http://webcoding.co.uk/blog Yet another geek posting his thoughts Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:48:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting to note that the US and UK TV schedules are starting to become very close together. The usual “months” of time between show A starting in america and england have dropped a lot. Take a look at Prison Break - Season 3, this is out tonight in ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/09/17/prison-break-season-3/ I’ve just recieved the Humax 9200 TB PVR Freeview Recorder. Initial impressions (visually) First impressions are good. The case is good quality with easily accessible points though I’d be happier if the USB connection was at the rear of the device as opposed to the front (within the pull ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/09/17/humax-9200-tb-freeview-recorder/ Microsoft Surface aims to be the ultimate home system. The multi-touch system is essentially a glass topped table with a touch screen interface allowing you to directly interact and achieve “stuff”. The similarity (especially the photo manipulation) is strikingly similar to Jeff Han’s multi-touch demo which I ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/05/31/microsoft-surface/ I was watching some videos over at Google Code and I came accross Dasher which is an attempt to do away with the good old keyboard. Now, I understand the idea behind it and I also like the idea of moving ahead with newer ways of getting information from our brains ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/04/26/dasher/ I have one Great device, good playback (note: this device has serious issues with supporting certain DIVX/XVID codecs and wont go near AC3 sound). Anyway, I was at the pub, I stepped on mine and smashed the screen So! Creative offer a ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/creative-vision-w/ I’ve seen one I’ve touched one I’ve played with one! So what do I think? Not bad, small and descreet with typical Apple styling. They get hot, quickly, but overall I think they are a nice design and the plug and play straight into the ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/04/01/apple-itv/ FOWA (Future of Web Apps) I was at the conference this week and it was pretty good. Some interesting things were shown and said and I’ve come away with perhaps a few more ideas and new things to try out. I have to say that the conference does seem to be ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/02/22/fowa-future-of-web-apps/ I’ve been writing a few ajax objects, but im pretty fed up of rewriting ajax stuff to suit specific onreadystate changes. The following object I’ve done basically pushes the ajax onreadystate process to a new object which you pass into the core ajax object. The source is here, ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/02/13/ajax-objects/ So I was playing with the Sony FX1E HDV Video Camera (one of the first to record at 1080i) and the request was to push video out to the 63″ Samsung Plasma at work (yes, 63 ) We got an S-Video lead and it worked fine but the question ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/02/09/svideo-resolution/ Charlie Brooker over at the Guardian writes a great piece on why Mac’s are crap. Loved it and more so since those truly useless adverts currently being aired. Charlie Brooker Article Charlie missed out a good point too.. Mac’s are apparently so cool and amazing that Apple decided to launch boot ... http://webcoding.co.uk/blog/2007/02/05/charlie-brooker-rules/