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freeplaylife.com : Photoshop Friday::Quick Selection Tool and Magnetic Lasso Are Our Friends.

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:14:50 +0000

Love the story here, as well as the effects! Keeping up with my munchkins is tough enough as it is for me right now - haven't gotten enough time to start photoshopping them. :)

Engineering a New World : Important for SEO: Digg, Flickr & ânofollowâ links

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:10:27 +0000

There you go - another example of how you never know exactly what secret sauce Google uses to calculate PageRank. They're not /supposed/ to use noFollow links, but I've noted the same thing -- a volume of noFollow links can still seem to generate PageRank in some cases.

Engineering a New World : Fedora 13 Driver Support is Just Awesome

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:15:12 +0000

OK - just tried wi-fi scanning, and no luck thus far. It's apparently supported by the HPLIP package, but xsane doesn't recognize it, and having trouble configuring it. We'll see if I can achieve success, as I would indeed like the use of my scanner back.

Engineering a New World : Fedora 13 Driver Support is Just Awesome

Sat, 29 May 2010 13:43:24 +0000

Indeed, it is a wireless printer. I've not yet tried scanning over wifi yet - not so sure if the SANE/TWAIN drivers have received as much attention as the printing subsystem has, but I'll give it a go.

Engineering a New World : iMapFlickr â Nifty Flickr Map Visualizer

Fri, 28 May 2010 17:56:58 +0000

Darren - thanks for the reply. Yes, on the z-index of the shadows, that would help - as I do have a big concentration of icons in one spot, and it makes the map a bit difficult to use. The sets issue is not as big of a deal, though I still (one day) would love to be able to see a perfect visualization of a large number of flickr images - little dots, or a heat map, or something.

Engineering a New World : Bing Maps: Suppressing the Birdâs Eye Popup

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:53:22 +0000

Very agreed. At the very least, I'm a big fan of, in UI design, if you have anything at all that pops up (even if temporarily) it should have a close button. Close button presses can then be tracked, and the UI designers can then tell if people are always closing the annoying little thing. That's the wonderful thing about web UI design, is that unlike a product like Quicken, you can then track everyone's every movement through the app.

Engineering a New World : WMATA: Gov 2.0 Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:21:17 +0000

Matt - thanks for the data. I assumed that LA still wasn't working as the transit layer doesn't appear on Google Maps. But transit directions certainly do work, as do they for Boston and New York. So, indeed, DC is still the bizarre holdout, trying to get Google to pay them for the data or some other odd arrangement.

Engineering a New World : Google Transit Still has Massive Holes

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:27:43 +0000

Mr. Perkins: definitely understood, and I posted this more recent article here on the matter.
I'm 100% on your side, and it's indeed 100% in the court of the transit agency to be able to provide information to other private-sector agencies and companies such as Google so that useful products can be made thereby. Just check out what was able to be done by BART with their data being made available, and they basically were able to get millions of dollars worth of free development work done, all aimed at increasing transit ridership. You stated it well in one of your 2008 articles on the subject: Google makes websites and web properties, and WMATA operates the second-most-used transit system in the nation. I think WMATA should stick to trains and busses and let Google and other such companies do what they can to help people use the Internet to their advantage.

Engineering a New World : Ridiculous Error Message on my HP

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:37:12 +0000

Nice - I'll have to try that.

Engineering a New World : Bing Search Getting Faster on Blogs

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:56:07 +0000

Will - thanks, and agreed. Oddly omitted is any information lately on Yahoo!'s core search product. We hear about them making home page updates and reworks of their mail offering, but nothing on their search engine -- which has been the mainstay of their business. Odd as well, is that when you do the same search mentioned in this blog post on that Dianetics DVD, you get _no_ blog results, whcih I find curious. Makes me not want to use their search engine -- not as I'm biased, but as it makes me think they're shutting me off from relevant results.

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:07:04 +0000

I've not gotten HDMI to work on Linux. Worked on Vista after a bit of effort, but no dice on Linux. � That's why I'm glad I got the dv7 as I've got 2 hard drive bays -- one that's still my stock Vista HDD and the other I have running Ubuntu.�

Engineering a New World : Ubuntu: Performance Issues

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:40:31 +0000

Thiago - Thanks for writing. No, I haven't found anything that's made Firefox faster on Ubuntu. I installed the Chrome alpha build on it, and that is actually significantly faster (much much faster, actually) but at Chrome's current state of development on Linux, there is no plugin support so no Flash. So, unless you stay only on Facebook and such, it's not all that useful. In terms of other distros, OpenSuse and Fedora both perform real fast and don't have the same sticky lagginess in Firefox, but unfortunately all I read these days is that fglrx just doesn't jive with xorg 1.6 and so if you have an ATI board and want to go Fedora, you're a bit screwed for the moment. I really hope that changes, though.

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:07:42 +0000

Lefty - I agree with you that the user experience on Windows for downloaded files seems to be the easiest right now -- if you compare WIndows, Mac, and most Linux Distros. However, the UX on Ubuntu seems to be the closest I've seen so far to approaching the Windows UX, with respect to not having to hit the console as much, and mainly just getting to double-click the downloaded file, and allow it to install.

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:05:28 +0000

Stephen - Thanks for writing. The laptop I've got has an Atheros 2425 WiFi controller, and from everything I saw, OpenSolaris seemed to initialize the device with no problem. The issue, I think (and I'm no expert here -- but I think) the types of authentication supported over the WiFi interface. I only had two choices for authentication -- WAP or WAP Personal (I believe) and the Linksys router I have requires 40-bit WEP. So, it just repeatedly failed to connect when I tried -- just giving me either a password prompt, or no feedback at all. That was all. Otherwise, I'd love to try out OpenSolaris. I've always been a big Sun fan, running tons of Sun servers. So, if I could make it work as a Desktop OS, I would.

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:28:31 +0000

Totally. I was starting to think that it was too much to ask to have 3D Video cards just WORK in Linux. It was bizarre to me that one could easily have all of the other hardware in the computer work without a hitch, but an integrated ATI video controller could then somehow be impossible to get to work.

O(b Log N): N-tier open source dad 2.0 and software punk : Map my vacation, please?

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:06:59 +0000

I don't know if you ever found a map interface to match your feature requirements, but I'm out googling for the same exact thing. It seems that someone else would have throught this was a good idea! It was my dream too that someone might get the idea that a slideshow with a map interface, or a lightbox with a little map in the corner highlighting your geotags or something, might be a rocking idea. Have you ever found anything to this extent?

TurboDad's Comments

freeplaylife.com : Photoshop Friday::Quick Selection Tool and Magnetic Lasso Are Our Friends.

Engineering a New World : Important for SEO: Digg, Flickr & ânofollowâ links

Engineering a New World : Fedora 13 Driver Support is Just Awesome

Engineering a New World : Fedora 13 Driver Support is Just Awesome

Engineering a New World : iMapFlickr â Nifty Flickr Map Visualizer

Engineering a New World : Bing Maps: Suppressing the Birdâs Eye Popup

Engineering a New World : WMATA: Gov 2.0 Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Engineering a New World : Google Transit Still has Massive Holes

Engineering a New World : Ridiculous Error Message on my HP

Engineering a New World : Bing Search Getting Faster on Blogs

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Engineering a New World : Ubuntu: Performance Issues

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

Engineering a New World : Getting ATI Radeon HD Drivers to work on a Linux laptop - the Saga

O(b Log N): N-tier open source dad 2.0 and software punk : Map my vacation, please?

Engineering a New World : Important for SEO: Digg, Flickr & ânofollowâ links

Engineering a New World : iMapFlickr â Nifty Flickr Map Visualizer

Engineering a New World : Bing Maps: Suppressing the Birdâs Eye Popup