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The Digg Bandwagon


Check out the comments of this recent post on digg.com:
http://digg.com/design/Pictures_Amazing_Cakes
Just goes to show you the “bandwagon effect” that happens in this social web 2.0 world.

FaceBook Developers Having Fun?


So yea, If I just broke up with my ex, I might be tempted to do the same thing…
For all you facebookers out there, head over to FaceBook and do a search for the other word used to call a Rooster. (”Cock”, for all you people sitting there pondering.)
Check out the results that come up…notice […]

HowTo: Align a footer to the bottom of the page in XHTML Strict across all three browsers!


This is a bit tricky to get to work across all three major browsers (internet explorer, firefox, and safari) while following XHTML Strict (this will still work in HTML4 strict as well.).

Most people can get the footer to go to the bottom of the window, however when the content forces the page to scroll but the footer still stays at the bottom of the window, and not the bottom of the page.

New QuickShareIt Web Site Launched!


We’ve launched the new we bsite for QuickShareIt.com tonight. The update is in preprating for QuickShareIt Beta 5 where we will be launching a few new features related to the web.

Check it out and let us know what you think of the new site! Here’s a preview of it:

AppleTV RSS Plugin Beta 1 Available


We’re releasing another plugin for AppleTV.
This is a basic RSS Feed reader and will read RSS1.x/2.x feeds, it however will not read ATOM feeds at this time. The streams are customizeable from user to user.
First off, here’s the picture of the RSS plugin in action:

Once you download the program below, you’re going to get […]

Sports Scores Plugin for AppleTV: Beta 1


We’re officially releasing Beta 1 of our Sports Scores plugin for AppleTV. We didn’t include the “Box Score” view as I previously mentioned as it wasn’t ready for prime time just yet.
Here’s some screenshots:

Download Sports Score Plugin
Put the folder “SportsAppliance.frappliance” into Contents/PlugIns directory of your AppleTV App and you’ll be good to […]

Apple’s Credit Rating Technology


So I was browsing the Apple.com, and noticed this on my screen:
http://tangerine.quickshareit.com/share/picture4fe6b6.png
At the exact same time, Shaun, happened to be browsing the same thing and saw this:
http://mandarin.quickshareit.com/share/picture152784.png
Notice the differences in the estimated monthly price? Mine was $46/Month for the 24in iMac while Shaun’s was $48. What’s up Apple?

Apple Switcher Advice (Developer Centric…Sorta)


A co-worker of mine recently switched to a brand new MacBook Pro from his old Windows box.
We do web development here, so naturally he had specific requirements for the software he used and how he worked. Being that I’ve been doing it for the past few years, I figured I’d help out and pass along […]

AppleTV Sports Scores Plugin Coming Soon


We’re putting the final touches on the beta version of our Sports Score plugin for AppleTV. For the initial release it’s just going to display scores from all four major US Sports (NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL) for the current day, and the last 3 days. We might enable box score mode, but we’re not […]

XviD/DivX/Etc.. On the AppleTV


Well, since everyone is linking to our Codec Pack blog post about this I figured I’d finally write something about it.
While our lawyers insist we don’t tell you how to do actually do this, as their confident Apple won’t be be pleased, I’m sure you already know how. If you don’t, theres a forum […]