Learning the intricacies of programming for a strict display profile has always been a headache. I’ve been doing this for many platforms including iPhone portrait, iPhone landscape, and iPad. With 720p becoming more popular with the advent of Google TV, Apple TV, Roku, Boxee and Samsung TV, it[...]
Posts Tagged ‘google’
February 1st, 2011 - 6:53 PM § in Internet
Google Art Project Brings The Museum To Your Screen
Announced today, the Google Art Project takes the experience of visiting a fine art museum and makes it virtual, available through the Internet. Although this is not the first attempt to transfer the museum to the computer desktop — many organizations have experimented with this ever since u[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 1:54 PM § in Gadget
Google number porting now available
Google announced today that all current Google Voice users can port their numbers to Google. What does that mean exactly? Before getting your next cell phone, port your number to Google Voice. Then get a new cell phone will a new number. You can configure Google Voice to answer the calls and forward[...]
January 22nd, 2011 - 4:02 PM § in Lessons
Recaptcha
Recaptcha is a clever way to keep the SPAM bots at bay. It forces the visitor to type in a couple of random words before the visitor can submit a POST to your site. Recaptcha accomplishes a secondary task, it digitizes books. The words you see are scanned from books, and by using humans to [...][...]
January 21st, 2011 - 6:19 PM § in Internet
Google Launches Groupon Clone
After their bid to acquire Groupon was rejected by the company, dot com giant Google is now soon to roll out their own version of the deal-of-the-day website. Named “Google Offers,” this service gives clients a new way to reach customers, sending them a daily email with special offers.[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 12:57 AM § in Internet
Google Voice to Include Number Porting
Google recently announced that a number porting system will be added to their “Google Voice” service. Although currently still in a testing phase, this is sure to open up the service to new users. Number porting allows a user to utilize their existing phone number (from another source) f[...]
January 16th, 2011 - 4:16 PM § in Lessons
Fancy fonts in CSS
The web has all of us trained on the idea of “web safe” fonts. And as much as I cringe at the thought days when people collected thousands of true type or postscript fonts, our current avoidance of fonts is a bit too drastic. Designers are now trained to use only Arial, Verdana, Helvetic[...]
January 13th, 2011 - 11:46 AM § in Web
Chrome to drop H.264
WebM is a video codec developed by On2 then acquired by Google and made opensource. It has been gaining support due to the questionable licensing agreement of H.264. Although H.264 decoding will remain free as long as it is distributed freely, browser makers would have to pay some licensing fee. Goo[...]
November 17th, 2010 - 3:56 PM § in Web
What’s that google project?
I remember a few weeks back I was reading about a new google product that magically added predictive type ahead to any form field. I’m not exactly sure how it does this magic but I wanted to try it out on a personal project. I had no memory what it was called so began my [...][...]
November 12th, 2010 - 5:40 PM § in Web
Google refine
A couple of months ago I had import some data from an Excel spreadsheet into a system I built for a client. The table contained 60,000 rows of information on colleges and universities. That posed two separate problems: 1) How to best export from Excel into a usable format 2) What to do with the [...[...]