Facebook ends support of Internet Explorer 6

August 26th, 2010

Wow, this is great news. Finally, one of the largest viewed sites on the web says enough is enough! I completely applaud Facebook for announcing that they will no longer support Internet Explorer 6. I first found out this information from an article on PC World. As mentioned in this article Facebook recently announced that [...]

HTML 5 Overview

August 20th, 2010

I have been doing some research into HTML 5 for work recently, so I thought that I would share some of my findings anyone who is interested. Look out front end web designers, this new version will give us the tools we need to create some great design! I am very happy with the possibility [...]

Flying Car

June 29th, 2010

I do not usually comment about technology other than web development software and such, however I could not resist. In the article below, featured on the csmonitor.com talks about a new vehicle that may change the way we travel. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0629/Flying-car-just-like-the-Jetsons-gets-green-light-from-FAA Now, seriously this scares me. Why because I already have to deal with float planes [...]

CSS Classes and IDs

May 3rd, 2010

CSS classes and IDs can be a very confusing subject indeed. The question seems to arise when do you use an ID and when do you use a class? For starters, for those of you that do not know what makes a style in CSS a class and what makes it an ID, the class [...]

Break the Bank by Breaking an iPad

April 6th, 2010

3 days ago,  a video came out on YouTube.com of some guys dropping and then smashing a brand new iPad with a baseball bat. They bought it at a local Best Buy and then immediately took it out in the parking lot and smashed it. There is a Best Buy employee in the video taking [...]

Firefox Not Coming to a Windows Mobile Browser Soon

March 23rd, 2010

After reading this article: Windows Halts Work on Windows Mobile Browser by Ina Fried I was saddened to hear that Mozilla is halting their production on a Windows mobile browser. I am a huge fan of Firefox, especially all of the great plug ins and add-ons that are available. Firefox is one of the best [...]

Why I bought my HTC Snap

March 22nd, 2010

I have been slowly upgrading cellular phones over the years. Each time I purchase a new phone I always try to find one that not only has the features I need, but works well with the plan that I have and the carrier that I use. I have been with Sprint for almost 5 years [...]

What is a query string?

January 18th, 2010

This post goes out to all of those people out there who have seen all of those numbers and letters jumbled up at the end of a URL that really do not make any sense. This is the query string, and it makes sense to web browsers! The query string always starts with a ? [...]

Telepathic computing is the future

January 5th, 2010

This article blew my mind away. I can only image what may come next. Changing channels on a TV by just thinking about it, talk about being lazy! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hitachi-develops-brain-powered-remote-control-2010-01-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp //

How to refresh XML in Flash files

December 21st, 2009

I have recently been working with loading XML documents in Flash files. This is great technology. The ability to feed dynamic XML data into flash is very powerful and will give you (the designer) a lot of creative freedom. Recently I was using a test XML document in my development environment and altered my XML [...]