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...]
scr.im – Safely Share Your E-mail Address
Scr.im combines an e-mail shortening service (exactly like the URL shortening services bit.ly and TinyURL.com) with CAPTCHA to make it convenient to share your e-mail address on sites like Twitter while being more secure from bot harvesting when you would post it anywhere. It's also a lot better looking and more definitive than the steps people take to hide their e-mail address … [Read more...]
Long URL Please – The End of the RickRoll?
There are a number of link shortening services cropping up all the time thanks to the growing popularity of Twitter, texting, and other micro-blogging/short communication forms. A shortened link, like one coming from the popular service TinyURL, would look like this: http://tinyurl.com/yfa99f5 This would typically be less characters than the URL you're trying to send, so it … [Read more...]
Happy Net Loss Day – One Year Later with the Comcast Bandwidth Cap
This October 1st, 2009 marks one year since Comcast started enforcing their monthly bandwidth cap limit at 250GB. If a user were to go over the limit in one month, they would receive a warning by some means of communication. A second occurrence of going over the limit would result in a termination of services for a year. October 1st, 2008 I declared to be the first Net Loss Day … [Read more...]