I’ve only just spotted this one – perhaps the official release date of April 1st meant that it was overlooked with the usual rubbish April Fools stories that populate a lot of the online tech sites – but it would …
Read moreOh well, maybe next time (extended remix)
This is an extended version of a post associated with my webcomic, The Greys. I’ve posted it here because the extended version reflects my personal opinion, and not necessarily that of my comic strip co-author. The winners for this year’s …
Read moreWill Lucid play havoc with the Dell Mini 10?
There has been a lot written about the change in position of the window controls in the alpha- and beta-releases of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. I haven’t really got much to add that’s not in this excellent post, and it’s …
Read moreCredit Card (in)Security
My girlfriend is a partner in a small print and design business. As such, she has a company credit card – but it usually only sees service to buy stamps and other minor things. She’s finally decided that it’s time …
Read morePlaying with SVG filters on HTML content
Note: The technique described below only works in Firefox 3.5 and above (or products using the same rendering engine). It isn’t part of any formal spec (though it would be a great addition to one of them), and could potentially …
Read moreEasy easing gets easier; hard easing stays hard
I’ve just been reading about CSS Transitions, which are part of the CSS3 draft specification, and which has been experimentally implemented in Opera, Webkit (Safari, Chrome and Konqueror amonst others) and in nightly builds of Firefox (with documentation on the …
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DVD Menu Overkill: Redux
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but due to my tendency to waffle on a bit, my 1200 word epic about the extraneous crap they put on DVDs has been more succinctly covered by this picture (click …
Read moreWhy can’t we have a common on-demand TV service?
For the past couple of weeks my Freeview TV reception has been dreadful. The BBC channels are okay, but most other things have a signal strength that is too low to watch – especially during bad weather. It appears that …
Read moreXDMCP support in Ubuntu: make your voice heard
As I’ve pointed out previously, the XDMCP support has been severely crippled in Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala. I suspect that XDMCP is something that isn’t considered a very high priority by the Ubuntu and upstream developers, as it’s an old …
Read moreAnother use for 3D TVs
It seems that just about every manufacturer is planning to launch 3D-capable TVs this year. Most of them use high frequency refresh rates, synchronised with LCD shutter specs, to present a different image to each eye: the screen is actually …
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