Triggit has created a very interesting tool. The problem they are trying to solve is that many people want to muck around with their websites, but don’t want to grok HTML. They want to integrate with services (mash them up in a manual one off way) such as insert their videos from YouTube, photos from [...]
Scott Schiller redesigned his site for the holidays and I somehow missed it. He tends to experiment with JavaScript in this way, and this year is a great example:Move your mouse over the christmas lights (with headphones), and blow off some holiday stress! Smash -all- of the lights, and you will be.. rewarded. [...]
Ok – so I’m in charge of the PhotoVine group. I’m faced with a decision concerning the group and I would like to get the groups opinion. So, I crafted an article with a poll that I kept off the front page since I felt it was an internal thing.
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The Smart ForTwo, part of the Mercedes-Benz stable, is smaller than the Tata Nano but fully-loaded with performance and safety features and costs about six times as much. So what’s the Smart think on Nano?
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Facebook is slowly adding features that allow you to do more JavaScript in their world. This started with FBJS (after mock ajax), and today they have announced FBJS/Animation, an open source animation library that not only works inside Facebook, but also can be used stand alone. There is a nice
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Chances are you’ll recognize Alice Fraasa, but you won’t be able to figure out from where.
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Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
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Torstein H?nsi is the author of Highslide JS. The Highslide core is a smooth thumbnail viewer, but the JavaScript library extends to show inline HTML content, AJAX loaded content, iframes or Flash. Lots of configurations are available for adjusting the appearance and behaviour of the effect. You can see these configurations, and dynamically build the library for [...]
We think a lot about getting new gadgets, but not so much about getting rid of old ones. The result: old cell phones, defunct laser printers and Pentium III computers gathering dust.
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Joe Walker has released the DWR/TIBCO GI integration library: gi.js is a library to help integrate DWR with TIBCO GI. It is due for official release with DWR 3.0, however it is reasonably stable now, and will probably only undergo performance tweaking before the official 3.0 release. Since it doesn’t have any dependencies on DWR, it can [...]
Filed under: Robots, Wearables
Hard to believe we’re seeing yet another wearable robot suit emerge from Japan, eh? All sarcasm aside, there actually is a newcomer to the curiously growing market courtesy of Shigeki Toyama and colleagues from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The aptly dubbed farming robot suit is a strap-on contraption that [...]
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework for all 248 million active registered Yahoo! users worldwide.
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Brian Klug of the PBwiki team wanted to learn more about JavaScript serving, so they created a JavaScript Library Test which tests the loading time of Dojo, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, and Protoculous. The test compares packed vs. minified, gzipped vs not, cached, etc. with some interesting results (hint: don’t used packed!). You can [...]
Business software maker Oracle Corp. agreed Wednesday to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the company that pioneered Web services software.
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Video
When it comes to iPod docking alarm clocks, few can face-off with XtremeMac’s Luna. Now there’s the Luna X2. Normally we’d shred the puffery found in phrases like “world class iPod audio system,” “crystal clear display,” and a design meant to “complement any room’s decor.” However, their first-generation Luna was [...]