My desire is to be safe and live a long enjoyable life. One of the biggest risks to that is driving an automobile. Yeah, I have a VW GTI so I enjoy driving and the car (or is it me) likes to perform. I was exceeding a posted (speed trap) 35 mph speed limit awhile back. I was cited for 50 MPH while approaching and entering a State Highway on which traffic was moving at...
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Content Management Systems
I mentioned in a previous post am working with Joomla web site publishing tool. I have been using Macromedia Dreamweaver, now Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 for many years. Before that I used Canadian HTML software called HoT MetaL Pro, now out of business. The Blogs, BBS and Ecommerce sites I run all use a high level authoring, called a Content Management System (CMS). HTML programming is not required but it certainly helps. Most of the development work...
Continue reading...That’s Entertainment?
I have always considered the world of Television Entertainment a huge wasteland with the occasional islands of value. It has never exceeded that expectation for me. It is not that I don’t watch it, I do. Many times I am left wondering why. I remember “Pay TV” when it was first promoted was to be the saving relief from advertising. I’ll bet, at least for anyone who has the capability of reading this, the really...
Continue reading...iPad FLASHback
I have still not seen any evidence that Apple will release specifics to Adobe to allow them or anyone to develop an Adobe FLASH viewer for the iPhone or the soon to be released iPad. Many web sites use Adobe FLASH for animating their sites. Check your iPhone if you have one. No FLASH animation as well as several other video modes that don’t work, like in Facebook. Grrrr… I mentioned this defect in the previous...
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