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09, April 1986

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Sintra Lisbon Portugal

Category: Software

A web page that crashes Internet Explorer

Posted on 12:28pm 1/30/2008 by Bruno Silva in Funny, Software, Web

In Internet Explorer make sure that you don’t have any important page open. Then open this web page in Internet Explorer. It will crash.

Just in case you don’t have Firefox, here’s the explanation that is written in the web page.

“This page crashes Internet Explorer. Why? Well a simple <span> element crashes Internet Explorer7, and an invalid onload property of <body> in IE6 is sufficient to crash it. “

Pretty scary… Imagine what you can do if you inject the right HTML into an important website… (e.g. in a article comment) Since the required markup to crash IE7 doesn’t even have script on it, it is pretty feasible.

Sharp Develop

Posted on 11:12am 1/30/2008 by Bruno Silva in .NET, Open Source, Programming, Software

SharpDevelop

#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free and open-source IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo programming language projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. Of course that Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions are freeware and are better that this IDE, but with #develop you get a chance to take a look a the source code and who knows, adapt it to develop in another language. #develop in written in C#.

SharpDevelop

The list of main features can be found in the project’s community website.

Wordpress PDA Plugin

Posted on 9:29pm 1/27/2008 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Mobility, Open Source, Software, Usability, Web

Since I’ve created this blog I’ve been using a nice Wordpress plugin to allow a nice user experience while visiting this website with a mobile device. It is called Wordpress PDA Plugin and it’s installation is plug-and-play. Since this is a blog, and probably most of the readers just subscribe my RSS feed into some reader or aggregator, this plugin isn’t essential, but is still pretty nice.

These are some screenshots from my website mobile version.

Wordpress PDA Plugin Wordpress PDA Plugin

As you can see, in the homepage it removes all the images and shows only part of the text, to optimize performance. By entering into a entry details you can read the whole content, including images.

VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video

Posted on 12:09pm 1/22/2008 by Bruno Silva in Curiosities, Multimedia, Software

I’ve found an interesting project of the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies. It allows to create 3D models from a video.

VideoTrace

Select the points in several frames to catch all perspectives, then a 3D model is made using the video images as textures.

You can see the video and read more about this project in this website.

Simply Genial - Wiimote based interfaces

Posted on 10:39pm 1/16/2008 by Bruno Silva in Games, Programming, Software

Recently I found out about some genial applications of wiimote. I cannot describe it. Just look at the videos.

Tracking Your Fingers with the Wiimote

Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote

Read more about these projects and download the samples in this website.

While installing Adobe Shockwave plugin

Posted on 4:30pm 1/09/2008 by Bruno Silva in My Life, Software
Shockwave Install -222% completed… I was lucky that it only took some seconds :)
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