This guy had to drop into assembly language to figure out how to read the accelerometer in his iPhone. These people are SMART. If I were Steve Jobs (real, not fake) I’d be wishing they were working to make distributable legal third party apps and thus helping my business, rather than trying to knife my (admittedly stupid) business partner.
[Via O'Reilly Radar]
When the Internet Explorer team fixed the CSS parser to no longer support used hacks they did that quite literally. They hacked the parser to no longer support two used hacks. Or something in that direction. Below a list of documents that you can load in Internet Explorer. You could use the Live DOM Viewer to run them.
[Via Anne Van Steren]
Gaston Groisman @ Kool Tools has a good review (and photo example) from a web cam adaptor for webcam astrophotography – “You no longer need expensive CCDs to take astrophotographs. You can use a webcam! Lots of cool things are happening, but it all started at the QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group (QCUIAG)…The classic solution is to cool the CCD. This has been done by many, but it is difficult to do. The second method is to stack a whole bunch of individual exposures. This gives a resulting image much better than any single one. Software like RegiStax (freeware) does this, and very well. You don’t even need to modify your webcam’s hardware to do this. Just make or buy an adaptor to fit it to the scope.”
[Via Make]
Semi-transparent backgrounds are nice. They would be more popular, but Internet Explorer doesn’t support .png transparency. There are a few clunky workarounds. Here’s another that’s a little less clunky.
[Via Daltonlp.com]