Dan Pfeiffer and I have created a pretty extensive article on the compatibility issues you may encounter when using the Dreamweaver CourseBuilder Extensions on a mobile web browser. As more people begin to build and repurpose learning content for the mobile market, it will become increasingly important for vendors to make their toolkits more mobile friendly… Read this article to learn how this offering faired. Sample Webpages and a full table of results are available.
One of the earliest memories I have of going to a movie theater was to see the amazing effects and innovative story of the Disney classic, Tron. I had a poster in my room for years. I bought the movie twice on VHS. I own a DVD of it.
You can bet I’m going to see this on opening weekend. Cannot wait.
I’m a huge fan of Phillip K. Dick and really thought that the adaptation of Minority Report to the big screen was an excellent movie. Tom Cruise starred in it, but many people remember the technology depicted in the movie more than the story itself, or so it seems when talking to friends.
The retina scanning, computer vision, highly targeted ads and sounds, jetpacks, sick-sticks, mag-lev track vehicles and of course the beautiful larger than life gestural interface that they used for piecing together the clues and crimescenes were great science fiction technology. Useful, seemingly unattainable and of course super sexy! Remember this:
Well, that style of computing is a little bit closer to reality now, thanks to Oblong’s g-Speak. Take a look and prepare to be jealous of these guys:
When will something like this be in your home? Well, it might be a while. But tradeshows/exhibits could get this very soon, it seems, judging by the overall completeness of the design. Beyond that, large scale systems, like logistics, medical imaging or perhaps spatial/environmental design would probably benefit most from easy visualization/manipulation as seen in g-Speak. There is a little more information at engadget on this, and I found a pretty useful bit of information at Manual Override.
It’s a brave new world! Let’s just hope we don’t get pre-crime departments along with this.
Looks like America might be the newest big startup out there… Check this out:
Now with twice as many bailouts and 100x as many global economic repercussions. Seriously, hearing this clause sends shivers up my spine:
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Are you freaking kidding me? Really? Really? No oversight? No review? No obligation to inform anyone? I’m not sure about you, but this makes me think being in Guantanamo might be preferable to being a taxpayer.
I promise this will be my only post on this subject. Please, if this frightens and angers you as much as it does me, contact your congressmen immediately. I have.
I spent the the last 5 days horribly under the weather. A sinus infection led to a tonsil infection to an ear infection. All of this was enhanced by a rocking body ache and a high fever, too. I don’t recall ever feeling so bad. Seriously. I was so sick, my throat was swollen to the point where I needed to sleep sitting up Saturday night. Unbelievably bad. I was pretty much offline the entire time (minus a few random tweets from my iPhone), but I’ve been trying to get back into it today. I hope to have a couple posts coming soon including one about using Flex as a UI prototyping tool among others. Thanks for continuing to drop by.
This video is over a year old, but perhaps even more pertinent considering world challenges facing us today (US inflation, growing oil costs, changing geopolitical climate in Russia, etc, etc.)… But really, you must watch this video. The message is of course fantastically important and the charting and data visualization is just amazing. He makes such difficult concepts easy to understand through a clever use of animation and humor.
Found this via FutureFeeder (which is in desparate need of an update!)
My wife and I came down with the brutal brutal flu this weekend. Simultaneously. Pure evil.
I am finally now upright. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but wow, was it bad. Fever, chills, cough, congestion, runny nose, SEVERE body aches… it was tremendous. We were so ill, Renee’s mother kindly took the kids for a day so we could rest. We slept something like 20 hours that day. And it wasn’t restful or good sleep. It felt like harpies were swarming around us gnawing on our appendages while we slumbered.
I finally got back to work today, though I’m certainly not 100%. I’ve been taking a cocktail of OTC drugs… varying from run of the mill stuff like Robitussin, Tylenol and Motrin, to the exotic Alka Seltzer Flu… I hate Alka Seltzer. The stuff says it’s “Honey Orange” flavored, but I swear it’s actually “Nasty McRancid Sauce” flavored. Here’s the deal, though, the Alka Seltzer works. She’s still pretty ill… But here’s the bonus… The kids are sick now, too. Awesome. You want some fun… try having two sick kids while you aren’t well either. So bad. Not sure how much I’ll be able to blog in the next couple days… but here’s a quick list on things I need to address… Check back soon:
The “Intro to Flex” presentation I gave tonight at Bradley went well. Presentation notes and takeaways to come soon.
The Iona Group has been awarded several local Addy awards… nothing major, but hey, still pretty cool.
Erik Natzke will be speaking at Bradley University soon. (March 10th, 7PM, Baker Hall B51, to be exact) More details here.
What to do when a website’s technology platform choice doesn’t go quite the way you want it to go… More details coming for sure, as they emerge. Maybe.
A really cool social networking/dating site has recently come to my attention, not sure if many people who read this blog are using iminlikelikewithyou.com, but man, the Flash/Flex UI is slick, the games are fun and the attitude is just too funny.
Aral Balkan has yet another project he’s busily working on… Pistach.io, a focused ad network based on the concept started by Coudal’s “The Deck“, it’s a great idea… reaching out to niche audiences through influencers has long been known in offline circles to be effective, it only makes sense that the same idea could work online.
Anyway… thanks for sticking through this. I hope my fevered brain hasn’t been too delirious here.
I have a DLink DSM-G600 WiFi enabled NAS. It allows you to put FAT32/NTFS disks in a USB2.0 case and make them available on your network. You can also put an ATA disk in the device and the little Linux box will reformat it in some EXT format. It works great, but with my house, primarily being a Mac house, it presents some issues. I would prefer a HFS+ file system as it can be repaired with DiskWarrior (the best software for fixing disk related maladies on your Mac). This simply won’t work with the DLink. NTFS¬† isn’t writable by Mac OSX so FAT is the only way to go… All you Windows users out there are snickering now. I can hear you.
My FAT32 disk drive’s partition map or something got completely hosed last week and now I’m in the middle of a data rescue mission, copying the files I can recover over to a HFS+ formatted drive.¬† I already have a backup of the disk from a couple months ago, but since then, there were about 40 CDs from my old colleciton that I had ripped. I’d like to not have to rip them again.
So that said, I’m going back to a journaled file system. Anyone want to buy my DLink NAS?
