Topic archive for
January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
These days it seems as if we’re never safe from anything. We have to not only lock our doors at night, but set the $200+ security system to feel secure in our homes. For PC users it seems to take atleast 3 or more pieces of anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anit-malware software to feel secure. In [...]
By: John Vinson in Apple, Mac, Software
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I can’t speak highly enough of this excellent plug in. If you’re not using it on your WordPress you’re missing out, period.
Unsurprisingly, what we’re talking about is a SEO tool, but what a tool. It does pretty much everything you could need. It guides you through the general tagging of your site step by step [...]
in SEO, Software, Web Development, Wordpress
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
AJAX IM (“asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger”) is a browser-based instant messaging client. It uses AJAX to create a near real-time IM environment that can be used in conjunction with community, intranet, and social websites. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this “web application” to work, as everything is updated in [...]
in Ajax, Software, Web Development
Friday, January 25th, 2008
CSS is simple enough to control a few page elements. CSS is a very powerful tool. Stretch your imagination, with CSS you can create what you really want your page, layout, or site to look like is only limited to the amount of time you want to spend designing.
By: Christopher Heiss in CSS, Design, Web Development
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Adobe have today released Flash Media Server 3.
The server now ships in two editions, the Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 (FMSS) is ideal if all you want to do is serve up live or on demand video while the Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3 (FMIS) gives you access to all features including video [...]
By: Stefan Richter in Adobe, Flash, Streaming Media
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Ajax framework has introduced a novel way to look at the basics of a web application and has been touted by the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Amazon.com, but is it really worth investing the time to learn more about it? By the fact that you are reading this article, that question most [...]
By: Christopher Alexander in Ajax, Design, Web Development
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Turning on the news without seeing something about our failing economy is about near impossible these days. Apple, unlike the overall economy is all smiles after they posted their first fiscal quarter earnings.
While just about every electronics company is smiling after the holidays, Apple’s grin is even bigger as they have posted improvement is nearly [...]
By: John Vinson in Apple, Mac, Software
Monday, January 21st, 2008
ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. And yes, it may also be useful for showing larger versions of images.
ModalBox is built with pure JavaScript and is [...]
in Software, Web 2.0, Web Development
Monday, January 21st, 2008
rssHugger is a new website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in. Through the power of the internet and viral marketing, rssHugger looks to bring blog writers and blog readers closer together. rssHugger will be the first ever [...]
in RSS, Software, Web Development
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Possibly one of the better uses of AJAX, Dragable Boxes allow end users to move around parts of your website to their preference.
The great thing about this script is that the users preferences get stored in a ‘cookie’, sadly it’s not a real biscuit so there’s no sweet treat for including this script. Anway, phantom [...]
in Ajax, Software, Web Development