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January, 2007 Archive

Introducing PHP-AWS

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Today I’m happy to announce a new open source project from Sitening.
PHP-AWS is a collection of PHP classes that let you tap into the power of Amazon’s Web Services platform. This is the same codebase we used to build Basejumpr. It lets us offer our users unlimited storage space and run as many servers as [...]

Posted in Open Source, PHP | 12 Comments »

Did “Time Machine” Used to Be Called “Time Tunnel?”

Monday, January 29th, 2007

I stumbled upon a strange link on Apple’s website. While checking out the new features of Leopard’s Mail.app — http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/mail.html — I clicked on the Time Machine link at the bottom of the page. Clicking on the link took me to a 404 page. I went back to inspect the link and strangely enough, it [...]

Posted in Apple, Just for Fun | No Comments »

SEO Inc. Releases SEO Toolbar 2.0

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

One of the best things to happen to Internet browsers are toolbars. Until recently, most toolbars were used to enhance a user’s browsing experience. For example, the Google Toolbar offers features like inline spellchecking, autofill and keyword search highlighting. Luckily, companies like SEO Inc. are taking toolbars to the next level. In this sponsored review, [...]

Posted in Internet Explorer, SEO, Search Engines | No Comments »

Google’s 950 Penalty

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

There’s a lot of buzz going on about Google’s 950 Penalty. The problem webmasters are having has been called the 950 penalty, because pages that have traditionally performed well in the SERPs are being shifted from the top-ten position to the nine-hundredth position. The key thing with this so called penalty is that it’s only [...]

Posted in Google, SEO | 3 Comments »

Top 10 Code Snippets from Snipplr

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Snipplr was launched in June 2006.
With Snipplr you can keep all of your frequently used code snippets in one place that’s accessible from any computer. You can share your code with other visitors and use what they post, too.

During the short six months that Snipplr has been online, thousands of useful code snippets have been [...]

Posted in Programming, Web Design | No Comments »

Latest Revision to sIFR 3 Supports Pixel Fonts

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Mark Wubben just announced the release of sIFR 3 Revision 209. This revision includes the following new features:

Support for pixel fonts through the pixelFont argument. See JavaScript Methods: replace.
A way to stop the page jumps by specifying the ratios argument. (More about ratios). See JavaScript Methods: replace.
Support for fixed font sizes and sizes relative to [...]

Posted in Flash, Open Source, Web Design | 1 Comment »

Howto Embed Flash Using JavaScript

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Back in March of 2006 Tyler Hall wrote an entry titled, “The Internet Will End on April 11.” In it he wrote:

The changes to Internet Explorer will require web developers to completely rewrite the way they use embedded content across all of their websites. Once the update ships on April 11, websites which have not [...]

Posted in Flash, How To, Web Design | 1 Comment »

New Semantic Elements Being Considered for HTML 5

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Roger Johansson posted an interesting entry on his site entitled, “Elements and Attributes in HTML 5.” In his entry he lists some new elements that are being considered for inclusion in HTML 5 (the next major version of HTML).

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A section of a page that consists of a composition that forms an independent part of a [...]

Posted in Tech Industry, Web Accessibility, Web Design | 1 Comment »

The Poor Man’s AppleTV

Friday, January 12th, 2007

I’ve been excited about AppleTV ever since they announced it several months ago under the code name iTV. AppleTV let’s you stream content from other computers (Macs and PCs). You can listen to music, play TV shows and movies, and flip through photo albums. The only problem with AppleTV is the requirement for a modern [...]

Posted in Apple, Just for Fun | 1 Comment »

Steve Jobs’ Wedding

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Q: What did Steve Jobs say at his wedding?
A: iDo.
yuk yuk yuk.
In case you were on another planet today, this morning was like Christmas for the Apple faithful. We came up with the above joke while hanging out in the local Apple store watching the keynote address. Kudos to the kind Apple employees who let [...]

Posted in Apple, Commentary, Humor, Just for Fun | No Comments »