I came across this really cool JavaScript plugin, developed by Artem Geller and three other developers, which allows site visitors to share selection of the text. It’s called MASHA – short for Mark and Share
Try it yourself on this website and on my Portfolio and Articles blogs: select portion of the text, and you will see icon for highlighter appears. By clicking on that highlighter, selected portion of the text would be highlighted blue and additional characters will be added to the page’s URL. By sharing that URL, you will be able to share your highlighted text.
It is very slick, considering that recipient does not have to have any plugins installed on their computer, it works across browsers and even on iPhone/iPad!
UPDATE: since Masha removes spaces from my sidebar and I don’t have time to try to fix it, I’ve disable it. Please visit developers’ site to see the functionality. Sorry about that.
I’m really suspicious to all things said and showed on the internet, and this video is not exception. Somebody please pinch me as this video from 1994 talks about electronic newspapers.
We see newspapers going to e-publishing thanks to success of tablet device, iPad from Apple in particular. But this video talks about future more than 15 years. Just to put this into perspective: 7 years before release of Mac OS X, 5 years before release of Mac OS 9, 3 years before release of Mac OS 8, and a year before release of Windows 95. Read »
In case you haven’t heard yet, YouTube is now capable of streaming 3D video in various formats. If you have 3D capable TV or monitor, there are two options available for you. You can use old school anaglyph (colored glasses) and, my pick, no 3D devices option. Well with 3D devices it’s pretty straight forward, but how about rest of us who don’t have those devices on our hands. There is option and it’s called stereogram! (read on and video is below)
Ok, I’ve been waiting for this one for a while now. Ever since I’ve learned that Verizon would introduce Personal Hotspot I hoped that Rogers would follow this as well and not block it.
Now, it’s official: iOS 4.3 on Rogers has Personal Hotspot that lets you connect up to 3 devices to share your cell phone data.
This one is pretty sweet. Invisible mouse! Sure it looks a bit silly with camera attached to the side of the laptop. But it is just the begining. I bet if Apple jumps on this wagon we would see something pretty cool.
Here is a set of photos courtesy of Engadget from iPhone OS 4 Preview Event, video from Apple coming soon.
In short, there is: multitasking, folders to organize your applications and get a hold of multiple screens. New features in Mail including: unified Inbox, multiple Exchange accounts, threaded messages and ability to open files in apps.
I must say multitasking looks pretty sleek and hopefully will not drain battery as my iPhone used all my battery by the end of F5-Expo yesterday.
Update: Apple has published Keynote and OS 4 web page Other features include: when emailing image, one can now select on whatever they want to send reduced size image or full resolution. Addition of Places and Faces albums and rotation in Photo app.
Engadget has a story about Scrabble App for iPad and Tile Rack App for iPhones. All three devices, once tethered, become old school Scrabble game.
From Engadget:
We just paired up a couple iPhones (running the free Tile Rack app) and joined in with the iPad over Bluetooth or WiFi (the app makes it unclear as to which particular wireless tech is doing the honors at the moment, but both work) and in moments we were swiping tiles up to the iPad with the best of them.
As I already wrote about some iPad’s applications (not to confuse with apps) as Point-of-Sale system at one of the California’s coffees shops, there are new and even more exciting projects surface.
One of them is installation by SoundMan Audio of iPad into truck’s dashboard as a multimedia centre. This idea is not new, there was a case (could not find original version from HardMac.com) when Mac Mini was installed into Audi.
Now would it be nice if Apple worked with some car manufacturers to incorporate this type of technology in the cars at production level. Kind of like the Sync system Microsoft has with Ford.
I knew even before iPad was released that it will find various applications in real world beside ‘big iPhone’ and book reader.
Here is one of the examples over at Sightglass Coffee Shop in San Francisco. Accompanied by Square headphone jack credit card appliance this business turned ‘big iPhone’ into point-of-sale system.
There will be even more opportunities to incorporate iPad into everyday life of not just business but also consumers. Can’t wait for 3G model…
Just arrived at F5-Expo at Vancouver Convention Center. I bet there will be hundreds tweets, blog posts especially about bumpy start of the expo. Running quickly to the office to grab stack of business cards I thought I would be late for conference kick-off scheduled. Update: Despite computer issues, F5-Staff decided to let everybody with [...]
I’ve neglected my blog for quite some time time now writing only one post per month, if that. With this post I’ve determined to write about all those things I have done in the past 6-9 months but haven’t shared yet. I’ve mentioned our new corporate Rogers Cell phone plans, but haven’t really talked about [...]
Two members of our team were heading oversees, Russia to be exact, for couple of weeks and it was my responsibility to come up with solution for cheaper roaming. One of them was on Telus with World Blackberry while other had personal Fido phone. Telus roams fine in Russia, but bills are outrageous. Telus charges [...]
After shooting Anthony Sedlak at Eat! Vancouver show Friday night, I’ve imported footage from my Sanyo Xacti HD1010 into iMovie 09. I was so happy that by converting .mp4 files into .mov it actually reduces size by 50%. The truth was – it only imported half of the clip.
Saturday, Oct 25th - I just had to order extra shot in my Americano from Starbucks. Even though it wasn’t bad hangover, coming to office at 8am on Saturday is not what I’m used to. I’ve met my friend Igor at Starbucks, two triple Americano with extra shot and we are heading to the office. First [...]
Ok, I’ve been waiting for this one for a while now. Ever since I’ve learned that Verizon would introduce 
I knew even before iPad was released that it will find various applications in real world beside ‘big iPhone’ and book reader.