I’m working on a few projects at the moment, and for one of them I’d like to use the Photon plugin for iTunes, which I have used on a recent project, but I need to customize it a bit.
Would you, or would someone you know, like a little Christmas cash for making some updates to this (open-source) plugin for me?
Drop me a line (watch for the whitelist reply).
So, this is what we’ve been working on for the last few months:
Mike designed it and did all the flash bits, I did the front end and some major Movable Type wrangling.
Yeah — we used a blogging tool for a news site. MT is da bomb, don’tyouknow.
I’ll have more later, but, for now, it’s Miller time.
In the spirit of other grammatical musings, I point you to another worthy question:
Gif of Jif?
You know those .gif files. How do you pronounce “gif”?
It’s an interesting debate. The acronym stands for Graphical Interface Format, so the correct answer would seem to be a hard G — “gif”.
However, someone in the conversation mentions that the original branding campaign for the format (yes, technical standards need branding — see WiFi) included the slogan “Choosy developers choose GIF,” a play on the classic Jif Peanut Butter slogan.
So, the original developers (or at least the marketers) of the format declared it to be “jif”. But most people prefer “gif” — it makes more sense, seeing as “graphical” is pronounced with a hard G.
Plus “jif” is creepy to a surprising number of people. Weird.
(hat tip: Greg)
Ok sure, video iPod. Coolio.
But here’s my knee-jerk reaction to Steve-O’s announcements: Front Row. Apple Remote. (Front Row is the software. Mah bad.) The bluetooth remote. (Damn… Daring Fireball points out that the remote is IR.) This is what’s going to have the biggest impact. Sure, every Apple fan and maybe half their friends will want the new iPod, but the thing about the remote is that it has the potential to put the spurs to the sales of home theater PCs.
Apple’s remote will be moderately successful, which will make other manufacturers go, “Hmm,” and they will put out their own bluetooth remotes (Sony, I am looking in your direction). (I know remotes have been around for a while, but Apple has a knack for re-developing an existing gadget, and making people start paying attention.) While these new remotes will not be quite as graceful or well-implemented as Apple’s, they will have a bit more penetration into the mainstream consumer. Average Consumer Man is going to look at it and say, “Oh, a remote. Now I get it.” And he will go buy a new computer and rip all his DVDs to it, and store all his music on it, and it will make sense to him, because he can control it all from across the room. No one really interacts with their components directly anymore, you do it from the couch, with half your attention because you only need one had to operate a remote.
It’s all very interesting.
Scenario: Search for coke zero weaknesses (someone did), and this site comes up as the first result (as of this writing). However, because it’s the main page of this site that Google is returning, the word “weakness” is in a post that has nothing to do with the Coke Zero post.
This is the downfall of the blog front page, in general, IMHO.
Should we tell Google not to index the home pages of our blogs, in order to enforce a separation of content, for clarity of search results?