As you can read on the Dailymotion Blog, this site is starting an experiment: streaming video without flash or silverlight, but just by using the W3C standard <video> tag. No proprietary technology, only open standards (the videos are OGG-coded).
<video> tag is unfortunately supported so far only by Firefox 3.5 beta, if you are using another browser you’ll be redirected to a flash version of the same video. But it’s only matter of time, to see every other browsers line up on the same way.
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Goodbye, Rajeev. Without you, and without your efforts in search field (that brought to the Google algorithm), the 2009 world would be different.
A bit worse, I guess.
Rest in Peace.
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… to use Google? 
(* “bing & decide” is the official bing’s slogan, you already can see it at bing.com)
Come on, Redmond people! You already are old sailors in Search Engines sea… are you sure that another competitor in this (full?) market is really what we need?
And especially: Live Search sucks. Bing won’t be worse (how possible?). Will it really be better?
Btw, bing (recursive definition: bing = bing is not Google, like GNU = GNU’s not Unix) will not be a Search Engine. It will be a Decision Engine. Uhm. It will help you to find the best hotel in town, a manual for your car, air tickets… Does it mean that we’ll se a “morph” between Google search and Wolfram Alpha pages?
In the meantime, here is some link (for developers too)…
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The Google Gears plugin for Mozilla Firefox has an issue with WordPress: if you install it, you will no longer be able to use the Ajax image uploader from WordPress.
What a mess.
I installed Gears to open Google Calendar when I’m offline (uhm… although… if I think… my PC is online almost every time I use it!), since I am trying to dismiss Outlook… Anyway: I installed Gears in Firefox, and I could no longer upload images to my blog. I *did not* add support for Gears to the blog admin pages. I just installed the plugin.
The solution? Just uninstall it. Or disable it from Firefox config tools. Maybe the bug will be soon fixed, but who can tell?
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A (very!) tiny tool for non-Web developers. The scene: you are writing a Windows app and you need to know your real IP.
If you ask Windows, the answer you’ll have will be your LAN address; but you need your WAN address (i.e. the address that people must use to connect to your PC), and not the router-generated one.
Ok. If you need it, get it: open in your app the URL http://tools.danielemarino.net/myip/?mode=p and you’ll have a simple text string, containing only your actual IP address. Unlike other services, you’ll get no HTML clutter, no image to click, no redirect, no ads. Just your IP.
Feel free to use it as long as you need it: I already use it
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*Real* programmers write their own code in a plain text editor. No online help, no hint, no helpers, no snippets. Nothing at all.
If -exactly as I do- you don’t feel so *real* you may enjoy some little (?) help, while writing your code.
Let’s see then some intruments (my own “chosen ones”) that can help you in two different flavors of WordPress development: themes and plugins creation.
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After just speaking of it, I installed WP-Cufon, the WordPress plugin to integrate Cufón font handling, on this website. You can see h3 titles in standard Microsoft Candara font-face.
All seems working right. I have to optimize it a bit: when you load the page you can see the non-Cufón font on the screen, while the Cufón replacement loads, and i don’t like it.
I also tried to apply a Cufón style to the menu on top of the page, but something went wrong: the menu was displayed on two lines, and the sliding background stopped obviously to work. So, I de-cufonized it.
I’ll post all the news, as my experiments will give any better result heh…
PowerShell is the new command line shell created by Microsoft for their OSes. PowerShell is available since 2006, but we’ll start to see it as a standard Windows component only with the incoming Windows 7.
If you are a Windows (XP or newer) user and you never tried it, give it a chance: it’s a world apart from the old and ugly command.com / cmd.exe we all learned to hate know in the past years.
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Despite of its user interface (am I the one to find it really poor?) Delicious -formerly del.icio.us- is the most widely known online bookmarking service in the world.
The reasons? A touch of “social behavior”, a strong API, and several nice ways (above all: RSS feeds) to integrate Delicious into any other Web site.
You can indeed use all the Delicious features to save online and share your bookmarks without even opening the http://delicious.com Web page. You only need the right tools.
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And so, you want to tweet while moving. No problem: the basic idea of Twitter is quickness, and the temptation to update status while in train, on the bus, or walking down the street that brings to the office is often hard to resist.
For mobile connection I made my choice right some months ago: I love Apple mobile OS, but for my smartphone I have chosen a BlackBerry. I find it more reliable, less “entertaining”, and I find the BlackBerry Internet Services something a bonus that neither iPhone nor any other Symbian / WinMobile device can overcome.
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