Grooveshark rocking teh HTML5
Grooveshark recently deployed an updated UI done in HTML5 instead of Flash. In a word, it’s awesome. Scrolling is smoother. Text is fully selectable. I like being able to resize the UI (I don’t think...
View ArticleHappy Holidays 2010
Happy Holiday season to y’all! This is our first Christmas in California and it’s a bit of an adjustment. A wet Christmas is not a white Christmas – but at least there’s no snow shoveling for me this...
View ArticleSVG/Canvas Marketshare: Nov 2010
I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Nov 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 44.57% I’m also tracking what percentage of web users can see SVG in an...
View ArticleOh WordPress…
It appears that comments on my blog have been screwed up now for probably at least a month. When you try to post a comment it 404s. You can no longer see comments on a post. I simply don’t have the...
View ArticleTypedArrays make me theoretically happy
I’ve been busy at my day job not launching code, but over the weekend I had some fun converting kthoom‘s unzip/inflate algorithm from using binary strings to using Typed Arrays. Typed Arrays mean...
View ArticleOne step closer to image editing on Wikipedia
Oh, I forgot to mention a cool thing that happened at the beginning of the year while I was so busy: Wikipedia inched a step closer to having an in-browser editing experience for its impressive...
View ArticleDon’t Use Edible Arrangements Los Gatos
Boo. I ordered some fruit arrangement from “Edible Arrangements” in Los Gatos this the morning. I got home in the evening and it hadn’t been delivered all day. So much for surprise… I called, they said...
View ArticleShuttering…
After finding some time to go through and mass-delete spam comments on this blog, I realized that it’s time to turn on the “Automatically close comments on post older than XX days” checkbox in...
View ArticleBinary Tools for JavaScript
As promised, I have a tiny thing to announce here. I recently split off and refactored the code that deals binary data in kthoom into a new open source project: http://bitjs.googlecode.com/, Binary...
View ArticleCreating a Camera Archive Folder
I kind of forgot about the idea of writing in my blog so that I can find the answers again via Google. Well here’s a quick one: How to backup the entire contents of your webcam (I own a Sony HDR-XR150)...
View ArticleHappy Holidays 2010
Happy Holiday season to y’all! This is our first Christmas in California and it’s a bit of an adjustment. A wet Christmas is not a white Christmas – but at least there’s no snow shoveling for me this...
View ArticleSVG/Canvas Marketshare: Nov 2010
I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Nov 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 44.57% I’m also tracking what percentage of web users can see SVG in an...
View ArticleOh WordPress…
It appears that comments on my blog have been screwed up now for probably at least a month. When you try to post a comment it 404s. You can no longer see comments on a post. I simply don’t have the...
View ArticleTypedArrays make me theoretically happy
I’ve been busy at my day job not launching code, but over the weekend I had some fun converting kthoom‘s unzip/inflate algorithm from using binary strings to using Typed Arrays. Typed Arrays mean...
View ArticleOne step closer to image editing on Wikipedia
Oh, I forgot to mention a cool thing that happened at the beginning of the year while I was so busy: Wikipedia inched a step closer to having an in-browser editing experience for its impressive...
View ArticleDon’t Use Edible Arrangements Los Gatos
Boo. I ordered some fruit arrangement from “Edible Arrangements” in Los Gatos this the morning. I got home in the evening and it hadn’t been delivered all day. So much for surprise… I called, they said...
View ArticleShuttering…
After finding some time to go through and mass-delete spam comments on this blog, I realized that it’s time to turn on the “Automatically close comments on post older than XX days” checkbox in...
View ArticleBinary Tools for JavaScript
As promised, I have a tiny thing to announce here. I recently split off and refactored the code that deals binary data in kthoom into a new open source project: http://bitjs.googlecode.com/, Binary...
View ArticleCreating a Camera Archive Folder
I kind of forgot about the idea of writing in my blog so that I can find the answers again via Google. Well here’s a quick one: How to backup the entire contents of your webcam (I own a Sony...
View ArticleSet up your kids with a Kindle
My kids (9-year olds) each got a Kindle for Christmas (thanks Gramma and Grampa!). It looks like even for them to “buy” free books, this is how I had to set them up: Create an Amazon account for them...
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