Decaflon: Last 35 Posts

Mobile web reaches critical mass

hthth — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:55:14

By the way: something wicked this way comes.

Mobile web reaches critical mass

Ozone42 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:24:34

I'm anxious for the day I can purchase dinner, movie tickets, etc with my iphone and not have to carry a wallet anymore.

Mobile web reaches critical mass

RightOn — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:54:32

See THAT would kick ass.

Mobile web reaches critical mass

Ozone42 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:12:03

One concept I've been wanting to implement for a while, but don't have the time to do for free, is location data.

You "leave" files, web pages, descriptions, etc at an actual location. A restaurant leaves a menu. You're walking by and browsing google maps or another app, and you've got a cue that there's info. Click, see the menu, when you're near the restaurant. This is a simple example, it can be a lot more robust and interesting. Just imagine some ARGs with that kind of feature.

Mobile web reaches critical mass

hthth — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:48:00

English please.

Base example of augmented reality app: Google Maps knows your GPS location and which way you're pointing your phone.

Point your phone's camera at something, for example the White House. Looking at the live view on your phone's screen you see a floating "White House" label-graphic overlayed by the Google Maps app.

iPhone: A Review of iPhone Mail

RightOn — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:48:02

if you use gmail, all of your sent messages pop into your inbox as new messages, so you have to delete everything you send. That is pissing me off.

Turn OFF "Always BCC Myself" in System > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

I use my Mail daily and never get copied in my inbox on sent mail from my Gmail account.

iPhone: A Review of iPhone Mail

spilseth — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:57:16

You are absolutely right. A great criticism and I am amazed Apple bumbled the Mail Application so badly.

Cancer Center: Cell Phone Risk

Scrivs — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:10:16

This along with the 4 day week for schools makes me wonder about people.

Cancer Center: Cell Phone Risk

Tyme — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:47:11

This is the part that gets me:

Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now — especially when it comes to children.

So throw everyone into a panic but don't allow us to see what the data says. I understand the urgency with kids but perhaps the system needs an overhaul if it takes so long for findings to be published (legitimate ones) that millions of people would be effected.

Cancer Center: Cell Phone Risk

Ozone42 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:21:51

There have been a lot of studies on this that have come up negative. What is it about this one that invalidates them?

Also... I really have to question these people. They suggest using a wireless headset. That still gives you a big dose of EM in your head. It's not the same, it could be more, it could be less, depends on the brand and design.

A wired headset would reduce the affect quite a lot.

Trap Jaw Ants Leap Out of Trouble

Scrivs — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:14:27

You would assume with these powers you also have an unbreakable body or spongy body or something. You would land on your neck and crack 35 verterbrae.

Cancer Center: Cell Phone Risk

Scrivs — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:47:35

In 2008 we are still having this cell phone causes cancer issue? There has to be a definitive answer to it and I don't want to sound like the people in the 1950s who said smoking doesn't cause cancer, but it seems silly to think that any type of phone will bring about cancer in your head.

Oh well, I text anyways.

Cancer Center: Cell Phone Risk

Tyme — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:17:39

Trap Jaw Ants Leap Out of Trouble

fuscom — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:27:52

How could you not want this as a superpower?

The years of endless rehab and medication I'd need for my neck and back as a result of those landings would pretty much wipe out any moments of super-hero glory from the leap.

I saw this video last night, right before catching the slam dunk contest on ESPN. Sadly, I was comparing those kids against the ants, and came out disappointed -- even when that one dude jumped over two buddies. My only thought was...yeh, that one ant jumped over like 5 other ants while flipping through the air.

Trap Jaw Ants Leap Out of Trouble

Scrivs — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:48:21

How could you not want this as a superpower? Oh man my boss coming my way? Leeeeeeaaaaaap!

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:32:57

Yeah I doubt D3 at decent lvl will run well on those things, probably have to tune it down. And SC2 with unlimited units? Game over.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Ozone42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:31:48

As long as whatever comes out can play spore, SCII, and Diablo III at a good res and frame rate, that's all I'll ever need ;-)

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:30:07

Yeah it's a selfish gamer request, although the games I would play on the laptop aren't that graphics-intensive, I could play WoW on my iBook. It's just knowing you have power is cool.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Ozone42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:19:12

That is a rather odd request. That really only applies to gamers, I'd wager.

There's a handful of programs that really take advantage of gpu's outside of gaming, and the number is growing. The apple platform is the only place you get that now, but I know there are linux libraries and drivers in the works, and surely by now there's something on vista that will.

While your graphics card does control the rendering of what's on your screen, even the most basic crap from 4 years ago can quickly render high resolution desktops and apps. Graphics chipsets matter when you're watching highly compressed video for which the driver allows the use of hardware encoding/de-encoding, games, and less than a dozen apps that actually tap into the GPU for image processing.

Also worth mentioning that you can't upgrade your graphics chipset on any laptop or notebook, period.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Tyme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:15:48

Wow, I had no idea. I thought graphics came top of the line. Learn something new everyday. Thanks :)

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

RightOn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:08:26

Apple Computers are used far and wide in the film and design industries... but their selections of graphics processors in their laptops are really lacking.

It's easy to self-upgrade a graphics card on your Mac Pro so that's not too much of a worry... but try to do it on your MacBook Pro.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Tyme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:59:10

I know not too many people hope for this, but I'm hoping for a decent graphical update in the notebooks to give them a bit more juice than what they currently have.

I don't understand. I thought Apple was the top of the line when it came to graphics?

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:36:43

Oh and I'm waiting on what the new iPod Touch brings to the table.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:36:25

I'd say that I am going to get a new notebook and possibly desktop within the next 12 months so the next upgrade will be interesting to see since it fits within my timespan. I know not too many people hope for this, but I'm hoping for a decent graphical update in the notebooks to give them a bit more juice than what they currently have.

You can keep the rest of the fancy stuff.

Dinosaur Goes On Rampage of Learning And Enlightenment

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:18:32

How does that not freak the hell out of any of you? Haha, I would have nightmares for real. Totally awesome though.

Dinosaur Goes On Rampage of Learning And Enlightenment

RightOn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:10:02

Holy hell! I would have KILLED for that when I was a kid... I LOVED Dinosaurs.

I was the kid who was at the museum every week telling all the other little kids about the skeletons, what each Dinosaur ate, etc.

Dinosaur Goes On Rampage of Learning And Enlightenment

Mike — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:36:43

I think if I were a kid and I saw this it would stick with me for the rest of my life and probably force me to become some sort of paleontologist. As an adult now I'm insanely jealous of those kids. Be warned, this is totally awesome. Look closely and you'll see what's going on.

This happened in the LA Museum of Natural History.

Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo.

WordPress 2.6 Available

JoeLencioni — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:46:08

My upgrade was mostly smooth. It broke a custom plugin that I wrote, but that's because they changed some things with how images are accessed. It was a quick and easy fix and everything seems to be working just fine now!

I haven't had much time to play around with any of the new features, but they do look pretty sweet. Revision history is hot hot hot and if I had a laptop, I would definitely be eating up the Google Gears thing.

Which CMS should I use with a huge audio/video/articles collection

JoeLencioni — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:42:02

I agree, Drupal seems like it might be a great solution for you.

Which CMS should I use with a huge audio/video/articles collection

trevorlee_nc — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:19:13

I second Drupal...

They have lots of content modules which relate directly to audio/video...

The template system for Drupal is pretty easy to work with too...on a very simple level, it's just a matter of plugging in a few php snippets into an html template, though I'm sure most CMS' have matured to about that point now.

WordPress 2.6 Available

RightOn — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:51:23

Posting takes half a second to complete with Gears turned on, compared to 15-20 before. NICE.

WordPress 2.6 Available

RightOn — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:53:54

yeah I enabled Gears at home and it's a lot faster than when I load up the blog from work.

WordPress 2.6 Available

Nils — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:50:35

I was really stumped by this one. Didn't 2.5 just come out with a lot of oompah?

I just set up a site for my girlfriend - yup, still going strong, hence the recent silence ;) - and I'm not looking forward to spending time on this.

Sure, it's not rocket science, but think of Murphy. She needs the site to be live 100% from next week because she's got a booth at some big fashion fair, and all the press, PR and invites are about to go out... I think I'm skipping this, or at least waiting a couple weeks.

Although, I do like that Google Gears feature... and that quick post feature... and...

/*heads to wp.org and begins download*/

;)

WordPress 2.6 Available

dreamweaver — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:37:48

@Kami, I get great search results, and my site is indexed just fine running 2.0.11. (In fact, 70% of my visitors get there from a search, which is kind of a mixed blessing, as it indicates that regular readers aren't as high as I'd like, I think. :( ) That being said, I think it's due to a couple of plugins that I use that it gets indexed so well.

Anyway, yes, I know all about upgrading to keep current with critical security flaws, but that doesn't mean I have to leave the legacy version as the WP crew have committed to keeping it current security-wise until 2010. So, I have a year or so before I HAVE to do something, and by then maybe a newer version will come out that I can deal with.

WordPress 2.6 Available

Kamigoroshi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:43:50

It's not just quiet. It's also ahead of schedule. I mean, when is the last time a WordPress release was actually on time, let alone ahead of time?

Besides, 2.6 isn't really packed full with features. Like the post said, a lot of it is meant to streamline what they have now rather than adding completely new features, which is a good thing and I actually appreciate them for this.

The good thing is that in all my 50 over plugins, I don't have any problems with compatibility. They said it wasn't meant to be anyway since it's pretty much the same as 2.5.

It takes me 20 seconds to update each WordPress site I maintain though. SSH is a Godsend.

@Dreamweaver: You should update your WordPress though for a number of reasons. One are the critical updates that come with it. Second is that if I remember correctly, Search engines like Google or Technorati doesn't index older versions of WordPress. I'm not sure if they meant version numbers or older versions of WordPress that have security vulnerabilities which rules out the patched legacy 2.0. Though, come to think of it, it's been 2.0.11 for ages. I thought it was supposed to keep updating as soon as new security flaws come through?