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iPhone No Longer Needs Flash, just HTML5

Blake Brannon — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:14:03 +0000

If you recently downloaded a Safari update, you might not have know that the latest version is the worlds first implementation of the new HTML5 draft standard. So what does all that mean? Well without going into all the details of the new standard, the new standard implements the and tags to add native support for embedding video and audio into web pages.

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Ohio Blizzard

Blake Brannon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:42:56 +0000

Chrissy and I took a trip to visit Lauren and Chad in Beavercreek, Ohio. After taking two flights to get there (a story in itself), we found ourselves in a blizzard; we now know the meaning of being “snowed in”. Because we were suck in the house, we did get to have some high quality bonding… which was followed by cabin fever, and ultimately a dangerous venture out into the winter storm. Like a bunch of teenage girls, we ended up with about 170 photos.

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It’s Snowing in Hotlanta

Blake Brannon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:44:41 +0000

It is snowing in Atlanta! Man is it coming down; here is proof. First time in about 3 years.

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What’s New For Blake in 2008

Blake Brannon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:39:15 +0000

Well it has been quite a while since my last post. I hope everyone had a great holiday break and is back in the swing of things for 2008. My life has changed quite a bit in the past month. I graduated from Georgia Tech, finished my DSRC research, started a job at Wandering WiFi, and moved into a new apartment. Things are busy, but it looks like a great 2008 already. (more…)

Happy Holidays 2007

Blake Brannon — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:30:22 +0000

The semester is ending and I have been taking finals all week. Between juggling finals, finishing a research paper, graduation, and moving, I have been very busy. Hopefully I will get time to write a good post about my research on IEEE 802.11p Vehicle to Vehicle communications and the new job I will be taking with Wandering Wifi.

Enough with the chatter, the main purpose of this post is to wish you a Happy Holiday season. Because we have so many friends, we decided to only send cards to a select number of people and use the website to wish everyone else Happy Holidays.

So what are you waiting for, jump over to the site and view our message.

Stats2Site: Add Facebook Status To Your Website

Blake Brannon — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:32:54 +0000

I get a lot of people coming to my website doing Google searches on this topic, so here is the answer, and it’s called Stats2Site. I myself like to use Twitter, but I realize that not everyone likes to do that (thank goodness I care about you!).

There already exist ways to get your Facebook status on your Wordpress or Drupal blog, but what if you are not using either? Lucky for you I created a PHP function that will allow you to post your Facebook status on any site regardless of the underlying CM system.

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How To: Download Videos From Facebook, Actually ANY Site & ANY File

Blake Brannon — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:06:27 +0000

We have all been in a situation where we have found something on the Web we would like to save to our computer but we can’t find the download button. Arrr!!! Pictures, YouTube videos, Facebook videos, MySpace music, you name it.

If I can view it on my screen why can’t I download it? Well you can, you just need the right browser.

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Safari Problems: Upgrading to OS X 10.4.11

Blake Brannon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:55:45 +0000

If you upgraded to OS X 10.4.11 recently and have noticed a small problem with Safari; it no longer works! The symptoms of this are that Safari will not load any webpage nor will it respond to bookmark links. Is it dead? Probably not.

A quick check under the hood and you will see that along with the 10.4.11 update came Safari 3.0.4. The problem that is happening is that you might have an older version of PicLens installed. What you will need to do is simply uninstall it via the View->PicLens->Remove PicLens menu in Safari and then restart Safari. You should be good to go now. Then just visit PicLens.com and reinstall the newest version of PicLens.

Everyone knows we can’t live without PicLens!

Nikon | Universcale

Blake Brannon — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:14:43 +0000

I ran across this a while back and never got around to writing about it. This is probably one of the most educational flash apps I have seen in a while. Universcale is a flash app that Nikon created that puts the world in which we live to the concept of “size”. It shows objects that range in size from 10^27 m to 10^-15 m. And if your not familiar with powers of 10. Thats 1000000000000000000000000000 vs. 0.000000000000001 m!

Even expressing the distance change mathematically, it is difficult to comprehend. “Our curiosity brings us to use objects visible to the naked eye as yardsticks to identify those things invisible and to give them new units of measurement. We are now capable of comparing and ranking these entities.”

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BlackBerry + Facebook App: The Game Changes Again

Blake Brannon — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:24:41 +0000

As you may know I have several peeves about Facebook. Facebook photos still suck in terms of quality and have noticeably gotten worse in terms of server reliability (photos not loading). Another annoyance is that I get emails saying that XYZ did JKL and I have to login to see the text (wall post, etc). Although the photos still suck, RIM has released a Facebook BlackBerry App that helps simplify the Mobile User to Facebook interaction. This and other news tells me that we are winning the battle with Facebook in usability vs. pageviews.

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