Advanced animations in Aurora with CSS3 Animations

Planet Mozilla

Firefox 4 came with CSS3 Transitions (ability to animate CSS properties from an initial value to a final one). In Firefox Aurora, we are experimenting with CSS3 Animations: a more powerful way to animate your content with CSS. The first thing is to define…

9 May 2011

Simplifying the objc binding

Planet GNU

The previous post I have show you an example on how to create a simple windows using the objective-c binding. Still it was working it was not so flexible. If you fetch the latest commit from github you will have enhancement quoted below: 1. Direct access…

9 May 2011

Why the New Guy Can't Code

Slashdot

theodp writes "'We've all lived the nightmare,' writes Jon Evans. 'A new developer shows up at work, and you try to be welcoming, but he can't seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when it finally emerges, is…

8 May 2011

Skype security flaw already patched, but you have to download manually

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

There's a big problem with Skype on the Mac: and no, it's not its ugly UI (although that is a big problem). As noted by Mashable's (and former TUAW blogger) Christina Warren, the latest version of Skype for Mac has an unpatched security flaw that that…

7 May 2011

Rsync, Level: Expert

Planet KDE

Learning all kinds of new things, like how to escape spaces in filenames. When I tried the command $ sudo rsync -avr --progress /etc/ /media/FreeAgent Backup/etc/ I got only error messages. What works is quoting, sudo rsync -avr --progress /etc/…

6 May 2011

Downloading from Public iDisk to iPhone/iPad

MacOSXHints.com

On a desktop computer everyone can access someones Public folder, when that person has MobileMe account. But on a iPhone or iPad that Public folder isn't so public anymore. Only people who have a MobileMe account can go to the Public folder of someone…

5 May 2011

Valorie Zimmerman: Rsync, Level: Expert

Planet Ubuntu

Learning all kinds of new things, like how to escape spaces in filenames. When I tried the command $ sudo rsync -avr --progress /etc/ /media/FreeAgent Backup/etc/ I got only error messages. What works is quoting, sudo rsync -avr --progress /etc/…

5 May 2011

Footprints tracks your movements and who they're shared with

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Although Apple has caught a lot of heat lately over the location-tracking issue that was recently resolved with the iOS 4.3.3 update, there are several apps out there that do track where you are with amazing detail. They range from Find My iPhone to apps…

5 May 2011