July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
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WatchWrecked by Chris Jones
A short film for my final year project at university. Wrecked is a tale told through the eyes of a man who wakes up to find himself adrift on an island. Upon following his curiosity, he learns an uncomfortable truth…
Firefox 4 Vision: fast, powerful, and empowering →
The primary goals for Firefox 4 will be making a browser:
Fast: making Firefox super-duper fast
Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond!),
Empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience.
It’s also pretty pretty, horaay!
“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he still lucky?”
– anon
April 2010
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Artist: The Stow Album: Just Another Band Track:...
New Domain Update
For anybody who is remotely interested, this page can now be viewed from http://bytecast.org/. Thanks to the guys at Vidahost for help setting this up!
“I haven’t been wrong since 1961, when I thought I had made a mistake.”
– Bob Hudson
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The Earth is NOT a Globe
I just stumbled across a truly intriguing website called The Flat Earth Society. Although I obviously disregard all their so called “proof” it is still an interesting read for an hour or so, especially the FAQ thread. There are also lots more arguments to be found in this Google Search.
Edit: I also just found this “sister” site which has a much more active forum.
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Firefox Jetpack →
Jetpack is a project to make it easy to build Firefox add-ons using common web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Our goal is to enable anyone who can build a web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate, and play.
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The Eyeballing Game →
The game works by showing you a series of geometries that need to be adjusted a little bit to make them right. A square highlights the point that needs to be moved or adjusted. Use the mouse to drag the blue square or arrowhead where you feel it is ‘right’. Once you let go of the mouse, the computer evaluates your move, so don’t let up on the mouse button until you are...
Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim →
Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards.
“…what we’ve done is limited ourselves to those things that are market...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
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Details of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Beta →
“Once the beta is available, you’ll be able to download it through the news feed on the main menu of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction, free of charge and with no codes required.”
What this means for you and your non-Splinter Cell buying mates, is that you’ll likely be able to simply borrow a copy of Conviction from a chum to download the beta - so no Sam...
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2 Minutes of Fun →
A collection of sound effects from various sources that kept me busy for at least 2 minutes. Especially love the “Bazinga!”.
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Focus Search Box on Page Load using "OnLoad"
You may have noticed that sites such as Google automatically have the cursor in the search box once the page has loaded. You may have noticed that this Tumblelog also does a similar thing. It’s quite easy to setup.
Say that your form was the following:
<form method="post" name="searchfield"> <input type="text" name="query" /> </form>
Then all you would need to add...
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Internet Censorship
I recently discovered the updated “Internet Enemies 2010” report by Reporters Without Borders. Some of the content is fairly shocking, below is a summarised version of the report taking note of some of the more interesting facts:
In Burma, the military log activity with screen capturing software. This software takes a snapshot every 5 minutes. Services like Google Talk are also...
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Switching from Wordpress to Tumblr
I only properly discovered Tumblr a few weeks a go but I’ve been in love with it ever since. Before I make a complete switch from Wordpress (which is going to take some time), I’ve purchased the Solaris Theme by Matthew Buchanan.