April 2005 Archives

• 28 Apr 2005

  ITP Thesis Week and Spring Show

  Great upcoming events at my alma mater, NYU's ITP. The 2005 graduating class will be presenting their thesis projects during ITP Thesis Week beginning Tuesday, May 3 through Saturday, May 7. You can watch the presentations live through streaming video....

• 17 Apr 2005

  The Myth of Ajax

  While browsing through Slashdot today, I ran across an entry on Tivo Hacking using Ajax. I then went on to follow this thread on how Slashdotters view Ajax as nothing more than marketing ploy for an old technique with a...

• 14 Apr 2005

  Google Map Hacks

  Ran across this entry from Engadget on how to make your own annotated multimedia Google map. You can, for instance, scrape Craig's list and display the results in Google Maps....

• 14 Apr 2005

  CSS Image Gallery

  More CSS fun! I've done a few galleries in javascript (such as this one and in Flash. I'll definitely have to try this CSS image gallery....

• 12 Apr 2005

  Fully del.icio.us

  Joshua Schacter announced that he has left his full-time job and accepted financing from a small group of investors to focus on putting together a team dedicated to developing del.icio.us. Unsurprisingly, the investors include a number of tech biggies: Union...

• 3 Apr 2005

  Step N Fetchit

  Firefox introduces link pre-fetching: a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after...

• 2 Apr 2005

  April Fool's Day

  Boing Boing spoofed. Too bad I don't have time to do funny things like this....