My rambling tumblelog. Apple, Google, web dev., etc. Occasionally on topic.
So for the last few days I’ve been fiddling with my Apple TV, routers and VPN accounts to see if I could get access to US Netflix programmes on my TV. A few folk have asked, so I thought I’d share my setup.
This is not a detailed configuration step-by-step, it’s a general overview of the solution I ended up with. Detailed support for each part...
To His Holiness: your words are deplorable, and all the more so for being spoken in this age. To my dear, conflicted friend, and to everyone exposed to the religious virus: evidence and reason are indeed, as you suspect and know, the king of justifications for a belief - and the very minimum you have a right to demand.
And to religion, I offer the language of my own ‘faith’, that of science: evolve, or die.
This is a Good Thing™.
DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD. For now, at least, the “ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation” known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is no more
The public outcry over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act seems to have gotten so loud that even members of Congress can hear it.
Let’s hope this is just the start.
You really do have to wonder how some of these came to be.
Flash sucks on the whole the iPad is simply beautiful another point is that dicknose whose profit not marketshare however nice, in spite of Steve Jobs because get your popcorn where but what do I know until iOS, before I think the iPhone is the best when noted, in my opinion definition of open what is more Apple, and the iPhone is a “flop”, since this sucks next but it’s open, so that’s OK.
Awesome.
Create noisy tileable PNGs based on any HEX colour and control the intensity of the noise - quite cool.
I’ve not tried this yet, but I am tempted…
An interesting article by Nicole Sullivan on changes to the CSS selector performance in WebKit.
For example, we were told that descendant selectors were slow, especially when the right-most selector matched many elements on the page. All this was fantastic information when we had none, but as it turns out, times have changed! Thanks to some amazing work by Antti Koivisto there are many selectors we don’t need to worry about anymore!
I quite often check cancelation methods before signing up to a service; this stipulation would cause me to walk away.
Note: This is a minor update to a post I made last year, migrated from a previous blog.
One of my pet hates (there are many), is being presented with the incorrect keyboard, or having auto capitalisation forced upon me, when entering information into web forms on my iPhone or iPad. This is something that’s very easy to control and can be done...
Properly live, cross browser, cross version testing. Complete with a variety of debugging tools for each browser. It really doesn’t get better than this for testing your websites in various browsers.
Microsoft Corp. today issued proceedings against Comet Group PLC for allegedly creating and selling more than 94,000 sets of counterfeit Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs. The alleged counterfeits were sold to customers who had purchased Windows-loaded PCs and laptops.
This is pretty bad, if true.
So, if I undersand this correctly, Google paid for a load of blog posts, which broke its own webmaster rules. This was discovered and blogged about by a huge number of tech blogs, providing Google with a load of inbound links. Google then punished itself and removed the paid listings which caused another load of posts by tech news blogs, providing it with even more inbound links.
Or am I just being cynical?
IE6 has been the punch line of browser jokes for a while, and we’ve been as eager as anyone to see it go away. In fact, we launched the IE6 Countdown site last March to help accelerate the process. Less than a year later, I’m thrilled to say that the United States has joined the ranks of Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in dropping below 1% usage of IE6.
It looks like the UK isn’t far behind, certainly less than 2% on average it seems.
Utterly pointless, but impressive none the less.
Interesting looking idea – this service scans your inbox and attempts to mass unsubscribe you from any mailing lists you no longer wish to be part of.
Support is crumbling, slowly but surely. Will it make a difference though, or too little too late?
An interesting service that can automatically perform certain actions based on files being added to your Dropbox account. Could be useful for file conversions or uploads to social networks.
Time to give them a break my arse. There are a million reasons not to use GoDaddy, the whole SOPA thing is just one of a long list.
I wonder how much GoDaddy paid for this post on Mashable.
A useful script for those developing responsive/adaptive web sites. Adaptive Images will resize, cache and deliver the correct image size for the device viewing the page. Clever stuff.
A collection of web-safe font stacks – very useful resource.
In front of the camera too!
We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.
I wonder how much longer Google will continue to do this, given what appears to be the start of a noticeable decline in Firefox use.
I found this quite amusing. Marco Arment has posted a revised chart comparing the Amazon Kindle Fire to the iPad 2 in response to the one Amazon are pushing.
A set of “motivational poster” style images for a lot of common (and not so common) HTTP status codes. These were all produced by Tomomi Imura – I always knew the Internet was built with cat images, I just hadn’t realised to what extent…
A couple of weeks ago Chris Coyier tweeted the following “You could wake up tomorrow and your main hard drive could be dead. Are you ready?”. This got me thinking; if I woke up tomorrow and my main hard drive was dead, what would I lose?
As it happens, after giving it some thought, I think I’m pretty much as safe as I can be, and I don’t...
I do hope their attempt at a storyline doesn’t get in the way of the movie.
It’s a toaster that’s a defibrillator, what else can I say?
Some of the finest parking I’ve seen in a long time. I tip my hat to you, sir.
Well worth taking 6 minutes out to watch this.
So Microsoft has announced that it’s going to start auto-updating Internet Explorer on PCs to the latest version supported by the Operating System. On the face of it this seems like great news, and it would be, if they had the balls to do it right.
The problem is that all Windows updates, automatic or otherwise, arrive through Windows Update (the tool built into Windows to manage system updates). When a new install of Windows is performed one of the options at the end of the installation is how to handle updates available though Windows Update. One of the options is to download and install automatically, another downloads automatically and installs when prompted to by the user and a final option is to do nothing at all.
I’ve done a lot of IT support over the years, almost exclusively Windows based, and my experience over that time is that by far and wide the most common option to have selected is the second one; download automatically and install when prompted. This is where the problem lies, most end users don’t install anything when prompted, because us technical folk have spent years telling them not to say yes to things that pop up on the screen.
Microsoft should have taken the opportunity with IE9 to roll out a Chrome style background update system that’s not dependant on Windows Update. As it is, and as hopeful as I am, I don’t think we’ll see the overnight disappearance of IE6 and 7 like the vast majority of web developers are suddenly all hoping for.
The Cosmonaut, from Studio Neat. I’ve been on the look-out for a stylus for a while, reckon this one is worth a look.
EDIT: I ordered one, received it within a couple of days and it really is excellent.
So it finally happened, Hell froze over.
