What if Google Search was a lazy, incompetent human? The Sloppy Google project tries to show how good we've got it. What if a textfield is a lazy operator who types keywords for you? What if buttons are operators who help you submit requests? What if user interfaces have their own consciousness, senses, and gestures? "The Search Operators" is the sloppy twin of Google search. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Video of Installing Windows 1.0 and Upgrading Through Every Version Since
Using VMWare and an unknown amount of time, an individual chose to install MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Fortunately, he recorded the process for us to gain some observations regarding the trend in Windows upgrade process and backwards compatibility … [Read more...]
Drip, drip, drip, drip! Four Independent Sites Posting Leaks
Has the hype of Wikileaks finally died down? The discussion of making a movie based on WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, the Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks, is still rolling right along. Wikileaks has received a lot of attention from the media previously for leaking Iraq and Afghan war-related documents and the USA's diplomatic cables. As a result of some of this "attention", the … [Read more...]
‘You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain’ Makes Sense To Aaron Barr Now
The line from The Dark Knight, "'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" probably makes sense to former HBGary Federal CEO, Aaron Barr now. At least according to Twitter, @aaronbarr is similar to a few Anonymous accounts: Previous coverage of this story: Stephen Colbert’s Take On The Anonymous-HBGary-WikiLeaks Story Must Read: The … [Read more...]
Integrating A File Browser Into A Website
For the past week, I've been on a mission to come up with a proof of concept to demonstrate that I could convert an organization's site from Joomla! to WordPress and simplify the site's back-end. I plugged away and got everything pretty comparable on the front-end. One of the sticking points that I came across, however, was Joomla's Docman plugin, a very thoroughly integrated … [Read more...]