The HTML... hum... logo

Planet Mozilla

I discovered yesterday the HTML 5 "logo" and I find it completely missing its target. Except the name, nothing in the logo's design is clearly related to the Web. Change "HTML" in that logo to "Interstate" and it could well be a road sign... I…

19 January 2011

Zooming and rotating for video in HTML5 and CSS3

Planet Mozilla

The source of the code examples in this post is available on GitHub and you can see the demo in action. There are dozens of video players that allow you to do all the normal things with videos: play, pause, jump to a certain time and so on. More advanced…

19 January 2011

AirView brings AirPlay reception to iOS devices

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

If you've been looking for device-to-device AirPlay support, the free AirView utility that just debuted on the App Store offers a simple solution. Offering a no-frills AirPlay receiver, AirView allows you to watch AirPlay video streams from other devices…

18 January 2011

How Do You Visualize 100 GB of Google Text Data?

Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes "There is an amazing series of charts that visualizes trigrams and bigrams, portions of sentences that have been extracted from Google's web data set. The graphs highlight word associations and the frequency with which we use…

11 January 2011

I'm Back

Planet Mozilla

I just got back from a magical five days of boating with extended family. We spent most of the time on the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula --- Te Kouma harbour, offshore islands, visiting Coromandel town. The weather was superb, and we did…

9 January 2011

Get an iTunes or Mac App Store account without a credit card

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Parents, the safest way to keep your kids from accidentally spending your money in any of the iTunes stores, including the App Stores, is to give them their own iTunes Account that doesn't have an associated credit card. Whether you want to let your kids…

7 January 2011

TekTrak phone locator offers two-use free version

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Just because Apple released a Find My iPhone app and then made it free, doesn't mean there isn't room for a little friendly competition. TekTrak originally took on Apple's built-in iPhone location service by offering TekTrak Pro at a one-time US$4.99…

6 January 2011