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Very recently I had a computer scare that made me readdress my motherboard’s problem with keeping my external Maxtor 300 GB Firewire dive mounted in Windows XP2. I did a reinstalled and had a miserable time getting my secondary data drive to recognize. Although I finally did get it to show, it gave me shivers at the possible amount of data lost I could have experienced.
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Unless you’re not a total geek then you weren’t following the Macrumors.com live non-refresh needed feed of the Apple “special event” today. As mostly expected from rumors site, Steve Jobs delivered exactly what was expected in terms of the updated iPod line and the iTunes Movie store. I’m really not that interested in downloading a movie for lesser quality at $14.99 that I can purchase on DVD for less, but who cares. Apple has continually shown that they know how to bring digital downloads to the masses while everyone just plays catch up. However, I’ll keep my Netflix going since it fulfills my movie needs quite well thank you very much.
Comments(3) Once of the things I’ve been trying to achieve for a long time is the ability to load fonts dynamically in Flash and track it with a preloader. Anyone who has spend any time with flash knows that if you want to embed fonts into the file, you need to include the font in the library. If you need a dozen or so fonts for whatever reason, then you’re basically out of luck since it will skyrocket your file size to 500Kb just for the fonts alone.
What you say? Just use loadMovie as you need it! No dice. With loadMovie to bring in the font, it will not registered as embedded and therefor will not format the font. Well, then, why don’t you just use as a shared asset? Forget it. Shared Assent need to be loaded at runtime, so you end up dealing with the heavy front load anyway.
After dealing with this ridiculous problem for a long time and searching high and low all over the internet for anyone that has solved this problem, I found some people who have. I’ve build my own little version here of which you can download all the source files.
I am no Actionscript guru. I feel like a caveman chiseling this stuff out of stone. Most of the advances I’ve made are because there are kind souls out there who are willing to help and post their work for you to download and tinker with. I thought I might type up this tutorial to try and return the favor, or help someone else out for a change.
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Ever since the Podcast phenomenon began to take hold of public consciousness, I had encouraged a cohort of mine to start one. He did and I had been dealing with how to easily manage his publications ever since. Managing XML manually to maintain the feed seems so archaic nowadays so I had been in search of a better way that would also allow him more control. Through the minimal amount of Google-Fu I discovered the Podpress plugin for Wordpress. Recently I completed the transition of his static site to a Wordpress with the Podpress plug-in installed where now all he has to do is FTP the MP3 up there and make a post.
Comments(2) Just wanted to mention that in my latest redesign of mine an my friend’s site that I’ve used modified themes from Stephen Reinhardt. These Wordpress themes are easy to use and not hard to modify. The simplicity is appreciated.
And another mention goes to Albert Banks for the Netflix plugin. I wish that it could display an image and the movie title at the same time, but beggars can’t be choosers.
Comments(0) Been in the midst of several issues here.
It all started wiith the server migrateion from where I host with Powweb. The were performing a server migration that seemed to work flawlessly for everyone but me. Seems the making sure database connectivity with Wordpress is a fairly imporant thing to do.
In regards to other projects, I think that I’ve finally successfully migrated my friend’s blog, the 10,000 things to Wordpress. The most difficult part was trying to implement his podcast with a plug-in called Podpress. It’s a very slick little plug-in that allows you to post your podcast, but it took a little bit more work on the back end than I expected. I’ll probably work up a step by step on how that wne soon since I learned a lot that might help others.
Other than that, I’ve been tinkering with MediaWiki for possible use with managing work documentation, but it seems that BackPackit and Basecamp are certainly doing the trick. (thanks John).
Whew. Now if I can just get my CSS layout together for my sister’s site, EventsByJenn.com I will feel very accomplished.
Very excited that my Amazon delivery times can somtimes be wrong, since today we recieved:
Comments(0) I was clicking through del.icio.us the other day and found this really cool effect that is being dubbed Lightbox JS. I was really impressed in that it allowed you to view images without navigating away from the page. With a little more searching on del.icio.us I found that some generous soul has already made a Wordpress plug-in for it. If you’d like to give it a whirl, click on the image of the statue in the post below. I like the benefit of being able to view a detail without having to navigate away from the page. Not only that, but it provides a “loading” graphic that allows viewers to know that something is happening while the image loads. Cool thing that is used with Flash all the time.
I’m dubious, however, that this can possibly work in many browsers across the board. Ajax seems to insert itself without much issue since its just Javascript, which has been functional in browsers since I installed a browser, but the use of .png graphic files and the CSS that is used to implement it makes me wonder. Still, what’s a cool web thing if you’re threatened by a little thing like browser compatibility?
