photo credit: justinsomnia So what caused me to be up till 2 in the morning? Struggling with video encoding, conversion and HTML5 fickleness. Essentially, this is not a process for mere mortals. While video in general is complicated enough, most will and should rely on a site like youtube to share their videos (at least [...]
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s especially true for software. For a long time, I’ve wanted to display my lifestream as a single page (and on my own domain) in a way I could customize to match my own aesthetics. I tried Sweetcron, Kakuteru, and a few custom scripts for pulling data from [...]
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Tagged: lifestream, wordpress, wp-lifestream-plugin
While there are a few fledgling Chrome extensions that add the standard Delicious buttons to the user interface. However, that’s not what I really need. I need the Delicious toolbar that Firefox’s plugin has so I can pull up my bookmarks with my favorite tags into the toolbar. As a stop gap, this post has [...]
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My first iPhone web application: iSuperGP. If you use supergenpass.com for your password management, iSuperGP helps you use it on your iPhone. Using HTML5 local storage, you can save your sites locally so you don’t have to retype them every time in the SGP mobile version. The application is fully offline enabled, so you can [...]
Categories: programming,software
Tagged: development, iPhone, isupergp, webapp
Apple recently released Safari 4. Being the model geek, I decided to give it a spin — and I liked what I saw. But here’s the problem: at this point I have a deeply ingrained web browsing workflow. Whether it’s a habit or a plugin, there are certain things that are this point muscle memory [...]
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If you are seeing the following error: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIDocShellHistory.useGlobalHistory]” nsresult: “0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: prepareForStartup :: line 764″ data: no] photo credit: meantux Symptoms: When you start firefox, it doesn’t take you to your home page. Your home button doesn’t work or [...]
viewNode(“0411aaa38a77a”,{width: 550,height: 320 ,config: {autoplay: false}}); It brought Robert Scoble to tears… and I can see why. This is the sort of software Microsoft should be releasing. The seamless integration, very similar to what Google Earth did for looking around our little blue-green planet, makes it that much more accessible. I’ve tried downloading those huge [...]
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