HTML 5 Gaming: Old Classics and Modern Titles You Can Play for Free Today – TechSpot Guides – StumbleUpon. This is a fun list of games. I’m trying the C&C one now.
Lights is a Stunning WebGL Demo. Interesting. Now is it possible to have WebGL games? If that can happen, then I can’t see any future for flash.
Installing Flash on mbp (shipped with…: Apple Support Communities. I haven’t ever had a problem with Flash or Java being unsafe but I keep things constantly updated. I have had many mac virus that have used JavaScript to launch into my computer. Turning off JavaScript is a very helpful thing if you want to be safe. a brody suggests the following:
Flash is as safe as Adobe makes it. There are occasional security updates regarding it. Some animated websites require it, while others do not. Play around with websites and see if any really needs it that you really need access to. If you find some do, you should also recommend they consider switching their Flash to HTML5, which eats up less processor cycles, and because it is maintained by the open source community is more likely to be secure. Don’t click on animated advertisements and banners, unless you are absolutely certain they are legit. Don’t believe any popup saying you should install asking you to install anti-virus software. Just close those windows with the red button in the upper left corner and proceed going through websites. If they make a window you can’t close, bookmark any sites you are on, and quit the web browser.
The first one is called WP Random Header. It simply randomly chooses an image from a folder called “header-image” it wants you to create in your wp-content folder. Not a big deal if you know how to use FTP or cPanel interface.
The second one and the one I am using now is Add to Header. It is fantastic and even though developed long ago, still compatible. He did a great job with it. It requires a bit of HTML knowledge, but it’s not overwhelming. Basically you need to be able to find the URL for the media in your media library (or URL if you are hotlinking) and you need to know how to use the img src command. If this confuses you, ask a web designer friend to help you or hire me! This does way more than just this, and is a fantastic addition to any site. You will find other uses for it as well.
Has anyone used Google docs to save to a word file and also to a pdf? Without changing anything between the two the PDF is 180kb and the word doc is 90kb. Isn’t the advantage of a PDF that it compresses unnecessary information? When I compress the same file from the 90kb word file in Microsoft Word 2011 to a PDF on a Mac I get 150kb. What is the other 30k doing in that PDF file? Has anyone else noticed that Google docs makes chunky PDF’s?
In the last 24 hours I have seen a proliferation of blog posts that are exactly the same as one another. Sometimes the blog post which is only a few sentences is repeated word for word with as many as 10-20 different blog names/authors. This has to be an automated operation and abuse of WordPress.
I let WordPress know that this is occurring but its a hard problem for them to fix. Everyone is free to scrape content, but I imagine its hard setting a hard limit of scraping that you can enforce. For example, one webpage called techmeme I think used to make it very easy to submit things to your blog/Twitter feed. It has some interesting stories, but because it is so easy lots of people were using it. I noticed that on Twitter and stopped using it. There is no use to repeat something that hundreds of people are already repeating.
So I have decided that creating original content really is a better way to build an audience than sharing educational resources I find. I have learned many things reading other websites, but not everyone seems to appreciate less common resources. To me, if something is worth learning about it is easy to motivate yourself to learn. However I see that other people sometimes prefer to be led through learning something. So that is a change I am going to do in editorial content here.
