I found this video back from 2006 only hours after the offical iPad Keynote which made me laugh! Good work apple!
Im sure if you had made the iPad from this video you’d have reached a massive market!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsfIMWaflcc

In an announcement earlier today, the Google (Google)-owned online video service stated that an HTML5-compatible player was the #1 request of its users. HTML5 is the upcoming new standard for the markup language behind most web pages, one that supports video, audio, drag-and-drop, canvas drawing, and many other new features and APIs.

Since HTML5 supports video embeds, YouTube has rolled out a version of its player that runs just on it. No browser plugins (e.g. Flash) are required to watch videos that support HTML5.

There are limitations, though. It doesn’t work with videos that have advertising, captions, or annotations. It also only works with HTML5-compatible browsers, meaning Chrome or Safari or Chrome Frame for IE if you so choose not to use a third party browser due to its looks/navigational differences.

You can take a look at a demo of the new HTML5 player here. As you can probably tell, it could use some more work, but YouTube promises to improve the interface over time.

We think this is a step in the right direction. While we don’t think Google should just switch over to HTML5 (Flash just allows for more functionality), we do think user should have the option. This is great to see a big website moving up in the support for new browsers and newly impressed code. I hope this means that someday the guys over at http://www.w3.org do make a HTML string that denied the use of Internet Explorer 6 though! *kneels & prays*

Source: mashable.com

How apprently a framework is supposed to make you code things correctly into various libs and use them consistantly throught the backend code. The only issue with that is, most of the bespoke content that I write requires unique libs that are only referenced once, this makes the whole point of using a framework silly as I’m not actually saving anytime at all by doing this.

I did look into various frameworks though, and i have found that the following ones are really quite good, and depending on your knowledge and speed in picking up various code languages, you might want to have a dabble with some of these for yourself!

Frame Works
Code Igniter: http://codeigniter.com
Description: CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks

Cake PHP: http://cakephp.org
Description: CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

Zend: http://framework.zend.com
Description: To provide a lightweight, loosely-coupled component library simplified to provide 4/5s of the functionality everyone needs and that lets you customize the other 20% to meet your specific business needs. By focusing on the most commonly needed functionality, we retain the simplified spirit of PHP programming, dramatically lower the learning curve, and your training costs – so developers get up-to-speed quickly.

ash.MVC: http://www.ash-mvc.org
Description: The basic approach of this framework is to adopt a middle-path approach between faster development cycle, and a robust and scalable application. Moreover, the schemes proposed in the framework stick to the line of simplicity all along.

WASP: http://wasp.sourceforge.net/content/
Description: WASP is a powerful web application framework built on PHP 5. WASP strives to allow web developers to make great applications with more fun and less code, but in the familiar playground of PHP.

All the above prooved to work well at doing very similar tasks, but each has there own way of doing it. If you like the community based type of projects then i suggest Code Igniter/Cake PHP/Zend is the path you’d need to take, but at the end of the day a frame work is a personal choice, so it is really each to their own. Me personally? well, Im just going to be dabbling in a bit of everything, usually coding bespoke code means I have to be able to appoach it from various sides. Im still unsure which path I’m wanting to take with MVC! *shrugs*

This I openly admit has nothing to do with that either! So I set out looking into VoIP one night after reading that I could make calls world wide without actually spending alot of money, which im sure apeals to most people. After reading for a good few hours, I already had multiple accounts with various voip websites all of which where offering different services, but mainly they consisted of the same basic needs.

After a few hours I had 3 Land Line PTSN numbers directed via VOIP to my PC and I could make calls to any UK landlines for free. After now finding out how to setup a PBX server and have all the PSTN calls forward to that server and I can now recieve calls from my old phone line to anywhere in the world, and if I really want to be cool I can call them back from my home landline, even if im on my jollies anywhere in the world! Technology, You’ve got’a love it!

Now the only thing missing was something to enable me to use Mp3’s on the analogue decks, and having set about for a while looking at various differnt approches to this issue I settled with Serato, I had looked into many of the other brands of virtual vinyl production such as final scratch, but serato has been by far the best without the latency issues. Dont get me wrong, you’ll never beat propper vinyl! But Serato has a pretty good head for resampling time synced code!

Its quite honestly amazing!

Here’s a shot of how Serato works:

And another of the PC interface:

I moan a hell of alot at work about the annoying browser that is known as Internet Explorer 6, I hate it with a passion!

Reasons:
- It’s outdated (was introduced in 2001!)
- It incapability to handle PNG transparencies!
- It’s very slow at rendering PNG Hacks
- It’s very unstable especially with Javascript.
- It’s rubbish with alot of the common CSS values and functions.

This list goes on and on… So im not going to point any of the more obvious things like the fact that its very hackable via ActiveX, and various other back door loops.

Anyways to further this rant, i’ve added the “Bring down IE6″ logo to the bottom left of my page.
You can read the full article on the .NET website here.

If you wish to join this following, then follow the link and add the CSS and THE BDIE6 Logo to your own site!

/end of rant! (for now, at least!)

Im currently connected to Quakenet (shame) sat in #cunni as I used to for the last 7 or 8 years. I’ve still got my Q bot fortunatly which I didnt know!
So if anyone one is after me either at work or home, then you’ve got direct connection to me via IRC now.

Recently I’ve taken a new hobby up with my girlfriend, Jen (my girlfriend) being the finder of this actually quite cool globally played game!

Geocaching is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache’s existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS unit can then try to locate the geocache.

Also, for the record you pronounce it Geo-cashing, like cashing a check!

This weekend we managed to bag a handfull of items tresure and goodies! Also we’ve been introduced to the “Tracking Bugs” and “GeoCoins” which are items that travel on certain missions all around the world. This is am image below of a large GeoCache, (Ammo Crate) Caches come in many shapes and sizes but this is one of the better ones.

Currently In our possession me and Jen have 3 Tracking Bugs and 1 Geocoin. Two of the tracking bugs have come from the United states and one has travelled over 5,000 miles and the other nearing 10,000 miles!

It’s very addictive and anyone interested in a tresure hunt thats so big its global should definatly take a look into it! Plus it gets you out the house and off the PC so you can see exactly why girlfriends and other halfs absolutly love it. Plus if you have a dog, they will love you more than ever for the walks that you take him/her on just to find these geocaches!

Best thing is, you dont need a standalone GPS device now as the iphone is yet again here to help! For a mere £5.99 you can get everything you need to get geocaching!
Once you have an account on the geocaching website, you grab the iphone app, and you’re as ready as ever!

So no matter where you are, at home, work, on your jollies! If you want to get out and do something geocaching is the prefect way to pass sometime and also pickup some cool items, see some cool views, and even meet some fellow caches!

Website: geocaching.com
My Geocache username: cunni – Visit my profile

The email goes a little like this:

You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit https://www.google.com/voice/removed/

If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here’s what it offers:
• A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
• All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts sent to your phone and email
• Low-priced international calling to over 200 countries and free SMS
• Other powerful features like the first phone spam filter to protect you from unwanted callers, the ability to ListenInTM on your voicemail messages while they are being left, conference calling and more
To learn more about Google Voice before registering, visit: http://www.google.com/voice/about

Please note that Google Voice is only available for sign up in the US.

We hope you enjoy Google Voice,

The Google Voice Team

I thought WICKID! without even reading the complete email i’d already clicked the link and signed into Google using my Google account already!
This would have been the biggest thing that has happened to me all week but Google being Google has just hyped me up for nothing and pretty much made me feel like crap, because instead of me being happy and ready to sign up. I was presented with the following message.

Google Voice is not available in your country.
Thanks for visiting Google Voice. We’re not yet open for users outside the US, but are planning to expand our service to additional countries in the future.

So why the hell did they even send me an email? Actually they sent me 3 emails to differnt addresses, 2 of which were to .co.uk domain names to!
Sometimes it makes me think are google actually capable of sending an email out to a said crowd or are they just as bad as every other spam email service?

/rant!

I’m well impressed with the speed, its running as a MacPro setup. I run a ASUS P5B Deluxe and I’ve got to say I’ve never found it so easy to do this! Here’s the proof:

After a short while, i decided to start to play with things… and managed to get a trial copy of parallels. For those of you who dont know what parallels is, its a virtual machine application for OSx. This allows you to run more than one operating system as a time.

So off i went and grabbed my copy of Microsoft Windows Vista, 20 minutes later I had OS x and vista running upon the same machine, Which is perfect for web development! Now i just need to dig out my copy of Windows XP and get that up and running for IE6! (*shakes fist @ IE 6!*)

Everything works a dream, I really can’t believe how good this is!