Month: June 2009

In 2007, Apple updated .Mac (now MobileMe), and introduced the "Web Gallery" feature – a photo sharing service that integrates with iPhoto. Web Gallery offers a beautiful interface, but the layout is done entirely with JavaScript. In this tutorial, we will attempt to recreate the Web Gallery interface using only CSS and a small amount of jQuery.

Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as <article>, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I've quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements.

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they're not in use. It's FREE for personal use, so try it out today, and change how you use your desktop forever!

Contrary to what we might think, comparative studies show us that the US when compared to other advanced countries, does not have a sicker population: we actually use fewer prescription drugs and we have shorter hospital stays (though we manage to do a lot more imaging in those short stays—got to feed the MRI machines).

If you have a PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, HP MediaSmart TV, or other DLNA-compliant device, PlayOn lets you watch Netflix, Hulu, CBS, YouTube, CNN, ESPN and more on your TV. And, if that isn't reason enough to check it out, PlayOn also enables you to enjoy your local PC media files with its newly released local media sharing feature (currently in beta). You can see all your digital photos, listen to your stored music, and watch videos stored on your PC through the same PlayOn Digital Media Server.

Form Tools is written for web developers who work on online registration sites, or sites that require any form of information gathering from their online visitors. Put simply, it is a form processor, storage and data access script written in PHP and MySQL, designed to work with any existing web form. With a few minor changes to your form, you can stop using old-fashioned form-mail scripts and instead store form submissions in a database, instantly providing your clients with a user-friendly interface to manage their form submissions, include options such as mass data export via excel, printer-friendly pages, data sorting, form submission editing and optional email notifications. See the following table for a list of features.

Melody is an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature. We believe that a vibrant community is the foundation on which all successful products and services are built today.

Here we are, after almost 2 weeks of pause in which we have been very busy with work, come back to write on our blogs and we do it with a mega collection in which we compare more than 25 Photo Gallery realized with Ajax (jQuery and Mootools) useful to manage photo galleries.

A jQuery plugin with native animations, auto list navigation, and default application styles for Mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre.

WifiPad transforms your iPhone/iPod Touch into a wireless gamepad. It works by simulating keyboard events on a PC where the WifiPad Server is installed. Although WifiPad is designed to act like a wireless gamepad, its ability to allow users to design and customize their own gamepads makes it more of a remote keyboard solution and its usefulness may be extended to keyboard driven remote control applications.

A screenshot of a clean CrunchBang Linux desktop.
CrunchBang Linux is an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution is developed from a minimal Ubuntu install and has been designed to offer a good balance of speed and functionality.

For Laurence Williams' book "An End to Global Warming" (see also the Elsevier page), I created a series of maps showing the possible effects of rising sea levels; they were used for the book cover and interior illustrations.

Map of flooded coastlines as the sea level rises.

ControlPad turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard. It can work with Windows, OS X, and Linux. No installation is necessary for OS X and some versions of Linux (like Ubuntu).Since it leverages VNC for remote control, it can be used with other operating systems that support VNC.