Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

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Apple’s HTML5 showcase is a farce

It is a bit of a farce that Apple’s HTML5 showcase only grants access to users of Safari. Christopher Blizzard, director of developer relations at Mozilla, puts it best when he explains that HTML5 is foremost about interoperability and that Apple is basically saying: “That’s right. If you’re not on Safari, then Fuck You.” The most [...]

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Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

John Gruber really dislikes Tynt (via Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks): It certainly isn’t being appended to help the person copying and pasting the text. The person copying the text knows where it comes from. But you know what? As a reader it saves you an extra copy and paste when sharing over email. Let’s [...]

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Secret Adobe digital publishing technology to develop iPad applications

Via Adobe Digital Publishing blog: During summer 2010, watch for new publishing technology on Adobe Labs that helps publishers to transform InDesign CS5 layouts into compelling applications like the WIRED Reader. I wonder if these secret new publishing tools will be approved by Apple. They seem to be today with the acceptance of the Wired Reader [...]

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jQuery Autocomplete + JSON + ASP.NET MVC + key value pair example

It took us a while to get this working properly – largely due to some pesky javascript errors but also because we wanted to return a key/value pair. We had a big head start, however, thanks to German Schuager’s article which employs the jQuery Autocomplete plugin and clearly explains how to consume JSON from ASP.NET [...]

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Adding Facebook Comments to a Lightroom HTML Gallery template

If you prefer displaying your photos on your own website using Lightroom’s web galleries over uploading your photos to Facebook then one of the drawbacks is the lack of commenting. Fortunately, there’s a way to add Facebook Comments to your own website and gallery. See an example here. Step One: Enable Your Website To Work [...]