Author: Georg Portenkirchner

MischMasch 2008-03-20

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Peach is an open movie licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license that will be avaiable later this year. The trailer can already be seen. For those who have not seen Elephants Dream being the world’s first open movie, you have to watch it. Being licensed under Creative Commons Attribution means everybody can freely reuse and distribute the content of these movies.

Dan Cederholm‘s article Safari 3.1 Develop Menu pointed out the new Develop menu in Safari that is not activated by default. Now it’s possible to deactivate images, style sheets, JavaScript or access the Web Inspector.

MischMasch 2008-03-18

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Today Apple released Safari 3.1 for Macintosh and Windows. Safari got a lot of faster. Good to see that searching in the source code works and the search string is highlighted again. Safari now allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector. And this version of the browser seems a lot more stable again. The last months I experienced a lot of spinning wheels, especially after watching flash videos online. I keep my fingers crossed that Safari won’t freeze or crash that often.

Facebook announced today that they will introduce new and improved privacy settings that will allow different settings for different groups of friends. Moreover Facebook Chat will come soon, for now not Jabber compliant and without an API.

Yahoo!’s My Travel

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Some days ago Yahoo! launched My Travel on Yahoo! Travel with an interactive map, where you can add the places you have been to and places where you will go. You can also append some notes to the cities.

I like that idea and some time ago I started a similar My Map on Google Maps with cities I have lived and cities where I have been to.

One thing I am missing when using My Maps as well as Google Maps for this purpose is the lack to ad a period of time. In my opinion it would be very useful to have the possibility to mark when I have been to these cities or when I will go there. Then not only there could be this map with the towns, but alternatively the cities could be displayed in a timeline.

That’s what I call fluid

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The Rissington Podcast is one of the podcasts I am subscribed to. And it’s one of the podcasts that can make me feel embarrassed when Jon Hicks and John Oxton make me laugh out loud wherever I am listening to them.

Last week the redesign of the web site went online. It is a perfect example what can be done with background images and liquid design. Just go to The Rissington Podcast, resize your browser window and see yourself.