John Fort over at the Big Tech Fortune blog writes about Tyrese Gibsonâ??s Mayhem which is the first digital book for sale on iTunes 9. This strikes me as something that would interest the deviantART community of digital artists and writers. Imagine selling your...
The first thing I noticed when I upgraded to iTunes 9 was that clicking the minimize (green) button no longer selected the mini-player. A quick search revealed the answer: now you have to option-click the green button to get the mini-player. Thanks to Maclife for...
I've been following the recent development of RSSCloud with interest...
Here is what I do to avoid the dreaded "element.dispatchEvent is not a function" error. I load jQuery first, Prototype second, and then I use jQuery( ) instead of $( ) for all my jQuery calls. <!-- Set up jQuery and prototype together ...
Small wireless spy cameras are widely available, and there are even a few available specifically for HO-scale trains. This got me to thinking about letting my cousin in Germany run a train on my train layout, using Skype. Why not? Connecting the camera receiver to...
(Here are a few notes I made to myself about the credential system.) Credentials are part of the sfGuardPlugin security system for Symfony. For some reason, Symfony also refers to credentials as permissions. As far as I can tell, the two terms are used interchangeably. sfGuardUser records...
The easiest way I've found to add meta refresh to a specific action in Symfony is to use the view.yml file. Note that I use http_metas, not regular metas. indexSuccess: http_metas: refresh: 300 which results in adding the following, as you would expect: <meta...
Newcastle Tunnel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3Nd3CmJso Yolo Causeway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8LZDA5fUUw Davis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcB4gPwLEg Elmira Junction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLiMwnFIgqY Martinez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysC4fZALNVg Richmond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXd71-Sr9pc Emeryville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFSD7cMUVm0 ...
I always get a kick when the Apple is Expensive meme trotted out as a reason to consider less expensive alternatives. How ironic it is that on the very same day there is news of massive computer infiltration and document loss. The article doesn't mention...
I just installed Safari 4 and the first thing it did was to show me my top sites - the 12 sites that I go to most frequently. My initial reaction was "Weird!" and then "I need to get out more often!" Here is a fuzzy...
I'm trying out Zemanta using the Firefox plugin and just seeing how it works. Image via CrunchBase...
San Francisco is known for it's fog, not it's sunshine, but that's mostly in the summer months, mid June to the end of August. Right now in January it should be raining, but we have gotten precious little rain this January. As evidence I present...
Economist magazine has a great article on for-profit activism and mentions both 1BOG.org and Virgance. 1BOG helped me get a solar panel system last year and I'm am still delighted with how well the whole process went. Thank you again 1BOG and congrats to you and...
Jeremiah Owyang switched out a high wattage halogen lamp with an LED version that is only 3W. The LED bulb is expensive, but it will save much more over its life. Just another example of how to use less energy withiout sacrificing quality of life. ...
I'm always interested one term can mean different things - polysemy - and now we have the Model 271 in the news. The Model 271 is the type of shoe that was thrown at our President as a sign of disrespect of him and of...
I was asked recently how to backup purchased iTunes music, and after trying the normal backup function, I discovered what everyone already knows - that iTunes wants backup everything, including movies and TV shows. While I appreciate that Apple wants to backup all purchases (see...
Jeroen used Shapeways.com to print a three dimensional model of a train station. He has photos and a description of the pieces he received and how he is putting it together. I am totally jazzed by the possibilities of creating 3D models and having them printed...
Jeffrey Leonard writes about The Plug In Revolution in the Washington Monthly. He says: Electrification as a rallying cry for American energy policy isnâ??t perfect, but in my view itâ??s the best and perhaps only way to get us to a clean and secure energy future. I...
Common Ground Magazine talks about One Block Off The Grid (1BOG) in their latest "On Our Radar" column....
Tim Mitchard has very interesting photo essay of the sea forts in the Thames Estuary....