Apples to Apple
During the pep rally for iPhone OS4 I was pondering how Apple has carefully crafted a dedicated culture of users, both with their computers and gadgets. It reminds me, although on a much less elaborate...
View ArticleThe Morning After
It looks like a lot of iPad hopefuls have been let down. The high expectations for the device have led people like Jeff Jarvis, an admitted Apple fan-boy and well-known media pundit, to send the device...
View ArticleHead in the clouds: Amazon s3 and CloudFront with Joomla! and PHP
I’m managing a LAMP server on a virtual dedicated setup and have recently run into some performance issues. During periods of higher user visits the CPU usage shoots up This could be partly because of...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.04 LTS: First Thoughts
I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop as a dual-boot and on my work PC inside a VirtualBox. I use it for all kinds of things that Ubuntu just does better – especially heavy development. After...
View ArticleDemystifying Web Development: What It Means to Be a Modern Web Developer
So what do you do?" they ask. "I'm a web developer." I pause for a moment. "I build and design websites and web applications." "Oh cool I used to do some of that at my old job with Frontpage." I've had...
View ArticleNetflix Goes Mobile, Pay TV Subscriptions Drop
Netflix, Hulu, Tv.com, Amazon, and even YouTube are bombarding the streaming entertainment arena with awesome content, tons of programming, and options for everyone. These services are popping up...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 9 UI Video Leaks
I haven’t seen anything mind-blowing when it comes to IE user interfaces, and the next iteration of the popular and widely hated browser keeps the status quo as shown in the test video below. It just...
View ArticleGoogle Instant Search Debuts
This is a welcome and logical development in the world of web search: get realtime google search results as you type. No need to hit that search button anymore. What has stopped a search engine from...
View ArticleHTML5 Isn’t ready for primetime, W3C says
According to the W3c, HTML5 hasn't yet reached a level of maturity that would make it useful to the whole of the internet. Some browsers are capable of supporting some of the features while others don't.
View ArticleConverting GoToMeeting Video to other formats (WMV to FLV)
I regularly process presentation recordings and encode them into streaming formats. I have repeatedly run into the problem of the near impossibility of converting the gotomeeting WMV format....
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