A HattersWorkshop Blog – Technology, The Web, and Everything
Getting into Java... I'm starting to make my first Java applications with the aim of being able to program cell phone API and other handheld technologies. I see this as a huge market in years to come and can wait to get my...
Teaching Intro to Flash at Tunxis Again Looks like I'll be teaching at Tunxis again this semester. Can't wait to get started again as I have a lot of fun the last time we did this. The class is going to be restructured slightly to showcase the...
The difference between classic and motion tweens in... Here it is: If you're used to doing things "the cs3 way" then you can continue to do so with the classic tween tool. It works the same way as you remember, using key frames as normal, but you cannot...
PHP: If (equal to AND not equal) - eliminate form spam... Just learned a great function of PHP thats already made my forms a lot better. A while back I wrote an article about eliminating form spam without captchas by using css to hide a text input box for bots...
Drop Downs, Fly Outs, and Accordion Site Navigation: This last week I was in a meeting discussing a client site. It was a typical business meeting that was going into overtime on a Friday afternoon, and then things turned for the worst... someone suggested...
Mar
12
2009
Category : Cool Websites
Need to get inspired by others in a hurry? Do you need a muse?
Check out www.debutart.com. Browse new works of art by artist or tag and view decently high resolution images of their work. No more clicking though google images to find pictures that would be great if only they weren’t taken with a cell phone.
Feb
10
2009
Ever wanted to know what was hot today – Not just in your tribe but across the internet? It’s not a new idea but previous attempts haven’t been able to do it as completely as we can now with RSS. Back in 2006 the hugely popular Popurls.com launched and was a collection of urls like digg and Slashdot for instance. You went to one site and then went to a lot of other sites, and basically did the old way of doing things.
Welcome to 2009. RSS now feeds one site, The Web List, with all this content. While some pages allow for ultimate user customization, The Web List lists about a dozen or so major RSS feeds ranging from Digg, Delicious, to Wired and TechCrunch, to Metafilter, dzone, and NYTimes, plus others with huge circulation Ive never heard of.
I added this sucker to my Speed Dial Console. I go back and forth between this and Stumble when I need something random in my day. These days usually this.
Jan
12
2009
Category : Cool Websites, Flash, SEO / SEM, Technology
“We CAN’T tell you all the poprietary details, but… We’ve developed an algorithm that explores Flash files in the same way that a person would, by clicking buttons, entering input, and so on. Our algorithm remembers all of the text… “ – Google.
And I’m glad they don’t. Otherwise it would be too easy for every spammer, scraper, and hacker to destroy yet another beautiful thing on the internet. However, for the rest of us with day jobs, it would be nice to know just how Google does what they say they do. Maybe not everything, but “Will a hidden textbox containing variables in layer2 be indexed higher than my content in layer 1 (below layer 2)?” is a reasonable question, and one worth knowing before you broadcast your global variables or GET strings into general search text.
http://www.flashnseo.com/ has you coverd. Flashnseo is a group internet project to discover answers to specific flash SEO questions. They use good old fasion slouthing and trial and error; but it works.
Among the answers already discovered are:
Check over their site and get some answers. If you’re in a possition to help please do so.
Jul
02
2008
Category : Cool Websites, Flash, SEO / SEM, Technology
There are three main limitations at present, and google is working to resolve them:
1. Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
3. While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.
We’re already making progress on these issues, so stay tuned!
Jun
27
2008
Category : Cool Websites
http://www.desktopography.net/
Holy crap, this might be the coolest desktop background place Ive ever seen.
Digital Blasphemy is good as well, but this is the next level.
Current Desktop: Flying Low
Runner Up: Lush
Amazing work. Keep it up.
