Category: Web

Quick Silver Screen

Posted on 10:06pm 2/12/2008 by Bruno Silva in Culture, Utilities, Web


Quick Silver Screen

I’m still not sure about the legal issues when it comes to a service like this one… Online TV Shows, movies, etc. directly from this site to your browser, using a DivX plugin…

Meanwhile, enjoy while it is available. Has a pretty good collection, including the latest House M.D. episode. :D

Vertigo: Video.Show

Posted on 9:52pm 2/12/2008 by Bruno Silva in Open Source, Programming, Silverlight, Web

Some time ago I talked about Slide.Show. A slide show web application made with Silverlight.

Now the same company has published Video.Show. It is an open-source video sharing portal system based on Silverlight.

Video.Show

Learn more about features in their website. The source code is available at Codeplex. Unfortunately I think that Video.Show it much more unstable than Slide.Show. If you interact with it before the whole page is loaded, you get some Javascript errors. The live demo is a little slow too.

Video.Show

Some blog improvements (or not…)

Posted on 10:07pm 2/11/2008 by Bruno Silva in My Life, Web

I’ve done some improvements in this blog. First of all I updated Wordpress an all the plugins I use.
I’ve also installed Lightbox 2.0 for WordPress plugin which pop ups images in posts in a AJAX pop-up. No more open image in new window here (at least if you are not reading this from my RSS feed :-P)

Now you can rate my posts with stars, because I installed the Post Ratings plugin. This plugin has a lot of options and statistics. It is pretty nice. Another plugin from the same author is WP-PageNavi which I used to improve the navigation in my posts history. You can see it in the bottom of my homepage.

I added support for Gravatar in comments! Gravatar is a service where you associate an e-mail with a picture that represents you (an avatar). If a website has support for Gravatars, like mine, when you submit some article or comment and provide your e-mail, the Gravatar associated with that e-mail will be shown right next to your submitted content. With Gravatar, you leave your mark wherever you write, over the Internet (in websites that support it). Information about adding support to Gravatar can be found in the website.

An alternative to Gravatar is Pavatar. With Pavatar, you host your avatar in your own website. When you provide your website URL in comments or articles submition, the Pavatar enabled website fetches your avatar, and displays it. Same kind of stuff as Gravatar, but this time in a distributed architecture.

Now I am officially a Twitter user. :) What is Twitter?

“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Basically, you send information about what you are doing through the website, instant messaging, SMS, or any Twitter client application, and then your followers (people that you approved) are informed. They can follow you through Twitter’s website, an client application, or by receiving free text messages in their mobile phones.

I’ve installed Twitter Tools for Wordpress. In the widget bar of my website, you have my most recent Twitter entries.

A bunch of geek stuff. Usefulness? Well… At least now my website is a little more “social network-oriented” :D

Google Docs - Share document as a Form

Posted on 3:12pm 2/07/2008 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Utilities, Web

New great service available!

Create a spreadsheet, define some fields in your table and then share this spreadsheet as a form that users can fill out. When they do that, they add a line to your spreadsheet. It is pretty simple to setup.

Google Docs - Form

More information on the Official Google Docs Blog.

Silverlight @ Miniclip.com

Posted on 10:00pm 2/04/2008 by Bruno Silva in Games, Silverlight, Web

Zombomatic - Silverlight @ Miclip.com

Silverlight is now present at one of the most famous casual gaming websites: Miniclip.com. And it is a puzzle! Just my kind of game :)

It is just another version of that games where you must join some pipes to complete a path. Can be entertaining though. It is called Zombomatic.

Well thought Microsoft, a good way to make people aware of Silverlight. Although putting it in a Flash gaming website looks like a desperate measure to tell every one “we’re here! Silverlight can be like Flash”. Maybe in the future. Still hard to code, and no improvement from the user perspective when compared to Flash. I’m waiting for Silverlight 2.0 :)

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