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...]
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...]
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...]
An FLV Player and BBcode for Inline FLV Attachments in phpBB3
Upon request, I began looking into how to modify my previous post regarding how to embed MP3 attachments with a Flash player on a phpBB3 forum to also allow the same thing for FLV videos. After following this article, in your phpBB3 forum you'll be able to use a BBCode to play .flv files as well as upload .flv files and embed them to play with a single click on the "Place … [Read more...]