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Entries from October 2008

another shot at the hand

September 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

I took another shot at making the hand flick the bubble.

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Nobody will get hurt…Right?

September 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

A little experiment in Poser.

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“IE Emulator” not an Emulator

September 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

A reader recently posted that my use of the term ‘emulator’ to describe the Firefox IE Tab extension is inaccurate.
Actually, the so called IE Emulator is not exactly an emulator, but a
way to embed a real IE into a Firefox tab. So, when you use it, the
extension fire up IE behind the scene. And you [...]

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Avatar Art

September 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

Order Avatar Art

MMO Art specializes in providing you with artwork for your Massive
Multiplayer game avatars. The
gallery is impressive. Prices range from a quick portrait sketch for $20 to
a full-blown digital paint character for $600. I wanted to give this a
test-drive but the artists are overwhelmed with work right now (theyíve been
covered on Boing
Boing) and you [...]

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Postcards from the Edges of the Internet

September 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

My old Novell compadre–Scott
Lemon–tests the edges of the Internet. We have a lot of infrastructure work
to do. (Poor sap, still uses Radio….uh…I still use Manila.)

The edges
of the Internet

This year it has been fun to retest the edges of the Internet.  What I mean
is “How easy is it to get on the Internet from various [...]

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Classic Sim City in your Browser–FREE

September 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

 
I saw that EA has put classic Sim City up and it runs in your browser. Here
is a way to spend your time. My kids love sim city.
“sims”
Browser
version
tags: sim+city, browser, games

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Firefox gains on IE

September 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

Firefox gaining

Firefox gains share, IE loses
By Gregg
Keizer, TechWeb 6 September 2006 10:18 AEST Internet
 
Mozilla’s Firefox gained half a
percentage point in market share at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet
Explorer during August, continuing the steady climb of the open-source
browser, a Web metrics firm said.Firefox now owns 11.8
percent of the global browser market share, said Net [...]

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Blue Tooth Keyboard. Love it.

September 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

   

Brando
Mini Bluetooth Keyboard: Slightly Larger than Tiny

If you grow weary of feeling like you’re all thumbs when you’re typing on
tiny smartphone keys, Brando gives you a Bluetooth keyboard that’s slightly
larger than minuscule but still small enough to be portable.
It works with Palm OS, Pocket PC, Smartphones and PCs and it’s small enough
for your pocketóat [...]

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IE Emulator Tutorial

September 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

Whew. I have been working on this tutorial all weekend. I won’t dive into why it took so long, but here it is.Here is the thing with this tutorial, it doesn’t have the html code in front of it that sizes it and keeps it’s perspective. The drawback to this is that depending on your [...]

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Blogging Tutorial

September 6th, 2006 · Comments Off

Here is a tutorial on the process I have developed for blogging with Onfolio, FireFox, and Live Writer. It still needs work, but is infinitly better than what I had to do before. These tools just keep getting better and better. The tutorial is in flash and is a little big because of the narration. [...]

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