Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Amazon is releasing an upgrade on its video delivery system today. Unlike its previous offering, you’re not limited to a Windows only box in order to stream video to your computer. You also don’t have to completely download the video in order to start watching (similar to what’s offered in iTunes […]
I had no idea that my book Painting the Web was going to be one of O’Reilly’s first batch of DRM-free eBooks. I was stunned to see it as one of the first 12 Kindle books O’Reilly has released. Painting the Web does make a nice ebook. I think the graphics are better in a […]
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Apple speak
I received my Powerbook back from repair. Neither the Apple store guy nor I could decipher what was fixed on the machine. The parts list is as follows: SUBASSY, AP EXT/BT, 11CHNL,Q85 FLX CKT ASSY, BT,WIRELESS,PB15″ RETURN: Within Specifications PCBA,LIO/SOUND,PB15″ FLX CKT ASSY, SOUND,IO Q16C The returned item was the battery, as there was a […]
Looks like someone forgot to pay the domain renewal fee at Weather Underground: update The Weather Underground issued the following statement: Hello Wunderground users. We first want to apologize for the connectivity issues that many of you are or have been experiencing. The problems were caused when someone at our domain name registrar inadvertently made […]
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Zooming with SVG
I wanted to highlight a comment Bruce Rindahl made to an earlier post (with his permission): http://www.lrcwe-data.com/DeepZoom.svg is a modification of a project I have been working on. I hacked together some code to mimic the animation effect of the Hard Rock site. First some credits. The original work was funded by the State of Colorado and Division of […]