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October 2009
faq - swfobject - SWFObject FAQ - Project Hosting on Google Code
by srcmax
16. Why does Firefox load my SWF twice?
Firefox 3 has a known issue that sometimes causes a swf to be 'double initialized'. The problem appears to be fixed in their codebase, but has not been released yet. See the following bugs for more details: bug 438830 and bug 445599.
Or, if you have "Disable cache" selected in your Firefox Web Developer Toolbar extension a double load will occur.
August 2009
keybr.com - take typing speed test and practice typing online
by oseres
& 3 others
Have you ever wished that you had a way to practice typing so that you could become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the “speed of thought,” perhaps? Enter Keybr.com — the flash–based typing instructor you’ve been waiting for!
Keybr.com is very straightforward. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words–per–minute (wpm) — and even creates graphs of your day–by–day performance.
But, things get even better! Once you have determined that the lessons you have completed have reached their maximum result, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit and personalize the text that you wish to practice! Very bare–bones, but oh, so functional.
Finally, to up the entertainment level of your typing lessons, you can import content from a web site or blog into Keybr.com to type it out.
But why even bother to learn touch typing? The answer is simple — it is healthier for you, faster and more accurate. Blogging, writing long documents and e–mails, instant messaging with your friends, and even coding sophisticated computer programs will become much easier and more enjoyable once you eliminate distraction of hunt–and–peck typing.
If you are curious about how touch typing appears to onlookers, please watch a couple of short YouTube videos demonstrating really high typing speed:
Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart threesome nude video leaks: Gray anatomy?
by alamat
(via)
A tape of who appears to be “Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane, his wife Rebecca Gayheart, and another woman — reportedly former Miss United States Teen Kari Ann Peniche — together in a nude video has spread online, but a lawyer for the couple said the tape should “not be used for any commercial purposes.”
Art Fag City » IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
by karlcow
his essay illustrates how my Street View collections reflect the excitement of exploring this new, virtual world. The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of a neutral, unbiased recording, and even the vastness of the project. At the same time, I acknowledge that this way of photographing creates a cultural text like any other, a structured and structuring space whose codes and meaning the artist and the curator of the images can assist in constructing or deciphering.
The HTML5 Equilibrium
by marco
The result is that HTML5 appears to be a self-contradictory mess. But it's hard to imagine a successful web technology that isn't a mess. That's because the web itself is a mess.
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July 2009
Pushing MRD out from under the geek rock « electronic museum
by karlcow
MRD (That’s Machine Readable Data – I couldn’t seem to find a better term..) is probably about as important as it gets. It underpins an entire approach to content which is flexible, powerful and open. It embodies notions of freely moving data, it encourages innovation and visualisation. It is also not nearly as hard as it appears – or doesn’t have to be.
May 2009
MaDdoG Software | PlacesBar Editor
by Spone
& 1 other
PlacesBarEditor is a free utility for Windows 2000 and Windows ME that allows you to customize the "PlacesBar" that appears on the left side of the Open and Save dialogs in most applications.
The PlacesBar is a set of shortcuts to commonly-used folders, but wouldn't it be more useful if you could determine what "commonly used" means for yourself, instead of letting Microsoft define it for you? That's where PlacesBarEditor comes in.
April 2009
Dana Gordon - interaction design
by karlcow
Message Table
An answering machine that was merged into a wooden table. For each message received, a box appears on the table. To listen, open the box - and to delete, push it back into the desk. Exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, at the Salone del Mobile 2005 in Milano and at the Gallery AB , Torino.
(designed with Shawn Bonkowski)
March 2009
Netvibes Appears to Be Dying - ReadWriteWeb
by greut
Popular start-page service Netvibes may be in its final days as a viable product. The service has been suffering frequent, extended downtime, hasn't been fully functioning even when up and can't possibly be making as much money as its backers hoped it would.
Znarf qu'as-tu fait?
Dinkytunes Home
by rmaltete
Shut your Mac down, don’t get up...
I bought an Apple Mac Mini to use as a media center. Apple ships OS X Leopard with Front Row, which is great, except I found an important feature lacking: you need a keyboard to shut your Apple down. Not what you want in a chique remote controlled home cinema setting. I made a Shut Down plug-in for Front Row. It appears there are a lot of people that don’t want to get up to switch off their Mac up after watching a movie!
Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com
by kasi77
The failure appears to be catastrophic. The company can't say to what extent it will be able to restore any of its users' data. It also says the data failure was so extensive, repairing the loss will take "days, not hours."
February 2009
Privacy international identifies major security flaw in Google’s global phone tracking system
by karlcow
One day after the global launch of Google’s “Latitude” phone tracking system, Privacy International has identified what appears to be a fundamental design problem that could substantially endanger user privacy.
December 2008
Flashback GENESIS Level 2: New Washington on Vimeo
by sylvainulg
(via)
"If you've not read the manual or figured this out on your own, this is the first of many jumps that appears impossible"
"Flashback has this handy game mechanic where if you start running, and then hold down just the RUN button, Conrad will jump and grab the first ledge he can"
virtualnotes: episodes of 2 worlds
by srcmax
(via)
what a challenging concept. and extra interesting, as Sderot is a city that also appears in the 2028 story. now it suddenly is there, just a click away.
November 2008
Flickr: Discussing Real-time Flickr analytics of any photo page in Flickr Hacks with whos.amung.us/
by decembre
By inserting the non-JS version of the widget into the comment area of your photo page, you can basically be monitoring the live visitor traffic on that photo. The tool's ability to display geographical data about the visitors makes it a great supplement to the Flickr Stats which does not disclose visitors' location. I have only placed this on my top-viewed assets since today so I can't really comment any further about its effectiveness - though I must say that I do find it interesting that while my main sites and blogs receive mostly U.S. traffic, it appears that visitors to my media assets on Flickr are fairly diverse. If that's really the case (and only time will time after I have collected enough data), it will provide a really strong case for marketing... which in turn will explain why what all those yahoo ad servers requests may really be about... (of course that's just a hunch) - but in any case, it's an interesting site to check out.
DisableDivXToolbar___MEDIAPORTAL - free media center -
by decembre
This tool turns on and off the DivX Toolbar (DivXSM.exe), which appears by the system tray when you play a DivX file and removes focus from Mediaportal.
The WordPress Icon Contest Quanundrum - Positive Space Blog
by aspyrine
It appears that in the process of finding designers, the WordPress team actually received 12 qualified candidates. Instead of choosing to base the work on the applicant’s letters of intent and portfolio, the team chose to propose a contest to the designers.
La classe...
October 2008
Animated Loading Spinner for Firefox 3 - Loading | Displays a Spinning Animated Firefox Logo (Spinfox) when loading a page in Firefox 3__Userstyles.org
by decembre
Both the Loading New Tab AND the About:blank's background image will be animated. When you open a new tab, it will display this animated image until something from that site is able to be displayed. Features: + Appears when opening new tabs + Appears when loading new tabs content + Appears within loading page contents (a loading div control containing a frame of another site) + Appears when a page transitions to external or new domain + Works in Firefox 3! + Clean and very appropriate animated default image, included with style (Firefox logo Spinning) + Makes your browser look great, and adds that "wow" factor. Additional Information: *NOTE: Please Clear your Cache and Restart your browser after installing or changing this style, your custom image will need to be cached in order for it to be displayed. * You may have to disable the following two styles for this to work: - Custom About:Blank logo - Custom New Tab Loading Image
TinEye Image Search
by cascamorto
& 6 others
TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.
TinEye est un moteur de recherche d'images. Donnez-lui une image et il vous dira ou l'image apparait sur le web.
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Video captioning made easy with the YouTube JavaScript API
by sbrothier
(via)
One thing that has been annoying me for ages is that no video player on the web allows you to write comments for a specific time in the video that get displayed as plain text. Viddler allows you to comment at a certain time and it appears in the video, but the benefits of time based captioning both in terms of accessibility and SEO didn’t quite transpire to any video site maintainers yet. Edit: Darn, I hadn’t looked at Viddler for a long time, it actually does this now, well done!
TinEye___Extension ___Pour trouver d’autres versions d’une image en ligne
by decembre
Why use TinEye? There are many uses for TinEye, but here are just a few: * Find out where and how an image appears online * Find websites containing more information about an image * Attribute an image to an author or source * Find high resolution versions of an image * Research the usage and placement of editorial or stock images * Find modified or edited versions of an image * Research corporate imagery or brand usage online * Track the popularity or distribution of an image online
How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching | BetterExplained
by holyver
& 1 other
Caching is a great example of the ubiquitous time-space tradeoff in programming. You can save time by using space to store results.
In the case of websites, the browser can save a copy of images, stylesheets, javascript or the entire page. The next time the user needs that resource (such as a script or logo that appears on every page), the browser doesn’t have to download it again. Fewer downloads means a faster, happier site.
jQuery listnav plugin - javascript navigation control to manage alphabetical lists
by srcmax
& 4 others
This jQuery plugin supplies an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any UL or OL list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the user the letters A-through-Z. Clicking one of the letters filters the list to show only the items in the list that start with that letter.
September 2008
Tools of the Trade
by sbrothier
Here is my list of different bar tools you might want for your bar. When I can locate an on-line company that appears to sell a product that I can recommend, I'll try to include a direct link to that company/product on the associated page.
