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.
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.
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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.
EVERYTHING 2.0: SURVEY 2.0 A good list of solutions to run your poll or survey online. Most offer some free version, only charging for those that will get heavily. (tags: survey poll web2.0) The Web Design Journal (tags: design webdesign)
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.
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
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.
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.
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sakaiproject.org Home page for the Sakai project: collaboration and learning environment for education. (tags: opensource education elearning cms collaboration sakai lms)
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