Honda Fit Sport First Road Trip

08/25/2008 01:37 pm in General

AdobePDFViewer stay _away_ from my Safari, y’hear?

08/21/2008 11:46 am by Aral Balkan in General

I love viewing PDFs on a Mac. The built-in Preview app is lightweight and good for 99% of what I need to do (if you need to digitally sign stuff, created PDFs, etc., then by all means get the official Acrobat reader/writer from Adobe.) I have the latest Acrobat installed (all 1GB or so of [...]

Want to be an Adobe Student Representative?

08/21/2008 06:38 am by Matt Chotin in General

We're looking for folks who can help lead the way of RIAs using Adobe technology in their schools. We can help get you speaking opportunities, software, community recognition, etc. More info and a registration form on flex.org. If you're a...

Google Groups to Google App Engine: you seem a little shifty to me!

08/20/2008 06:31 pm by Aral Balkan in General

It seems that Google Groups has some seriously strict spam filters in place as they're currently blocking urlfetch requests for RSS feeds from Google App Engine applications. This morning, I started what I hoped would be a quick Flash widget to display the latest RSS headlines from our new Singularity Local Conference Hubs Google Group on [...]

Honda Fit Sport Update

08/19/2008 02:04 pm in General

Back on Leopard

08/18/2008 02:21 pm by Aral Balkan in General

Plagued with random Bus Errors in Python on my Tiger install, and wanting to upgrade to Python 2.5.1 (as Python 2.5 is not supported by Google App Engine and the SDK has errors in it that won't be fixed), I decided to upgrade to Leopard again. I had initially upgraded right after Leopard was released, [...]

Disabling site-specific zoom in Firefox 3

08/17/2008 08:21 am by Manish Jethani in General

Firefox 3 added a new feature called Full Page Zoom. You can now zoom the entire page (as opposed to zooming just the text), and the browser remembers the zoom level for each website. i.e. if you visit en.wikipedia.org and increase the zoom level to 150%, the next time you visit the site, it’ll be [...]

The Milgram Experiment: Video and links

08/15/2008 08:26 am by Manish Jethani in General

In 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments to measure the influence of authority on human behaviour, specifically on people’s willingness to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. The results were to shock the entire world as they revealed, yet again, the dark side of human nature. This seminal work in [...]

Honda Fit Sport

08/12/2008 03:26 pm in General

New Google App Engine Helper for Django released

08/11/2008 01:38 pm by Aral Balkan in General

A new version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django has been released. Release notes (Wed 6 August 2008) follow: This is the last version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django that will support Django 0.96. Future development of the helper will be targetted for the upcoming 1.0 release of Django. Improved SDK detection on Windows by [...]

One-man ISV

08/11/2008 08:05 am by Manish Jethani in General

There seems no dearth of inspiration in the micro-ISV world. Meet Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni, former Adobe ConnectNow engineering lead and now owner and sole employee of Balsamiq Studios LLC. You might have known him for his work on the FLV player or his contributions to Breeze Live, but today he’s drawing attention for something entirely [...]

Wear a pacemaker? Be nice to hackers ‘cos they can kill you.

08/09/2008 11:48 am by Aral Balkan in General

This is crazy: According to VentureBeat, "medical device security researchers have figured out how to turn off someone’s pacemaker via remote control." What I found most worrying was this passage: the devices have a built-in test mechanism which turns out to be a bug that can be exploited by hackers. There is no cryptographic key used to [...]

WordPress Stats Plugin

08/07/2008 11:37 pm in General

Installed this last night, and it’s pretty cool. Gives you a very cool overview of what kind of traffic your blog is getting, where it’s coming from, top posts, search terms, and what people are clicking. Worth installing. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

Britain from Above

08/06/2008 03:53 pm by Manish Jethani in General

A new television series on the BBC, called Britain from Above, uses some stunning imagery based on satellite data to show life in Britain as seen from the skies. You can see visualisations of daily activity, such as the passing of ships through the channels, the takings off and landings of aeroplanes, even the traffic [...]

Python, the learn-at-home language

08/06/2008 11:41 am by Aral Balkan in General

One of the things that I love about Python is that it has all the documentation you ever need (all right, almost) in the code itself. To find out what properties an object has, just ask for a listing. The following, for example, shows you all properties and methods on the os module. import os dir(os) In fact, [...]

A nightmare

08/06/2008 11:27 am by Aral Balkan in General

I don't usually remember my dreams but this morning I woke from a horrible nightmare in which everything was going wrong. It's actually quite funny... We're at this Flash conference but it's being held at this horrible hotel. You know the kind where it was pretty swanky in the 70s but hasn't seen a new coat [...]

Aurora: Next-gen UX for the internet

08/06/2008 06:44 am by Manish Jethani in General

Here’s the Aurora concept video (part 1) by Adaptive Path and Mozilla Labs, depicting what could be the future of user experience on the internet. Future. User experience. Internet. Where have I heard that before? Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Add me to your Google search results

08/06/2008 05:57 am by Manish Jethani in General

Last night I stumbled upon a Google feature called Subscribed Links. As a website owner, you can create a subscribed link with customised search results from your site. For example, if someone searches for “BOM to BLR”, you can return a custom result that displays the distance between the two cities, the estimated time to [...]

Death by PowerPoint

08/03/2008 01:18 pm by Manish Jethani in General

Thirty million presentations each day. Half of them unbearable. Learn how to do it right: Death by PowerPoint. Death by PowerPoint

A hundred months to save the planet

08/02/2008 11:45 pm by Manish Jethani in General

The Guardian is carrying a piece on global warming by Andrew Simms, head of the climate change programme at nef, in which he warns that time is running out for us to take action against climate change. According to Simms, we have only about a hundred months left before we reach the tipping point of [...]

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