Apple announced that their Safari web browser will be available for Windows going forward. That's great! I've given it a little test run this evening and here are some thoughts. Of course, the true test is always months in the making... Read the rest of this entry ...
Apparently this month is my month for slacking off in compelling blog content, so continuing in that vein here's a nice little screencap I took while getting Adobe Reader 8 "rammed" to me (I'm nicking this phrase from Rob). In fairness, installation took "only" about 10 minutes, but that initial figure and progress bar did hang there for several of those minutes, inciting my rage and the pressing of Alt+PrintScreen. 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM. Thankfully, since that time I've got a new laptop that can handle these modern, bloated document readers...
Go Vote For Your Favourite Music Video.
Caught a whiff of this from Robert Scoble. Go watch some vloggers in a contest to make a music video and then vote for your favourites (each IP address is allowed 2 votes). My favourites:
- Irina's Deathmatch Rap
- "Video Killed The Radio Star" spoof
- "Ironic" spoof
- "Anarchy In The Uk"
- Stepcats
And if you're one of those who aren't sure what a "video blog" is supposed to be or do, go watch this awesomeness and tell me you aren't fired up about it by the end...
Thanks, Sam for kicking this off - I knew it was just a matter of time before someone would do a proof-of-concept, but the week of MIX07 was earlier than I expected! 🙂
One suggestion: If you're going to use simple IE detection, then why not use IE conditional comments rather than forcing other SVG-capable browsers to load and parse and run the JavaScript? Something like:
<!--[if IE]> <script type="text/javascript" src="SVG2SL.js"></script> <![endif]-->
I have a bunch of different Subversion repositories where I store documents. Occasionally I'll place some unversioned files in these directories while working on something. Today I needed to take a snapshot of the contents of my hard drive but I didn't want to keep all the hidden .svn directories. Here's what worked for me. Read the rest of this entry ...