Saturday, March 10, 2007
In a story detailing how some Pokémon game will be the first to tie the Nintendo Wii and DS together, an upcoming schedule sets June 4th as the release date for the Nintendo DS web browser. I’m pretty excited to see how well this Opera browser runs on a DS compared to other available portable browsers.
Monday, March 5, 2007
AIGA has a current article titled Jack We Hardly Knew Ye. It tells the story of the creation of the Cingular and AT&T logos. The Cingular logo (orange X with a head) is of course on its way out as the AT&T brand takes over the new merged company. Its too bad. I think its one of the best logos out there today and really brings a fun and easy feeling to a phone company – which is not fun or easy.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Chris Pultz hit me with this incredible list of 53 CSS techniques. A couple of the methods listed here are duds, but most of them are fantastic. If you don’t do CSS yet, you should look through these to see what you’re missing. If you are on CSS, then get to using them! powered by performancing firefox
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Mike Potter from Adobe demonstrates Apollo at FlashInTO.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Looks like Google has added some new tools for following backlinks on a site.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Read/Write Web has an article today on a web site genre I hadn’t considered before - event invitations. After taking a look, some of these sites could be a real help to anybody planning any kind of activity.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Macintosh users can now download the “WPF/E” beta from microsoft. This allows Macintosh users to play files created by Microsoft’s new “Flash Killer” application Sparkle. Once you have installed it, the plugin works with both Safari and Firefox. You can see examples of it’s use here (note the first video in the second example where they talk about the number of Macs that have been appearing in Redmond). This is exciting only because it offers hope that whatever development platform content developers use in the future, the mac should be able to display them all.
Monday, February 5, 2007
The Google Operating System blog has found clues that Google may be working on a presentation application to go with it’s word processor and spreadsheet application. While Powerpoint is fine and Keynote is fantastic, I think that I would be very willing to give up the beautiful looking slides and transitions for something that was built into Google. Even if you didn’t use it to create and present your slideshows, one could always use it (I’m assuming) to upload your Powerpoint presentation for online storage and retrieval.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Zoho has released their new notebook application as a part of the zoho suite and it looks uh… sweet (I had to do that). Anyway, it’s just another example of the best applications moving to the web.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The New York Times reports Sony blaming profit slides on subsidizing the cost of the Playstation 3 too much. Selling consoles at a loss is nothing new. Sony and Microsoft have both done this knowing that it will establish market-share and that they will easily make up the difference in game sales. There’s more to this than just getting consumers hooked on Playstation. They are using the launch as a way to make Blue Ray the dominant next-generation disk storage.
Monday, January 29, 2007
I’m working today on designs for the next www.lps.org and this morning trying to establish a target width. To get started, I’m examining some of the best sites on the web to see what width they are using. Here’s what I’m finding. * ESPN, MLB, NFL: 990px * New York Times: 973px * ABC News: 770px * ABC: 803px * Cnet (including drop-shadow): 990px * Washington Times: 980px * Apple: 781px * UNL (including drop-shadow): 1000px * NBC: 971px * CBS: 977px
Saturday, January 27, 2007
An update to my Wii last night gave me the new Wii News Channel. Some thoughts: The Good The interface is clean and easy to read I like how it shows you on a very nice map where the story is from. The animation when you change text sizes is cool It does a real neat effect where as you zoom out on the globe, the stories stack up so you can see where the most news (biggest pile) is.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
This is kind of old (as evidenced by the model of iPod shown) but its spot-on. The side with the man listening to headphones against a red background looks similar to the Zune packaging.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
This article on the O’Reilly Radar credits the TiVo with forcing cable companies to demand better equipment/interfaces from those that produce their set-top boxes. I think that a similar effect may be the best thing that will come from the release of the iPhone. While phones in other parts of the world, especially southeast asia, have seen dramatic improvements, phones in the united states have seen few interface improvements in recent years.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Here’s an article at read/write web with good information about some current web 2.0 e-learning products.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
We signed on with Netflix last summer sometime. During the time that we have been members, its been embarrassing how few movies we have watched for what we have paid in membership fees. Except viewing the Ken Burns baseball documentary (which I really enjoyed), I think we could have bought the movies that we watched for nearly the same price that we paid in membership dues. Today, Netflix announced that they will begin offering downloadable movies.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Cyberduck - the free ftp client for macintosh has been updated to 2.7.2
Monday, January 15, 2007
I’ve been telling friends and family for a week that I didn’t have today (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) off. I was pretty surprised when I drove by the parking lot at the office this morning and found it to be empty. I went to one of the coffee shops I frequent and checked the calendar and sure enough, the office is closed today. It’s been a nice chance to catch up on some news.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Chris Pederick has updated the invaluable web developer toolbar for Firefox and Flock to version 1.1.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
iPod Observer: Analyst is Skeptical of Apple TV I’m not saying that Apple TV is going to be a big hit. I really don’t know. I do think that this analyst is missing the point. The Jupiter analyst doesn’t see the point of such a device when one can get the content over the air or via cable/satellite. I think that the iTunes store coupled with Apple TV causes one to question the need for shelling out $50 to $100 or more each month on cable or satellite.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
It’s been a day and a half since Steve bestowed the iPhone unto us. Here’s the thoughts that I’ve had on it. A souped-up nano seems like an odd choice for Apple's first widescreen video player It would be easy to drain a battery while flying and not have a phone when you get where you're going It would be nearly impossible to dial without seeing it. I hope that it either has a very good voice dialing feature or another way to very quickly dial someone in your favorites.
Monday, November 27, 2006
I’ve seen references to it often, but have never really understood what it was. Besides learning that it is pronounced Lay-Tech (the x is the greek “chi”), this post explained it use and benefits better than anything else that I have seen. technorati tags:LaTeX
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
I've been working today on building a new LPS WWW box that will use ColdFusion as it's primary scripting language since the NetCloak that we have used for around 10 years has been discontinued. Here are some quick notes of things that I have either learned or been reminded of today. ColdFusion MX7 and lower do not work with Java 1.5 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/5/17/CFMX-MacOSX-JVM142 Getting ColdFusion to process html files is not hard, but was tricky to find
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
One of the greatest things about CSS is the ability to create styles for non-screen delivery. Digital-Web features has a new article called “CSS Styling for Print and Other Media”.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Google’s code search allows visitors to search publicly accessible code for answers. It now includes ColdFusion. technorati tags:coldfusion, google
Monday, November 20, 2006
Adobe has launched a new design center on their web site specifically for Fireworks. If you are looking to get the most out of Fireworks, this will be the place to stay tuned to. There’s already some neat articles up there including one on how to “Create a night scene with Fireworks” and “Creating lens flares using Fireworks”. Interested in participating in the Fireworks 9 beta? You can sign up for that also.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
I started visiting Brightcove a couple of years ago when Jeremy Allaire (creator of ColdFusion) mentioned it at the 2004 Macromedia MAX Conference in New Orleans. It took a long time before it became publicly available, and even then it seemed to be geared towards professional media producers and not something available to the masses. I'm not sure when things changed, but recent visits have excited me as it became clear that Brightcove would make it very possible for non-professional media producers to get their content online in a way that was easy and looked great.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
If you tried visiting my blog yesterday, you may have seen a short-lived experiment as I considered moving my blog from Wordpress to Blogger. My only real reason for trying Blogger is that I've really become pretty fond of Google's other tools and figured that I might as well do everything that I can in one place. I discovered quickly that Blogger is no Wordpress. Today, Ted Patrick of Adobe found his blog's feeds broken as in Google's upgrades of Blogger, they disabled all RSS and RDF feed publishing and moved everybody completely to Atom.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Adobe put out the first non-beta release of the Flash 9 player with full-screen video this week. Brightcove is already utilizing it. Try it out here… technorati tags:flash, brightcove, adobe
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Ryan Stewart uses Google Trends to compare Rich Internet Application technologies and shows that Adobe Flex is ranking best compared to other environments like OpenLaszlo. I ran his query then added AJAX and they were blown out of the water - basically flatlined at the bottom of the graph. technorati tags:flex, apollo, ajax, openlaszlo