If you ever fancy trying out the latest version of the YouTube Player, you can visit “Cosmic Panda”.
http://www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda
If you ever want to ever change back, just visit the page again and click the button to revert back to the original.
Note: It only affects the browser you select it in.
Tried it for a few months – was okay but I still prefer the original.
P.S. YouTube has changed their homepage today. Love it or hate it, change was due to happen.
Last night I got the following email in my inbox that started:
Whether it’s a good or bad move, Typekit is now under the control of Adobe for better/worse.
I’m guessing an online Font service for the next version of Photoshop?
Click to purchase? $$$??
Who knows.
My next task for my web server is to:
* Install PHP-FPM on Debian (tutorial link)
* Install WebDav for Nginx – so I can download the repositories on port 80.
Most of this should be hassle free. I shall let you know how I get on.
If you regularly browse Facebook, I’m sure you already noticed the new “status sharing” feature. As pictured above.
“Oh yay!” you will say! As it closely resembles Goolge+‘s “circles” feature which many had complemented as Google+‘s strong point.
Yes, that’s right. As I discovered, Facebook has removed the ability to “Hide all by annoying page“.
If you “Like” a page, they can post news stories in your main wall aka “feed”.
I don’t know about everyone else – but I hate people spamming the feed with promotions. E.g. I like “Coca Cola” for instance – but I don’t want to be subjective to their bullsh*t advertising.
Before you could solve that by hiding their posts but now when you “Hide this post” it tells you:
… the options are now limited. So Facebook is basically saying “You must put up with everyone’s spam – like it or hate it.”
I can see peoples patience wearing thin on this very quickly.
UPDATE: Several other things have been rolling out slowly through the day. I have noticed the “photo viewer” has changed.
I tried removing a Application notification posted by a friend, it does still allow you to block them.
Still no sign of being able to “hide posts by” a fan page without “Un-liking” the page yet.
They have finally returned the option to Hide all posts on fan pages. Thank you for catching up, eventually.
I think this will go down a storm. Priced at $199 (UK priced not confirmed yet) and saves your drawings in vector format. I see this becoming more favourable with “naturalists” and just in general. I wonder what eye candy will come out from this new toy.
FBML is DEAD, LONG LIVE FBML…
Not surprising news but Facebook has finally retired FBML on 11th March 2011.
What does that mean? Basically it means that you no longer have to use the “Static FBML page” application to create new pages, instead you are now allowed to use iFrames!
*Party poppers and loud cheers!*
Unfortunately, this exciting news turns sour pretty quickly…
With this new ability there are some major roadblocks, mainly for non-tech savy users.
Going back to my previous point. Admins on Facebook will now have to create their own Applications so they can display new pages on their Fan Pages.
There are several difficult hurdles to deal with:
Basically if you can conquer those requirements, you will be allowed to continue using Facebook pages. In summary, your shopping list should include:
Hopefully I summed up everything nicely for you. Good luck.
UPDATE: 2nd June 2011
As always, Facebook has quietly made some changes (without really telling anyone).
WordPress introduces custom post types in version 3.0
http://kovshenin.com/archives/custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/
Twitters keywords on the homepage got besieged by porn spam this morning
http://www.twitter.com/
phpBB3′s default ‘prosilver’ theme is dog slow… Please make it lighter + easier to skin like classic ‘subsilver’ for future releases!
http://www.phpbb.com/
How fast is your localhost?
(Work machine, ‘Request per second: 2.36 #/sec’ – man that’s slow, VPS Web server ‘RPS: 8000+’, that’s more like it! proof)
#ab -n 500 -c 10 http://localhost/
The HTC Desire/Legend might be the first Android phone I actually want?
http://gizmodo.com/5504266/htc-desire-review-an-even-more-desirable-nexus-one
I often hunt around on the internet for the latest information to do with Web Development. Most of the time it goes to my Twitter but I thought it would be great if I could start logging a collection of the best ones I read.
So if you enjoy keeping up with the latest trends, I hope you enjoy my information bites!
HTML5 won’t save the web
http://gizmodo.com/5461711/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet
Facebook develop faster PHP
http://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-unveils-hiphop-for-php-039source-code-transformer039
IE8 now “most popular” version of IE
http://www.neowin.net/news/ie8-is-now-the-world039s-most-used-browser
Zend Framework 1.10 Released (and now with versioned documentation!)
http://devzone.zend.com/article/11727-Zend-Framework-1.10.0-STABLE-Released
PHP hates integers (64 bit)
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/03/27/integers-in-php-running-with-scissors-and-portability/
Link to IE Blog: Font Embedding on the Web
The IE Team talks about how you can embed any type of font you want into your web pages. This has been a highly desirable feature for years but has been a tough one to implement. Continue reading
24 hours ago I received an email from Yahoo! Small Business stating my domain renewal quote. To my shock and horror there was an “important notice” stating that they were increasing the renewal price to $34.95!
Thats a whopping increase from $9.95 last year to $34.95. A dramatic 350% increase!
This is the contents of the email they sent me: Continue reading
As millions of people around the world start enjoying the web as it was meant to be with Firefox 3, you might want to checkout these awesome tweaks to make it more your cup of tea.
