I was trying to think of what to write for BADD 2007. I’ve been trying really hard to avoid some trite comments from the Accessibility advocate that I am.
Then it occurred to me that my dyslexia is a disability as real as any other. It’s certainly something that gets a few laughs in the office. […]
It’s all about data. Seriously. I wrote a script today that takes a barcode number and if it’s a DVD looks it up on Yahoo! shopping. This was made possible by the database I talked about yesterday. Without the Yahoo! Shopping API and the UPC Database RPC interface I couldn’t have hooked them together without […]
I found yet another awesome resource today. This time it’s a user generated database of barcode information. It’s all creative commons licensed. It also has an XML-RPC interface which is awesome. Head on over to UPC Database and check it out.
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I love finding stuff like this. Jurgen Scheible has put together an awesome set of PyS60 tutorial examples. There are loads of snippets covering a heap of topics which are really easy to read. It’s been a while since I did anything with PyS60 but with my N95 on the way I thought I would […]
Diary of a Goldfish has a post about BADD 2007. BADD is happening on the 1st May which is next Monday. The general idea is to write about the discrimination faced by people with disabilities in the community.
I think ideas like this are excellent. Getting bloggers to raise awareness is the key to removing some […]
Mac OS X has had locations for a long time. These are sets of preferences based on a ‘location’. However there has never been an official way to automatically switch between locations.
Applications like Location X have gone some of the way to solving this problem by allowing you to switch location based on the wifi […]
As much as I hate to admit it Macs and Mac apps sometimes crash. However there is a great way to automatically restart applications without touching that mouse (bleh!). An article on Macworld looks at automatically restarting crashed programs. It uses standard OS X UNIX stuff like Launchd via the FOSS Lingon.
I just banished my […]
OMG! I have not laughed that hard in a long time. We had so much fun tonight there I was in real danger of wetting myself; not something a grown man will often admit.
Powerpoint Karaoke is the practice of talking through a set of random slide which aren’t yours. These were real slides from real […]
I asked the totally awesome Niqui Merret about how to check the basic accessibility of some Flash without using a screen reader. She pointed me to the Microsoft Active Accessibility 2.0 SDK Tools. These allow you to interact with the Flash plugin and find out what Accessibility features have been enabled for the movie.
While I […]
…especially if I get a chance to trick persuade people to do it.
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger on Vimeo. One of the best videos I’ve seen in a good while.
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To do what it says on the tin (or at least in the title) run:
sudo dscl -p / -append /Groups/GROUPNAMEHERE users USERNAMESHERE
It was a pain to find how to do this, so I thought I would post it up to make it easier for others. I discovered that www (the Mac apache user) is not […]
Experiment number 2 is myBlogLog. Since we (Y!) bought them I thought I would try out myBlogLog. Going to be wrapping up experiment 1 soon.
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Yesterday Tom Coates announced the European Public Hack Day. Yahoo! will be running this one in partnership with BBC Backstage so it’s going to be a great event.
I know it’s going to be chocked full of amazing stuff with lots of pictures on Flickr for those who aren’t there. Please, please sign up if you […]
If you haven’t seen TED before you should check it out. The TED site has a ton of videos from previous conferences on a massive range of topics. The speakers they get are awesome so expect to be inspired. This is the kind of thing I like to watch to get my creative juices flowing.
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Recently Yahoo! had an internal hack day. Hack days are a great way to allow the many talented people who I work with to build some amazing things. While I can’t talk about most of the stuff going on, I can talk about our implementation of self-healing web won the best of show award.
I want […]
For anyone who has used a Mac app with Sparkle in it (Colloquy, Adium to name a couple) knows what a breeze they are to update.
While I appreciate Mint helpfully tells me when there is an update, I wonder if it could do more. Sparkle is actually a rather simple thing. It:
Checks for a new […]
My wife is an awesome photographer and now she is making a lot of her gorgeous work available for you to enjoy on Flickr. Go take a look, I don’t know how she has such an eye for beauty everywhere, but she does. Visit Photorelativity on Flickr.
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So last weekend during the long bank holiday I attempted to start running daily. After doing it for 3 days the working week soon aborted my ambitioin.
Well this coming week I am going to attempt to do it again. I’ve been blogging daily for quite some time now, and I want to extend my daily […]