Here’s something I’ve been trying to convince anyone who’d listen for a while: I think there’s a market for a hand-held browser appliance. And judging by some of the products coming out recently someone out there agrees with me. I’d like a device with a display at least 800 pixels wide, wifi connectivity, and a […]
Google has entered the finance info field – and brought with them some very fancy features, all with a nice UI: AUD to USD. The graph is draggable, grab it and move back into the history – or click the ‘1y’, ‘5y’ links. News items are plotted on the graph, and scroll into view as […]
Experimenting with flash video – and time-lapse. This involved a few free source apps: Time-lapse video: MakeAVI, virtualdub to dub the soundtrack (although I found out virtual dub can do the time-lapse stuff itself). Creating the flash video file: FFmpeg, there’s a tutorial on it here: FLV encoding with ffmpeg. Jeroen Wijering’s Flash Video Player
Noticed on the web somewhere TWOCrowds.com is using the flickr api to create a CAPTCHA test. Looks like they are using the flickr api to pull up a photo tagged with a convention that says “this is a photo of a single letter: r”. Wouldn’t this be pretty easy to defeat? The JPG’s are being […]