We work on the Internet. As such, we are constantly consuming information. Believe me, there is a lot of it out there. Sometimes we even forget things unless we write them down. Our blog covers everything from web standards to the muppets, php to comic books, music and everything else that we find interesting. Leave us a note when you drop by.
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of September 30th…
"This bill delivers a common-sense balance between the interests of consumers and the rights of the creative community," or so its claimed. Strange. I never found anything about the United States' Digital Millennium Copyright Act's DRM anti-circumvention provisions that I would call "common sense".
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of September 28th…
Without 3G, a microphone, or a camera, its poised more to replace the original Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook Color... but it is an Android powered tablet at two hundred bucks.
For those still paying attention to its version numbers (which, i think, we're not suppose to be anymore?), Firefox has been updated to version 7 with a slimmer memory footprint thanks to Mozilla's MemShrink project.
The Deleted City is a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century. 650 gigabyte archive of the once popular Geocities user-contributed sites, accessible through an interactive installation thanks to the Archive Team.
Ars Technica discusses the Kindle Fire's new browser, called "Silk"; how it works, its split-architecture that uses could servers for loading webpages, and how this might affect your privacy.
Contributed by Max Chiriac, Wil Alambre, and Julian Moffatt over the course of September 27th…
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. Unfortunately, setting these virtual machines up without Microsoft's VirtualPC can be extremely difficult. The ievms scripts aim to facilitate that process using VirtualBox on Linux or OS X. With a single command, you can have IE7, IE8 and IE9 running in separate virtual machines.
Off of Yahoo and now in the hands of AVOS, the new Delicious now features "stack", collections of links that you can share.
Such as turncoat parrots. Or not having monocle insurance.
Wow. I'm back to wishing I had tried harder in astronaut school now. Stunning.
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of September 22nd…
Just like on your desktop, you can now to sign into the web app with multiple accounts simultaneously. Also, they've snuck in mobile-specific signatures and vacation auto-responders.
Man, some of these sound pretty cool. I would love to go to a retro theme park theme park! :)
Bitbox has selected a collection of beautifully designed icons for your next web project, all freely available to download and created by some of the most talented web designers out there.
"I fully acknowledge the value of, and need for, actual SEO; I just think that in many cases, the tactics employed under that title would better be described as Search Engine Manipulation or even Abuse."
Contributed by Ross McDowall and Julian Moffatt over the course of September 21st…
Another reason to hope that we mere mortals might someday get to travel among the stars too!
As if you needed a reason to super impose a moustache on something?
Contributed by Wil Alambre and Julian Moffatt over the course of September 20th…
So really nifty stuff here that we and our partners should look at. :)
Given physical access to your computer, malicious users can change your OS X Lion password without needing to know your current one. Oops.
My favourite camera app for the iPhone. Not because of all the filters and tilt shifts and such, but because it makes it easy to point my camera at something interesting and get it up onto Twitter.
The sluggishness and auto-reloading of the new Safari has been driving me nuts. Assuming it doesn't kill the one or two extensions I use regularly, I'm definitely setting it back.
Google drops the invite-only model, opening its social network to anyone who's interested.
This is now my favourite lipsum site by far. Fun to play "name that movie" too!
I love the Gears Of War games. I have bought the first two and imensely enjoyed playing them co-op, having a friend sitting beside me as we slam out way through a gothic thick-neck alien horde. Still king of the cover-shooters, the third game promises to be more and better.
Gears of War 3 is the spectacular conclusion to one of the most memorable and celebrated sagas in video games. Developed by Epic Games exclusively for Xbox 360®, Gears of War 3 plunges you into a harrowing tale of hope, survival, and brotherhood. In Gears of War 3, fight on as Marcus Fenix, the grizzled war hero and leader of Delta Squad. Eighteen months after the fall of the last human city, the war against the Locust rages on. Meanwhile, deep beneath the surface, a fearsome new threat is infecting the planet from within. With survivors scattered and civilization in ruins, time is running out for Marcus and his comrades as they fight to save the human race. The Gears of War series is one of the most popular franchises in Xbox history, with more than 12 million games sold worldwide, a forthcoming major motion picture, New York Times best-selling novels, and more.
I know fellow Xbox 360 owners and close friends that are already planning their weekends around the release of this game. Well, it wasn't like I was planning on doing anything anyway! :P
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of September 19th…
CRTC writes a letter *gasp* to Rogers giving them a week to stop throttling online gaming in violation of the Commission's Internet traffic management practices.
September 19th every year is international Talk Like A Pirate Day. Why? I dunno, but the official website might!
Netflix splits off its DVD-rental service as a separate unit running under the name Qwikster, and will add video games to its library. All of which doesn't mean much to Canadians.
Facebookâs photo collection has a staggering 140 billion photos, thatâs over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress! O_O
Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of September 16th…
Microsoft engineers pleased with the news: Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 by default will run with disabled plugins in the "Metro" mode , in particular, without Flash and ActiveX. Metro mode - is a separate interface layer that is intended for the use on tablets. This is done to conserve battery life, safety, and in the name of HTML5.
Contributed by Julian Moffatt over the course of September 15th…
Sir Ken Robinson makes some amazing points. Watch it. I'm also not ashamed to say that I hated school the older I got. I wanted to do things with computers, with art, with sport, that had no value in the school system and I gave up by the end of junior high. Of course I finished school and did a bit of university, because you are supposed to right? That is the system. Luckily enough for me, I was able to find computers, art and creativity in programming. How lucky did I get? Very.
My job now is to make sure my daughters never loose their creative spirits.
Contributed by Max Chiriac over the course of September 14th…
The Cintiq 24HD combines the best in high-definition LCD performance with the ability to work with Wacomâs most advanced pen technology directly on the surface of the screen. ($2,499.00)
Visual Lizard is moving to it's new offices on Princess Street, right in the heart of the Exchange District! Unfortunately, we may not be able to answer the phones as quickly as we like as we'll have our hands full hauling boxes and computers and furniture. We apologize in advance, but remind you that you can still contact us through email.
Things should be returning to a more normal state early next week.
Contributed by Wil Alambre over the course of September 7th…
A sturdy financial management app comes to OS X Lion, much to the cheers of our Parallels-running accounting department.
Just For Laughs comedy tour is coming to Winnipeg November 8th. Tickets go on sale Monday, with pre-sale starting today!
Though this will help Newsstand's popularity when iOS 5 is released, the major stumbling block will still be Apple's own pricing/publishing restrictions.
Contributed by Dwayne Kristjanson over the course of September 2nd…
Google's flu-predicting Correlate tool has always let you compare your own data trends, but now you can just draw a rough approximation of a data curve and see what matches. What was popular in 2005 and 2006 and had a bit of a resurgence in 2010? The District Sleeps Alone Tonight, apparently.
