Note: Microsoft has retired Popfly. It was only a short lived project that never really got traction. Although there were some advantageous over other mashup toolkits (but also disadvantages). Microsoft Popfly consists a few components, the latest they added is a game builder that lets you easily create games. But this post is about the [...]
The latest buzz in techland is Evernote. It’s basically a note keeping application. What’s so special about that? you wonder. I too was wondering, why this would be any better than basically anything else on the market (I was using a combination of Google Docs and local folders which works pretty well for me). So [...]
In a minor revelation, I saw the future of recipes and cook books. Yes, really. However, it’s so basic I can’t believe no one has done this before. The LazyWeb is long gone, so it looks like I’m going to have to do it myself. What I would like is a list of ingredients where [...]
I managed to spend a little more time with Yahoo! Pipes (previously). They now have a “badge” options, that makes it a lot easier to publish the results of your pipe on the net. See above for the result of an “image badge”. If you should want to make one for yourself. It is important [...]
Before I continue any Sandy3D or Flash tutorials, I’d like to go into another method of getting multimedia content in the browser: Java applets. One major advantage of applets is the possibility to use hardware acceleration inside the browser. This will tremendously increase the capabilities, quality and speed of the displayed pictures. None of the [...]
If you’re not intimidated by this screenshot, please read on. Yahoo! Pipes allows you to visually design a transformation on web resources. You define input sources for pretty much anything that is available on the web. And transform that data into any form you want. You can filter data you don’t need, merge different sources [...]
I don’t know if you noticed, but if you click the little “nav” link on the left, the navigation menu disappears. If you click it again, it will reappear. This is done via a little JavaScript and the script.aculo.us library. I have written a short tutorial on how to achieve this effect. It is intended [...]