Check this out. A website that emulates DOS via AJAX. Thats cool.
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Rebooted
Let it be known that its All Saints Day today. That and I have finally and officially rebooted this blog to another life. Even though there are still some sub-pages being cranked out later down the week, it should be solid enough to get y’all through =)
Anyways, while my creative juices might be somewhat flat these past couple of weeks (due to endless hours of playing sports, and keeping up w/ fantasy football leagues), it should start flowing… no, gushing out again.
Why is this? Because of a thing that started via a blog post when them flash-heads had too much fun. CSS Reboot, mmm mmm… taste the freshness. It’s something new for the web-standards community to look forward to. Again, I hope you like it. I fooled around with a different approach to the user-experience in contrast to my old blog designs. You’ll know it when you see it. Also, if you encounter any bugs or anything of that sort, please do holler—I’m always open to making things better.
Meanwhile, thanks to the people who visit and frequent the site. Not to mention, special salutation and recognition goes out to BenjaminAdam for heading the CSS Reboot stampede. I hope you spend less time organizing those reboot thumbnails, and more time sleeping and then enjoying the creativity of the community you helped awaken.
Regards and gracias mi amigos,
Sherwin Techico
PS. This is just a memo: “the things we think and do not say” are just the ones that we need to express and let out to the world. This is my train of thought. I hope you hop on it and enjoy the ride.
Coolest Homepage Ever by Protopage
So what can be the coolest page you have ever been to on the net? Well, its simple. The one that you just created and customized. How you may ask? Why not find out over at Protopage.
But what exactly is it?
Protopage makes it easier for you to get to your favorite web sites.
Create a page, put your links and sticky notes on it, and save it as your new browser start page.
With my experience, in the quick 10 minutes of using it, its more for those that need to easily transport their sticky notes from home to work and vice-versa. Its an alternative for those of us who don’t have time to make a personal homepage where to-do-lists, new web links and lotto numbers might reside. A cool thing about it is—its AJAXibility (just made it up, don’t wear it out).
You can change the layout of your notes; the color of your background/foreground; the image/wallpaper of your homepage; and many more. All of this in real-time. By the way, did I mention that its FREE!
The only thing that might be of a “fine-print” material would be this part (below their registration form):
We ask for your email address so that we can send your password to you if you forget it, and to send you occasional news about Protopage. We respect your privacy. You can opt out of the Protopage news emails at any time.
Otherwise, go give it a try. I’m pretty sure it’ll be of good use for those always on-the-go. As well as those who are always in need of a service that helps them manage this clutter-verb we call “web-surfing.”
Movable Type 3.2 Free from Beta
OK. So this might sound somewhat geeky but oh-damn-well… this involves technology—a part of me. Anyways, Six Apart’s Jay Allen announced last night that Movable Type 3.2 will be released on 8/25/05 in the AM. That was cool.
I mean, for those of you that have been following our blogs (Kelly, Juan, Ryan and I), you may notice the “Powered by Movable Type…” text-link somewhere. I have been using their great software since 2002. After all these years, through all the hacking and customization, if I have to do it over again and pick a blogging software… it still would have to be Movable Type.
Yah, it might sound bias (I know) but MT has proven itself (IMHO) after numerous versions that it adapts to new and un-forecastable changes in the Blogosphere, and most importantly on the WWW. “What changes?” You might say. Well, first of all, I have to give credit to Blogger for making me curious enough to start and express my thoughts on mostly about anything, as I was “bored as hell” one day during a programming class back in UCI. I remember back in the days that I wanted to do more stuff with my first-ever blogsite. I felt constricted to what I was offered, and just need a new solution.
So after Yahoo!-ing (no Google yet in my vocab) and conferring with various people on what stand-alone blogging software, a couple of names came about. I remember James using b2, so that made it on top of my list along with other ones from hotscripts.com. But alas, after a lot of thinking, testing and researching community forums of the respective blogware… I found Movable Type’s to be the most active, innovative and solution-driven group of invidividuals. This was the deciding factor in making my leap-of-faith to switch from Blogger to a stand-alone blogware—thank god I made a good choice.
Meanwhile, I can tell you a lot more of my history with MT and how it affected and helped my career in Technology but that can go on forever. I’ve seen it evolve from a strict blogware, to a CMS, to a publishing-platform, …to who-knos-what with this new release. It has:
- helped me share my day with friends and family (vice-versa),
- keep my design-skills stay creative,
- pushed me to increase my knowledge of new web-technologies (i.e. XHTML, CSS, etc.)
- and… type faster, to say the least =)
So whats in it for you, I don’t know. Its really an open-ended question that has no right or wrong answers. But I do know this, it proves that it is a “small world.” And every nano-second, new ideas are being thought of to get people to interact with each other more. After all, we’re only six degrees apart.
PS. Thanks to 6A-fam and MT-dev community for their great hardwork in producing another product (that I feel) will have an immense effect on the internet and how people interact with each other.
PPS. Thanks to 6A-fam for providing us who beta-tested 3.2 with this badge haha =)
Flickr Yahoos!
Stewart Butterfield, one of the smart people from Flickr, announced early this morning that you can now sign-in and have the option to integrate your Yahoo! account with Flickr. This is great stuff for those with Yahoo! accounts in that they don’t have to remember another login, for those that do that kind of stuff anyways. The only downside, a temporary one, was that for people using third-party Flickr API-based programs (like myself) have to wait for the developers to update them with the new authentication API.
The program that I use a lot would have to be by Jon Gilkison called FlickrImportr. I use it to do my uploads and set management. I would say that its 10x better than Flickr’s own Uploadr tool, at the moment.
Meanwhile, as I keep saying, if you blog and recently start taking more and more pics with your digital camera (point-and-shoot, phone and/or dSLR)… then Flickr is the way to go. Not to mention the great community that it has. If you ain’t sold, then check out the quality of pics Flickr photographers take via the Explore page.
Anyways, good morning and go Flickr!
PS. I wonder if Flickr would be adding that damn exclamation mark like Yahoo!‘s. Looking at it, it’ll be hard to be grammatically correct when you write about Flickr, specifically when you describe something from Flickr like Flickr!‘s website… its just plain wrong but so right with the current news. I need to wake up. Sorry for the nonsense early in the morning. Good times =)