I revisit David Johnson’s tutorial article on loading external data into Flash. The article comments on a way to get around the security restrictions imposed by Macromedia, which disallows data …
The CSIRO’s HAIL seminar
There is an interesting lecture at Macquarie University from the CSIRO’s HAIL (which stands for HCI, Artificial Intelligence and Language) seminar series. The upcoming seminars include, The culture of the …
Essay on steps to a career in User Experience
Adaptive Path, the company which was started up by Jeffrey Veen and co, has written an interesting Essay titled “Starting a Career in User Experience”. The essay has been written …
Making the <embed> tag validate correctly
I went in search today on ways of making the <embed> tag comply to the XHTML 1.0 spec. The <embed> tag is the tag which is commonly used in Flash …
Photographer Mark Rogers website
Sean Torstensson from Australian INFront comments on the new photographic portfolio site of Photographer Mark Rogers. Based in Sydney he exhibits regularly. His next show is at the Photo Technica …
Classic early web folk art collection
Jason Kotke comments on a collection of early classic internet folk art. Someone he know is compiling the collection from way back and the post has some interesting comments with …
ATI Radeon launches 9800 graphic cards
Radeon ATI has launched their new range of Graphics Cards, the 9800, 9600 and 9200. A review can be found here: www.tomshardware.com and the ATI page is here: http://mirror.ati.com. This …
Piracy raid on Australian Universities
The Australian newspaper comments on the Federal police raids of Australia’s ISP’s for alledged pirated music files such as MP3s which value a total of $60 million. The interesting nature …
Tim O’Reilly comments on article of Enrico Fermi
Tim O’Reilly comments on a NY times article by Steven Strogatz, titled The Real Scientific Hero of 1953. The article comments on some of the scientific discoveries of 1953, including …
John Saila’s Condensed Glossary of Internet Terminology
John Saila, has uploaded his condensed dictionary of Internet Terminology. The Glossary is focused around terminology for the Web and and the new-media industry www.saila.com/usage/glossary
See your website as a colour blind user
37 Signals comment on a tool which converts your webpage design as if you were colour-blind. www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000106.php There are some interesting links and comments and useful resources there, and on …
Macromedia.com gets redesigned as a Rich Internet App
The macromedia.com website gets redesigned with a new facelift and rich internet application. www.macromedia.com The new website prompts new questions once again about macromedia’s compliance with accessible devices. Here is …
Sony ImageStation Gallery & Hello Design
There is some beautiful photographs over at the Sony ImageStation website gallery www.imagestation.com The website has been designed by Hello Design www.hellodesign.com
What is itex2mml?
Itex2mml is a software tool that transforms embedded Itex (a dialect if latex) into XHTML and MathML. Itex is the way of describing math, including subscripts, superscripts, Greek letter and …
Stupidity should be cured, says James Watson
New scientist comments on James Watson and Francis Crick (Discoverers of DNA structure) views on finding a cure to stupidity. Watson has caused controversy by suggesting that stupidity is a …