It's starting to get cold outside now and that's forced me to finally start looking into a solution to my poor cell reception. The problem isn't my carrier or my phone as I get a good signal right outside my door or right up against the window, but something with the construction of my apartment building blocks the signal. I have been getting "Signal faded, call dropped" … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2009
Turn YouTube Annotations Off by Default
In my opinion, one of the most annoying aspects of YouTube, the Internet's leading streaming video provider, is the user added annotations. Whether they're stupid comments, spam-filled speech bubbles, or desperate requests to subscribe, I have yet to see a worth-while use of the annotation feature on YouTube. In fact, after a particular video, it led me to search how to turn it … [Read more...]
Adding Seadragon, a High Quality Image Viewer, to phpBB3
Microsoft Labs has developed a Silverlight-based web application called Seadragon which is used to make viewing large images more practical. Panoramic and other high quality images can have you scrolling all over so that you may not be able to see the whole picture or if the image is resampled down, you lose a lot of the detail. Seadragon provides an interface that allows you … [Read more...]
How to Deploy Camtasia Studio 6 with Group Policy
While I would much prefer alternatives like Camstudio or others, my work feels differently and has forked out money for Camtasia Studio 6. While they did this upgrade in bulk, it's my job to come up with a clever way of deploying this software so that I don't have to go around to each machine, install the software, and license it. Instead, I came up with a way of doing just … [Read more...]
Symbaloo – Your Desktop for the Web
Symbaloo, an ancient Greek verb that means 'gathering' 'assembling', is also a website that may just be the first perfect portal site by doing just that, being a portal. Symbaloo is ad-free and aims to be your browser's homepage. With a simple, clean interface, Symbaloo can easily send you off to any number of sites that it has pre-configured for you or any site you add. There … [Read more...]