As Ive said before, I really like the Opera browser, but sometimes it does things that annoy me. One of these which had confused me, but which I thought was a configuration is fixed, according to the Changelog for Opera 7.11 for Windows. Now, when I type into a flash app, it won’t do funny things to Opera.
FOUND Magazine is a fascinating place. They have a collection of notes and photographs which have been found by members of the public. The fun part is guessing what they mean and imagining the context. Great stuff.
Today seems to be a day for blogging random sites I visit. Other People’s Stories is an interesting site. they have, roughly every week, a photograph and a story – relatively unrelated. The story is usually a second-hand tale and it is usually highly entertaining. I really like this one I’ve just read.
I was checking the Wired website and came accross a couple of interesting stories. Firstly one linking to this blog. It purports to be the tale of somebody on the run. the article gives quite a bit of background and, although I reckon it’s all a hoax, it looks like a good read. This article about a race for self-driving vehicles over a 250 mile route is also really interesting.
If you are ever looking for information about a domain or an IP, this site seems to have lots of interesting searches and interesting bits of information.
To test something out today, I was furiouslty searching for a sample windows application to which I could pass a flag, a command line parameter. After searching high and low in google, I finally hit the right combination annd ended up on this site:Serenity Windows 98 Program’s Command Line Parameters and Registry Settings I’m posting this to see if it helps anyone else out, and hoefully to be another linkto find this link in google.
This is vaguely Flash related. Macromedia heve released DRK3, with lots of new fun bits and pieces. The thing is that they made Mike Chambers do some publicity shots for it. I have to admit I found it kind of weird, but Mike (we’re obviously on first name terms :)) has taken it all in his stride. He now has a competition running where the best “altered” publicity image will win a copy of the DRK. Some of the entries are superb – my Favourite so far is the donut one.
Sean Corfield has been good about keeping us informed about the performance of minority browsers (opera, safari, etc) on the new Macromedia site, and with the Macromedia tools in general. A week or two ago he posted about the problems that some browsers were having with binary posting.
Since then, Opera have released Opera 7.10 for Windows, which now supports flash remoting!!! yaaay! I really like experimenting with remoting, and having to open up IE every time to test was annoying me. now I can test in the comfort of my own (preferred) browser.