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Still Hating Flash (sometimes…)

Things I hate about (poorly built) Flash sites: you can’t select the text, you can’t resize the text, my scrollwheel does not work, the controls are too small, I can’t open links in a new tab/window… Basically, I hate losing all the features I am used to my browser having with an HTML site…

Crappy Flash Site I sort of feel like even if it is a crappy HTML site, at least I can still control things like the browser’s scrollbar, or the size of the text, or how links open, and my scrollwheel works! So many (crappy) Flash sites still feel like the author wants complete control over my experience, and they think they know better than everyone else what is good for you. I hate those people. Ok, I don’t really hate them, but I feel like they hate me, or at least they don’t trust me. Argh…..


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Eee PC Demo Missed

Hey folks, sorry I couldn’t demo my Asus Eee PC at the December Web414 Meeting, but I had some personal issues come up that were unavoidable.

I’ll plan to demo it at the January meeting, unless everyone gets one for Xmas, and no on is interested in it any more…

In which case I’ll just help Jeramey talk about Greasemonkey.


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Asus Eee PC Demo at Web414

I’ll be giving a demo of my Asus Eee PC at the Web414 Meeting happening Thursday, December 13th, 2007.

Asus Eee PCAsus Eee PC - Left SideAsus Eee PC - Bottom

If you’re interested in seeing it or talking about the tiny little laptop that runs Linux, or even getting some hands-on use, come to the meeting.


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2008 Sketchtoon Calendar

Hey don’t worry, I’ll get back to blogging about the Eee PC soon enough, but I just wanted to throw this out there for you coffee drinkers (of which I am not…)

Good pal Mike Rohde of Rohdesign does these things called “Sketchtoons” and he does like coffee, and he ended up making this 2008 Sketchtoon Coffee Calendar, which seems to be getting quite popular. (Right now it’s the #1 result in Google for coffee calendar.)

Mike does some cool stuff, and this is just one more thing. Check out his Flickr set for a sampling. Nice job, Mike!

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Asus Eee PC: vCards and jEdit

I have not gotten to do as much Eee PC hacking as I’d like to, but I have been experimenting…

Eee PC Address Book

I took all of the vCards from Apple’s Address Book.app and exported them to a single file. I then use the ‘PIM’ application on the Eee PC to open it. It loaded them up ok, but not all fields are treated the same. In Address Book.app you can have multiple ‘home pages’ for an entry, but that gets all munged up in the Eee PC’s PIM application. I may have exported as a version 2.1 file, so I should try a 3.0, maybe that will bring the photos along as well. Still, a good first attempt. (The photo you see was taken with the Eee PC’s built-in camera.)

jEdit on the Eee PC

Our second bit of fun was getting jEdit installed. Luckily, I’m not the first, so following this Eeeuser forum thread made it pretty simple. Now I can run my favorite text editor anywhere…