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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Easy as Pie CSS Sprites
CSS Sprite Generator A very useful tool has just been released by the guys at website-performance.org. It’s web app that generates a png and CSS rules for easy CSS sprites. What’s a CSS sprite? Best explained below. CSS sprites are … Continue reading
Annoying: MacBook Command-Tab Freezing
I switched the a MacBook Pro a recently and overall the machine is 10x better than any Windows laptop I’ve ever owned. (Sleep/hibernating a Windows machine is like playing russian roulette except all the chambers are full.) However, the single … Continue reading
3 Reasons Why I Don’t Want a Gphone
*Obviously not an official logo Donnie Flood posted 5 reasons why everyone wants a Gphone and I was thinking to myself if I would get one. Based on all the available info, the answer right now is no. (Now I … Continue reading
Big Media Sued by The Pirate Bay
I’ve been following this story as of late and it’s now boiled over into actual legal action by The Pirate Bay against Big Media. The charges are infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on … Continue reading
Google AdSense For Mobile Security Vulnerability
Google launched their AdSense for Mobile to the public recently. The implementation of the AdSense Mobile code in PHP looks something like this: < ?php $GLOBALS['google']['ad_type']=’text’; $GLOBALS['google']['channel']=”; $GLOBALS['google']['client']=’pub-00000000000000; $GLOBALS['google']['format']=’mobile_single’; $GLOBALS['google']['https']=$_SERVER['HTTPS']; $GLOBALS['google']['host']=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $GLOBALS['google']['ip']=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $GLOBALS['google']['markup']=’xhtml’; $GLOBALS['google']['output']=’xhtml’; $GLOBALS['google']['ref']=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $GLOBALS['google']['url']=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $GLOBALS['google']['useragent']=$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; require(‘http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.php’); … Continue reading
Mint.com Gets Another $50k, Launches
Mint.com just won the TechCrunch2040. But the bigger news is that they’re out of private beta now! So sign up and start saving money. I hope they throw a fat open bar party with their winnings because they certainly don’t … Continue reading
5 Reasons to Use jQuery UI (and 3 Reasons to Avoid It)
Yesterday, the jQuery team released their jQuery UI library which brings much needed UI components to an already stellar AJAX framework. Many developers love jQuery because of it’s simplicity and ability to get shit done quickly. It’s not an overly … Continue reading
Zimbra Gets Their Payday
A big one at that, $350 million for the 2 year old MS Exchange replacement. I remember being wowed by their Zimlets framework when they launched it 2006. Congrats to Satish and team! TC is writing Yahoo! should turn their … Continue reading
TechCrunch 40 Leaked
Paul Boutin claims to have seen the TechCrunch 40 list. Taking place Sept 17-18 in SF, the TechCrunch 40 is supposed to showcase 40 up and coming startups. Here’s the list, with a small note about what they do… Clickable … Continue reading
This Should be the Default YouTube Player
Click for this player I’m sure this is older news, but there are a few videos on youtube that use this new player. The major improvements are the ability to jump to any point in the video even though it … Continue reading
iPhone Unlocking Rundown
I’ve been following the saga of iPhoneSimFree.com which claims to have a 100% software solution for unlocking the iPhone. So far they’re only selling licenses in bulk for $36 for 50. (That is make the iPhone accept other sim cards … Continue reading
Mobile Monday – Social Software
Just got back from Mobile Monday where the theme this month was about mobile social apps. The companies that presented were, bebo.com, loopt, and Nokia’s Mosh. It was a huge turn out and there was a line out the door … Continue reading
i’m in like with you – Damn Good Looking Social Site
I saw this ‘secret, leaked’ tech demo (click to view demo) link on Digg today for a new social network called i’m in like with you. First of all, there’s no way that this link was leaked, more than likely … Continue reading
Phoneless iPhone
The phoneless iPhone iPod Touch is now official. $299 for a wifi iPod with full browser. What does this mean? Cheaper to develop, bigger audience can only translate to more iPhone specific sites! All those iPhone sites ( facebook, digg.com, … Continue reading
Mint.com, I’m in.
I’ve been following this company, mint.com, for a while now. Here’s their ‘elevator pitch’ from their website: Mint is building a free, simple, and secure personal finance web-app. Designed to be effortless, Mint consolidates your financial life in one place. … Continue reading
onMouseOver and Child Elements
I maybe way behind on this and I’m not sure how I haven’t encountered this little quirk in javascript until now but apparently the onmouseover (and subsequently onmouseout) event fires repeatedly at unexpected times. For example if you add an … Continue reading
iPhone xhtml Javascript Development Woes
The iPhone has been great for mobile, it’s given a full browser to the mobile world. Except for one thing, it’s Safari, which can be good and bad. It’s good for example if you’re developing an app for iPhone, you … Continue reading