For each application that we want to open we write:

tell application “Mail”
activate
end tell

tell application “Firefox”
activate
end tell

etc. etc. for each application that we want to open.  You can hit ‘Run’ in the toolbar to see your script in action.

Third: Now we want to save our script so we can reuse it every morning.  Go to File > Save and save it as whatever name you would like, but save it to this location: Your_Home_Folder/Library/Scripts.  If a ‘Scripts’ folder does not exist you can go ahead and create one in this location.  This is where you should save all of your AppleScripts.

Fourth: At this point, you are basically up and running, you could just navigate to your scripts folder every morning, double click the script and run it to open your applications, but that doesn’t seem very efficient.  Instead, it would be great to have a button in our main menu bar that we can click to run this script.  Good news, we can do just that!  Navigate to Applications > AppleScript > AppleScript Utility and check ‘Show Script menu in menu bar‘. 

Now we have a little icon that we can click on.  When we click this icon we get a drop down of all our scripts.  At the bottom you should see your script.  Simply click on it to run it!

Bonus Material!

It would be just as great if we could easily quit all of our open applications at the end of the day with just one click.  Good news again, that is even easier to do!

Open up Automator in your Applications folder.  Choose ‘Custom‘ as your starting (this gives you a blank canvas to start with).  Make sure ‘Actions’ is highlighted and click on ‘library’.  In the column to the right of ‘library’, scroll down to ‘Quit All Applications’.  Click on this and drag and drop it into the empty space to the right.

Now all you have to do is save this script. Go to File > Save and name it whatever you like, but remember to save it to Your_Home_Folder/Library/Scripts.  Now, when you click on the AppleScript icon in the menu bar, you will see your ‘quit all applications’ script.  Simply click on it to quit all open applications.

I hope this article has been helpful and please let me know of any questions or other suggestions.

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