Wednesday 25 July 2007
Flash MP3 player (open source)
Nice example here of an open source flash app to play mp3s. Javascript API and reads from XML. Would make a nice podcasting module (Steve B ?)
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=jw_mp3_player
Tuesday 26 June 2007
Flash goes Full Screen
param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"
Flash 9 required
OMG! see combined with 360 panarama!
Wednesday 20 June 2007
Add your reviews to businesses on Google Maps
even sequence has a review it seems... ;)
http://maps.google.com/
Tuesday 19 June 2007
Cut 'n Paste without the formatting
Tuesday 12 June 2007
Google Analytics tracking for Downloads and more
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/advanced-google-analytics/
eg.
<a href="http://www.example.co.uk/files/map.pdf" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/downloads/map'); ">
Monday 11 June 2007
Safari Beta on Windoze XP
Supposedly super fast - will let you know....
Quick Lon /Lat look-up on Google Maps
You'll first need to look up an address, but this trick only works if the address is centered (it's centered by default). So, moving the map around will not make this work. When the address you want to find latitude and longitude for is dead center, copy and paste this code into your browser bar:
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
Longistude and Latitude will auto-magically appear in popup.
Wednesday 6 June 2007
swfIR
Sunday 3 June 2007
Google changes gear
Last week Google released Google Gears (Beta), an application that lets web sites store their data on your local computer using only your web browser. Google Reader is already supported - read your feeds on the train! - and word on the street is that Gmail and Google Docs is to come.
Install instructions and a bit more info here
Thursday 31 May 2007
Screen Casting Fun
The software I've used is http://www.camstudio.org/ more info here: http://www.screencast.be/
It does audio too (not tested) and can export to Flash or avi.
There is an example here (use Internet Explorer I think there is a trivial bug in the auto generated embed script for Firefox)
The example is clearly a bit long and the file size is too big but serves as an illustration.
Anyone played with any other screen casting software?
Visual Studio Woes (pt 1)
After doing a little googling, the only advice that was give was to clear out the contents of the bin directory of the project you are trying to open.
Did that, and it worked .. so passing this on to everyone in case you also have a similar experience in the future!
Wednesday 30 May 2007
Handy list of countries in CSV format
Download from here
Multiple versions of IE
I've found this little package:
http://tredosoft.com/files/multi-ie/multiple-ie-setup.exe
This contains multiple versions of IE. The version of IE6 that is contained within the installer will support cookies, so no longer any need to run Virtual Machine and cripple the performance of your system!
Enjoy!
Friday 25 May 2007
Educating your stakeholders
http://alistapart.com/articles/educatingstakeholders
Who decides what's best for a website? Highly skilled professionals who work with the site's users and serve as their advocates? Or schmucks with money? Most often, it's the latter. That's why a web designer's first job is to educate the people who hold the purse strings.
Automated lip reading technology
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-25.html#n90
a computer program analyzes a person’s lip movement in a silent movie (here: Hitler filmed by Eva Braun), matches the frames to a large library of pronounced words to find out what was being said, and then plays back the sound via a computer generated voice. This way, fully automated, a silent film turns into a film with speech, and historical archives reveal new information.
Thursday 24 May 2007
How to stop your RSS feed barf chunks
.Net 2.0 has a nice "response.SendChunked = false;" but not .Net 1. but worth noting if chunking really is occurring. (more info on chunking )
Wednesday 23 May 2007
Great tips and tools on how to make your website mobile friendly
From Vitamin
Welcome to Sequence Labs
10 print "Hello Sequence"
20 goto 10
Hello all - as discussed at the meeting yesterday, here's a place for us devs to put the cool/useful/topical stuff that we're working on / just come across. Instead of emailing list-devs, basically.
Although the target audience is ourselves, and hence content can be dense, technical, etc., please try to
1) Keep it on topic - not too much unrelated humor(sic)
2) Keep it professional - I'd like to open this up (read only) to selected clients eventually
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