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Microsoft working on own Flash-like
toolkit for Longhorn
Microsoft working on own Flash-like
toolkit for Longhorn
11/10/2003 11:12 PMSources are reporting that Microsoft is working on graphics and
animation toolset that will effectively compete with Macromedia's
Flash.
End Run Around Pop-up Blockers
End Run Around Pop-up Blockers
06/05/2004 01:30 PMA Tightwad's Guide to Ad Blockers
A Tightwad's Guide to Ad Blockers
05/14/2004 04:46 AMSick of obnoxious video and audio advertisements hogging up bandwidth?
No worries. While one can always spring for blocking software, simply
switching browsers or employing a few simple hacks can keep annoying
marketing pitches at bay. By Michelle Delio.
Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad Blockers
Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad Blockers
04/27/2004 09:39 PMA German vendor of online ad delivery platforms says it can detect
blockers and thwart them by turning pop-up ads into other forms of
online ads.
Yahoo! News - Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad
Blockers
Yahoo! News - Tool Fights Pop-Up Ad
Blockers
04/29/2004 07:47 AMpop-up and pop-under ad blockers .. you thought your were safe .. Ziff
Davis Inc .. tip the scales .. kill
yourself
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Swap-blockers graduate to high schools
Swap-blockers graduate to high schools
06/14/2004 04:15 PMZDNet Jun 14 2004 8:29PM GMT
Swap blockers graduate to high schools
Swap blockers graduate to high schools
06/14/2004 04:43 PMSoftware to stop file sharing reaches frequent venue of
media-filtering lawsuits.
New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup
Blockers
New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup
Blockers
04/28/2004 05:32 PMSpam Blockers Tackle Broader
Content-Security Issues
Spam Blockers Tackle Broader
Content-Security Issues
08/30/2004 06:31 AMFrontBridge, others rev filtering tools.
The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding
The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding
01/02/2005 11:31 AMxmlhack Jan 2 2005 1:45PM GMT
Quality Assurance Working Group Updates
Three Working Drafts
Quality Assurance Working Group Updates
Three Working Drafts
11/08/2002 08:17 PM8 November 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has updated
three Working Drafts in its seven-part QA Framework: the Introduction,
Process and Operational Guidelines; and Specification Guidelines.
Learn more about the QA Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that W3C
technologies are well implemented. (News archive)
How Annoying is This?
How Annoying is This?
01/21/2003 10:56 AMHow Annoying is This? or Always, Always Blame the Data !
I was just debugging code as part of Mark's new online magazine Tekka.
I wrote the login code and the way we wanted it to function was that
if you tried to view something you didn't have access to then it would
display a preview of the content (we originally were going to have it
automatically create the previews based on the source text but we
opted to create them manually to make sure that everything looked as
good as possible; it made sense since the preview is essentially
"marketing" for the article itself).
What started happening over the weekend was that the previews worked
fine for content I created. Of course as soon as the real content and
previews flowed into the "system" (and I use the term "system"
loosely; very loosely) then we started to see errors. In specific we
saw that the previews were getting arbitrarily clipped. Now the
previews I had made were quite short (probably between 1K and 4K of
data) and the real ones were much longer.
Of course the very first thing I thought of was some kind of byte size
limitation. I knew that I was passing a much larger chunk of content
into my templating class and perhaps that was it. So I merrily
plunged into Google looking for information on string size limits in
PHP. Sigh. Since Google seems to treat the extension of a url as a
word (at times; it is bizarre) within the url's content it means that
searching for PHP content can be difficult at times. I did find a
most helpful bit of content on string size limits in BEALogic
application servers though. Nothing to do with PHP of course but
helpful to someone I guess. So then I delved into the source code for
the templating library, FastTemplate. Nothing.
Then I stopped reacting and started thinking. Yes that is the hardest
part of debugging and one that all of us just plain hate to do. What
I did was setup a simpler test case, pulling JUST the display code out
of the logic and then taking my own data and making it larger. No
problem. Worked fine. ###?*($#*# (fill it in). Hrm... Then I
started thinking about the content I was getting from Mark and what I
knew about it. Well I know Mark is an all Mac shop so I started to
wonder about lower order ASCII characters being hidden in the content.
You know -- what about ASCII 17? Or ASCII 3? So I scp'd the content
back to my own server Windows box and used a gui editor. Sure enough
there turned out to be two ASCII 0s embedded in the content EXACTLY
where the content was being truncated. Mark and I hashed it out and
I'm still not sure where these came from but it really doesn't matter.
He made sure to get rid of them and so did I.
What was happening was that the ASCII 0s were acting to truncate the
string of preview content as it was passed to the display method. I
ended up adding this to the routine before passing the content off for
display:
$preview = str_replace("\0","",$preview);
Moral of the Story?
Think before debugging.
Simply your test case as much as possible.
Check the data; even invisible things can screw you up.
Are You Annoying?
Are You Annoying?
07/24/2004 01:14 PMDelivering Flash Video: Dynamic
Bandwidth Detection with Flash
Communication Server
Delivering Flash Video: Dynamic
Bandwidth Detection with Flash
Communication Server
12/17/2004 06:35 PMDownload sample code and directions for delivering streaming video at
target bandwidths for individual users.
All-in-one tool to build Flash websites,
Flash intros, slide-shows and more.
All-in-one tool to build Flash websites,
Flash intros, slide-shows and more.
07/18/2004 02:20 AMOne-click Flash website and intro builder. [PRWEB Jul 18, 2004]
Tenmiles Launches Flash Wallpaper -
Brings Flash to Desktops
Tenmiles Launches Flash Wallpaper -
Brings Flash to Desktops
06/03/2004 02:00 AMPromises to revolutionize desktop use [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]
A Break From Annoying Ads?
A Break From Annoying Ads?
05/25/2004 05:12 AMA high demand for online advertising space coupled with low supply is
giving Web publishers the upper hand. It could mean a break from
outlandish ads that block the article you're trying to read. By Amit
Asaravala.
Annoying Mousequito
Annoying Mousequito
08/22/2004 10:40 PM
ugh, get away Free to be annoying
Free to be annoying
06/12/2004 12:00 AMUSA Today Jun 12 2004 3:06AM GMT
Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks
Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks
03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Consolidated
B-24 Liberator nose
art archive.
Signs of the
zodiac,
dirty jokes, self-fulfilling
prophecies, and
stumpers. (Some
questionable content [NSFW-ish] and site design)
Annoying the sharks
Annoying the sharks
07/03/2004 11:43 AMWhere I'm staying, the kids have had the Discovery Channel all
morning. It's shark show after shark show. The underwater scientists
wrestle them, tag them, measure them, and check their teeth for
unsightly plaque. Fine, but I plan on swimming in the ocean this
summer, so could we please stop annoying the sharks for a while? Thank
you....
When Tech Gets Really Annoying
When Tech Gets Really Annoying
06/24/2005 07:22 PMIt's almost lunch time, and I'm driving down the street, not too
fast and not too slow. My belly has been reminding me for a while that
it's been several hours since I finished my bowl of Honey Bunches of
Oats, and just then a Burger
King joint comes into view. I'm thinking, "Hmmm. I wonder what
their special is today." Apparently reading my mind, the super spiffy
gee-whiz Daktronic
s Message Center animated sign flashes "SPECIAL" several times in
a very special animated sequence that must've taken hours to program.
Then the display changes to read
TENDERCRISP CHICKEN
in really big letters, and pauses for a few seconds. As I get
closer and closer to the restaurant's driveway, I'm thinking to
myself, "That would taste really good about now," but the cheapskate
in me is also asking, "How much does it cost?" By this time I'm less
than a block away. Next comes
SANDWICH COMBO
(or something like that) in really big letters. Great. So you've
got a SPECIAL on a TENDERCRISP CHICKEN SANDWICH COMBO and it takes you
four blocks to tell me that? By the time it's too late for me to turn,
in the sign still hasn't flashed the SPECIAL's price, so I drive right
on by, looking for another place to buy lunch. Their advertising
efforts just lost them a sale.
I realize that there are few rocket scientists running Burger King
restaurants, but does it take a marketing genius to know that there is
a limited amount of time for them to convey a message to passing
motorists? With the old-fashioned signage, a Burger King would put up
"TNDRCRISP COMBO $3.95" or something like that, which can be read in a
glance and gets the message across in a fraction of a second. The
galling thing is that with the electronic signage they could do the
same thing, but they choose to jazz it up, and end up failing to get
their message across.
Come to think of it, these electronic marquees suffer from some of
the same maladies that make PowerPoint presentations so painful. Deane
has written
several
posts about some of the issues with PowerPoint; if only the people
setting these signs up would bone up on Po
werPoint etiquette they'd have better success with their
streetside advertising. Or at least it wouldn't suck quite so
badly.
There should be a severe penalties for people who set up messages
on electronic marquee boards that span more than two pages.
Developing and Adapting Flash Games for
Flash Lite
Developing and Adapting Flash Games for
Flash Lite
12/17/2004 06:35 PMFind out how easy it is to develop Flash games and port them to play
on mobile phones through Flash Lite 1.1.
Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying
Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying
04/13/2004 07:20 AMAren't Cellphones Annoying? And What's
Up With Those PDAs?
Aren't Cellphones Annoying? And What's
Up With Those PDAs?
08/19/2004 07:35 AM
There was a time where I thought my career was going
to be in that sparkling sugarplum factory known as "computers," but
reading columns like this one by Robert J. Samuelson has convinced me
that my career in "journalism" is much more suited to my desire to
string lots of curmudgeonly words together and get paid for it. This
week's insightful column? "A Cell Phone? Never for Me." You fight that
power, Samuelson. (I especially like the part where he notes that he
has also "resisted ATM cards, laptops, and digital cameras." This is
the part where Zombie Thoreau puts down his cell phone and slaps the
wax out of him.)
So that's journalism, I guess. I can't wait until I'm old and can
write columns for Newsweek like, "What's Up With Mustard?" and "Holo
Porn? It's 2D for Me."
Read - A
Cell Phone? Never for Me. [Newsweek]
STOPzilla - End Annoying Pop-Ups Forever
STOPzilla - End Annoying Pop-Ups Forever
07/01/2004 10:35 AMAd - http://www.aboutpeopletechinc.com Jul 1 2004 3:35PM GMT
Blowing away that annoying hum from a
PC's fan
Blowing away that annoying hum from a
PC's fan
05/28/2004 07:50 PMIHT May 29 2004 0:48AM GMT
Potentially Annoying Features
Potentially Annoying Features
05/13/2004 02:04 PMI just installed The Unread, a menubar application that tells me how
many unread messages I have in my inbox.... (155 words)
DHTML Pop Up Ads Redefine Annoying
DHTML Pop Up Ads Redefine Annoying
12/30/2002 10:45 AM"The novelty has worn off and now it's a hate/hate relationship. The
new "pop out" type ads on web sites are the newest plague to sweep
advertising on the internet. They totally block the content on the
page until you locate the little teenie weenie "close" link."
the 20 most annoying conservatives of
the year
the 20 most annoying conservatives of
the year
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Such a small thing, and yet so very
annoying
Such a small thing, and yet so very
annoying
03/14/2005 05:54 PMNav-commenters.gif is dead DEAD! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DEAD I TELL YOU!
Yay! As an aside, and reading John's piece, it suddenly pops into my
head that the day a major hole is found in MT, it will be the presence
of nav-commenters.gif...
Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!
Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!
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Well, having run down the rest of the page referenced in my revised
“Rumor?” post, it appears that those little Microsoftians
have been busy. Unfortunately, they’ve been busy figuring out
ways to break Windows XP under the guise of ‘improving’
security. As you go down the page you may start to wonder why Windows
XP works at all after installing the SP-2 patch. Something that I
think will catch Messenger users by surprise, since I…
"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"
"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"
04/18/2004 03:21 AMEmail viruses are more annoying than
spam
Email viruses are more annoying than
spam
06/15/2004 03:47 AMI've had my primary email address for many years, and I also get email
through a number of work-related aliases, including editors at
newsforge.com, roblimo at slashdot.org, and rmiller at osdn.com. So I
get spam. Tons of spam. And I filter it all. I filter viruses, too,
not because they can affect my Linux computer, but because they suck
up bandwidth. And my virus email traffic now exceeds my spam traffic
by a factor of at least two to one.
Virus-like game annoying AOL IM users
Virus-like game annoying AOL IM users
02/11/2004 08:17 PMA new Web-based game that lets players pretend to catch Osama bin
Laden is annoying America Online Inc.'s (AOL's) Instant Messenger
users with its virus-like self promotion, according to reports from
users.
Mick Hucknall, Simply Annoying
Mick Hucknall, Simply Annoying
01/10/2004 09:38 AMDuring the time that 1,000 People More Annoying than Mick Hucknall has
been in existence, only
97 celebrities have
been judged less annoying. Another
10 achieved the
sweet release of death. (01-09)
The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying
Bloggers
The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying
Bloggers
02/21/2003 04:44 PMFor a long time I've known that some things have bugged me about
certain blogs and/or bloggers. This is my attempt to collect them in a
top-10 list. I was going to write a paragraph for each one, but I...
Annoying things about giant sunglasses
Annoying things about giant sunglasses
06/24/2005 05:13 PMSeveral things struck me in this New York Times article,
Sophia? Is That
You Behind the Shades?, about giant sunglasses, none having to do
with the weaing of giant sunglasses themselves.
First it was the discovery that the house style at the
Times is to spell New York's Nolita neighborhood, "NoLIta"
which I guess makes sense (North of
Little Italy) but sure looks ugly in
print. Then it was the realization that "crème
brûlée" was being used as an adjective to describe the
color of someone's giant sunglasses. I object. Crème
brûlée is a yummy dessert, and sounds far too affected
when used as a color -- unless you're a French chef with a limited
command of the English language.
The final blow was the quote from a woman in the business who said,
"People are loving theses shades because they make you look hoboish in
a rich way[.]" You've got to be kidding, that sounds just like Derelicte to me! And what the hell is,
"hoboish in a rich way"? I spent five hundred dollars on giant
sunglasses and a peasant skirt but look like I slept on the street? Is
that it? Sounds hoboish in a stupid way to me.
Annoying AirPort Error Message #1
Annoying AirPort Error Message #1
07/05/2004 07:11 PMIf you're going to throw an error message this useless, log more
detailed information to the Console or wherever so I can figure out
what the hell is going on without wasting two hours on a nice holiday
afternoon. By Tim Jarrett (via MyAppleMenu)
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