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Apple, Media, Miscellaneous »

[13 Apr 2008 | No Comment | 1 views]

As promised, here’s a few silly YouTube posts doing the impossible - linking Mr. Bean and Apple. Just watch them and you’ll see what I mean.

I’m sure you’ll agree, that one’s been thought out very well. I admit the next one hasn’t quite been edited together with the same quality as before, but it’s still pretty amusing watching Mr Bean dancing to the Spice Girls.

I promise - I didn’t edit these things… jerrry13157 and coaxial343 did.
That’s your lot,
Lawrence Job

Adobe, Media, News »

[13 Apr 2008 | No Comment | 2 views]

I figured, as I have spare time today, that I’d start documenting the outcome of visiting the Adobe onAIR tour 2008. It was a pretty big event, in terms of the broad range of sessions, so it looks like I’m going to have to cover it in a few posts, rather than one very long one. I may not document it all, as a couple of them were talking pretty fast, and I’ll try to find as many resources from there as possible.
I am also aware that Simon has two …

Media, Miscellaneous, Ramblings »

[12 Apr 2008 | No Comment | 1 views]

You may remember, if you’re one of my more hard-core readers, back in the old blog, I used to make a few posts about the past present and future of the iPlayer. Well it turns out that it’s still growing rapidly into one of the main parts of the BBC. While competitors made an effort to launch their online services, like ITV’s Catch-up service (which nobody uses, due to the strict requirements) or the boom of 4’s 4od (now a part of Virgin Media or online), the BBC is still …

Media, Miscellaneous, News »

[2 Mar 2008 | No Comment | 2 views]

I have been searching around on the internet, having a look for some evidence to indicate why I should bother maintaining a nofollow structure on any software I write. It was originally a concept by Google, back in the Pagerank beta, to combat the abuse of link-based spam, but many predicted its failure. Has it really done anything? Well the numbers say no.
The first point that I would like to make is that the actual numbers of link spam has increased 100 fold. You can see that by looking at …

Gadgets, Media, Microsoft, Miscellaneous, News »

[14 Feb 2008 | 5 Comments | 7 views]

The new version of Firefox (3) has begun to spread around the industry, with some disappointing results. Although there are a few new features, noticeably Gecko 1.9, and the URL bar’s striking new functionality, there is just not enough changes to give it an integer update, to 3. If I was in charge, I would call it 2.2 (or even 2.1) or something to suggest a medium magnitude feature change. The only reason for it is the new Gecko implementation, for the simplicity for the end user.
I have been using …