David Lynch Bashes the iPhone
Posted: Sat 01/05/2008 by ramiroThe famous movie director David Lynch advises to get real and not watch movies on your fucking telephone. He surely not only bashes the iPhone here but any mobile device with a small screen that can be used to play back video.
From a visual artist's point of it's comprehensible to not promote watching movies, clips, etc. on iPhone, iPod and whatever these devices are named. Anyway, for listening to music, making phone calls or exchanging messages a smart phone like the iPhone is a useful gadget.
Yigg Sucks Donkey Balls
Posted: Wed 11/28/2007 by ramiroCloning web applications that are popular in America is en vogue in Germany. One example is yigg.de, which apparently is a Digg clone. The similar name is embarrassing enough, but originally they owned the domain digg.de. Digg was probably not very happy about that and forced them to change their name, but not the concept.
I tried yigg in the beginning of 2007 to check out how much traffic a yigg front page story generates. At that time it was about 100 referrers on the day the story was shown on the front page, which is nothing compared to Digg.
Drupal Best Practice: Check the Status Report
Posted: Wed 10/24/2007 by ramiroYesterday I spent about two hours looking for a bug, that prevented videos from being uploaded to a Drupal site using Drupal's built in upload.module. The latest SVN commit could not have been the reason for the error, because only two lines of descriptive text appearing on the front end were added.
The Riddle's Solution: The Middle
Posted: Fri 06/01/2007 by ramiroI just stumbled upon an article on Squidoo which is a website that sucks donkey balls in my opinion. I don't mean that particular article but the whole Squidoo shit. The concept behind Squidoo is not bad but the way it's realized really pisses me off.
Okay, back to the topic. The article is about which video frame is used as the thumbnail displayed in list views on YouTube. I haven't uploaded to many videos on YouTube yet, but enough to know the answer is pretty simple. As the title of this post implies it is in the middle of the video.
Technorati: New Design Messed up in Firefox
Posted: Wed 05/23/2007 by ramiroOne of the websites I check early on a working day is Technorati. Today I was somehow surprised when I saw what you can see below on the screen showing the new design of Technorati viewed with Firefox version 2.0.0.3:
