Archive for the 'Web' Category



What’s Taking so Long?

03Sep07

I learned the rather incon­ve­nient truth about export­ing slides for the web, includ­ing the most typ­i­cal for­mats (export to one big Quick­Time movie, export to PDF, export to Flash, export to a series of linked images): None of these han­dle pre­sen­ta­tions with embed­ded movies (they typ­i­cally show up as still images, if any­thing at all), […]

A Very Unique Clock

03Jun07

An Action­script (Flash) pro­gram­mer who has a blog called ‘Pix­el­Breaker’ has built a very clever clock that uses a polar plot to show the pass­ing of time. Here’s a cap­ture, with a link to the real thing: A great exam­ple of good infor­ma­tion design, if there ever was one. I’m think­ing that it might be easy […]

Quickly Explaining Tech in Plain English

01Jun07

A web site called Com­mon Craft has been doing a nice ser­vice for us techie types by pro­duc­ing clever lit­tle videos that explain some rather arcane sub­jects like RSS: And now they have a new video that explains the con­cept of Wikis and why you would use one: They are well done, and charm­ing the way that […]