Yahoo are getting geek cred again. It wasn’t that long ago I thought their web email, and photo hosting were the best. Google Mail and flickr have topped both of those. Yet, the tide is turning. Just noticed the public APIs and code they are making available on the Yahoo! Developer Network Home. Of particular […]
This is pretty much the reason why I started this blog. I regularly find an article to help with a particular coding problem I’m having. The really frustrating thing is having the problem (or a similar one) a second time and not being able to google up the article again! Which is what happened last […]
It took someone as smart as Google to realise the current multitude of video clients and codecs isn’t good for the web. The Google video site uses Flash for video playback. No need to download Quicktime, Real, or the latest Windows Media. I can actually send someone a link to a streamed video reasonably confident […]
Some more e-ink devices have appeared recently: Sony Reader, very a Librie-like E-Ink e-book handheld for the North American market. From SMH: Easy on the eye: new e-book is a page turner. Lexar JumpDrive Mercury – uses an e-ink display for the capacity meter. Pretty clever, because e-ink only needs power to change the display. […]