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My First Practical Prism App
I downloaded Mozilla’s Lab’s new software Prism a while back. The concept behind Prism is pretty cool–basically it provides a desktop interface to a website. With most-basic use this means that your favorite web site gets an icon in your start menu and runs wrapped in a custom window without the standard browser features like […]
Speechwriters LLC
Thanks to the awesome music app Pandora I have discovered a cool new band. Speechwriters LLC is an acoustic rock band from So Cal. Their sound is a mix of Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, and Red Hot Chili Peppers with some funky slide guitar riffs thrown in for good measure. The song CHBB (or Crazy […]
Summer Must Be Coming
My thermometer says it is 81 °F in my office right now. Yahoo Widgets says it is 67 °F outside. Summer my be getting close. Maybe, if I get lucky, they might fix my A/C this year.
CSS Tricks: .noprint and .noscreen
Cascading style sheets (CSS) make it easy to target web pages to multiple output media. For example, using different CSS rule sets it is possible to design a single web page that looks visually different on screen, on a hand-held device, or when printed. On way that I’ve extensively used different CSS media types is […]
I Want some roBlocks
I just read about roBlocks in an editorial email from Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Basically, they’re little magnetic blocks that you stick together and build robots. The blocks are smart enough to know how they are arranged and can automatically provide various functionality based on that arrangement. There are currently about 21 different blocks available, each […]