Archive for March, 2008
Wordpress 2.5 Gallery Feature
Testing Wordpress Wordpress 2.5’s new gallery system. It seems to fit well inside my site template by default. So that’s good. I’d rather linked directly to the photo rather than the attachment page so that I can hook thickbox to popup each image directly on the page. There don’t appear to be any options for […]
jQuery Google Analytics Tracking API Integration (ga.js)
Jason Huck’s gaTracker jQuery plugin allows for unobtrusive integration of the Google Analytics tracker into a page as well as attaching tracking events to each external link, mailto and download. It works seamlessly but it does however currently use the old ‘urchin.js’ which has been superceeded by Google’s new Tracking API (ga.js)
ga.js has all the […]
XBMC BBC iPlayer Plugin
I’m sure the BBC won’t approve of this but within the last few days an XBMC plugin for the BBC iPlayer has been released for general consumption. Though it’s far from a finished product, it neatly lists and plays the H.264 encoded iPlayer streams designed for the Apple iPhone.
The BBC’s provision of non-DRM MPEG streams […]
Save The Polaroid. Save The World
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. An understandable move in light of the proliferation of cheap digital compact cameras, but as disastrous move for many Polaroid enthusiasts, on anyone who simply wants to instantly create unique and interesting images.
There looks to be roughly enough stock […]
jQuery Image Text Replacement: Work In Progress
The JavaScript text replacement on this site is a jQuery Plugin i’ve written as an adaptation of the techniques detailed in Dynamic Text Replacement by Stewart Rosenberger in A List Apart Issue 183. The current source of the plugin can be found here. I’m calling it jitr, and you can’t stop me.
Currently it’s a work […]
